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This tweet about Justin Sun made me laugh

28 Aug 2024 1 minute read 0 comments LeftFooted

Justin Sun is the creator of the cryptocurrency Tron (TRX). He's famously a little strange, a little bombastic, outspoken and very, very rich. When the news of Telegram's Pavel Durov's arrest broke, Justin Sun immediately did the thing he always do...

Major token unlocks this week (August 26 - September 2)

26 Aug 2024 1 minute read 0 comments LeftFooted

One of the things to keep an eye on in crypto is the token unlock calendar. On a regular basis, usually more times per week, a portion of the total supply of several tokens is unlocked, which means they become tradable. Now there's a lot of ifs and...

Another major tech company joins the crypto game

25 Aug 2024 1 minute read 0 comments LeftFooted

Sony is joining the crypto game with Soneium, a Layer 2 blockchain on Ethereum. As ever, Sony said it wants to enhance the adoption of Web3 technologies. It seems to me these days every new blockchain is marketed using variants of these exact words...

Everything we know about Pavel Durov's arrest so far

25 Aug 2024 1 minute read 2 comments LeftFooted

Pavel Durov, founder of Telegram, was reportedly arrested at an airport near Paris on August 24. The news was picked up and shared so fast by so many outlets that it's hard to know where it started, but it seems French newspaper Le Monde was among t...

Binance is investing (heavily) in what matters

24 Aug 2024 1 minute read 4 comments LeftFooted

Binance CEO Richard Teng says Binance is heavily focused on one key area when it comes to its new hires. Have a guess. If you said 'compliance', then that's the correct answer. According to Teng, over 20 percent of Binance's new hires are in the com...

What's going with the Hamster Kombat airdrop?

23 Aug 2024 1 minute read 0 comments LeftFooted

Telegram launched a new Web3 game called Hamster Kombat and, since the launch, there has been talk about a potential airdrop for HMSTR token. Initially scheduled for July 2024, the airdrop was delayed several times, and it is now scheduled for Septe...

Telegram's new video game accidentally beat a YouTube record

23 Aug 2024 1 minute read 2 comments LeftFooted

Hamster Kombat, a crypto-adjacent video-game launched by crypto-friendly social messaging app Telegram, accidentally beat a YouTube record. I was doing some research for another article and discovered that the Hamster Kombat YouTube channel has set...

A key crypto guy you've never heard of is moving from an extremely well-known company to an even more famous company - and here's why it's a big deal

22 Aug 2024 1 minute read 2 comments LeftFooted

This is one of those behind-the-scenes things that happen all the time in corporate industry. Kinda like the Brian Niccol story. You've never heard of Brian Niccol, but you've probably heard of Chipotle, and you've definitely heard of Starbucks. We...

The scammy reason why "0.3 ETH" is trending on X

22 Aug 2024 1 minute read 0 comments LeftFooted

If you're on X right now, this very minute, you may have noticed that the search term '0.3 ETH' is trending in the US with over 5,000 posts. There's a scammy reason behind this trend, unfortunately. Are we surprised? Several accounts have been copy...

There's a new episode of Futurama with a focus on NFTs and it's a blast

22 Aug 2024 1 minute read 2 comments LeftFooted

First of all, I had no idea Futurama was still a thing. I didn't know it was still on. But it is. There are new episodes, and the first one focuses around the concept of NFTs, obviously and predictably (and ironically) highlighting the contradiction...