Nick Della Cava

Nine Chronicles, a blockchain-driven decentralized role playing game backed by Ubisoft, announced its early release on the mainnet last week. The game—one of the first of its kind—is the brainchild of Seoul-based company Planetarium. Nine Chronicles is what’s called a MMORPG, or a massive multiplayer online role-playing game. It’s a tank of an acronym. But in layman’s terms, it means choose-your-own adventure with a touch of fantasy. Through Nine Chronicles, Planetarium hopes to sow the seeds fo...

In the end, someone will try to put virtually everything on a blockchain. Even garbage. That’s exactly what Russ Lema and Daryl Taylor, co-founders of Invizion, are trying to do: Their Houston, Texas-based company tracks the movement of waste and garbage through blockchain technology. Why? They want to bring a greater sense of accountability to what we throw away. “There is no ownership of trash,” Lema told Decrypt. “When you’re done using it, you throw it in a bag, you put it in a trash can and...

Joon Ian Wong is available for purchase. You can buy a share of him via his personal token, the $JOON, for roughly four cents. In fact, if you owned 1,000 $JOON in June, you could’ve met up with his nibs himself in London. The sudden rise of the Ethereum-based ‘social token’ A former journalist for Quartz, and then for Coindesk, Wong was one of crypto’s best known writers. But he left Coindesk earlier this year after falling down the rabbit hole of tokenizing humans. His newest project is a soci...

Blame it on profit taking: Nine of the ten most popular cryptos on the social trading platform eToro fell in trading volume for the month of September. As usual, Bitcoin, Ethereum and XRP were the first, second and third most traded coins in September, holding their ranks from August. Yet despite maintaining their positions, all three experienced a drop in month-on-month trades by volume—down 43%, 48%, and 67%, respectively, according to eToro’s report. Ethereum is continuing its implementation...