Cam Thompson

Cam Thompson was a Web3 reporter at CoinDesk. She is a recent graduate of Tufts University, where she majored in Economics and Science & Technology Studies. As a student, she was marketing director of the Tufts Blockchain Club. She currently holds positions in BTC and ETH.

Cam Thompson

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Web3

OpenSea Makes Waves: Says Creator Royalties Will Be Enforced

“The world is otherwise burning, but we decided this couldn’t wait,” a representative from OpenSea told CoinDesk.

OpenSea logo on phone (Unsplash)

Web3

FTX Blowup Puts Trove of Prized Bored Apes at Risk of Liquidation

Yuga Labs, the NFT collective behind the majority of tokens held in the crypto empire’s wallet, has previously raised capital from FTX Ventures, although Alameda Research is in control of the wallet.

Bored Apes (OpenSea, modified by CoinDesk)

Web3

FTX and Alameda Contagion Fears Tank NFT Markets

Rumors of Alameda liquidating its Solana holdings are sending SOL’s price into free fall; both Solana and Ethereum-based NFT markets are getting hit hard by the news.

Pixel Art NFT Collectibles Background.  Vector Illustration.  NFT Seamless Pattern. (Getty Images)

Web3

Web3 Gaming Studio Mythical Games Lays Off 10% of Its Employees

Three executives departed the developer of Web3 video games earlier this week.

Mythical Games CEO John Linden (Slaven Vlasic/Getty Images)

Web3

Retract Royalties, Reduce Revenue: NFT Creators Are Suffering and so Are Marketplaces

A growing list of marketplaces are seeing the impacts of platforms ceasing to require buyers to pay royalties on collections. Experts aren’t optimistic about what this means for the market.

(Getty Images)

Policy

SEC Charges Trade Coin Club Founding Members With Operating a $295 Million Ponzi Scheme

The multi-level marketing organization raised over 80,000 bitcoin from 100,000 investors.

(Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Web3

Web3 Game Developer Mythical Games Loses 3 Top Executives

SVP Chris Ko, COO Matt Nutt and co-founder Rudy Koch announced their departures on Wednesday. Each hinted at new ventures.

(mythicalgames.com)

Web3

Web3 Platform Alchemy Has a Plan to Thwart Bad Actors in NFT Mints

It’s new technology, Spearmint, is an “allow list” designed to keep out speculators and bots who drive up gas fees.

(Alchemy).

Finance

Aave Community Members Vote to Deploy on zkSync v2 Testnet

The decision will let developers evaluate whether to fully deploy its decentralized exchange on the layer 2 scaling platform that speeds up Ethereum transactions.

The development lab overseeing lending protocol Aave, which means "ghost" in Finnish, is seeking $16 million from the Aave community. (Unsplash)

Web3

Solana-Based NFT Marketplace Exchange.Art Creates Royalties Protection Standard

The new standard will enforce creator royalties on secondary sales of NFTs that originally mint on its platform.

(Exchange.Art)