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Floki Developers Look to Improve Token Fundamentals With New Trading Bot

The bot charges a 1% fee on every transaction and 50% of the collected fees will be used to buy FLOKI on the open market, adding to demand for the token.

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Opinion

What Visa’s ‘Organic’ Stablecoin Report Misses

A new metric co-developed by the payments giant says only 10% of stablecoin transactions in April were “real” or “organic.” But the methodology appears to leave out some key use cases.

Visa headquarters in Foster City, California. (Wonderlane/Creative Commons)

Tech

Crypto Traders Flock to Unibot as Telegram Bot Tokens Near $100M Market Cap

The swiftly-growing category commands a market capitalization of just under $100 million.

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Tech

Ethereum Fees Spike as Bots Spend Millions to Front-Run Punters of PEPE, CHAD

An entity connected to a wallet named “jaredfromsubway.eth” is sandwiching crypto traders, mainly those betting on tokens such as pepe and chad.

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Finance

Ethereum Bot Gets Attacked for $20M as Validator Strikes Back

The incident raises questions about whether validators can be trusted, one former member of the Ethereum Foundation said.

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Finance

Crypto Exchange Binance to Use Twitter as Web 3 ‘Sandbox,’ Help Musk Fend Off Bots: Exec

Patrick Hillman, chief strategy officer at Binance, discusses the goals to help Elon Musk fend off internet bots on Twitter and why Binance sees the potential for Web3 innovation following its $500 investment in the social media company.

Logo 3D de Binance impreso en dorado. (Rob Mitchell/CoinDesk)

Videos

Twitter Bot Issue Goes Beyond People Trying to Pump Coins: Binance Exec

Binance Chief Strategy Officer Patrick Hillmann addresses Twitter's bot issue, saying "these AI bots are out there ruining our reputation as an industry." He also discusses the future of Twitter under Elon Musk.

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Finance

Frances Haugen: Facebook Informer

She was the source for the damning "Facebook Files." Here's how she thinks DAOs and blockchains could fix the company nobody likes.

(Frances Haugen, modified by Kevin Ross/CoinDesk)

Videos

Elon Musk: Twitter Deal 'Cannot Move Forward' Pending Fake Account Data

Tesla CEO Elon Musk said his $44 billion acquisition of Twitter will be on hold until he has more clarity on the platform's "calculation" of fake or spam accounts. "The Hash" panel discusses the latest in the ongoing Musk-Twitter saga as Musk continues to rail against the bots.

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Tech

Solana Goes Dark for 7 Hours as Bots Swarm ‘Candy Machine’ NFT Minting Tool

It wasn’t immediately clear how the bot traffic overcame network safeguards.

Scenes from Solana's Miami Hacker House in April 2022 (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)

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