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[PRESS RELEASE – Dubai, United Arab Emirates, December 4th, 2025] On December 4, incubator MEETLabs announced the official launch of the Web3 P2E 3D-fishing game “DeFishing.” As the first GameFi on MEETLabs’ platform GamingFi, DeFishing debuts on BNB Chain and will be the first to introduce a combined mechanism of Proof of Play (POP) and […]

Nexus wants to be more than just another bridge by turning crosschain chaos into one unified balance so users can move assets seamlessly between blockchains. The Avail Nexus mainnet launched this week, promising to radically rewire how assets move between blockchains. Instead of another bridging tool, Nexus wants to make multichain execution as seamless as tapping a button, sidestepping years of awkward crypto UX and operational headaches. Nexus sets out to solve a nagging question in Web3: Why do users with onchain assets still get stuck, forced to bridge tokens, swap for gas and bounce between apps just to use their funds? Read more

Federal Decree Law No. 6 expands the UAE central bank’s authority over DeFi, ending the “just code” defense and imposing penalties of up to $272 million. A new financial law in the United Arab Emirates is set to bring decentralized finance (DeFi) and the broader Web3 industry under regulatory parameters, signaling an important shift for the industry. The UAE’s new central bank law, Federal Decree Law No. 6 of 2025, introduces “one of the most consequential regulatory shifts” for the crypto industry in the region, Irina Heaver, a local crypto lawyer and founder of NeosLegal, told Cointelegraph. “It brings protocols, DeFi platforms, middleware, and even infrastructure providers into scope if they enable activities such as payments, exchange, lending, custody, or investment services,” Heaver said. Read more

Despite a dip in active wallets and DeFi losses, blockchain gaming and decentralized finance continued to drive most Web3 activity last month. Blockchain gaming and decentralized finance (DeFi) remained the most active sectors in Web3 in October, despite a 3% decline in total daily active wallets to 16 million, according to a new report from DappRadar. Web3 gaming accounted for 27.9% of all decentralized application (DApp) activity over the past month, its highest share of the year, while DeFi maintained solid engagement at 18.4%, despite market volatility and ongoing regulatory pressure. The most widely used DApps include Raydium, Pump.fun, Jupiter Exchange, OKX Dex and PancakeSwap v2. Read more

YouTube launches “direct attack” on blockchain gaming vids, Animoca to list on Nasdaq five years after getting kicked off the ASX: Web3 Gamer. YouTubes latest content rules announcement hasnt gone down well with Web3 gaming creators, who say the platform is unfairly targeting them. YouTube’s new policy is a direct attack on Web3 gaming and CS skins, Gamer Leevai said in an X post. Fellow gamer Predz added, Know any Web3 creators? They need to see this. The update, which is expected to roll out on Nov. 17, expands YouTubes definition of prohibited online gaming content to cover digital goods with monetary value, including skins, cosmetics, NFTs, and other blockchain-based assets.  Read more

YouTube launches “direct attack” on blockchain gaming vids, Animoca to list on Nasdaq five years after getting kicked off the ASX: Web3 Gamer. YouTubes latest content rules announcement hasnt gone down well with Web3 gaming creators, who say the platform is unfairly targeting them. YouTube’s new policy is a direct attack on Web3 gaming and CS skins, Gamer Leevai said in an X post. Fellow gamer Predz added, Know any Web3 creators? They need to see this. The update, which is expected to roll out on Nov. 17, expands YouTubes definition of prohibited online gaming content to cover digital goods with monetary value, including skins, cosmetics, NFTs, and other blockchain-based assets.  Read more

YouTube launches “direct attack” on blockchain gaming vids, Animoca to list on Nasdaq five years after getting kicked off the ASX: Web3 Gamer. YouTubes latest content rules announcement hasnt gone down well with Web3 gaming creators, who say the platform is unfairly targeting them. YouTube’s new policy is a direct attack on Web3 gaming and CS skins, Gamer Leevai said in an X post. Fellow gamer Predz added, Know any Web3 creators? They need to see this. The update, which is expected to roll out on Nov. 17, expands YouTubes definition of prohibited online gaming content to cover digital goods with monetary value, including skins, cosmetics, NFTs, and other blockchain-based assets.  Read more

