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X Empire, a rising Telegram tap-to-earn game, is following the Notcoin playbook, launching pre-market trading Tuesday through the use of custom NFT vouchers ahead of the upcoming token launch and airdrop. While fellow Telegram games like Hamster Kombat and Catizen have rolled out pre-market trading through established exchanges, X Empire (originally Musk Empire) is instead letting players redeem an early share of their airdrop allotment by minting an NFT. Those NFTs, minted on The Open Network (...

A hot and highly anticipated Bitcoin scaling network went live this week, although its code is almost indistinguishable from Bitcoin’s own layer-1 blockchain. What gives? On Sunday, Fractal Bitcoin announced the mainnet launch of its Bitcoin sidechain network. As a tribute, Fractal included in its genesis block the same message embedded in Bitcoin’s first block concerning bank bailouts—attributed to pseudonymous creator Satoshi Nakamoto. Despite a rocky start concerning some of its block mining...

MicroStrategy has purchased roughly $8.3 billion worth of bitcoin since August 2020.

The lack of a central hub for crypto, compared to other tech movements, may be holding innovation back, says Azeem Khan.

Also, there are now prediction market contracts about other prediction market contracts.

Bitcoin lost over 8% of its value during the week, falling below $54,000 on Sept. 6 having traded around $59,000 on Sept. 2

Scroll will be used to settle transactions on Ether.fi's Cash card.