Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies have won their fair share of supporters from the world of Wall Street over the last year...

The Ukraine government and organizations supporting its fight against a Russia invasion have amassed more than $52 million in cryptocurrency donations and already deployed at least $14 million.

Olaf Carlson-Wee rode 2017’s “initial coin offering” craze to become one of crypto’s top venture investors. Now he’s raking in hundreds of millions, from a blockchain rage called DeFi, which promotes the fantasy of democratized financial services.

Never before has the ability to finance a war – and to shield oneself from monetary attack – rested in the hands of individual citizens wielding smartphones.

Newly received donations, which have been used for military equipment and food, include $6.5 million from auctioning off a Ukraine flag NFT—the tenth most expensive NFT sale ever.

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The bitcoin price has added more than 20% since dropping to lows of under $35,000 per bitcoin last week. Meanwhile, the price of ethereum and smaller coins BNB, solana, cardano, XRP, Terra's luna and avalanche have also rocketed higher...

The marketplace DeepRedSky will sell the tokens through the Solana blockchain.

The four-year-old Silicon Valley company now has more than $2 billion in assets.

The modern public corporation has failed to aligned shareholder value with executive compensation. However, renowned business strategist Roger L. Martin is not convinced that DAOs are the answer.

The surge, coupled with the plummeting value of Russia’s currency, has seen the overall value of bitcoin surpass that of the Russian ruble.

In recent global events, Bitcoin has continually shown its value by providing ready solutions to different people facing different challenges in the world.

Bitcoin has overtaken Russia's ruble in terms of total value as the bitcoin price surges just as the ruble goes into freefall...

Ukrainian tech entrepreneurs are finding unconventional ways to pierce Russia’s propaganda and censorship bubble.

As governments around the world release an onslaught of measures to punish Russia for its invasion of Ukraine, a growing number of experts warn Russia will almost certainly turn to cryptocurrency to help evade sanctions.

DCash, a Central Bank Digital Currency of the kind the US is seriously thinking of creating, has now been down for over six weeks. The people who have their money in it have no recourse. This should put the brakes on further consideration of a Central Bank Digital Currency for the US.

“Prolific” nation-state crypto users North Korea and Iran have amassed an estimated $2 billion in digital currency to help fund a missile program and evade sanctions.

Forward-thinking artists are experimenting with Web3 tools to engage with their communities and build loyalty amongst their fans. Artists are launching NFT collections that serve as dynamic membership clubs and confer certain access rights and benefits for tokenholders.

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Smart contracts & blockchain technology have enabled a wide range of new digital pathways, as they allow different parties to a transaction to determine and measure certain parameters in a quick, seamless and transparent way.