Solo Leveling Levels Up: Korean Billion-Dollar Megafranchise Goes Onchain with Story

Seoul, South Korea, 1st October 2025, Chainwire

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From Near-Death Experience to AI-Fueled Hope: The Tale of Mantra (OM) and Crypto Presale Opportunities

Every cryptocurrency has a story and a curriculum packed into fluctuating values. Mantra (OM) gives us the sore reminder of what remains after the blundering. There is a poignant tale of the phrase ‘what goes up must come down.

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Ethereum Whistleblower Addresses Fraud Allegations, Reveals Next Steps

Steven Nerayoff, one of the earliest advisors for Ethereum, has reacted to a social media post accusing him of fraud and exploitation. The defamatory accusation was posted by a user who goes by the name Cryptoking on social media platform X in July as part of a story on his failed crypto project. However, Nerayoff […]

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Crypto Goes to College

As traditional financial firms expand into crypto, they will look for traditional hiring credentials, creating a sea change at universities and the crypto job market overall. This story is part of CoinDesk's Education Week.

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Let’s Dissect The “Follow The Money #1” Documentary, Pt. 1- Salvadoran Confusion

In “Follow The Money,” the What Bitcoin Did team goes deep. The podcast is already a part of the El Salvador story, with its host Peter McCormack being the first to interview President Bukele after the Bitcoin Law’s announcement.

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UST goes rogue, but Neutrino USD [USDN] 'depeg(s)' a different story

As Bitcoin crashed below the $32k support level, panic took hold of the market and alt coins began to violently plunge as well. This time, even the stablecoins were not spared as TerraUSD [UST] droppeThe post UST goes rogue, but Neutrino USD [USDN] 'depeg(s)' a different story appeared first on AMBCrypto.

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LUNA: Why a new ATH doesn't tell us the whole story

LUNA is enjoying quite a bit of press attention and love from bulls right now. But, does that automatically mean Terra is up in terms of adoption? As it goes, there's evidence to support both sides.

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Keep Calm and Work Hard: The Story of Binance’s CEO From A to CZ

And the number one spot of the Cointelegraph’s first-ever Top 100 list goes to… Changpeng Zhao! Was there any doubt? Check out our exclusive interview to find out what’s behind this great workaholic

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Bitcoin Can’t Racially Profile You, Unlike Your Banking Provider

It seems that not a day goes by without a news story highlighting the shortcomings of the current banking system. In a world with alternatives growing in viability daily, incidents, like the following, serve as a powerful incentive to pay attention to Bitcoin.

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Honor’s new TV runs HarmonyOS and has a pop-up camera

Just a day after announcing its new OS, Huawei has launched the first device running it through its subbrand Honor. The company launched a smart TV named Honor Vision which has a pop-up camera for some reason.

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Texas regulator goes after cryptocurrency firm promising 900% returns in 2 weeks

Regulators in Texas have filed a cease and desist order against a New York-based cryptocurrency business promising a 900-percent return on investment in just two weeks. Forex and Bitcoin Trader, which was advertising on Craiglist Dallas, reportedly deals in cryptocurrency investments, commodity-based derivatives, and foreign currency trading.

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The rundown on common game console video outputs

Welcome to TNW Basics, a collection of tips, guides, and advice on how to easily get the most out of your gadgets, apps, and other stuff. There’s no school like the old school, and that goes for game consoles as well.

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There’s now a cryptoart lottery using Bitcoin blockchain to pick a winner — and it’s brilliant

We’ve heard about auctions using blockchain to record sales of expensive works of art. We’ve seen the abstract musings of the cryptoart world, too. But what about a cryptoart charity auction that’s using blockchain to pick the winner? Well, an initiative being run by a trio of firms including cryptocurrency swap exchange service ChangeAngel, crypto-clothing store CryptoBantam, and cryptoartist Trevor Jones, is doing just that.

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Video: F U, Instagram — here’s how to delete or deactivate your account

Welcome to TNW Basics, a collection of tips, guides, and advice on how to easily get the most out of your gadgets, apps, and other stuff. Ugh, Instagram. I remember when the social network was fun, when it was just filled with cool pictures and didn’t know anyone on there.

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India to seek EU’s approval on GDPR compliance for ‘adequacy’ status

The Economic Times reports that India is gearing up to seek ‘adequacy’ status with the European Union‘s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), a set of privacy laws adopted by the region in 2016 and enforced from last year.

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Johannesburg’s power supplier gets the better of ransomware attackers

A ransomware infection at one of South Africa‘s electricity providers left some city residents of Johannesburg without any power. City Power, one of the largest power suppliers in Johannesburg, said the attack encrypted all its databases, applications and network, leading to a blackout of its IT systems.

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Amazon’s 2019 Kindle Oasis brings better lighting but little else

I’m going to keep this review short. Amazon’s new Kindle Oasis goes on sale today starting at $249, but in almost every respect, it’s identical to its 2017 predecessor. There is but one meaningful update: you can now change the screen color temperature, shifting it to warmer hues for both helping you sleep and matching ambient lighting.

