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EtherMail Offers a Lifeline to Web3 Projects Stranded by MailChimp
6.9.2022
PRESS RELEASE. MailChimp’s recent decision to suspend newsletter services for crypto businesses expresses the widening chasm between web2 and web3 and the pronounced importance of a robust communications bridge between both realms. In recent weeks, many crypto and NFT projects were abruptly...
Report: Saudi Arabia’s Central Bank Hires Virtual Assets and Digital Currency Program Lead
6.9.2022
The Saudi Arabian central bank has reportedly appointed Mohsen Al Zahrani as the lead of the bank’s virtual assets and digital currency project. The emergence of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) as the regional crypto hub is believed to have forced authorities in Saudi Arabia to consider...
Meta & Qualcomm to Develop Metaverse Geared Silicon to Be Used in Next Gen Headsets
6.9.2022
Meta recently announced a partnership with mobile chip company Qualcomm to produce chips geared for the metaverse market. The agreement will allow Meta to use Qualcomm’s XR technology, designed for extended and virtual reality tasks, to design and manufacture silicon to be put in the next...
Nigerian Presidential Candidate Says Fixed Exchange Rate Regime ‘Has to End’ — Touts Success of Fintech Unicorn Flutterwave
6.9.2022
A Nigerian presidential election candidate, Peter Obi, has said the local currency’s exchange rate against the dollar must not be fixed but must be determined “by the forces of demand and supply.” Pointing to the success of the Nigerian fintech Flutterwave, the candidate said...
Meta to Open 10 Metaverse Campuses as Part of $150 Million Immersive Learning Project
6.9.2022
Meta, the metaverse-focused social media company, is helping universities get their own virtual reality campuses online. The company will be opening 10 virtual campuses as part of its Immersive Learning project, which seeks to take education to virtual reality environments. In partnership with...
IMF: Crypto Assets Become More Mainstream as Hedges Against Weak Currencies, Potential Payment Instruments
6.9.2022
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) published a report stating that crypto assets have gained a “more mainstream presence as speculative investments, hedges against weak currencies, and potential payment instruments.” The IMF has called for a global response to crypto regulation...
What New UK Prime Minister Liz Truss Says About Cryptocurrencies
6.9.2022
Liz Truss, Britain’s new prime minister, previously said: “We should welcome cryptocurrencies in a way that doesn’t constrain their potential.” Truss beat former Chancellor of the Exchequer Rishi Sunak, who had a plan to make the U.K. a crypto-friendly nation. Liz Truss...
Binance to Drop USDC Trading Pairs, Plans to Auto-Convert Specific Stablecoin Balances to BUSD
6.9.2022
The world’s largest cryptocurrency trading platform by trade volume, Binance, issued a notice on Monday explaining that the exchange will be removing the stablecoin USDC from the platform’s spot trading pairs list. Binance further details that users holding three types of stablecoins...
Russia Shuts off Europe’s Main Gas Pipeline Until the West’s Sanctions Are Lifted, Iran Tempts EU With Similar Deal
5.9.2022
Russia has seemingly drawn a line in the sand and will not turn on Europe’s main gas pipeline until the “collective West” lifts the financial sanctions against the country. The move follows the Nord Stream 1 pipeline allegedly shutting down for “maintenance,”...
Value Locked in Lido Rises Prior to Ethereum’s Merge, LDO Token Jumps 23% Higher in 7 Days
5.9.2022
In eight days Ethereum is planning to undergo one of the most intensive upgrades since the DAO hard fork in 2016, as The Merge aims to change the network’s consensus mechanism from proof-of-work (PoW) to proof-of-stake (PoS). Amid the lead-up to The Merge, the decentralized finance (defi)...
Toki Universe Introduces the World’s First Fractionalized NFT PFP Project With an Antique Twist
5.9.2022
Toki Universe, consists of Antiques NFT, PFP, and own Miniverse already in place. A brand-new project on the Ethereum blockchain created with the goal of bringing a breath of fresh air to the NFT space. The fractionalized NFT PFP project is delivering an unprecedented antique-themed NFT collection...
Ethereum Classic Hashrate Taps All-Time High Nearing 50 TH/s Ahead of The Merge
5.9.2022
Ethereum Classic’s hashrate surpassed the 40 terahash per second (TH/s) region last Wednesday and four days later, the network’s hashpower reached an all-time high (ATH) at 48.82 TH/s on September 4. Ethereum’s transition from proof-of-work (PoW) to proof-of-stake (PoS)...
Biggest Movers: DOT, LINK Rise to Multi-Week Highs on Monday
5.9.2022
Polkadot rose to a multi-week high to start the week, as price increased for a second straight day. The token briefly broke out of a key resistance point, during Monday’s surge. Chainlink also moved to its highest point in nearly two weeks, with the token now trading nearly 13% higher in...
Another 5,000 Bitcoin Sourced From Mt Gox Wake up After Close to 9 Years of Dormancy
5.9.2022
Last week Bitcoin.com News reported on two old bitcoin addresses created in 2013 sending 10,001 bitcoin to a myriad of wallets. Heuristics and clustering techniques indicate that the bitcoins were associated with Mt Gox, roughly around the same time the exchange was hacked in June 2011. Five days...
Bitcoin, Ethereum Technical Analysis: BTC, ETH Consolidate to Start the Week
5.9.2022
Volatility in crypto markets remained high on Monday, as bitcoin was mostly in the red to start the week. The token has once again moved below $20,000, as prices appear to be consolidating. Ethereum was also trading sideways, with prices falling marginally below a key support level earlier in...
Russian Arrested for Defrauding Buyers of Mining Hardware Worth Over $300,000
5.9.2022
Police in the southern Russian city of Astrakhan have detained a man accused of defrauding people who wanted to purchase crypto miners. Law enforcement officials say the suspect made millions of rubles through fictitious sales of mining devices to Russian citizens and foreigners. Investigators...
Argentine Startup Action Point Develops White Label Solution to Include Crypto in Traditional ATMs
5.9.2022
Action Point, an Argentine startup, has developed a white-label solution that allows banks to offer cryptocurrency services through their already existent ATM infrastructures. The company provides this service in partnership with Lirium AG, a crypto-as-a-service organization, and has already...
Report: Chinese Metaverse Industry Raises $780 Million in Funding
5.9.2022
The Chinese metaverse industry has reportedly raised about $780 million in funding and there are expectations this will grow to be a $5.8 trillion industry by 2030. So far there are 160,000 virtual human enterprises in China while 20 provinces or cities in the country are reportedly supporting...
Iran Starts Licensing Crypto Miners Under New Regulatory Framework
5.9.2022
The government of Iran has reportedly started issuing licenses to crypto miners under the new “comprehensive and detailed” regulatory framework approved last week. The authorities previously issued licenses to a number of crypto mining operations but halted the process due to power...
Billionaire David Rubenstein Bullish on Crypto, Optimistic About Regulation
5.9.2022
Billionaire David Rubenstein, Carlyle Group’s founder, believes that U.S. lawmakers will not push to regulate the crypto industry unduly. Noting that he is bullish on crypto, the billionaire investor said: “the greatest fortunes are made when people go against conventional...