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Polymarket's decentralized platform attracts record user engagement with over 89,000 new accounts in September.

Crypto long positions endure cascading liquidations for the past 24 hours as Iran launches an air strike against Israel.

Irani officials have raised concerns over a new web3 "tap-to-earn" game called Hamster Kombat that has gripped the local populace amid deteriorating economic conditions.

The digital rial will bypass paper bills, card transactions, and interbank settlement.

Several analysts analysts remain optimistic on Bitcoin's price trajectory especially as the halving event looms.

Senator Tim Scott said the focus on crypto misses the "elephant in the room" because the conversation about illicit financing is "far larger than digital assets."

Data breach incidents are quite common in the crypto sector due to some of the platform's lax security measures.

The digital currency — dubbed "Crypto-Rial" — will leverage blockchain technology to turn the Iranian Rial banknotes into cryptocurrency.

Iran will allow any local business that imports goods to pay for their transactions via cryptocurrency in lieu of the dollar or euro.

Iran is finalizing plans to allow a large-scale adoption of cryptocurrencies for international settlement.

MetaMask shoots itself in the foot by blocking "certain jurisdictions," a dig deeper reveals the Ethereum ecosystem is in bed with JPMorgan.

The wallet standing at the frontier of Web3 is not as decentralized as it wants you to believe.

Settling foreign trade payments with the CBI platform in cryptocurrency has just become easier for businesses in Iran.

Miners in Iran are being awarded licenses to jack up operations as the network’s ‘hashrate’ sees a hit.

Cybersecurity firm SophosLabs has traced MrbMiner, a new cryptojacking virus that primarily targets powerful database servers, back to a small software company in Iran, according to a report published yesterday. “MrbMiner is a recently discovered cryptominer that targets internet-facing database servers (SQL servers) and downloads and installs a cryptominer. Database servers are an attractive target […]

The Irani government will now allow imports to be paid for using Bitcoin, as per a recent report in local publication ISNA. The move is the first-of-its-kind and marks an important milestone in Bitcoin’s history. Iran has moderately friendly towards the Bitcoin market thus far. Earlier this year, the state allowed for the legal setup […]

In a move helping to prove the intrinsic value of Bitcoin and other crypto assets, Iran’s government is finally marking an end to the national currency, the rial, after years upon years of hyperinflation in response to poor economic conditions. Iran is dropping the rial for the toman According to the New York Times, the […]

GitHub, a San Francisco-based open-source code hosting provider, was prevented from providing sanctioned nations, including Iran and Syria, with access to their supposedly open-source services. These restrictions highlight the need for decentralized web utilities—like Bitcoin and Ethereum. Nat Friedman, CEO of GitHub, revealed that the Microsoft-owned web utility provider was compelled to abide by U.S. […]