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Tigran Gambaryan, a Binance executive who was held in Nigeria for eight months in 2024 facing tax and money laundering charges, provided additional details about his experience and what led to his release.Speaking at the DC Blockchain Summit on March 26, Gambaryan, the head of financial crime compliance at Binance, said the Nigerian government had held him hostage, suggesting the criminal charges were a pretext to “get something” from Binance. According to the Binance executive, he saw signs suggesting he could be released “around a month” before he was returned to the US.“It was around the time of the [United…
I’ve heard tales of people willingly and happily spending an hour or two—sometimes even three or more—in a game’s character creator. Folks craft celebrity lookalikes, themselves, and their ideal vision of the perfect hero. Personally, I’m in and out in five minutes, ready to play. But what happens if you speed through that process with your character and then find it’s subpar in gameplay? Fortunately, Monster Hunter Wilds won’t shoulder you with buyer’s remorse given its various settings for tweaking your character’s style.What Is Dragonsplague? Dragon’s Dogma 2’s Devastating Contagion ExplainedHow to change your character’s appearance in Monster Hunter WildsWhile…
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Screenshot: Lente / KotakuI probably don’t need to tell you, a person reading a website on the internet in 2025, that the world is a big, horrible mess right now. It’s been like this for a few years, longer if you ask some people, and it doesn’t seem to be getting better anytime soon. Thankfully, Spilled is here. It’s a new game about a tiny boat cleaning up a big mess that at least lets us fix a digital world. Live Forever in the Universe of ‘New World: Aeternum’Spilled, out today on PC, is the first indie game from developer…
DIA has officially unveiled Lumina, a new modular, rollup-based oracle architecture designed to bring trustless and verifiable data to blockchains. Lumina rolled out on the mainnet on March 26, 2025, DIA, which stands for Decentralized Information Asset, noted in an announcement. The unveiling marks a milestone that DIA says signals “the era of blind trust in oracles is over.” In other words, the mainnet launch of Lumina’s rollup-powered oracle solution puts an end to “black-box oracles.” Instead it brings transparency and verifiability to the sourcing and delivery of data. This means developers, decentralized finance protocols, and blockchain networks will no…
As we have reported many times already, the Pokémon Trading Card Game is in an awful lot of trouble. Since the launch of November 2024’s set, Surging Sparks, the popularity of the 30-year-old collectible card game exploded, which in turn drew the attention of scalpers, which has rendered the products almost impossible to buy ever since. Journey Together, officially releasing Friday 28 March, is such an anticlimactic set that it almost feels designed to try to calm the waters.What’s Coming Out Beyond Pokémon: The Indigo Disk | The Week In GamesIt hasn’t, and it won’t, because May 29’s freshly announced…
Key takeawaysExit liquidity traps occur when new investors unknowingly provide liquidity for insiders to cash out, leaving them with devalued assets.FOMO drives impulsive trades, often leading to costly mistakes and becoming exit liquidity for early movers.Beware of projects with exaggerated claims, low liquidity, anonymous teams or sudden price surges.Investing in high-market-cap coins, avoiding hype-driven projects and using reputable exchanges reduce the risk.Are you concerned about having bought a cryptocurrency only to later realize that your investment facilitated someone else’s profitable exit? This scenario is called an exit liquidity trap, a deceptive market dynamic where unsuspecting traders provide liquidity for insiders…
GameStop might be dying, but thanks to its unprecedented good fortunes as a meme stock, it still has a whopping $4 billion in cash reserves. The video game retail chain announced this week it now has a plan for what to do with it: plough it into Bitcoin. Live Forever in the Universe of ‘New World: Aeternum’“GameStop today announced that its board has unanimously approved an update to its investment policy to add Bitcoin as a treasury reserve asset,” the company wrote in a press release published on March 25. “We have not set a maximum amount of bitcoin we…
Bitso, a crypto exchange focusing on Latin America, is entering the increasingly attractive stablecoin market as global adoption accelerates.The company’s business development unit, Bitso Business, has established Juno, a subsidiary dedicated to issuing and managing digital assets including stablecoins. Bitso Business also recently appointed Ben Reid as head of stablecoins to drive the firm’s ambition in the stablecoin market.The first token Juno issues is a fully-backed Mexican peso stablecoin (MXNB), aiming to facilitate cross-border payments and financial transactions between businesses across the region. The firm deployed the token on Ethereum layer-2 Arbitrum.Stablecoins, now a nearly $230 billion asset class, have…
Image: Sony / KotakuA new update for the PlayStation 5 has arrived and it has two major components. The first is refreshed activity cards that now display more info. The second is the introduction of new emoji, including root vegetables, aka beets.The Best Reveals From The Game Awards 2023Activity cards, which are neat but still flawed shortcuts meant to help players complete specific milestones in their respective games more easily, now display the full activity info, though spoilers will still be omitted. More importantly for me, a handful of new emoji introduced with Unicode 16.0 have been added to the…
