Hivemapper has finished beta testing a recorder that can be used to earn Honey tokens for contributing to the development of a decentralized global mapping. The technology is simple: ? You get paid for videos of routes you plot on maps. ?Others buy these videos if they suffer from complete lack of sense of direction. ?Founders of the project make money by selling its car recorders at the cost of an airplane wing. We once joked that people would soon start mining with kettles. And we were right, though wrong about the device. - Patrick, Move-to-Earn is off the table! - If not M2E, then what? - Drive-to-Earn.

A rehab center for crypto addicts was opened on the island of Mallorca. The month bill for treatment in a private villa is $75,000 and includes: ? group therapy sessions ? butler services ? personal chef ? yoga and massage ? spa salon The flow of FOMO sufferers seems to be endless. So we guess, the Swiss company The Balance, which launched the project, will come out on the right side.

More than 40 blockchain companies have offered the Turkish authorities to create an official crypto wallet to accept donations for the victims of the devastating earthquake. Today about 2 thousand people died due to earthquakes in Turkey and Syria. The death toll is expected to rise as hundreds of buildings have been completely destroyed. Cryptocurrency communities always respond instantly to such humanitarian crises. Yes, Ukraine received a lot of donations immediately after the "gas-station" country attack. Turkey, hang in there!

A New York court has issued a ruling allowing the former chief executive of FTX to use messaging apps, but with some restrictions. ?No Signal and other apps with disappearing or hidden chat features ?Ban on contacting FTX or Alameda employees ?Communication is allowed only in the presence of counsel How will Sam now send some meaningful messages under the watchful eye of the accusing party's lawyer? Does he know any secret language? We'll see soon enough.

Looks like we have a new kind of wallet asset theft: taking a picture of the balance screen. A scammer claiming to be an investor stole an entire collection of NFTs worth about $4 million from a Webaverse founder. The fraudster explained that he needed to see the proof of NFTs before signing a partnership agreement. The victim insists that he only showed the scammer the Trust Wallet balance interface. He revealed no seed phrases or private keys. The thief took some pictures of the screen and went out for a smoke. A few minutes later the funds were drained from the wallet, and the potential partner had never returned. The weird story is confirmed by Etherscan. The odd thing is that the theft happened on Nov. 26, but was reported only now. Did the victim hope to wake up one fine day and realize that everything was just a dream?

PeckShield, a blockchain security firm, warns that zero-transfer scammers are behind two of the largest gas spenders. The scheme is as follows: ? Fake addresses are created by imitating real ones. ? The TransferFrom function is then used to make a zero transfer from any wallet to a smart contract. ? As a result, a fake transaction history is created and shown in users' wallets and on Etherscan. The only thing left to do is wait for the transfer from the victims who did not thoroughly check the address before sending the money.

While crypto-fans are actively playing with the new AI toy for coin predictions, the tech giant announced the launch of its own chat AI service Bard. The AI will be integrated in the search engine after the testing phase. As for the future, Google plans to create a set of tools and API interfaces for various apps. Microsoft and the Chinese company Baidu will also join the race and present their artificial intelligence bots.

Statistics from Coinglass indicate liquidations of $1 billion in the last 12 hours, with $483 million in BTC and $300 million in Ethereum. Some market analysts are identifying potential incidents that may have instigated this downfall: The Wall Street Journal has noted that SpaceX liquidated $373 million in Bitcoin across 2021 and 2022, and Tesla has divested more than 30,000 BTC (75% of its stake) for $936 million in Q2 of 2022. The investment holding company China Evergrande Group has filed for bankruptcy. It was rumored that Tether had backed a portion of its USDT using commercial papers from this entity. Sellers sprang into action shortly after. With Bloomberg announcing that the SEC is slated to approve the first-ever Ethereum-based ETF futures by October, Ethereum's market value promptly surged by 11%.

The immense wave of transactions and heightened user activity took Shibarium by surprise, causing some tech glitches, says Shytoshi Kusama, the co-founder of the Shiba Inu ecosystem. He's also quick to debunk the rumors about funds getting stuck in the bridging contracts, terming it as pure FUD. "Although we expected a very busy moment, we never expected THIS much traffic, instantly," reflects Shytoshi Kusama. At its launch, the Shibarium team tackled a load of 160 million computational tasks in a span of about 30 minutes, while anticipating only 400 million within a month.

The Federal Reserve enforced the closure of Farmington State Bank, a lender that has ties with both FTX and Alameda Research. But what led to this? The bank's silent move towards a digital-centric strategy without keeping the Federal Reserve in the loop. To thicken the plot, Farmington had previously, in March 2022, secured a substantial $11.5 million funding from Alameda Research.

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has received permission from a U.S. judge to request assistance from the South Korean government in questioning Daniel Shin, co-founder of Terraform Labs. Officials plan to question Shin in connection with their own lawsuit against Do Kwon and to obtain documents related to Chai Corporation, a secondary company that was also used in the illegal scheme.