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Ryan S. Gladwin

Ryan S. Gladwin

Ryan S. Gladwin is a staff writer based in the UK. He has previously been published in The Verge, Fortune, and CoinDesk. Disclosure: He holds BTC, ETH, and LINK.

Stories by Ryan S. Gladwin

  • Grand Theft Auto VI. Image: Rockstar Games/Decrypt

    GTA 6 Trailer Features 'Dacity' Meme Coin—Here's What Traders Think It'll Do

    The recent Grand Theft Auto 6 launch trailer briefly mentioned a "Dacity Coin," and crypto traders are speculating on how involved the apparent meme coin will be in-game. Some believe it'll feature in a few side missions, while others believe it'll be a fully tradeable in-game asset. In response, crypto degens have created an unofficial Solana meme coin of the same name and pumped it to a peak market capitalization of $15 million. Traders say they are essentially gambling on the prominence of Da...

    NewsGaming
    4 min read
    Ryan S. Gladwin

  • 'Mentality Issue': PlayStation Founder Waves Away Disc Ownership Anger

    PlayStation founder Ken Kutaragi has pushed back against fans' anger over Sony's plan to discontinue physical game discs, calling it a "mentality issue." One game industry veteran claims that cutting discs is "only" ever pushed by publishers as they seek better profit margins. It comes amid a storm of controversy surrounding Sony's decision to stop disc production in 2028. Former PlayStation exec Shawn Layden called it a "heavily spreadsheeted decision" and said it damaged the company's reputati...

    NewsGaming
    3 min read
    Ryan S. Gladwin
  • Judge's gavel. Source: Decrypt/Shutterstock

    ‘Terrifying Precedent’: Dutch Hand US Data From Seized Anti-Fascist Server

    A Dutch-based server belonging to an anti-fascist political group was seized by police in Amsterdam last week. It followed a request from U.S. authorities, the NL Times reported Saturday, after the Trump administration designated the group as a "global terrorist" organization. The seized server belonged to Italian internet service provider Autistici/Inventati (A/I), an anti-capitalist and anti-fascist group which offered free email and web-hosting services for organizations and activists. Police...

    NewsLaw and Order
    4 min read
    Ryan S. Gladwin
  • Grand Theft Auto VI. Image: Rockstar Games/Decrypt

    GTA 6 Trailer Features Meme Coin—And Solana Copycat Soars 2,900%

    Two seconds of the Grand Theft Auto 6 trailer was all it took for a Solana meme coin to fly, making some traders pretty rich. Dacity Coin was seen plastered along the side of a plane in the GTA 6 launch trailer released on Thursday, with a man setting off a neon pink flare on the wing. This prompted a real meme coin of the same name to skyrocket 2,900% from a $104,000 market capitalization to $3.18 million, in the hour following the trailer's release. Interestingly, the token had been created f...

    NewsGaming
    4 min read
    Ryan S. Gladwin
  • Image: Decrypt/Shutterstock

    Ethereum, Altcoins See 'Outsized Drawdowns' Due to Macro Pressures

    Altcoins have taken a hit over the past 24 hours, with major tokens seeing "outsized drawdowns" compared to Bitcoin. Experts say that this has largely been prompted by macro pressures pushing prices down. With the market cap of all cryptocurrencies dropping by 2.5% to $2.8 trillion, Ethereum dropped by 5.5% to a $289 billion market cap over the past 24 hours, XRP fell by 5.1% to $82.4 billion, and Solana slipped by 3.8% to $60.6 billion. Meanwhile, industry leader Bitcoin has slipped by 3.1% on...

    NewsMarkets
    4 min read
    Ryan S. Gladwin
  • Zcash. Image: Shutterstock

    Zcash Tanks Double Digits After 'Meteoric Rise' Sees Leverage Build Up

    Privacy-focused cryptocurrency Zcash has fallen 11% over the past 24 hours to a market capitalization of $18.5 billion, per Decrypt data, making it one of the biggest losers of the day. One expert says this drop in valuation comes after its price has soared in recent months, which has led to a build up in leverage and amplified losses. Others say that growing concerns that AI can break cryptography faster than quantum computers are causing the privacy token to take bigger losses. Luke Nolan, se...