YouTube launches “direct attack” on blockchain gaming vids, Animoca to list on Nasdaq five years after getting kicked off the ASX: Web3 Gamer. YouTubes latest content rules announcement hasnt gone down well with Web3 gaming creators, who say the platform is unfairly targeting them. YouTube’s new policy is a direct attack on Web3 gaming and CS skins, Gamer Leevai said in an X post. Fellow gamer Predz added, Know any Web3 creators? They need to see this. The update, which is expected to roll out on Nov. 17, expands YouTubes definition of prohibited online gaming content to cover digital goods with monetary value, including skins, cosmetics, NFTs, and other blockchain-based assets.  Read more

YouTube launches “direct attack” on blockchain gaming vids, Animoca to list on Nasdaq five years after getting kicked off the ASX: Web3 Gamer. YouTubes latest content rules announcement hasnt gone down well with Web3 gaming creators, who say the platform is unfairly targeting them. YouTube’s new policy is a direct attack on Web3 gaming and CS skins, Gamer Leevai said in an X post. Fellow gamer Predz added, Know any Web3 creators? They need to see this. The update, which is expected to roll out on Nov. 17, expands YouTubes definition of prohibited online gaming content to cover digital goods with monetary value, including skins, cosmetics, NFTs, and other blockchain-based assets.  Read more

YouTube launches “direct attack” on blockchain gaming vids, Animoca to list on Nasdaq five years after getting kicked off the ASX: Web3 Gamer. YouTubes latest content rules announcement hasnt gone down well with Web3 gaming creators, who say the platform is unfairly targeting them. YouTube’s new policy is a direct attack on Web3 gaming and CS skins, Gamer Leevai said in an X post. Fellow gamer Predz added, Know any Web3 creators? They need to see this. The update, which is expected to roll out on Nov. 17, expands YouTubes definition of prohibited online gaming content to cover digital goods with monetary value, including skins, cosmetics, NFTs, and other blockchain-based assets.  Read more

YouTube launches “direct attack” on blockchain gaming vids, Animoca to list on Nasdaq five years after getting kicked off the ASX: Web3 Gamer. YouTubes latest content rules announcement hasnt gone down well with Web3 gaming creators, who say the platform is unfairly targeting them. YouTube’s new policy is a direct attack on Web3 gaming and CS skins, Gamer Leevai said in an X post. Fellow gamer Predz added, Know any Web3 creators? They need to see this. The update, which is expected to roll out on Nov. 17, expands YouTubes definition of prohibited online gaming content to cover digital goods with monetary value, including skins, cosmetics, NFTs, and other blockchain-based assets.  Read more

On Oct. 20, a hiccup in Amazon’s US-EAST-1 region set off a chain reaction across the crypto industry. Coinbase reported degraded service, Infura and Alchemy posted AWS-related incident notes, and several wallets and rollups began timing out. None of these failures came from the blockchains themselves. Consensus was fine. The problem was everything wrapped around […] The post If Web3 is decentralized, why do DeFi dApps still break when the cloud goes down? appeared first on CryptoSlate.

[PRESS RELEASE – Singapore, Singapore, October 28th, 2025] Redacted Group ($RDAC), a multi-vertical Web3 ecosystem backed by Spartan Group, Animoca Brands, and Polygon Ventures, today announces its strategic merger with Tenset ($10SET), a proven blockchain infrastructure platform with over $100M raised through public and private ICOs and a $1B+ legacy token peak market cap. The […]

[PRESS RELEASE – Panama City, Panama, October 3rd, 2025] Gate, one of the world’s leading digital asset platforms, announced the official launch of Gate Fun this week, a next-generation on-chain token launchpad built on its proprietary Layer 2 blockchain, Gate Layer. The launch underscores Gate’s commitment to its long-term strategy of going “All in Web3”, […]

