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The stunning collapse of crypto giant FTX has left investors of all sizes scratching their heads and pondering: “Should I keep my funds on centralized exchanges, or look elsewhere?” This reasonable question has led to a truly stunning uptick among DeFi protocols and decentralized exchanges (DEXs), data compiled by Dune analytics suggests.Some protocols offering fully decentralized options have reported a near 75% increase in users following the FTX collapse, but why?Perpetual Exchange Volume Following The FTX CollapseAs a…

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Skateboarding continues to be unkempt, subversive and tacitly political despite inclusion in mainstream competitions like the Olympics, experts have said. The "discordance" between skateboarding's ethos and capitalism raises questions about its continued incorporation into competitive sports, a new…

Experts believe that FIFA will work as a bridge between Web3 and mainstream fans The 2022 FIFA World Cup kicked off this weekend in Qatar. Millions of soccer fans are not only getting their fill of sports and competition this year, but they also can choose to interact with the various Web3 brands and companies that are hoping to achieve some goals of their own. During the last FIFA World Cup in 2018 in Russia, the term Web3 was not a part of the global conversation. In 2022, however, athlete NFT drops and Bored Apes in…

Whether consumers are looking to save or are hunting for a buried treasure, the resale business is booming.During the Covid pandemic, secondhand stores such as eBay, the RealReal and ThredUp thrived online.related investing newsHoliday shoppers aren’t in a rush. What that means for retail stocksSo-called recommerce grew nearly 15% in 2021 — twice as fast as the broader retail market and notching the highest rate of growth in history for the industry, according to a 2022 report by OfferUp. Over the next five years it is…

Photo via Paramount Horror’s resurgence in the 2010s can be put down to new and original properties hitting cinemas, with franchise films being mostly ignored as a breath of fresh air went through Hollywood. Among those which took horror back in a mainstream, and blockbuster, position of the world was A Quiet Place. John Krasinski’s directorial debut was much-loved by critics and mainstream audiences, but remains a sore subject for more diehard fans of horror films. With its excellent premise hinging entirely…

Image Credit: Ruth Milligan I was excited to read today’s NYTimes piece on mainstreaming of electric vehicles. The story with two separate author bylines could theoretically convince middle America that it was OK to consider buying an EV, even if there were places like “North Dakota, for example, there are just 19 fast chargers.” But I found myself cringing because of incomplete reporting and a strong desire to set the record straight. The NYTimes story started out innocuous enough:…

Institutional investors were souring on cryptocurrencies even before this week. Institutional investors were souring on cryptocurrencies even before this week. The sudden downfall of Sam Bankman-Fried's FTX.com may have permanently damaged their prospects of being included in mainstream portfolios.While plenty of industry die-hards remain, many professional money managers are saying the case for crypto as a portfolio diversifier or digital gold has been debunked. The losses are too great and the market structure is…

Hello, and welcome to the weekly L.A. Times soccer newsletter. I’m Kevin Baxter, The Times’ soccer writer, and today we look at the injury-riddled U.S. men’s national team on the eve of the World Cup roster selection, at what the NFL’s upcoming game in Munich might mean for German soccer, and at the World Cup trophy’s visit to Los Angeles.But we start with Saturday’s MLS Cup final, which ended with LAFC capturing its first league title, on penalty kicks against the visiting Philadelphia Union, after an exhausting and…

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Most newer sports are hybrids of older ones, and pickleball is no exception. The progeny of tennis, badminton and pingpong, pickleball is played by singles or doubles teams who hit a ball back and forth over a 3-foot-high net until one opponent commits a fault. In 1965, the inventors of pickleball…

Image: Stage 6 Films Meta horror has caught many genre fanatics by surprise over the last twenty years, with horror now much more heavily leaning into its own tropes and cliches in a far more analytical and pastiche way. Alongside the success of the mind-bending meta horror film The Cabin in the Woods was 2015’s love-letter to the 80s slasher genre The Final Girls. Literally transporting its characters to an 80s slasher film, it’s been heavily slept upon by mainstream audiences but seven years later is finally…