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Motor Team McLaren Racing Partners With Tezos to Build NFT Platform
18.6.2021
On Thursday, McLaren Racing announced the British motor racing team selected Tezos as the organization’s official partner across the Indycar series, Formula One, and esports. Tezo will create a non-fungible token (NFT) platform for McLaren Racing in order to showcase the motorsport...
Shanghai Man: Economist says El Salvador 'on road to death', salaries paid in e-CNY ...
18.6.2021
Former banking heads question foreign financial policies, workers paid with digital yuan in milestone pilot and a large Series A is closed by DeFi platform SynFutures
Yield Guild Games Raises $4 Million to Power Its Play-to-Earn Proposal
17.6.2021
Yield Guild Games, an online gaming guild, has raised $4 million to power its play-to-earn proposal in a Series A funding round. The funding round was led by Bitkraft, a venture capital company specializing in e-sports investments. Other blockchain and crypto-related companies also participated....
As NFT market cools, a chance to learn lessons from its explosive growth
17.6.2021
What’s next for the NFT industry? Now the heat has escaped the market, there’s an opportunity to tackle some of the obstacles that arose during the sector’s explosive growth
Bitcoin first ‘genuinely new asset class’ in 150 years, says Ric Edelman
17.6.2021
Financial adviser, Ric Edelman says his colleagues need to get rid of their bias and examine Bitcoin and crypto assets with “open eyes” and “genuine curiosity.”
Why People Are Buying Digital Lands in The Sandbox and Why You Should Too
17.6.2021
The Sandbox is a decentralised, community-driven gaming ecosystem where designers and artists can create, share and monetise NFTs and gaming experiences on the Ethereum blockchain and is partnered with many industry giants, such as Square Enix and Atari. Its popular virtual real estates, known...
DAO1 Hackthon Targets African Blockchain Devs
17.6.2021
As part of an initiative that seeks to build the crypto and blockchain space talent base, the Decentralized Autonomous Organization (DAO1), a community-led protocol, will be holding a major collaborative computer programming or a hackathon. Organizers are hoping this event will help to create...
CNN selling historic news ‘moments’ as NFTs
17.6.2021
CNN will drop NFTs depicting historic moments such as space travel, technological advancements, and presidential elections
Solving the Climate Change Problem Using Blockchain Technology – Start of the FOSTER Project
16.6.2021
The Swiss company TRES Group GmbH is launching an exciting and innovative program aiming at adding a solution to the Climate Change challenge. For several months, the FOSTER project has been under development, which aims to mass plant trees around the world for the benefit of increasing carbon...
Entertainment Giant Fox Teams up With Bento Box to Manage $100 Million NFT Creator Fund
16.6.2021
Fresh off the heels of announcing a non-fungible token (NFT) organization called Blockchain Creative Labs and a blockchain-based animated series, Fox Broadcasting Company has revealed it’s invoked a $100 million fund with Bento Box Entertainment (BBE) that aims to bolster NFT content...
Yield Guild Games doubles down on play-to-earn model with $4M funding round
16.6.2021
The Series A funding round was led by BITKRAFT Ventures, an esports-focused venture capital firm. A.Capital Ventures, IDEO, CoLab, Mechanism Capital and ParaFi Capital also participated in the raise, as did several angel investors
Venture Capitalist Tim Draper Doubles Down on His $250K by 2022 Bitcoin Price Prediction
16.6.2021
American venture capital investor Tim Draper still believes in a bitcoin price prediction he made in mid-April 2018, at the Draper University blockchain party. At the time, Draper said that he thinks bitcoin could reach $250K by 2022, and during an interview with CNBC’s Jade Scipioni this...
Tunisian Minister Says He Plans to ‘Decriminalize’ the Buying of Bitcoin
16.6.2021
After reports that Tanzanian President Samia Hassan had asked her finance chief to look into cryptocurrencies, Tunisia has become the latest African country to signal a willingness to embrace digital assets. According to remarks attributed to Ali Kooli, Tunisia’s economy minister, the North...
Orion Pool Will Make Its Debut on June 22
16.6.2021
Orion Pool will go live on the Orion Terminal on June 22, next week. This will lead to the creation of a single user interface that will prove extremely helpful for the swapping and trading services and voting-related to staking and governance rights. With this particular launch, the Orion Terminal...
Fox launches $100M creative fund for NFT content creation
16.6.2021
Fox has announced a $100 million fund under its NFT firm Blockchain Creative Labs, and is set to launch a range of NFT content, digital goods, and assets
Billionaire Mark Cuban Commends Defi Economy Dubbing It the ‘Next Great Growth Engine’
15.6.2021
On June 13, the billionaire investor and co-host of the television series Shark Tank, Mark Cuban, explained his fascination with decentralized finance (defi) in an editorial published to his blog. Cuban details that many defi organizations are different because they are not corporate entities...
BitClout Investors Coinbase & Blockchain.com Step Up Their Shilling Efforts
15.6.2021
Peter Smith, CEO of Blockchain.com. Source: a video screenshot, Youtube/ The Business of Fashion
Major crypto exchange Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong is taking a lot of flak today for his open support of controversial blockchain-based social network BitClout (CLOUT). While another crypto giant...
Europe Raises 20 Unicorns This Year Including Crypto Companies
15.6.2021
Twice as many European startups have achieved unicorn status in 2021 compared to last year. Despite the negative effects of the ongoing Covid crisis, young companies on the Old Continent, including several crypto unicorns, have managed to attract a record high amount of VC capital. European...
RSGP Finance to Secure Randomized Gameplay via Chainlink VRF
15.6.2021
RSGP finance has announced its decision to amalgamate Chainlink VRF, Chainlink’s Verifiable Random Function on the smart blockchain network by Binance. Renowned for its liquidity mining practice which is NFT-gamified and inspired by the online game Old School RuneScape, it allows users to become...
Bitcoin Remittances to El Salvador Surge 300% Ahead of BTC Becoming Legal Tender
15.6.2021
Bitcoin remittances to El Salvador jumped more than fourfold in May from the previous year, according to data from blockchain analytics firm Chainalysis. Last week, El Salvador passed a bill making bitcoin legal tender in the country alongside the U.S. dollar. The monthly bitcoin transfers of under...