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Bringing Together NFTs, Sustainability and Music With OneOf CEO Lin Dai

BeinCrypto spoke to Lin Dai, CEO and co-founder of OneOf. The platform aims to transition music ownership and sharing into the future with its unique “green” non-fungible token (NFT) offerings. Sponsored Sponsored NFTs are no longer a fad or a hype. Rather, they have cemented themselves as a bona fide part of the future of blockchain products. While most NFTs revolve around art, music is not far behind. This industry is catching up and benefiting from this new tokenization strategy. Sponsored Sponsored However, since most NFT marketplaces are geared towards

MoonBoys Finance to Aurum: What does this change entail for AUR holders?

Last year’s DeFi boom gave rise to a spectrum of emerging trends in the crypto space. Among the most prominent ones is the deflationary token trend that comes with an opportunity for exponential rewards for its investors. Capitalizing on this trend emerged another prominent project called MoonBoys Finance. For all of you crypto nerds out there, MoonBoys Finance ($MBS) must be quite a familiar name. The project reached a market cap of over $80M at peak and garnered a record-breaking 11200+ holders in the first seven days.  While all these

Musée To Launch World’s First NFT-Owned Marketplace Platform on July 20th, 2021

Press Release: The Musée platform launches July 20th, 2021, giving creators, collectors, and investors the chance to own one of the world’s first NFT Marketplace plots. 6th July 2021, British Columbia, Canada – Musée is an innovative new project by the Canadian company Inverted Studios, which has combined Ethereum blockchain technology with digital art to launch the world’s first NFT-owned marketplace platform. The launch begins Tuesday the 20th of July, 2021, where the 10,000 plots will be available for purchase. What is Musée? The Musée platform is a marketplace for NFT art with a seamless digital experience,

MetaMask Beefs Up Security and Improves Gas Prices

Cryptocurrency wallet and browser extension MetaMask has been busy beefing up its security as hacks and exploits continue to plague the industry. In its latest monthly report, MetaMask has detailed ongoing efforts to improve the platform for its users and increase security. There are a few tweaks for dApp developers to be aware of but they will not affect users. The wallet provider has been developing ‘LavaMoat’ which is a set of tools for generating dApp bundles with enhanced security in the form of Secure EcmaScript (SES) containers. It added

ALERT: Malicious Crypto Browser Extension—Masked MetaMask

UPDATE: 12/03/2020 The MetaMask phisher continues to buy sponsored ads on MetaMask search results. The company urges users to “use direct links, and if you need to use search, watch out for sponsored links!” Sponsored ads for the fraudulent maskmeha[.]io seem to have been displaced by meramaks[.]io 12/02/2020 Within the past 24 hours, CipherTrace has noticed an uptick of alerts and comments within the online cryptocurrencyA cryptocurrency (or crypto currency) is a digital asset des... More community of users’ funds being stolen via a Chrome browser extension phishing attack posing

Cryptocurrency News Roundup for August 18, 2020

Since the start of 2020, the net worth of assets locked in DeFi smart contracts have increased nearly 10x from $680 million to more than $6 billion. BeInCrypto covered it in-depth here, in case you missed it earlier. To bank in on that phenomenal growth and encourage greater cooperation among industry stakeholders, Huobi DeFi Lab has launched a new initiative called the Global DeFi Alliance. Several major players in the DeFi space have already joined the initiative to create a united front and pave the way for mainstream adoption in

Brave Releases Update on its Decentralized Ad Platform

In a June blog post, the team behind Brave, the open-source browser known for its privacy and unique advertising model, published a straw version of one of its research initiatives. The initiative is an ad platform called ‘THEMIS.’ Themis is a decentralized and private-by-design protocol that aims to improve upon the current Brave ad ecosystem. This new protocol comes with numerous potentially attractive features. According to Brave, it will give users anonymity, it’s decentralized, it requires zero trust, and provides auditability. On August 17, the team published part two of

Blockchain Phones and Bitcoin Watches: Revisiting the Crypto Tech Hype

Talk of cryptocurrency and blockchain-powered gadgets inevitably spiked alongside the hype for token prices. But looking back, have they delivered any meaningful changes to users, or are they just another result of the hype synonymous with the space? The surge of interest in the space came to a head in 2017 as Bitcoin (BTC) hit never-before-seen highs of around $20,000 before crashing dramatically and entering the bearish crypto winter. While the collapse left devastation in its wake, the months of focus brought Bitcoin, cryptocurrency and blockchain technology into the mainstream consciousness