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John Smedley, a gaming industry veteran and former CEO of Daybreak Game Company (formerly Sony Online Entertainment), is making his first foray into Web3 gaming with a new AAA shooter featuring Tezos layer-2 (L2) blockchain Etherlink.
The Smedley-led Distinct Possibility Studios (DPS) has

Key takeaways:
Bitcoin price taps $110,000, but low spot buying demand suggests the upside could be limited.
High retail FOMO and a near-overbought RSI signal a potential BTC price correction.
Bitcoin (BTC) price has formed a series of lower highs and lower lows in the 1-hour time frame since re

Peter Märkl, general counsel at Swiss crypto exchange Bitcoin Suisse, said the European Union and Switzerland still lack clarity in their respective stablecoin regulatory frameworks.
Märkl told Cointelegraph on the sidelines of the German Blockchain Week that “there’s a lot to be done” when it

China’s e-commerce heavyweight JD.com and Ant Group, the fintech arm of Alibaba, are lobbying the People’s Bank of China (PBOC) to greenlight Chinese yuan-based stablecoins in a bid to counter the global rise of US dollar-pegged tokens.
The two firms urged regulators to allow stablecoins backed by

An Ethereum core developer has set up a new organization called the Ethereum Community Foundation, with one of its aims to bring the price of Ether to $10,000.
ECF was spearheaded by Ethereum core developer Zak Cole, who explained his rationale for setting up ECF at the eighth Ethereum Community Co

The US Justice Department has launched a probe into a former ransomware negotiator, accused of striking deals with hackers to take a cut of the crypto used to pay the extortionists.
In a statement to Cointelegraph, DigitalMint President Marc Grens confirmed that one of the firm’s former

North Korean hackers are using new strains of malware aimed at Apple devices as part of a cyberattack campaign targeting crypto companies.
According to a report from cybersecurity firm Sentinel Labs on Wednesday, the attackers impersonate someone trusted on messaging apps like Telegram, then

Bitcoin could climb to $116,000 by the end of this month as three macroeconomic factors turn favorable for the asset, according to a crypto analyst.
“I think $116,000 is possible,” 10x Research head of research Markus Thielen told Cointelegraph after highlighting three macro factors that could

Australian crypto billionaire Tim Heath narrowly escaped a kidnapping attempt in Estonia last year by biting off part of the attacker’s index finger, an Estonian court has heard
Heath, a long-time crypto investor, was attacked by two men posing as painters in the stairwell of his apartment

OpenAI issued a statement on Wednesday clarifying that OpenAI tokens distributed to European Union users by the trading platform Robinhood do not represent equity in the company.
"We are not involved in this and do not endorse it,” representatives of the company wrote on social media. “Any

Key takeaways:
LTC’s spot cumulative volume delta flipped positive for the first time since December 2024, signaling a positive shift in market sentiment.
A potential LTC ETF could trigger institutional investor demand and align with its historically strong Q4 performance.
Litecoin (LTC) has

Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin delivered a keynote speech at EthCC on Wednesday, asking blockchain developers to focus on freeing humanity through their inventions rather than building more technically advanced tools.
Buterin compared the individual liberty ethos of the early internet in the 1