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On my way to Sui Basecamp

29 Apr 2025 1 minute read 1 comment LeftFooted

I'm on my way to Sui Basecamp, an event organised by Sui (ie Mysten Labs) in Dubai. This is going to be their second 'Basecamp' event after last year's one, which took place in Paris. Even though the weather will be horrible (too hot), choosing Dub...

Solana's Solflare is launching a debit card

26 Apr 2025 1 minute read 0 comments LeftFooted

Solflare, one of the most popular Solana wallets, is launching a new self-custodial debit card. The new card, which based on the image shared by Solflare will be issued on the MasterCard network, will allow users to spend USDC (on Sol) with no fees...

You should probably visit the world's most crypto-friendly city

25 Apr 2025 1 minute read 3 comments LeftFooted

Ljubljana is a cute little town more or less right in the middle of Europe, depending on where you think Europe becomes Asia. It is also the capital of Slovenia, the first country to gain independence from Jugoslavia over 30 years ago. Today, Slove...

We probably underestimated this project (well, I certainly did)

24 Apr 2025 1 minute read 0 comments LeftFooted

Helium is a project that's been around forever, and I always thought it was basically vapourware. But I was wrong. Helium, which is tradable on Solana, has clear use cases. The project recently teamed up with AT&T to bring 93,500+ new hotspots, most...

Sui's handheld device to be unveiled to the public at Sui Basecamp

24 Apr 2025 1 minute read 0 comments LeftFooted

Sui is doing what Solana also did, and that is trying to bring people on board with hardware, not just crypto. Solana has Seeker and Saga (two smartphones), while Sui has SuiPlay0X1, a handheld gaming device. Play0X1 was first announced and unveile...

Coinbase wants to become a bank

22 Apr 2025 1 minute read 1 comment LeftFooted

Coinbase is apparently considering applying for a US banking license. And apparently they're not alone. Along with Coinbase, stablecoin issuers Circle and Paxos and crypto custodian BitGo are also considering applying. Paxos is a step ahead, actua...

People never learn

20 Apr 2025 1 minute read 0 comments LeftFooted

In 2017, a guy called Billy McFarland and Ja Rule, a rapper most people only remember for the 50 Cent feud at this point, organised a music festival called Fyre Festival. Except, it was all the scam. Put simply, the festival was cancelled after tic...

Why do we keep using this terminology?

9 Apr 2025 1 minute read 3 comments LeftFooted

Every time the market goes down, which it does every ten minutes, media outlets across the board (and the globe) use terms like "lose" or "burn" or "wipe out", but why? When the stock market goes up, the value of stock goes up, when the stock market...

I'm afraid Bankman-Fried might be next

29 Mar 2025 1 minute read 2 comments LeftFooted

If you're here, you probably follow crypto, and if you follow crypto, you probably noticed what's been going on with all these pardons. Donald Trump has been on a bit of a pardoning frenzy, pardoning people left and right. The problem is that the r...

There's an upcoming Solana event, but the ticket price is insane

26 Mar 2025 1 minute read 0 comments LeftFooted

Solana is organising two events in New York City, both called Accelerate. On May 19-20, 2025, Solana will host the Accelerate: Scale or Die event, an "application-only, workshop-driven event for developers, engineers and validators". Two days later...