    NewsMarkets
    4 min read
    Ryan S. Gladwin
  • Floyd Mayweather (left), Sahil Arora (right). Image: Sahil Arora/Decrypt

    Notorious Crypto Celeb Meme Coin Promoter Plots Second Wave on New Launchpad

    Sahil Arora, the notorious promoter behind a string of 2024 celebrity meme coins, just launched a new one, with Floyd Mayweather’s social media accounts briefly promoting it. Arora told Decrypt it’s the start of a comeback: he wants to revive the celebrity coin craze on Solana trading platform Fomo, the same trick that made his name on Pump.fun. Arora made his name through a series of celebrity-linked meme coin launches on Pump.fun in 2024. It started with former Olympian Caitlyn Jenner, who wen...

    NewsCoins
    4 min read
    Ryan S. Gladwin
  • Grand Theft Auto VI. Image: Rockstar Games/Decrypt

    AI Powered PlayStation Crack Could Let You Play GTA 6 on PC at Launch

    Vibe coders are porting PlayStation 5 applications to Windows and Linux, leaving some users optimistic that the project will unlock better performance for PS5 games, and could even work for GTA 6 at launch. AnyPS5 is an open-source, AI-powered project on GitHub that converts PS5 game executables into programs that run natively on PC, swapping Sony’s system libraries for its own version rather than emulating the console. A community-run tracker lists more than 180 PS5 titles that have been tried...

    NewsGaming
    4 min read
    Ryan S. Gladwin

  • ‘Leave’: Crypto Backlash Over French Proposal to Report Wallets Over $112K

    Lawmakers in France have advanced a proposal that will require crypto holders to report holdings equal to or above €100,000 ($112,000). Otherwise, individuals will face fines up to €10,000 ($11,000). Some crypto holders are in an uproar over the potential new rule, claiming that it threatens personal security. It comes after several high-profile, in-person crypto robberies have taken place in France. "This is a terrible idea as corrupt employees in the French tax authority have has already shown...

    NewsLaw and Order
    4 min read
    Ryan S. Gladwin
  • Bitcoin. Image: Shutterstock/Decrypt

    Bitcoin Bleeds in Uptober—How Low Can It Go? Experts Weigh In

    Bitcoin has been in the red since October started, a month historically green for the leading cryptocurrency—often referred to as "Uptober." Experts warn not to treat October as a reliable bottom for Bitcoin, and predict there could be more bleeding ahead. Per CoinGecko data, Bitcoin hit lows of $80,427 in the past week, and is currently trading at just under $83,000, down 4.1% over the past seven days. On Myriad, a prediction market owned by Decrypt's parent company Dastan, users put a 79% chan...

    NewsMarkets
    4 min read
    Ryan S. Gladwin
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    Will AI Break Crypto Encryption? Ethereum’s Vitalik Buterin Weighs In on 'Bunker Mode' Shift

    Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin says it is "plausible" for artificial intelligence to break encryption within the next two years. As a result, he believes the industry needs to protect itself from AI-vulnerable cryptography, as well as quantum-vulnerable cryptography. It comes just a day after Ethereum Foundation researcher Justin Drake called on the industry to plan for "bunker mode" by moving funds to addresses whose public keys haven't been exposed. Drake said that it's now reasonable to...

    NewsTechnology
    3 min read
    Ryan S. Gladwin
  • Call of Duty in Minecraft. Credit: @DramaAlert

    AI Video Game Mod Mashups Are Taking Off—Here Are the Wackiest Examples

    Social media has exploded with wacky video game mods that combine titles the public never thought they'd see together. People are driving Mario Kart vehicles in Call of Duty Zombies, fighting Elden Ring bosses with Minecraft characters, and even swinging around Batman's Gotham City as Spider-Man. This is all possible thanks to gamers using Claude AI agents to vibe code the mods from the ground up. Merging games uses a "passthrough mod," according to a popular GitHub guide, which runs the two gam...

    NewsGaming
    4 min read
    Ryan S. Gladwin
  • Sony PlayStation 5. Image: Triyansh Gill on Unsplash/Decrypt

    Former PlayStation Exec Slams Sony's Move to Kill Discs: 'What Are You Buying?'

    Shawn Layden, a former PlayStation executive, has questioned Sony's plan to stop producing physical discs for its game consoles as of 2028. The gaming vet called it a "heavily spreadsheeted decision" and said the move has damaged the company's reputation. Gamers have slammed Sony's decision to kill discs since the July announcement, with a physical gaming advocacy group calling for an organized boycott and a "Don't Kill the Disc" petition gaining over 385,000 signatures. Still, Sony appears unsh...

