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South Korean Crypto Exchanges Scrap for Survival as Upbit Dominance Wanes
18.12.2023
Source: Koshiro/Adobe A “tectonic rift” is threatening to separate the South Korean crypto exchange Upbit from its rivals, as tensions begin to fray between domestic platforms. The newspaper Daehan Kyungjae reported that Upbit’s market share has dropped sharply in recent months, falling from 93%...
Thetan Rivals uses Alchemy Pay Ramp for easy crypto transactions
5.12.2023
Thetan Rivals is boosting the engagement of its game by integrating the payment solution of Alchemy Pay Ramp. The idea is to make it convenient for players to buy $THG with a fiat currency of their preference. Also, they can later convert from crypto to fiat at any time by choosing a fiat currency...
65% plunge in Web3 Games in ’23 but ‘real hits’ coming, $26M NFL Rivals NFT: Web3 Gamer
23.11.2023
Can Shrapnel save Web3 gaming after a horror 2023? Why Disney’s NFT platform is “irrelevant” and the $26M NFT in free mobile game NFL RIvals
South Korean Golf Star Lee Ye-won Wins Crypto Prize at Tour Event
20.11.2023
Source: yellowj/Adobe The South Korean pro golfer Lee Ye-won has scooped a crypto prize worth over $457,000 by winning a KLPGA Tour event in Busan. The WEMIX Championship was sponsored by the domestic gaming giant WeMade’s crypto and blockchain gaming subsidiary. The KLPGA (Korea Ladies...
UBS Allows Crypto ETF Trading for Select Hong Kong Clients
10.11.2023
Source: AdobeStock / lenscap50 UBS Group AG has joined rivals such as HSBC Holdings Plc, in extending an invitation to select clients in Hong Kong to trade specific crypto-linked exchange-traded funds (ETFs). The decision aligns with Hong Kong’s recent efforts to establish itself as...
Vanguard Has No Plans to Join Asset Management Rivals in Pursuing Bitcoin ETFs: CEO Tim Buckley
31.10.2023
Asset management firm Vanguard has revealed that it will not be joining its competitors in pursuing a spot Bitcoin exchange-traded fund (ETF). While rivals like BlackRock and Fidelity have pending applications for Bitcoin ETFs, Vanguard CEO Tim Buckley stated in a recent interview with CNBC that...
NFL Rivals Crypto Game Hits 3 Million Players as Revenue Surges – Adoption on the Rise?
25.10.2023
Popular blockchain-based game NFL Rivals is nearing 3 million signups, just four months after reaching the 1 million milestone.
"We’re closing in on 3 million [new players]," John Linden told The Block.
Linden is an industry veteran and the CEO of Mythical Games, the gaming studio behind...
Binance Market Share Continues to Fall As Crypto Giant Loses Ground to Rivals
27.9.2023
Binance, the world's largest cryptocurrency exchange, has seen a sharp drop in market share among non-dollar crypto exchanges.
According to data by The Block, Binance's market share among a group of exchanges that includes major Asian players like Upbit, Huobi, Bybit, and OKX hit 54% in August...
Arkham Identifies Coinbase’s $25B in BTC; Rivals Nakamoto’s Legacy Coins
23.9.2023
On September 22, 2023, Arkham Intelligence unveiled that it has identified addresses tied to a staggering $25 billion from Coinbase’s bitcoin (BTC) holdings. This cache represents the most substantial BTC reserve on Arkham. The firm points out that this trove is nearly on par with Satoshi...
Coinbase’s Base Blockchain Hits Record High for Daily Transactions, Eclipsing Rivals
15.9.2023
FriendTech, which is only available on Base, is driving a significant portion of the activity, according to IntoTheBlock
Meta is building AI model to rival OpenAI's most powerful system
11.9.2023
Meta is reportedly in the process of building a new, more powerful and open-source AI model to rival the most powerful systems of its rival OpenAI
A Crypto President? Top U.S. 2024 Contenders Aren’t Fans, and Rivals Are Way Behind
28.8.2023
Crypto was on fire as a topic in the early U.S. presidential campaigning, but the first Republican debate last week showed it may not be an issue that has legs with candidates trying to grasp mainstream attention. While we wait to see whether digital assets come up at the Republican primary debate...
NFL and Mythical Games Unveil NFL Rivals: The First Web3-Powered NFL Game
25.8.2023
Web3 game studio Mythical Games officially launched the first Web3 technology-powered, NFL-licensed game. 'NFL Rivals'.
On August 24, the Kickoff program went live - "bringing the Mythical Marketplace to the NFL Rivals app for all players to participate in the game economy we’re all building...
Alibaba releases two open-sourced AI models to rival Meta’s Llama 2
3.8.2023
The Chinese tech and e-commerce giant Alibaba revealed two new open-sourced AI models, Qwen-7B and Qwen-7B-Chat, to rival Meta’s recently-launched Llama 2
BTC20 Rivals Pepe Coin and Bitcoin in Google Trends, Next Crypto to Explode – Raises $3.4m as Sellout Looms
27.7.2023
The next crypto to explode, BTC20, rivals Pepe coin and bitcoin in Google Trends search terms data, and for many geographies is outperforming both of them as it blasts past $3.4 million in its presale.
In only nine days, BTC20, which runs on the Ethereum blockchain as an ERC-20 token, has raised...
XRP Gets Binance.US Listing as Exchange Joins Rivals’ Embrace
14.7.2023
Trading XRP on Binance.US began Friday
Why Threads Got 100 Million Users When Other Twitter Rivals Could Not
11.7.2023
Network effects and ease of use rule the day. And, a lot of people clearly don’t care about decentralization and privacy all that much, says CoinDesk’s Emily Parker
Bored Ape Yacht Club’s Market Reign Crumbles as Rivals Take Center Stage
24.6.2023
The Bored Ape Yacht Club (BAYC), a prominent non-fungible token (NFT) collection, has been experiencing a decline in its dominance. In the past 90 days, the minimum value of BAYC NFTs has plummeted from 64 ETH to just above 37 ETH. Furthermore, the floor value of the Cryptopunks NFT collection...
NFL Rivals Scores 1M Downloads for NFT-Based Mobile Game
22.6.2023
NFL Rivals, a free-to-play game from Mythical Games, has managed to score over a million downloads despite debuting amidst a harsh crypto environment and in the off-season of the NFL itself
Ethereum Transaction Volume Rivals Visa As Blockchain Transactions Soar
29.5.2023
Ethereum may be far younger than the traditional payments giants, such as Visa, but it has shown (yet again) that blockchain, in a single decade, developed into a force to be reckoned with. ...
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