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NFT Casinos: Empowering Southeast Asian Artists or Exploiting Them?

NFT Casinos: Empowering Southeast Asian Artists or Exploiting Them?

• Commentary

Add in the birth of “NFT casinos”—aka, let’s be honest here, crypto casinos—and a decentralized future arrives, full of potential and on the cusp of revolutionizing everything. Let’s ask a critical question: Whose future are we celebrating? If not, are we really empowering Southeast Asian artists, or just remaking exploitation...

Top 10 NFT Casinos 2025: Are They Worth the Hype?

Top 10 NFT Casinos 2025: Are They Worth the Hype?

• Facts

Now, the intersection of NFTs and online gambling has turbocharged that excitement. This excitement paved the way for the birth of what we now refer to as “NFT casinos.” Are these platforms really game-changing, or just crypto casinos in sheep’s clothing? Marcin Kowalczyk is a blockchain regulatory analyst. He takes...

Crypto Casinos Soar Slots of Vegas, Super Slots, and More Lead the Pack in 2024

Crypto Casinos Soar Slots of Vegas, Super Slots, and More Lead the Pack in 2024

• NFT Drops

The online casino environment is going through a tectonic shift. The integration of cryptocurrency and blockchain technology is fuelling the creation of these innovative platforms and honing player experiences. As we move further into the second half of 2024, a few different NFT casinos are climbing to the top of...

JPMorgan & SEC Crypto Talks: What It Means For Your Investments

JPMorgan, a titan of traditional finance, recently engaged with the SEC's Crypto Task Force, signaling a potentially seismic shift in the regulatory landscape of digital assets. JPMorgan’s Scott Lucas, Justin Cohen, and Aaron Iovine ran an excellent session on the regulatory landscape for digital assets. What they focused on was...

JPMorgan's Crypto Embrace 3 Ways It Could Empower Emerging Markets

Would you believe, then, that JPMorgan Chase—yes, that JPMorgan Chase—is warm and fuzzy on crypto? They've been chatting with the SEC, flexing their crypto muscles, and even trademarking "JMPD," a potential crypto service and deposit token. While some might see this as Wall Street finally legitimizing digital assets, I see...

JPMorgan's Crypto Play A Wolf in Sheep's Clothing or a Necessary Evil?

JPMorgan Chase (JPMC) has been discussing cryptocurrency market regulation with the SEC. Big deal, right? Aren’t we all supposed to be happy that Wall Street is finally “legitimizing” the space? I'm not so sure. In fact, the news that JPMC met with the SEC's Crypto Task Force, discussing everything from...

Pump.fun's $4B Dream: Innovation or Just Another Crypto Casino?

Four billion dollars? For meme coins? That’s the speculative valuation Pump.fun is going after with its proposed launch of their own PUMP token. It makes you stop and ask: Are we witnessing the democratization of finance, or just the gamification of speculation on a grand, potentially dangerous, scale?$4B Valuation Seriously?...

Pump.fun: Create Your Own Meme Coin in Minutes (But Should You?)

In the rapidly moving world of meme coins, Pump.fun has emerged as a leading platform almost overnight. It democratizes the development of digital currencies, allowing anyone to experiment and create new currencies without deep technical expertise or large sums of money. I aim to break down this phenomenon and offer...

Pump.fun Revolutionizes Meme Coin Creation on Solana, Achieves $700 Million Milestone

Pump.fun, a relatively new platform built on the Solana blockchain, has quickly become one of the most popular and controversial platforms in the cryptocurrency industry. The platform has unseated Ethereum as the most popular platform for the creation and trading of new cryptocurrencies, especially so-called meme coins. Pump.fun has made...

Pump.fun: Democratizing Crypto or Just Another Casino for the Masses?

Now picture Anya, a talented young artist from a remote village in Cambodia. Her lush silk paintings, rich with ancient Khmer symbols, have no venue outside the local tourist traps. Then, she discovers Pump.fun. Now making good on her plan to create “SilkDreams,” her own crypto token, seemed possible. With...

US Crypto Bill a Mistake? Why Global Rules Are Needed Now More Than Ever

The US GENIUS Act. Sounds impressive, right? A big, likely commendable, step forward in the Wild West of crypto regulation, to finally tame the stablecoin beast. But what if this “brilliant” move ends up spawning a global regulatory nightmare? Now that’s something to chew on! But what if, in its...