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Door Jennifer Sanasie12 jan 2024

"CoinDesk Daily" host Jennifer Sanasie breaks down the biggest crypto stories of the day, including an update on Ethereum founder Vitalik Buterin's X account getting hacked. Ripple’s XRP token has dropped over 5% in the past 24 hours. Coinbase clarifies its stance on operations in India. And, the former CEO of Algorand is set to lead a company that will take over bankrupt crypto lender Celsius’ operations.

11 sep 2023

Elon Musk's social media platform, X (formerly Twitter), has obtained payments licenses from several U.S. states in recent months, including a currency transmitter license in Rhode Island that is required for offering crypto services. "First Mover" hosts Jennifer Sanasie and Amitoj Singh weigh in on the social media platform's exploration of payment options.

31 aug 2023

Data from CoinGecko shows that the token of the just-launched layer-1 blockchain Sei has plunged after its airdrop, pushing the market cap to $314.8 million. Early adopters flooded X, formerly known as Twitter, with complaints about the meagerness of token allocations, all while recipients appeared to dump their holdings on the market. CoinDesk's Jennifer Sanasie presents "The Chart of the Day."

17 aug 2023

According to a report from Network Contagion Research Institute (NCRI), five tokens linked to Alameda Research, including BOBA, GALA, IMX, RNDR, and SPELL, were pumped by a legion of Twitter bots after FTX listed them. "The Hash" discusses the surge in the tokens' price and what this could mean for the ongoing FTX bankruptcy case.

3 aug 2023

Door Sheila Warren, Michael J. Casey2 aug 2023

Web3 wallet Suku recently teamed up with Polygon to release a free open-edition NFT collection. Within the 48-hour mint period, users minted over 50,000 NFTs directly on X, formerly known as Twitter. Lucas Henning, Suku’s Chief Technology Officer and co-founder, joins "The Hash" to discuss the partnership with Polygon and the future of transactions over social media platforms.

1 aug 2023

The rug-pulling of short-lived, heavily hyped meme coin bald (BALD) has a whole cast of characters, but is one of them Sam Bankman-Fried? "The Hash" panel shares their reaction to the latest speculation on X (formerly known as Twitter) and what on-chain evidence is actually suggesting as Bankman-Fried’s access to the Internet is heavily controlled.

1 aug 2023

DappRadar has published a new report focused on the impact of social dapps, or decentralized applications, in the Web3 ecosystem. This comes as social media giant Twitter recently rebranded to "X." DappRadar Head of Research Pedro Herrera discusses the key takeaways from the report and the outlook for the growth of the social dapp industry.

31 jul 2023

"CoinDesk Daily" host Jennifer Sanasie breaks down the latest headlines shaping crypto, including a federal judge considering forbidding “parties and witnesses” in the FTX case from speaking to the media. Worldcoin's WLD token went live on Monday, but U.S. citizens and those based in the country cannot access it. And, tokens branded ‘X’ are popping up on decentralized exchanges after Twitter removed its blue bird logo.

26 jul 2023