The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is reportedly looking into whether Yuga Labs, the developer of the hugely popular Bored Ape Yacht Club (BAYC) and owner of one of the first NFT collections to start selling for six figures, and then seven, CryptoPunks, violated securities...
Starbucks has been an early adopter of crypto — or at least an early experimenter — since 2019 when it first started testing various pay-with-bitcoin tools, notably through its loyalty program. Now it’s adding non-fungible tokens (NFTs) to its Starbucks Rewards loyalty program via the...
The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC), a post-trade market infrastructure for the financial services industry around the world, debuted a distributed ledger technology (DLT) with its new Project Ion platform, a company news release said Monday (Aug. 22). Project Ion is parallel processing around...
Decentralized finance (DeFi) lender Teller has launched a buy now, pay later (BNPL) feature to help buyers spread their non-fungible token (NFT) payments out into more manageable installments, according to a Bloomberg report Friday (July 8). Bored Ape Yacht Club, Doodles, Meebits, Cool Cats and...
December 17, 2023
Hackers have apparently stolen millions of dollars worth of non-fungible tokens (NFTs) in a recent security breach. Peer-to-peer trading platform NFT Trader confirmed the breach on X Saturday (Dec. 16), saying it had “suffered an attack on old smart contracts.” And the website Revoke.cash said that the stolen NFTs included 37 from the popular Bored Ape line, […]
August 22, 2022
The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC), a post-trade market infrastructure for the financial services industry around the world, debuted a distributed ledger technology (DLT) with its new Project Ion...
July 08, 2022
Decentralized finance (DeFi) lender Teller has launched a buy now, pay later (BNPL) feature to help buyers spread their non-fungible token (NFT) payments out into more manageable installments, according to...
April 29, 2022
The founders of the Bored Ape Yacht Club say they’ll generate up to $300 million in cryptocurrency by selling land in the metaverse this weekend. As the Financial Times reported...
