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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...
Is DeFi technology easy enough to adapt to non-finance industries?
14.6.2021
DeFi gets a bad rap for being complex, technology makes it simple enough to cut out middlemen in non-finance industries ranging from energy to e-commerce
China debuts blockchain-based digital yuan salary payments in Xiong’an
14.6.2021
China reportedly implemented the country’s first blockchain-powered digital yuan transactions in the Xiong’an New Area
Experts: Regulatory Uncertainty and Slow Embrace Hampering Crypto Growth in Kenya
14.6.2021
Regulatory uncertainty and the slow embrace of cryptocurrencies continue to be key impediments to the growth of Kenya’s digital currency market, experts say. They also assert that without speedy regulation, which they believe will hasten the adoption of digital currencies, Kenya’s...
RNS Solutions & Trustedchain Are Developing Blockchain FinLit Platform for Islamic Development Bank
14.6.2021
PRESS RELEASE. Pakistan: RNS Solutions Pte Ltd., the leading blockchain software development company from Pakistan, Korea, and Singapore this week announced a formidable partnership with the ICD-Islamic Development Bank Group, a multilateral development bank that promotes social and economic...
How the NFT market leveraged blockchain tech for explosive growth
13.6.2021
Nonfungible tokens present a new way of interacting with the arts, music, sports and the media — and even more
Nvidia CEO: We’re “on the cusp of” a blockchain and NFT-enabled metaverse
13.6.2021
Nvidia's new Voyager campus is serving as a test ground for what it will look like when then Metaverse meets the physical world
Cryptopunk NFT Sold for Almost $12 Million in Sotheby’s Auction
11.6.2021
A Cryptopunk NFT was recently sold for $11.8 million during an auction organized by Sotheby’s. The sale, which also featured works of other artists, was organized virtually. Sotheby’s anticipates strong demand for this kind of digital good in the future, even as NFT fever has somewhat...
FootballCoin Launches Euro 2020 Fantasy Game With Collectable NFTs and XFC Prizes
11.6.2021
PRESS RELEASE. FootballCoin has launched a new version of its fantasy football game for EURO 2020, with a host of new features, NFT cards, and prizes. 11th June 2021, Dubai, UAE — Pioneering Football Fantasy Blockchain platform FootballCoin has launched the new version of its game for EURO...