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BIS Builds a Digital Assets Platform Prototype With Some CBs
The Bank for International Settlements together with several central banks have built prototypes for bank-issued digital currencies platform. The network will serve for making transactions across borders, boosting their efficiency. BIS and financial authorities of Australia, Malaysia, Singapore,...
Bank of Ghana Says Digital Cedi Will Complement Mobile Money
The Bank of Ghana (BoG) released a report that said electronic and mobile payment solutions will be used along with the national digital currency, eCedi. The Bank finds the eCedi must complement and enhance current payment methods. It will solve the pain points in the current system such as delayed...
HSBC Will Be Present in The The Sandbox’s Virtual Environment
One of the world’s leading banks, HSBC aims to be a part of the metaverse by collaborating with the blockchain-powered virtual world, The Sandbox. HSBC will obtain a LAND, an NFT representing real estate in the digital world. It becomes the first global financial company to collaborate with The...
Mark Zuckerberg Said NFTs Will Appear In Instagram Soon
Meta (formerly Facebook) CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced during the annual event South by Southwest (SXSW) that the Instagram team is working on bringing NFTs to the network in the near term. The executive didn't say when exactly it will happen, but mentioned: "hopefully in the coming...
The Ethereum Team Announced the Kiln Merge Testnet
The Ethereum protocol support team published a blog post, announcing that Klin testnet is in the process of launching. Kiln is supposed to be the last merge testnet of Ethereum to switch to the Proof of Stake consensus model. The blog post explains that similar to the Ethereum mainnet, the...
BAYC Creator Yuga Labs Bought CryptoPunks and Meebits
Yuga Labs, the creator of the well-known NFT collection Bored Ape Yacht Club, revealed acquiring CryptoPunks and Meebits from Larva Labs. The company published a blog post, saying that it gave full commercial rights to the community. With the purchase, Yuga Labs now owns the brands, copyright in...
Polygon Network Was Down for About 11 Hours
Ethereum Layer 2 scaling solution Polygon experienced an 11-hours long outage, started on March 10. Developers informed about the possibility of the outage beforehand, saying that there were some issues related to the network's validator layer Tendermint's implementation caused after a recent...
Santander to Present Loans Backed by Agricultural Products
Spain-based international financial services provider, Santander revealed a collaboration with the tokenization platform for grain-backed assets, Agrotoken. The press release published by the company reveals that due to the partnership, the companies will provide loans with tokens based on soy,...
Immutable X Closed Series C at $2.5 Billion Valuation
Immutable X, Ethereum's leading NFT scaling protocol, announced closing Series C round, raising $200 M. Thus, the company's valuation hit $2.5 bln. 1/ Major news: we’re thrilled to announce @Immutable has raised $200M in Series C funding @ $2.5B val.🎉We’re supercharging our mission to make...
Alogorand Expands Its Smart Contracts Functionality
The blockchain protocol Algorand announced a technical upgrade to expand its smart contracts functionalities, allowing one smart contract to call another. Due to this option, developers can build more sophisticated apps. The upgrade also provided a new infrastructure that allows the protocol to...
The Sandbox Partners with Cube Entertainment
Ethereum-based virtual environment The Sandbox has revealed a cooperation with Cube Entertainment, a Seoul-based record label/talent management firm. With this step, The Sandbox will boost K-culture content, focusing on metaverse and non-fungible token possibilities. Animoca Brands, the company...
SEC To Probe the NFT Market To See If Token Sales Are Legal
The Securities and Exchange Commission studies the NFT (non-fungible token) market to see whether the sales comply with the agency's rules. A Bloomberg report, citing people familiar with the subject, says that the focus of the probe is to see if certain NFTs and digital assets can be used to...
Electric Capital Announced Raising $1 Bln
An early-stage venture capital company, looking to invest in crypto, blockchain, fintech, and marketplaces, Electric Capital announced raising $1 B. The VC will use the funds to invest in programmable money and web 3. The sum includes a $400 M fund closed the previous year and $600 M raised last...
Animoca Brands Halts Russian Users According to a Legal Advice
Animoca Brands, leading gamification, blockchain, and AI company makes its services unavailable for Russian users as the number of sanctions against the country is increasing for invading Ukraine. In an interview with Bloomberg, Animoca co-founder Yat Siu said that the step will affect subsidiaries...
Community Sums up the Largest Web 3 Event, ETHDenver
Last week, Colorado capital Denver hosted the 5th annual Ethereum-focused hacking and networking event ETHDenver. The summit welcomed over 12,000 people from different countries, which is the record number of the event's attendees. From February 11 to 17, the kickoff and the...
New DAO Aims to Buy Denver Broncos NFL Team
A group of crypto community members formed a DAO (Decentralized Autonomous Organization) to acquire National Football League team Denver Broncos. The team announced officially that it is up for sale and that the expected amount of the deal is over $4 bln. Therefore, the DAO with the name 'Buy the...
Blockchain Games Received $1 B in Investments in January
A report by the decentralized applications platform DappRadar reveals that in January blockchain apps attracted $1 bln. The data show that the GameFi section has been growing. Investments in the sector have reached their peak. Investments include the $300 M investments in OpenSea, which might not...
Kickstarter postpones plans to move to blockchain
Kickstarter has revised plans to move to a blockchain protocol and move towards the crypto space after a backlash from the community. In December, the team announced the development of an open-source solution for running the platform in a decentralized environment. “We think that using everything...
Blockchain is an extremely popular technology nowadays. Back in 1991, Nick Szabo has described the tech but did not find a way to bring it to life. Two decades later, in 2009, mysterious Satoshi Nakamoto realized Szabo's idea, and blockchain had become the basis of the famous Bitcoin.
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