Taproot NFT Sale Fails Amid Website Issues; Ethereum Projects Add Oversight; XRP Drops After Larsen Hack; Buterin Urges Crypto-AI Caution
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Taproot Wizards suspended its "Quantum Cats" NFT sale amid website glitches and hung transactions, failing to meet expectations.
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Ethereum layer-2 projects like Polygon and Arbitrum are establishing "protocol councils" of humans to provide oversight before full decentralization.
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The XRP token dropped 5% after a reported $112 million hack targeting Ripple co-founder Chris Larsen's personal accounts.
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Vitalik Buterin said developers should "tread carefully" before mixing crypto and AI, in a post on his 30th birthday.
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The CoinDesk 20 index of top crypto assets fell 5.1% in January, underperforming the S&P 500, with XRP down 18% but Ethereum Classic's ETC up 14%.