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Talking with crypto.news, Curve founder Michael Egorov argued that defi’s ecosystem still holds the biggest value proposition over speculative trends like memecoins. During the 2021 peak, sometimes called crypto summer, decentralized finance took the driving seat. Defi tokens surged to…
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The long-awaited token listing from the Hamster Kombat game appears to have been postponed. What rumors are circulating in the community, and when can we expect HMSTR to appear on the exchanges? Users of the popular clicker Hamster Kombat have…
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The Telegram mini-game Catizen earned $16 million in in-game purchases and donated 1% to saving stray cats. Telegram founder Pavel Durov said that Catizen earned $16 million from in-game purchases. They also donated 1% of this amount to save homeless…
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Markets
The Catizen token price rose in a low-volume environment after being listed in the pre-market section of Bitget.
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News
Binance Labs has invested in Pluto Studio, the GameFi publishing platform that launched the Telegram-based gaming bot Catizen.
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TON Blockchain, Mocaverse, and the MOCA Foundation have announced a strategic partnership to bring together an ecosystem boasting over 1.6 billion users.
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Telegram CEO Pavel Durov has announced plans to introduce a mini app store to accelerate blockchain adoption and related activities. Durov announced this news via his Telegram channel, highlighting the platform’s significant growth in blockchain-related activities in 2024. The mini…
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Anatoly Aksakov, the leader of Russia’s State Duma Banking Committee, has urged banning Telegram’s tap-to-earn game Hamster Kombat, saying it “manipulates” people’s minds. Russian lawmakers appear to be set to address concerns about Telegram‘s Hamster Kombat, as Anatoly Aksakov, head…
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Telegram-based TON unveiled new infrastructure to tap into Bitcoin’s blockchain and expand BTC’s utility.
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Recently released research also suggests that crypto investors ‘display lower levels of factors associated with analytic thinking.’ Ouch. But is this true? A new scientific study exploring the types of people who own crypto has been released — and it…
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A group of developers affiliated with The Open Network on Telegram plans to tap into Ethereum with a Polygon-powered solution.
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Follow-up
Cryptocurrency exchanges started adding Hamster Kombat token to their premarket trading platform. The token of the popular tap-to-earn game Hamster Kombat (HMSTR) has appeared in premarket trading on several exchanges. Thus, crypto exchange Bybit announced on July 8 that it…
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Opinion
Beyond fostering strong communities and persistent identities, web3 unlocks another key advantage over traditional games—the ability to learn and evolve with each user.
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Follow-up
Telegram founder Pavel Durov supported the Hamster Kombat clicker game and announced the imminent release of the project’s token on the TON blockchain. Durov says a new era is coming, the advent of which “we are witnessing its arrival in…
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News
Hong Kong’s crypto exchange HashKey has rolled out its own tap-to-earn bot in Telegram in a bid to boost hype around its HSK token. HashKey Group, an Asia-based crypto services company, said in a press release shared with crypto.news that customers…
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SlowMist founder Yu Xian, known as “Cos” on X, warned Telegram users of heightened phishing attacks in the Telegram ecosystem. In an X post on Monday, Xian claimed that phishing links and scam bots can easily be spread between Telegram…