    NewsGaming
    3 min read
    Ryan S. Gladwin
  • Hyperliquid. Image: Decrypt

    What Is Hyperliquid? The Decentralized Exchange With Its Own Blockchain

    Decentralized perpetual futures exchange Hyperliquid has gone from being a market maker to one of the biggest crypto projects in the world. Hyperliquid has processed trillions of dollars in volume in its lifespan and is now the fifth-largest decentralized exchange by 30-day volume, per DeFiLlama. But what exactly is Hyperliquid? Why do people care so much about it? And how did it grow to be one of the biggest projects in crypto? What is Hyperliquid? Hyperliquid is a decentralized exchange specia...

  • Hodling out hope. Image: Unsplash/Decrypt

    Meet the Guys Still Clinging To the Terra Luna That Do Kwon Abandoned

    Pedro wipes the sleep from his eyes, kisses his wife on the cheek, and rolls over to pick up his phone to check on his Luna Classic validators. In the real world, he's waking up for his job as the head brewer at a beerhouse. But in the virtual one, he's known as Vegas, one of the leading voices in the Terra Luna Classic community. Terra Luna Classic is the blockchain that was forked and abandoned when Terraform Labs founder Do Kwon attempted to save his crumbling empire in 2022. Kwon has since b...

    Deep DivesLong Reads
    5 min read
    Ryan S. Gladwin
  • Coinbase. Image: Decrypt

    Coinbase Launches Pre-IPO Perps, Starting with Elon Musk's SpaceX

    Cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase is rolling out a perpetual futures product for pre-initial public offering (IPO) companies, allowing traders to speculate on a company's valuation before its debut. The first pre-IPO company to be traded on the platform is Elon Musk's aerospace company, SpaceX. The SpaceX pre-IPO will be settled using the USDC stablecoin, can be traded 24/7, and all positions will automatically translate when the IPO is complete. That means traders could make massive profits or l...

    NewsCoins
    3 min read
    Ryan S. Gladwin
  • Trezor Safe 7. Image: Decrypt/Trezor

    Trezor Reveals Hardware Wallet Vulnerability, But Funds 'Safe'

    Trezor has revealed a vulnerability in its flagship Safe 7 hardware wallet, but affirms that user funds "remain protected" due to the nature of the exploit. The vulnerability was uncovered during an independent security audit by the Ledger Donjon team, which reported a successful "laser fault injection attack" against the TROPIC01 Secure Element chip. It enables an attacker to extract one of three "secrets" that protect a user's PIN, effectively reducing three layers of protection to two. Tropi...

    NewsTechnology
    3 min read
    Ryan S. Gladwin
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    Will Strategy's Peers Dump Bitcoin Now? Not So Fast, Analysts Say

    Bitcoin treasury company Strategy, and its Chair Michael Saylor, have become synonymous with the phrase "never sell your Bitcoin"—so when the firm did just that, announcing that it had offloaded 32 BTC for around $2.5 million Monday, the firm’s stock plunged alongside the price of Bitcoin. However, crypto market analysts don’t believe that it marks the beginning of a wave of similar sales by digital asset treasury companies. Rather, they argue, it's a much-needed wake-up call to investors to ins...

    NewsBusiness
    4 min read
    Ryan S. Gladwin
  • Judge's gavel. Source: Decrypt/Shutterstock

    Solana Meme Coin Surges 6,000% After Creators Arrested Over 'Rug Pull'

    South Korean prosecutors have charged five people over allegedly orchestrating a "meme coin rug pull" on Pump.fun, causing 900 million WON ($600,000) in damage. In response to the news, the meme coin has pumped almost 6,000%, with a group of traders attempting to "unrug" the token. According to the Seoul Southern District Prosecutors' Office, the five defendants created a token called CatFi on the Solana launchpad Pump.fun in February 2025. The meme coin quickly pumped to a market cap of $8.37 m...

    NewsCoins
    3 min read
    Ryan S. Gladwin
  • Soccer. Image: Shutterstock/Decrypt

    Lucky Trader Rides $341 World Cup Meme Coin Buy to 14,000% Gains

    A lucky trader bought $341 of a World Cup-themed Solana meme coin in mid-May, when it had a market capitalization of less than $40,000. Since then, the token has soared more than 30,000%, with the trader notching 14,000% gains after selling more than $49,000 of their holdings. World Cup Coin launched on May 11, ahead of the 2026 FIFA World Cup, which starts in June—and has historically been the most-watched sporting event in the world. Alongside this token, meme coins for each nation competing i...

    NewsCoins
    3 min read
    Ryan S. Gladwin
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