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Editor-in-Chief CryptoSlate

Also known as "Akiba," Liam Wright is the Editor-in-Chief at CryptoSlate and host of the SlateCast. He believes that decentralized technology has the potential…

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Primary Beat Bitcoin

Macro

Federal Reserve Chair urges everyone to factor inflation into financial decisions during Jackson Hole speech

Bitcoin falls 4% as FED chair Jerome Powell gave little away during his speech at Jackson Hole Friday stating that "restoring price stability will take some time."

4 years ago

Stablecoins

USDN loses peg again as Neutrino upgrade to “stabilize protocol” goes live

Stablecoin USDN fell 4% as network upgrade is confirmed as "urgent measures" are implemented

4 years ago

Behind Waves USDN depeg and how Sasha Ivanov worked to restore the peg by taking on $500M in debt – SlateCast #16

Waves founder Sash Ivanov spoke to CryptoSlate about how it feels to be called a Ponzi, corruption within web3, the depeg of USDN, and how it felt to take on $500M in debt to attempt to save the ecosystem.

4 years ago

Ethernal labs building AAA metaverse on top of Ethernity ecosystem with Nick Rose – SlateCast #15

CryptoSlate's Akiba spoke to Ethernity and Ethernal Labs founder Nick Rose about the upcoming Exorians Metaverse and other Ethernal Labs projects.

4 years ago

Censorship

Could Gitcoin Grants address be under sanctions from the U.S. amid Tornado Cash saga?

A smart contract written by Martin Köppelmann, Co-founder of Gnosis has revealed evidence of miner censorship on the Ethereum blockchain.

4 years ago

People

Alameda Research Co-CEO quits crypto in pursuit of “happiness”

Sam Trabucco announced he will step down as Co-CEO of Alameda to focus on "traveling, visiting friends and family, working on "myself" and whatnot"

4 years ago

Legal

Celsius sues KeyFi, alleges Jason Stone stole over 1,000 ETH of investor funds for NFTs

Celsius hits back at Jason Stone claiming he used client funds to buy CryptoPunks while losing 30,000 ETH in a bad DeFi trade.

4 years ago

Censorship

SWIFT considered ‘neutral’ on sanctions; debate sparked on whether Ethereum is the same

Global payment messaging service SWIFT claims to be "neutral" regarding sanctions. Can Ethereum make the same claim?

4 years ago

Hacks

NEAR Rainbow Bridge defends weekend attack costing hacker 5 ETH

NEAR/ETH bridge defended an attack in 31 seconds over the weekend that resulted in the attacker losing funds and no loss of user funds.

4 years ago

Research

Research: Will reducing US inflation from 8.3% to 2% compare to Bitcoin and Ethereum?

U.S. inflation rates have yet to fall but Ethereum will drop its inflation massively in September, while Bitcoin's inflation is baked into the code — how do these compare to a 2% FED inflation target?

4 years ago

Adoption

ByBit report claims Solana had strong network growth in Q2 on the back of GameFi, DAOs

Headline price figures do not necessarily tell the full story when it comes to network scaling. Is Solana seeing stealth growth amid a 46% drop against BTC?

4 years ago

Censorship

Largest Ethereum miner, Ethermine, stops processing sanctioned transactions

Ethermine is no longer processing blocks that include Tornado Cash transactions creating censorship at a protocol level

4 years ago

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Liam 'Akiba' Wright Liam 'Akiba' Wright has published within the past 30 days.

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Federal Reserve Chair urges everyone to factor inflation into financial decisions during Jackson Hole speech

USDN loses peg again as Neutrino upgrade to “stabilize protocol” goes live

Behind Waves USDN depeg and how Sasha Ivanov worked to restore the peg by taking on $500M in debt – SlateCast #16

Ethernal labs building AAA metaverse on top of Ethernity ecosystem with Nick Rose – SlateCast #15

Could Gitcoin Grants address be under sanctions from the U.S. amid Tornado Cash saga?

Alameda Research Co-CEO quits crypto in pursuit of “happiness”

Celsius sues KeyFi, alleges Jason Stone stole over 1,000 ETH of investor funds for NFTs

SWIFT considered ‘neutral’ on sanctions; debate sparked on whether Ethereum is the same

NEAR Rainbow Bridge defends weekend attack costing hacker 5 ETH

Research: Will reducing US inflation from 8.3% to 2% compare to Bitcoin and Ethereum?

ByBit report claims Solana had strong network growth in Q2 on the back of GameFi, DAOs

Largest Ethereum miner, Ethermine, stops processing sanctioned transactions

A four-way deadlock is now blocking the US Clarity Act crypto bill — and each side can stop it

Bitcoin faces critical weekend test as Iran closes Strait after immediately disputing the US narrative on Hormuz deal

The Fed treads on XRP’s core payments use case with new FedNow banking system upgrade

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