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Study: Amid Mining Bans, China Still Commands World’s Second-Largest Share of Bitcoin Hashrate
17.5.2022
New data stemming from the latest Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance (CCAF) report on bitcoin mining indicates that China still holds the second position in terms of global hashrate. While China commands close to 22% of Bitcoin’s global hashrate, the United States currently dominates...
World’s Largest Family-Owned Private Bank Now Offers Crypto Investments via SEBA Bank
5.5.2022
On Wednesday, the world’s largest family-owned banking institution, LGT Bank, announced that it has selected SEBA Bank in order to provide cryptocurrency custody and brokerage services to clients. LGT will start by offering investments in bitcoin and ethereum and the bank’s customers...
LGT, World’s Largest Family-Owned Private Bank, to Offer Crypto
4.5.2022
The financial institution owned by the princely House of Liechtenstein is working with Switzerland’s SEBA Bank
Pocket Worlds is Launching First-Ever Metaverse Subnet
29.4.2022
Pocket Worlds is leveraging its eight years of market experience with the first-ever metaverse subnet. The venture announced Highrise World, a community-owned metaverse backed by a subnet. Highrise World will offer users a virtual country with NFT functionality, custom land, and a decentralized...
Pocket Worlds is Launching First-Ever Metaverse Subset
29.4.2022
Pocket Worlds is leveraging its eight years of market experience with the first-ever metaverse subnet. The venture announced Highrise World, a community-owned metaverse backed by a subnet. Highrise World will offer users a virtual country with NFT functionality, custom land, and a decentralized...
Whale Watching: A Deep Dive Into the Portfolios of the World’s Largest Ethereum Whales
28.4.2022
While there’s a number of bitcoin whales that often get caught by blockchain parsers and written about in media reports, ethereum whales get a lot less attention. According to statistics in 2022, there are a lot more ethereum whales than holders with large sums of bitcoin. In fact, while...
World's First Combined Bitcoin, Gold ETP Listed on SIX
27.4.2022
The world's first exchange-traded product (ETP) that combined exposure to bitcoin and gold has been listed on the Swiss SIX stock exchange
Air Europa Collaborates with Algorand to Bring World’s First NFT Flight
19.4.2022
The world of NFTs is in a constant state of growth, with numerous businesses and industries trying to incorporate them in one way or another. NFTs have already impacted the art and music industries, with even the most popular figures endorsing them. On the other hand, blockchain gaming...
Meta Opens Monetization Options to Users of Horizon Worlds
13.4.2022
Meta, the company formerly known as Facebook, is now launching a pilot project that will let users in Horizon Worlds, its VR metaverse platform, monetize their creations. This pilot will allow a number of users to collect payments for access to their created environments, or for virtual items sold...
Meta Starts Building a Digital Economy for Creators in Horizon Worlds
12.4.2022
Fees could soar as high as 70% in the Meta-owned virtual reality game
World’s Largest Asset Manager Blackrock: Russia-Ukraine War Has Potential Impact on Accelerating Digital Currencies
25.3.2022
The CEO of the world’s largest asset manager, Blackrock, says the Russia-Ukraine war has a “potential impact on accelerating digital currencies.” He confirms that Blackrock “is studying digital currencies, stablecoins and the underlying technologies to understand...
Yoshitaka Amano, One of the World’s Greatest Illustrator, Character Designer, Joins Gensokishi Online Project
24.3.2022
PRESS RELEASE. GensoKishi Online, the GameFi and metaverse incarnation of the award winning Nintendo Switch/PS4 game “Elemental Knights” is proud to announce its collaboration with one of Japan’s greatest. YOSHITAKA AMANO, the legendary designer, the god of game art,...
How War in Ukraine Is Increasing Inflationary Pressure Across World’s Regions
20.3.2022
Alfred Kammer is the Director of the European Department at the International Monetary Fund (IMF); Jihad Azour is the Director of the Middle East and Central Asia Department at the IMF; Abebe Aemro Selassie is the Director of the African Department at the IMF; Ilan Goldfajn was Governor of...
Shelling Out $30K or More in Ethereum — A Look at the Top 5 NFT Floor Prices
12.3.2022
Non-fungible token (NFT) assets have been very popular for well over 12 months and a great number of collections have skyrocketed in value. While interest in NFTs has slid to a four-month low according to Google Trends search queries, a vast quantity of NFTs are still selling for hundreds...
AdaLend: The World’s Leading Cardano-Based Lending Protocol
9.3.2022
BSCPad and ADAPad Public Sale On March 14th. Cryptocurrencies and DeFi are experiencing a period of blistering growth: The total value locked (TVL) of tokens in DeFi protocols rose 357% to $255.39 billion among all blockchains. Over $2.5 trillion in cryptocurrencies was traded in January 2022...
GameFi’s Promise and Reality Are Still Worlds Apart
8.3.2022
In creating closed, interoperable environments, are developers forgetting to ensure that players are having fun?
Pharmacy Chain CVS Files for ‘Crypto-Collectible’ and NFT Trademarks
6.3.2022
The American retail and pharmacy corporation CVS is looking to enter the metaverse according to trademark filings registered with the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO). The filings mention things like CVS Health-brand “downloadable virtual goods”...
VR platforma Horizon Worlds od Mety už slaví 300 000 uživatelů. Má být základem pro metaverse
21.2.2022
Meta poslední měsíce zaměřila svoji pozornost zejména na budování metaversa, nového virtuální světa, který má být budoucností nejen internetu. Jeden z prvních prvků v tomto směru je VR sociální platforma pro headsety Quest jménem Horizon Worlds. Teprve se rozjíždí, ale už nyní s ní Meta podle svých
Meta’s Horizon Worlds Userbase Grows Tenfold in Three Months
21.2.2022
Horizon Worlds, one of the flagship metaverse apps that Meta has released, has reached a monthly userbase of 300K users on its platform. Meta’s executives announced this milestone in a virtual all-hands update last week. The company also announced recently that more than 10,000 worlds...
Webbland Metaverse Sales Jump 126% as 2 Penthouses Sell for Six-Figures
20.2.2022
While blockchain virtual worlds have seen significant demand during the last few months, an “interoperable pixel metaverse” project called Webbland has seen weekly NFT sales spike by 126.24%. The project recorded over $3.6 million in sales over the last seven days, and two Webbland...