Web3 launchpads have become cash-grab funnels funding ideas without substance. The industry needs platforms that build better, not just raise more. Opinion by: Tim Hafner, founder and CEO of OpenServ Launchpads were introduced to give Web3 projects access to early investors. As they operate today, however, they too often result in cash grabs over long-term success. This has resulted in a flood of half-formed products hitting the market without real support for builders.  Virtuals Protocol has facilitated over 17,000 AI agent token launches as of February 2025, indicating that infrastructure for token launches is not slowing down. Questions remain, however, regarding the long-term sustainability and accountability of launchpads.  Read more

Privacy experts warn EU’s Chat Control law could break encryption, erode trust in digital platforms and push users toward decentralized Web3 solutions. As EU lawmakers near a decision on the “Chat Control” law, privacy experts warn it could break public trust in digital communication and push users toward Web3 platforms. As European lawmakers near a decision on the controversial “Chat Control” legislation, privacy experts warn it could break public trust in digital communication and push users toward Web3 platforms. At the center of the debate is the EU’s proposed Regulation to Prevent and Combat Child Sexual Abuse, which would require platforms to scan private messages for illegal content before they are encrypted. Critics say this effectively creates a backdoor into encrypted systems, contradicting the EU’s own commitments to privacy. Read more

LimeWire has acquired the rights to the infamous Fyre Festival and plans to revive the brand through Web3 integrations with its LMWR token. LimeWire, a former file-sharing platform turned Web3 company, acquired the rights to the infamous Fyre Festival brand and plans to relaunch it with a crypto twist. In a Tuesday announcement, LimeWire said it had purchased the Fyre Festival’s trademark, logo, domain and social media accounts. Marcus Feistl, LimeWire’s chief operating officer, told Cointelegraph that the new iteration will include offline events, with LimeWire’s LMWR token powering access to products and services. The Fyre Festival became a symbol of failed hype in 2017, when a promised luxury music event in the Bahamas collapsed into chaos, leaving attendees stranded without proper food or accommodations. Its founder, Billy McFarland, was later convicted of fraud and sentenced to prison. LimeWire confirmed that McFarland is not involved in the new project. Read more

Top Web3 white hats are earning millions uncovering DeFi flaws, far surpassing traditional cybersecurity salaries capped at $300,000. Top white hats hunting vulnerabilities across decentralized protocols in Web3 are earning millions, dwarfing the $300,000 salary ceiling in traditional cybersecurity roles. “Our leaderboard shows researchers earning millions per year, compared to typical cybersecurity salaries of $150-300k,” Mitchell Amador, co-founder and CEO of bug bounty platform Immunefi, told Cointelegraph. In crypto, “white hats” refers to ethical hackers paid to disclose vulnerabilities in decentralized finance (DeFi) protocols. Unlike salaried corporate roles, these researchers choose their targets, set their own hours and earn based on the impact of what they find. Read more

Web3’s mass adoption depends on embracing Web2 infrastructure, not replacing it. Gradual integration builds trust and accelerates mainstream acceptance. Opinion by: Richard Johnson, chief operating officer of Data Guardians Network  In the ongoing drive to increase Web3 adoption, many Web3 enthusiasts and organizations continue to call for industries to move away from Web2 processes.  Whether it’s trying to make Web3 tools feel like a Web2 application or redefining business models to focus more on Web3 infrastructure, there is a vocal group that believes in demolishing Web2 for Web3 to grow.  Read more

Gaia Labs’ AI smartphone and Solana’s latest devices highlight a renewed push to merge blockchain features in consumer tech. Web3 companies are exploring ways to move beyond apps and tokens, experimenting with hardware devices like phones and consoles that merge crypto functions with everyday tech. Gaia Labs, a decentralized AI and Web3 infrastructure company, on Tuesday announced its upcoming AI smartphone for users in South Korea and Hong Kong. Built on Samsung’s Galaxy S25 Edge hardware, the device runs AI models directly on the phone, letting users interact with agents without relying on cloud services. According to the company, Web3 functions include onchain identity support, a pre-loaded Gaia domain, and tools for deploying custom AI agents. Read more