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JBL’s Android TV-powered soundbar finally goes on sale at $399

At Google’s developer conference in May 2018, the company had announced an Android TV soundbar in partnership with JBL. Now, the device is finally on sale for $399. The soundbar can connect to your TV and drive your streaming needs with apps for popular services like Netflix, HBO, Amazon Prime Video, and Hulu.

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Warframe wants to send a player to space (rocket not included)

Digital Extremes, creators of the runaway hit third-person shooter Warframe, revealed this weekend that it’s running a contest to send one of its devoted players to space — well, sort of. What it’s really offering is a pretty sweet payday, but it’ll be up to the winner if that money goes towards a trip to the heavens.

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Reddit’s r/technology goes dark as part of #SocialMediaStrike

If you were planning to spend the US Independence Day browsing Reddit’s r/technology, you’re out of luck. For the social news aggregation service’s popular tech subreddit has gone dark for 24 hours to voice solidarity with a social media strike.

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Cryptocurrency exchanges including Coinbase suffer downtime as Cloudflare goes dark

Major web host Cloudflare has suffered a technical mishap that sent multiple cryptocurrency services – including Coinbase – into unexpected downtime. Cryptocurrency services known to have been affected include Bitfinex, Coinbase, Coinbase Pro, CoinMarketCap, and MyEtherWallet.

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Cryptocurrency exchanges including Coinbase suffer downtime as CloudFlare goes dark

Major web host CloudFlare has suffered a technical mishap that sent multiple cryptocurrency services – including Coinbase – into unexpected downtime. Cryptocurrency services known to have been affected include Bitfinex, Coinbase, Coinbase Pro, CoinMarketCap, and MyEtherWallet.

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Mark Zuckerberg Stole Facebook, Now He’s Stealing Bitcoin

By CCN Markets: One day Bitcoin will occupy the same corner of internet nostalgia occupied by Nikola Tesla. So it goes: were it not for Thomas Edison’s superior resources, influence and propaganda, we could all be running our laptops on Mr.

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Harry Potter: Wizards Unite, the magical new AR game, launches this week

Niantic just revealed the launch date of its much-anticipated Harry Potter-branded AR follow-up toe information as the game goes live in your region soon. #WizardsUnite pic.twitter.com/ckk4s4mi8a — Harry Potter: Wizards Unite (@HPWizardsUnite) June 19, 2019 We first heard about Wizards Unite back in November 2017, and the finished product is looking pretty much… This story continues at The Next Web

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CHEAP: Pretend you live on a spaceship with this Google Smart Light Starter Kit for $35

Welcome to CHEAP, our series about things that are good, but most of all, cheap. CHEAP! The future is pretty cool. We’ve got phones that can take incredible photos, access the entirety of human knowledge, and also be used as flashlights.

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3 years later, Visa’s blockchain-powered payment network finally goes live

Visa’s blockchain-powered B2B payments product has finally gone live after almost three years in the making. First made public in October 2016, the Visa B2B Connect network is being made available in 30 markets, with plans to expand to as many as 90 territories by the end of the year.

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Cryptocurrency exchange Blockport goes bankrupt after failed STO

An Amsterdam-based cryptocurrency exchange is facing an uncertain future. Blockport has declared bankruptcy after its security token offering (STO) failed to meet its minimum expectations last month.

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Bose’s new $399 headphones boast Siri support and adjustable noise cancellation

Bose today announced the latest edition to its premium headphone lineup. The new model is called the Bose Noise Cancelling Headphones 700. When it goes on sale later next month, it’ll retail for $399.

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Dell and Alienware unveil a cornucopia of updates at Computex 2019

Dell today announced a slew of refreshes for its Inspiron, XPS, and Alienware laptop lineups at Computex 2019 in Singapore. It also unveiled new gaming headsets, a delivery and installation service, and a new EyeSafe display.

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You can build your own Lightsaber and Droid at Disney’s new Star Wars attractions

Disney’s finally lifting the veil on its Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge attraction set to debut at Disneyland on May 31. And while we were all expecting a glut of rides and properly attired characters roaming about, its the souvenirs that have us most excited.

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Freshness sensors for milk could dramatically reduce waste

Researchers have developed a new technique that can pinpoint, in real-time, the moment at which milk spoils inside a carton. In their new study, published in the journal Food Control, they suggest that if their invention is integrated into the caps of milk containers, it could one day replace less-accurate sell-by-dates – and save a huge quantity of milk from being wasted every year.

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Stellar Went Down For Whole 2 Hours with Zero Transactions. Did Anyone Care?

By CCN: Stellar, the Ripple fork founded by Jed McCaleb after disagreements with decisions at Ripple, went down for about two hours yesterday. Tim Swanson alerted Twitter to the issue, and a Stellar representative confirmed its occurrence.

