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UPDATED: Magnetically attached Joy-Con controllers? Backwards compatibility? A huge 1080p screen? Here's the latest on the Nintendo Switch 2.

Upcoming mobile basketball game Rumble Kong League will feature Gatorade-branded items.

Michael Saylor’s software firm MicroStrategy bought the dip, expanding its enormous pile of Bitcoin with more than 1% of the total supply in hand.

A lesser-known startup has produced a top-performing AI model, Reka Core. We put it to the test against its high-powered competition.

The Eigen Foundation will begin distributing EIGEN tokens on May 10, but US and VPN users will be blocked.

One miner's perseverance in the face of the dominance of centralized mining firms and major mining pools has paid off.

Blockchain startup Games for a Living has raised $3.2 million, with mobile gaming giant Supercell in the mix.

On-chain analyst ZachXBT has broken down exactly how North Korea’s notorious hacking group Lazarus laundered over $200 million into fiat.

A new BitcoinOS whitepaper says its scaling system is resistant to government attackers.

Persistent outflows from Grayscale’s Bitcoin Trust overshadowed the modest gains of its peers.

Approval of spot Bitcoin ETFs on the ASX exchange, which accounts for the bulk of Australia's equity trading, is reportedly near.

With $3 million in fresh funding led by Mechanism Capital and Selini Capital, Holograph is pushing deeper into gaming with tokens that can be used across Ethereum-compatible chains.

Centralized exchange OKX is the latest to embrace Bitcoin Runes, running a Runecoin rewards drive ahead of the listing.

Some of the biggest unlocks are coming from DeFi oracle provider Pyth and decentralized crypto derivatives platform Aevo.

Unredacted portions of a lawsuit filed by Consensys reveal that the agency classified ETH as a security last April.

Stripe's new Avalanche integration means that users can buy AVAX directly through the mobile app—without having to go through an exchange.

Built with Solana’s State Compression Technology, Primitives Protocol’s "non-fungible graphs" enable friends to migrate between social networks.

There's more than just airdrop hype behind Ronin game Apeiron, which smartly blends genres for a satisfying strategy affair.

As Friend.tech launches its version 2, hype builds among the community for its new points system and FRIEND token airdrop.

As Pope Francis prepares to address AI at the G7 summit, a virtual priest loses his collar.

Love role-playing games? RPG fans have been spoiled over the last year with huge sequels and clever originals. Here are 11 must-play games.

The Notcoin launch is only days away, while Immutable is giving out rewards and Charles Hoskinson's studio released a game—not on Cardano.

As new Runes tokens dominated crypto, a proactive suit from Consensys against the SEC fostered a wartime mood among industry leaders.

After a crypto exchange collapses, a group of Redditors set out to recover their funds from the CEO—by whatever means necessary.

Bonk, Pepe, and Floki are among the biggest gainers of the past seven days.

Twenty leading AI developers—including OpenAI, Microsoft, NVIDIA, and Google—pledge to help the US Department of Homeland Security protect critical infrastructure.

The NOT token is dropping in a matter of days, Notcoin’s co-creator told Decrypt’s GG. Here’s what to expect from the claim process.

Competition in the AI space has started to shift from building the largest models to the smallest, most capable tools.

Bored Ape Yacht Club creator Yuga Labs is restructuring with an aim to get back to its smaller, scrappier early days.

Reaching out to combat potential fraud, from one layer-2 to another.

The top senator wants to help the Justice Department and Homeland Security clamp down on the use of cryptocurrency in child exploitation.

UPDATED: Here's what you need to know about gaming airdrops and rewards around Notcoin, Immutable zkEVM, Saga, Illuvium, Apeiron, and more.

Nearly $218 million exited the formerly red-hot investment vehicles in the wake of a weak U.S. economic report.

The heads of crypto industry titans like Coinbase and Uniswap are rallying behind Consensys in its fight to get the SEC to concede Ethereum is not a security.

At a launch party for the collection in New York’s SoHo neighborhood, the artist broke down her latest art experiment, “Four Core Texts,” with Decrypt’s Sander Lutz.

Open Builders founder Sasha Plotvinov speaks with Decrypt's Sander Lutz at Token 2049 Dubai about how he envisions Notcoin's expansion and evolution after the token drop—into something akin to the "Netflix of social, viral games."

BTC stables at $66k, liquidations in narrow range. BTC funding again turns negative in bullish sign. ETFs net inflow after Grayscale moves to lower fees. BTC demand 5x vs supply post-halving: Bitfinex. SOL congestion issue now largely solved. Two SEC lawyers resign after ‘gross abuse of power’. Ripple fights to lower $2bn SEC fine. SAFE trades at $2.8bn FDV after OKX lists. MANEKI hits $150m on first day, China memes pump. Memecoins are ‘black hole you can’t ignore’. DeGods up 20%, may switch back to SOL. Magic Eden launches Runes platform ahead of time. Louis Vuitton gifts Pharrell jacket to NFT holders. Melania Trump launches necklace with SOL NFTs. Hoodie Punk trades for $620K.

Arianee CEO Pierre-Nicolas Hurstel sat down with Rug Radio founder Farokh and Decrypt’s Sander Lutz at NFT Paris to discuss everything from the future of on-chain luxury to the secret hack to finding the best restaurants in France.

Notcoin co-creator Sasha Plotvinov spoke with Decrypt's Sander Lutz at Token 2049 Dubai to discuss why the NOT token launch was pushed back from the original 4/20 target, when to expect the listing, and more.

At Token 2049 in Dubai, The Open Network’s director of investments sat down with Decrypt’s Sander Lutz to discuss what he sees as the game-changing integration of USDT onto TON, and his plans for getting Telegram’s 900 million users to start using crypto in the immediate future.