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Remember Meebits? The Larva Labs money machine that raised a then scarcely believable $80m for a collection of voxel PFPs with no discernible utility, no roadmap, just the cachet of being from the same creators as the legendary punks. Meebits were the spur for Bored Ape owners to do everything in their power to raise …

The Degen Trilogy is a 3-part interactive film series featuring the Bored Ape Yacht Club and Apecoin communities. In today’s Hot Stuff, director Robin Schmidt dissects everything wrong with the first part

Introducing Zapper V2: Accessing Reliable Information to Explore the Real web3. To make it simple for people to interpret all of this complex information, to speed up learning, and to make people feel more confident making choices in web3, Zapper V2 surfaces all blockchain data and translates it into relatable information that anyone can read …

Three projects announced zkEVM updates, Polygon, Scroll and zkSYNC last week. L2 rollups designed to ease the burden on Ethereum using zkProofs. The EVM stands for Ethereum Virtual Machine. In this case representing equivalence or compatibility although the two are not the same thing. Yes, it’s L2 Summer! 2022 is the year of L2 summer! …

Tanks on the street. You’d be forgiven for thinking this was Ukraine. Armoured vehicles patrolling the thoroughfares of a city at war. But it’s not, it’s China. Henan province to be precise. And the tanks have been sent in to protect the local branch of a bank. One embroiled in a scandal as users were …

Ether above $1500, Bitcoin at $23.5k. As temperatures soar across Europe a fire seems to have been ignited under crypto’s bottom prompting belief, relief and a sense that maybe, just maybe, the pain is over. It’s a sea of green out there. But what’s driving it and how is it that even the revelation of …

Two weeks ago we released a film about the suit filed against the artist Ryder Ripps and others by Yuga Labs. The alleged neo-nazi themes underpinning the Bored Ape Yacht Club collection have fired a sub-section of the NFT community to band together in the name of ethics, morality and free speech. All of which …

The euro was last worth the same as the dollar in December 2002, shortly after the currency was established. 19 European countries use the Euro and that’s a lot of GDP to make a mess of. And of course we’re looking to the Fed’s interest rate hikes which have made the dollar dollar bill a …

Kyle Davies and Zhu Su, the founders of 3 Arrows Capital appear to be ghosting the lawyers involved in their liquidation proceedings. According to a Coindesk article court documents filed on friday indicate that the pair had ‘not yet begun to cooperate with the process in any meaningful manner’. They had appeared on a Zoom …

You’ll no doubt be hearing the word contagion from all corners but didn’t we just escape the clutches of the pandemic. Well yes. But crypto is really like a house of mirrors where nothing is ever what it seems. But it’s also a house of cards, built on a complex system of levered dependencies. And …

A quick bit of news to fire you on your way today. And it’s a tale of two bear markets. On the one hand we have Voyager Digital who have just filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, just the latest sorry chapter in this deeply sorry saga. As we reported on Monday, in their July 1st …

FACEBOOK FOUNDER MARK ZUCKERBERG DUMPS CRYPTO screeches the headline from the Mail Online. META IS PULLING THE PLUG ON ITS CRYPTO PAYMENTS WALLET burps Tech Crunch. Yes, Novi, Meta’s crypto wallet is now No pulse, dead, kaput, finito. Yet more evidence of the artist formerly known as Facebook’s ham-fisted attempts to co-opt the values of …