Liam Frost

Reporter CryptoSlate

Liam Frost is a freelance journalist and editor with over 15 years of experience working for various media outlets across the world. Being a big supporter of ev…

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Total Articles 261

Since Jan 2021

Last Active Apr 12, 2022

Primary Beat Adoption

NFTs

Axiom Space astronauts mint NFTs in low Earth orbit

Over the coming days, the Ax-1 mission crew will be minting NFT artworks to “encourage interest in exploring life beyond Earth's orbit.”

4 years ago

Investments

Blockchain security firm CertiK raises $88M, propelling its valuation to $2B

The company has doubled its valuation in just four months as crypto-related cyberattacks keep growing in numbers and scale.

4 years ago

Payments

Strike joins Shopify in massive push for Bitcoin’s Lightning Network adoption

The new partnership aims to enable “low-cost, instant, global payments for merchants” using Bitcoin.

4 years ago

Ubisoft proves gamers right by ditching ‘Breakpoint’ 4 months after NFT

NFTs

Ubisoft proves gamers right by ditching ‘Breakpoint’ just 4 months after NFT integration

The company has announced that online "looter-shooter" Ghost Recon Breakpoint won't receive any further post-launch support.

4 years ago

Regulation

U.S. crypto regulations should be ‘tech neutral,’ says Janet Yellen

The U.S. Treasury secretary has called for consumer protection “from fraud and misleading statements regardless of whether assets are stored on a balance sheet or distributed ledger.”

4 years ago

Partnerships

Terra teams up with LongHashX to offer Web3 startups up to $500,000 in funding

Terraform Labs and LongHash Ventures have joined forces to “accelerate and invest in the next generation of Web3 protocols on the Terra blockchain.”

4 years ago

Payments

BitPay integrates Lightning Network to enable low-cost Bitcoin transactions

The crypto payments processor now allows its customers to use “a low-cost alternative when paying with Bitcoin at BitPay-enabled merchants.”

4 years ago

Investments

Axie Infinity devs raise $150M to compensate users for Ronin Network hack

Led by Binance, the new funding round should help Sky Mavis to soften the blowback from what is possibly the biggest hack in DeFi so far.

4 years ago

User loses $570,000 worth of Ape NFTs to ‘fake verification’ scam

Scams

User loses $570,000 worth of Mutant and Bored Ape NFTs to ‘fake verification’ scam

A crypto enthusiast wanted to swap his Bored and Mutant Apes for other NFTs of equal value — but was left with literal "worthless jpegs" in the end.

4 years ago

Crime

German authorities shut down world’s largest darknet market Hydra

Law enforcement officers have also seized roughly €23 million in Bitcoin from the now-defunct platform.

4 years ago

Scams

Crypto users report new wave of Discord NFT scams

Malicious actors have started using compromised QR codes to hijack users' accounts.

4 years ago

Hacks

Hackers target Trezor crypto wallet users after mailing list got compromised

A malicious actor used social engineering to access an internal tool used by newsletter delivery service Mailchimp.

4 years ago