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Skype didn’t deliver on P2P’s promise, but Estonia has

While Skype is now a Microsoft-owned behemoth, its early days were very different. Skype‘s heritage goes back to KaZaa, a P2P (peer-to-peer) file-sharing application that was one of the pillars of the early internet.

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First Impressions: The OnePlus 7 Pro doesn’t hold back

The OnePlus 7 is here. It starts at $669 in the US, goes on sale May 17, and it might just be the phone that brings OnePlus to the mainstream. I’ve only been able to play around with the phone for a few days, so don’t consider this a full review, but the OnePlus 7 Pro feels like the company has finally stopped holding back.

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Coinbase doubles down on expansion, now available in 103 countries

Cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase has just announced that it now offers trading in over 100 countries, after adding support for a further 50 countries. It’s also doubling down on its USDC stablecoin, making it available in 85 countries.

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Grand theft consciousness: How quantum algorithms will backdoor human-level AI

The Reese’s Peanut Butter Cup, as the legend goes, was invented when two oblivious young people walking around eating boring snacks accidentally crashed into each other on a city street. Grab one while you read about an even better mash-up: the one between machine learning and quantum computers that’ll eventually, accidentally lead to human-level AI.

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Watch: Sony made a God of War documentary as good as the game

Sony today debuted “God of War: Raising Kratos,” a full-length documentary chronicling the trials and triumphs of the development team behind the 2018 PlayStation 4 smash hit. It’s a wonderful peek behind the curtain at the wizardry that goes into making a seminal video game.

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Even I, a fool, could photoshop the coffee cup out of the latest GoT episode

Don’t worry, there are no spoilers about the latest episode below. But, if you’re slightly behind the release schedule, there are some light reveals. Game of Thrones is a phenomenon. It’s a record-breaking, budget-busting entertainment behemoth that might well be the most popular TV show of all time.

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Calling all pet lovers: This website warns you of dog deaths in movies

I can handle just about anything that happens in the most gruesome of movies, but pets or babies murdered for lazy emotional manipulation will leave me in a rotten mood for the rest of the day.

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Mozilla is gearing up to tackle shady add-ons on Firefox

Mozilla has announced that it will no longer accept Firefox extensions that contain obfuscated code as part of their updated Add-on policy that goes into effect on June 10, 2019. “We will continue to allow minified, concatenated, or otherwise machine-generated code as long as the source code is included.

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PSA: You can now auto-delete your location and web history on Google

It’s no secret that, unless you explicitly opt out, Google keeps an extensive record of your every activity on its digital real estate. From your location history to the searches you perform on Google and YouTube, the company goes to great lengths to glean more information about you in the hope that it can serve better ads based on your web habits.

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Hitting the gym makes esports athletes more successful

When you think of the daily life of an esports player, you might imagine something sedate. Professional gamers, by definition, sit at computers and work to hone their talents by staring at a screen and clicking buttons.

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NY Attorney General goes after Tether and Bitfinex for $850M cover-up

The New York State Attorney General (NYSAG) is reportedly building a case to sue cryptocurrency exchange, Bitfinex, and stablecoin, Tether. As court documents dated April 24 state, neither Bitfinex nor Tether are licensed to operate in the state of New York, and yet the Office of the Attorney General (OAG) believes New York-based investors did use the exchange to trade Tether.

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It sure looks like the iPad is getting mouse support with iOS 13

It goes without saying that Apple has dominated the tablet market, despite efforts from Google and Microsoft to have their say. But iPads lie in a sort of limbo for traditional productivity – better than a phone, but not quite as good as a laptop.

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On Free Speech

“A statement may be both true and dangerous. The previous sentence is such a statement. ” - David Friedman Freedom of speech is a topic that many internet communities have struggled with over the last two decades.

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This app turns your Samsung Galaxy S10’s camera cutout into a nifty battery monitor

The latest Samsung Galaxy flagship phone uses an in-screen camera (weirdly, there isn’t a single universally accepted term, as it’s often referred to as a “punch-hole camera” or “cutout camera”) instead of a notch.

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Methane ‘smelt’ on Mars… but who dealt it?

The discovery of life on Mars would get pretty much everyone excited. But the scientists hunting for it would probably be happy no matter what the outcome of their search – whether life turned out to extinct, dormant or extant.

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A Quadriga horror story: How a user lost a fortune in an instant

The Quadriga meltdown sent shockwaves through the cryptocurrency space. The story of QuadrigaCX and its founder Gerald Cotten has all the elements of a crime thriller. Over a hundred million dollars goes missing and the founder dies a sudden and mysterious death in India.

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This Bluetooth speaker may look like an AI-monster from The Matrix but it sounds great

The GravaStar from Zoeao is the weirdest Bluetooth speaker I’ve reviewed, but that’s a good thing. It reminds me of a simpler time – the 1980s – when the characters on TV were often based on popular toys, and not the other way around.

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