Future Of Crypto

Web3 company Yuga Labs is naming a new CEO Monday who will start work in 2023 and help the company expand its efforts in gaming and the metaverse.  What Happened: Yuga Labs, the company behind Bored Ape Yacht Club, Mutant Ape Yacht Club and Otherdeed for Otherside NFTs, announced...

Renowned "Shark Tank" investor Kevin O'Leary is feeling the pain from the FTX fallout to the tune of $11 million and he's not willing to accept that the money made out like Harry Houdini and disappeared.  What To Know: Following his appearance at...

How can two Web3 startups keep the momentum going during a bear market? According to Pudgy Penguins CEO Luca Schnetzler, it's less about competing with each other and more about "linking arms and trailblazing as a unit." "I love this moment," Schnetzler said, referring...

Bored Ape Yacht Club NFTs soared in popularity last year as celebrities and athletes steadily adopted the artwork and used the NFTs as identifying images across social media platforms. But what is a Bored Ape and why are people still spending so much ...

Both Kevin O’Leary and Anthony Scaramucci share relationships with former FTX CEO and co-founder Sam Bankman-Fried in common. The two spoke of what happened with FTX and its bankruptcy and what could be coming soon while speaking at Benzinga’s Future of Crypto event in New York...

Entrepreneur and RSE Ventures CEO Matt Higgins has been in the cryptocurrency and NFT spaces for years and seen it all. Higgins shared with Benzinga his lessons learned and what could be next for Web3 in general. Higgins is a featured panelist at Benzinga’s Future of Crypto in New...

One of the most widely recognized non-fungible token companies over the last year and a half has been Pixel Vault, a company founded by Sean Gearin. Also known as GFunk, Gearin will be a featured speaker at Benzinga’s Future of Crypto event in New York City on Dec. 7. Benzinga had the...

As a two-time Grammy Award-winning producer, Ramon "Illmind" Ibanga Jr. has an impeccable resume in the music world. He has co-writing credits on legendary labels such as Def Jam, Aftermath and Cash Money. He has worked with Drake, Jay Z, Dr. Dre, Beyonce, Kendrick Lamar, J...

One of the most recognizable NFT collections of the last year are Pudgy Penguins. A transaction in April 2022 saw ownership of Pudgy Penguins change hands, with entrepreneur Luca Schnetzler (aka Luca Netz) taking control of the project. Netz will be speaking at Benzinga’s Future of Crypto...

Changpeng Zhao, commonly referred to as “CZ”, has emerged as one of the most prominent figures in crypto after the FTX bankruptcy and Sam Bankman-Fried’s demise. In the wake of that fallout, the crypto industry is struggling and investors are left with questions. CZ has an...

Proponents of cryptocurrency have long touted the technology’s transparency compared to traditional finance. But in the wake of the FTX fallout, it’s clear that the crypto industry has a long way to go if it wants to live up to this promise. One way to increase transparency in the space...

Proponents of cryptocurrency have long touted the technology’s transparency compared to traditional finance. But in the wake of the FTX fallout, it’s clear that the crypto industry has a long way to go if it wants to live up to this promise. One way to increase transparency in the space...

More major disappointment and failure has beset the crypto space this week. Sam Bankman-Fried was once the wunderkind of Web3 until a public statement on crypto regulation put him out of the good graces of the majority of the blockchain community. Little did we know that Bankman-Fried's...

Blockchain is technology that literally enables the existence of cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin, Ethereum and Litecoin. It is a decentralized ledger of all transactions across a P2P network. Like the U.S. dollar, cryptocurrency is a medium of exchange. Unlike the dollar, however, cryptocurrencies...

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