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More playing and less earning will make better Metaverse games
19.2.2022
Blockchain’s interoperability may be the key to both the macroeconomics of metaverse games and what keeps them fun
Demand for Gold-Backed Tokens Brings Premiums as Precious Metal’s Value Jumps Higher
19.2.2022
While stocks and cryptocurrency markets have floundered during the last week, the price of the precious metal gold has increased in value by 3.85% during the last seven days. An ounce of fine gold jumped from $1,826.92 on February 10, to $1,897.36 per ounce on February 19. Additionally, the...
NFTs and DeFi are revolutionizing real estate investing and homeownership — Here’s how
18.2.2022
NFTs, DeFi, crypto-backed mortgages and fractionalized ownership are the new trends set to alter the face of real estate investing in 2022
Here’s why AI-equipped NFTs could be the real gateway to the Metaverse
18.2.2022
NFIs could be the next step in the evolution of NFTs and Altered State Machine’s Artificial Intelligence Football Association could be P2E gaming’s next breakout project in 2022
Sequoia Capital Designates $500-600 Million to Crypto Fund Focused on Liquid Digital Assets
18.2.2022
On February 17, the venture capital firm Sequoia Capital announced the launch of a new $500 million to $600 million sub-fund dedicated to “liquid tokens and digital assets.” The company noted during its announcement that the new fund highlights Sequoia’s strategic...
Ertha Metaverse Sells Rome NFT for Record $120k
17.2.2022
Ertha Metaverse looks unstoppable on its path to becoming the industry’s top metaverse. The project is already recognized as having one of the most searched-for tokens in GameFi and at the time of writing, holds a fully diluted market cap in excess of $380 million. Today its developers have...
FBI Crypto Unit, Sequoia Doubles Down on Tokens, Universal Music NFTs + More News
17.2.2022
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Exotic Markets Founder Joffrey Dalet Talks Defi Banking, Structured Products and Solana
17.2.2022
Exotic Markets is a DeFi (Decentralized Finance) platform on the Solana Blockchain. It aims to become the most flexible structured products protocol, offering the widest range of payoffs and underlyings in DeFi. For example, it aims to offer payoffs based on baskets of tokens, trading ranges...
French Presidential Candidate Pushes For Tax Reform On Crypto, NFTs
16.2.2022
Crypto and blockchain are becoming an important element of the French political narrative, as indicated by recent statements by political newcomer Éric Zemmour, a popular pundit who is running in this year’s presidential election.
The far-right candidate recently tweeted his proposals on crypto...
Gustav Klimt's 'The Kiss' Masterpiece is Selling as 10,000 NFTs
16.2.2022
The popular Belvedere Museum in Vienna, Austria, in collaboration with the artèQ auction house, has turned Austrian painter Gustav Klimt's famous masterpiece 'The Kiss' into 10,000 non-fungible tokens (NFTs).
The collection dropped on Valentine’s Day and "each one is a unique part of...
Bybit Enters USD 150M Deal with Red Bull F1 Team; Plans Fan Token, NFT Collaboration
16.2.2022
Bybit, one of the top 10 crypto exchanges by spot volume, has entered into a major sponsorship agreement with the Formula One team Oracle Red Bull Racing, with the exchange now taking on a new role of the “Issuance Partner” for fan tokens and non-fungible tokens (NFTs) for the racing team.
With...
Disney Launches Specialized Metaverse Team to Explore ‘New Storytelling Frontier’
16.2.2022
Disney has created a specialized unit of senior employees and executives to oversee its move into the metaverse.
Per Reuters and the BBC, which claim to have seen a Disney internal memo emailed to staff on the matter, Mike White, an executive who has been with Disney for over a decade, will...
Youtube Seeks Web3 Director With Experience Trading Crypto, According to Recent Job Listing
16.2.2022
Youtube, the online video sharing and social media platform owned by Google, is hiring a director to work with Web3 technology, according to a job listing published on Linkedin. While Youtube requires 15 years of product management experience, the company prefers a candidate that is familiar with...
NYSE 'Coming to Metaverse', Files NFT-Related Trademark Application
16.2.2022
The New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), the world’s largest stock exchange, has filed a trademark application with the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) to register the term “NYSE” for an array of metaverse- and non-fungible token (NFT)-related products.
Trademark attorney Michael...
NFT Market Cools Down Once Again as Crypto Prices Heat Up
15.2.2022
The market for non-fungible tokens (NFTs) showed signs of a cooldown last week, even as the prices of many cryptoassets have been on the rise.
According to a new report from crypto research firm Delphi Digital, activity in the NFT market has slowed down over the past week, with the volume...
UK Seizes First NFTs in $2 Million Fraud Crackdown — Arrests 3 People
15.2.2022
The U.K.’s. HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) has made its first non-fungible token (NFT) seizure. British authorities also seized some crypto and arrested three people in a fraud case involving 250 allegedly fake companies. “Our first seizure of a non-fungible token serves as...
The Future of NFTs: A Race Between Traditional Businesses and Crypto-based Financial Services
14.2.2022
Umberto Canessa Cerchi is the CEO of Kryptomon, an NFT play-to-earn blockchain game._____
Traditional institutions and decentralized ones have always been at odds given their competing philosophies, but the recent explosion in NFTs has given them a shared interest, with both racing to give...
UK Tax Authority Confiscates 3 NFTs in Fraud Case as a First
14.2.2022
As part of its probe into a potential value-added tax (VAT) fraud, UK tax authority Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs (HRMC) has confiscated three non-fungible tokens (NFTs) in what represents the first seizure of such assets by a British government institution.
On HMRC’s initiative, three...
Cent NFT Marketplace Suspends Activity Due to Plagiarism Issues
14.2.2022
Cent, one of the first marketplaces to allow people to sell tweets as NFTs, has suspended almost all of its activity due to plagiarism-related problems. According to its CEO and co-founder Cameron Hejazi, people keep selling NFTs of other NFTs or using content that is not owned by them originally...
Rare ‘Alien’ CryptoPunk NFT Sells for USD 23M Worth of Ethereum
14.2.2022
An avid non-fungible token (NFT) collector and ethereum (ETH) holder has made history by spending a whopping USD 23 million worth of ETH on a CryptoPunk token – the highest fee ever forked out for an item in the so-called “OG” collection....
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