A screenshot of the KakaoTalk chat app. Crypto Briefs is your daily, bite-sized digest of cryptocurrency and blockchain-related news – investigating the stories flying under the radar of today’s crypto news. Adoption news The Kakao Group’s KakaoTalk chat app-linked crypto wallet Klip will debut this summer, or later than expected. As reported by Cryptonews.com, in […]
Source: iStock/ThomasVogel In an announcement from Tether on Wednesday, the company behind the controversial stablecoin USDT confirmed that it has destroyed 500 million USDT tokens that were held in the Tether Treasury wallet controlled by the company. Tether has just destroyed 500M USDt from the Tether treasury wallet with the following tx: https://t.co/HTG52LaRVh For more […]
Source: AdobeStock / kozorog A leading Asian digital artist named Cody Choi has slapped a 70,000 ethereum (ETH) price tag on a digital artwork being made available as a non-fungible token (NFT) in a move aimed to point out the idiosyncrasies of the NFT market — which he claims “is a mess.” Choi, aged 60 […]
Source: Imgflip First it was the ‘Overly Attached Girlfriend’, and now it’s the ‘Disaster Girl’ — the faces behind the world-famous memes are reclaiming ownership of them by turning the viral images into non-fungible tokens (NFTs) and making bank. It’s safe to say that the interest in the NFT technology is rapidly spreading beyond the […]
Source: Adobe/gesrey Decentralized finance (DeFi) platform Aave’s LEND token is soaring in the crypto market today, after Aave’s UK business entity was finally granted an Electronic Money Institution license by the UK’s financial regulator yesterday. Furthermore, it flipped Maker (MKR) as the largest DeFi platform by total value locked. As of 9:25 UTC, the 25th […]