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WEF’s Great Reset Agenda Continues to Get Significant Pushback From Critics
11.8.2022
Amid the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020, the world’s bureaucrats, financial institutions, multinational corporations, and international organizations started promoting the Great Reset concept, an idea launched by the World Economic Forum (WEF) that claims to bolster a greener and fairer world....
Snoop Dogg, Steve Aoki, Logan Paul, and Beeple Dusted by OFAC-Banned Tornado Cash Transactions
9.8.2022
Following the U.S. Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Asset Control (OFAC) banning Tornado Cash and a number of associated Ethereum-based addresses, an anonymous Tornado Cash user has dusted a swathe of well known wallets tied to ENS domain names. Onchain data shows that a number...
Report: Nigerian Anti-Graft Body Identifies Individuals Fueling the Naira’s Rapid Depreciation
9.8.2022
Nigeria’s Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) recently claimed it had identified individuals and organizations whose rapid accumulation of U.S. dollars recently accelerated the depreciation of the local currency, a report said. According to Abdulrasheed Bawa, the EFCC chairman...
Socios.com Will Invest $100 Million in FC Barcelona Metaverse Push
3.8.2022
Socios.com, a company dedicated to the development of fan engagement tokens for sports organizations, has revealed that it will invest $100 million in the digital business of soccer team FC Barcelona, Barca Studios. The investment will give Socios.com 24.5% of the stake in the digital division...
Santander to Offer Cryptocurrency Services in Brazil in the Coming Months
29.7.2022
Santander, one of the biggest banking institutions in the world, has announced it will start offering cryptocurrency services in Brazil. Its CEO, Mario Leão, made the announcement in an interview with local media, stating that the company was still seeking the best way of getting into...
Ethereum Community Conference 5: How can DAOs combat hostile takeovers?
19.7.2022
Web3 advisor Hilary Kivitz discussed countermeasures that DAOs can employ against hostile takeovers during her talk at the EthCC 5
South African Crypto Investors and Service Providers Told of Legal and Tax Implications of Central Bank’s Plan
17.7.2022
South African tax consultancy firm Tax Consulting SA, has said the recent announcement by the central bank — that will start to regulate cryptocurrency in 12 to 18 months — has legal and tax implications for both crypto investors and organizations providing intermediary services....
Decentralized Autonomous Organization Statistics Show $10 Billion Is Held by DAO Treasuries
10.6.2022
During the early years of the cryptocurrency space, decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs) and smart contracts were discussed in theory. Nowadays many people consider The DAO, launched in 2016 by members of the Slock.it development team, to be the first smart contract-based DAO. In 2022...
Leading European and Ukrainian Charity Foundations Announced Their Participation in the World’s First Innovative ChariFi’s Project – the Zelenskiy NFT, Developed by the IamUkraine Studio
20.5.2022
PRESS RELEASE. The innovative first time used concept will help to monetize charitable experience for people. Since the beginning of the war in Ukraine, people from all over the world are trying to find ways to support people affected by the events. Multiple organizations and communities do their...
DAOs, DEXs and whales? How Web3 organizations became the new crypto beasts
15.5.2022
The upcoming whale migration is heading to cold DAO-infested waters. What can the industry do to accommodate the growing needs of this new breed of crypto investors?
Coinbase Ventures Backed Startup to Build Pan-African Crypto Exchange With $23 Million Capital Raise
13.5.2022
The African startup, Mara, recently said it has raised about $23 million in funding from organizations ranging from Coinbase Ventures to individual angel investors like Amit Bhatia and Hamad Alhoimaizi. Mara has also partnered with the Central African Republic (CAR) and will act as an adviser...
New Zealand VC Launches $5 Million Web3 and Crypto-Focused Fund
6.5.2022
New Zealand-based venture capital firm Global From Day 1 (GD1) recently said it had launched a $5 million Web3 and crypto-focused venture capital fund to back local startups. The fund will invest in pre-seed to Series A companies across decentralized finance (defi), decentralized autonomous...
Solana Co-Founder Believes Bitcoin Needs to Change to Proof-of-Stake Consensus to Remain Relevant
1.5.2022
Anatoly Yakovenko, one of the co-founders of Solana, the proof-of-stake based, smart contracts enabled blockchain, issued a series of statements criticizing bitcoin’s consensus algorithm. In an interview on CNBC, Yakovenko stated that bitcoin might lose adoption if it doesn’t change...
Ice Cube’s Big3 Professional Basketball League Sells Team to a DAO for 25 NFTs
30.4.2022
Decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs) have been acquiring high ticket items over the last 12 months and on April 28, the Degods DAO revealed it acquired a Big3 professional basketball team called the “Killer 3s.” The Big3 professional basketball league was founded by...
Andreessen Horowitz Launches A16z Crypto Research Lab
24.4.2022
A16z, also known as Andreessen Horowitz, the venture capital (VC) company that has invested millions in crypto-related projects, has announced the launch of its own crypto research lab. This new initiative seeks to marry academic research with producing ideas and putting them into practice...
Crypto Businesses Ask 27 EU Finance Ministers to Loosen Disclosure Requirements
23.4.2022
Forty-six European crypto businesses and organizations have asked finance ministers in 27 European countries to loosen some regulatory requirements for the crypto industry. For example, they asked for decentralized finance (defi) projects to be excluded from the requirements to register as legal...
Self-Regulatory Organizations Growing Alongside New U.S. Crypto Regulation
18.4.2022
SROs can eventually provide “connective tissue” between the crypto industry and government as U.S. regulatory infrastructure forms
How the Crypto Community Supports the People of Ukraine – Head of Binance Charity Helen Hai Explains
7.4.2022
In response to the military crisis in Ukraine, Binance Charity has committed $10 million to major Intergovernmental Organizations and local NGOs, including UNICEF, UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, iSans and People in Need. They also launched a crypto-first crowdfunding site, Ukraine Emergency Relief...
What the media is missing about decentralized autonomous organizations
2.4.2022
Many pieces from establishment media outlets seem to fundamentally misunderstand what DAOs are and how they may operate
Co-founders of UkraineDAO and Friends With Benefits DAO talk autonomous organizations at SXSW
15.3.2022
Panelists discuss whether DAOs can have enough legal power to replace not only corporate structures but to also challenge governance models