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2TM Group, Parent Company of Mercado Bitcoin, Lays off 90 Workers Amid Market Cool Down
5.6.2022
2TM Group, a Latam unicorn and parent company of Mercado Bitcoin, a Latam-based cryptocurrency exchange, has announced it will execute a series of layoffs due to the current market cooldown. The company declared that this action was motivated by the recent global financial scenario changes, making...
Layoffs Spread Across the Blockchain Industry as Bear Market Cycle Impacts Crypto Firms
4.6.2022
As digital currency prices have slid significantly in value during the past few months, the bear market cycle is starting to take its toll on the crypto industry’s workforce. On June 2, Gemini’s co-founders the Winklevoss brothers revealed the company would lay off 10% of...
Dubai Property Developer Completes Real Estate Deals Worth $50M via Crypto
4.6.2022
According to an executive with the Dubai-based DAMAC Properties, the real estate development “company has already succeeded in concluding real estate deals worth $50 million via cryptocurrencies since the beginning of this year.” The executive, however, says his company is facing...
Kenyan energy company entices Bitcoin miners with geothermal power
3.6.2022
The country’s main electricity producer has issued a general invite for Bitcoin miners looking to take advantage of its renewable energy facility near the capital, Nairobi
Kanye West Files Trademarks Describing NFT Technology After Denouncing the Digital Collectible Concept
2.6.2022
According to trademark filings with the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), the American rapper Ye (commonly known as Kanye West) is getting into the world of non-fungible tokens (NFTs) and the metaverse. The record producer’s company Mascotte Holdings Inc. filed...
Some Pokémon Fans Think Scarlet And Violet’s Hot Professors Are The Villains
2.6.2022
In the mainline Pokémon games, there’s always a professor, and they’re always a mentor. It’s practically inviolable at this point. But some fans think the (hot) professors in this year’s Pokémon Scarlet and Violet might actually be the villains. Yes, this is just a theory, but it’s not...
US energy company opens crypto mining facility in Middle East to use stranded natural gas
2.6.2022
Denver-based Crusoe Energy will help the Middle East nation to cut the gas flaring with the pilot project scheduled for the end of 2022
5 Big Things You May Have Missed In The Pokémon Scarlet And Violet Trailer
1.6.2022
Whenever a new Pokémon trailer goes live, the internet’s sleuths get busy. Info about these games tends to release in carefully curated bursts, sparking the sort of breathless speculation that leads to fans, um, mistakenly identifying a wheelbarrow as a previously undiscovered Pokémon. Today...
Accuweather Collaborates With API3 in Order to Provide Blockchain-Powered Weather Data
1.6.2022
On June 1, the American media company that provides commercial weather forecasts, Accuweather, announced it is tethering weather data to blockchain technology by hosting an API3 Airnode. The company revealed that it is collaborating with blockchain oracle provider API3 and Web API operators will...
Pokémon Scarlet And Violet’s Crying Lechonk Would Be Great On A Sandwich
1.6.2022
The new Pokémon Scarlet and Violet trailer introduced players to three new exciting Pokémon, the fluffy and electric Pawmi, greasy, gasping Smoliv, and the lil’ piggy Lechonk, who is already the subject of adoring fan art and odes of protection. But in this chonk eat chonk world, no one can protect...
Everything We Know About Pokémon Scarlet And Violet’s Legendaries
1.6.2022
Hot professors! Four-player co-op! Lechonk! Today, the Pokémon Company dumped a trove of info about the next mainline Pokémon versions for Switch, Scarlet and Violet, including the release date (November 18, 2022). But a new trailer also pulled back the curtain on the two new version-specific...
Pokémon Scarlet and Violet Will Have Different Version Professors, Four-Player Co-Op
1.6.2022
Today, the Pokémon Company announced the release date for Pokémon Scarlet and Violet. It’s out for November Switch on November 18, 2022. Here’s a new trailer, featuring something brand-new for the series: not one but two professors.Read more
Junichi Masuda Leaves Game Freak To Join The Pokémon Company
1.6.2022
Junichi Masuda, Game Freak’s former managing director and one of the company’s founding members, has stepped down from the role, to take up a new position as The Pokémon Company’s “Chief Creative Fellow.”Read more
MoU Established by Clesson, the Company Behind LABEL Foundation, With CJ Entertainment and Media
1.6.2022
PRESS RELEASE. Clesson, the operating company behind OPENTRACK and LABEL Foundation, has officially established a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with CJ Entertainment & Media. The new collaboration has the potential to benefit both parties involved as CJ Entertainment & Media...
Mystery South Korean Company that ‘Worked on Terra Network’ Faces Media Scrutiny
31.5.2022
South Korean media outlets say they have unearthed evidence that a blockchain firm based in Seoul has a close relationship with Terraform Labs – and may have been developing for the Terra network under the radar. But the plot may already have thickened – with allegations that the National...
Old Fashion Research Launches $100 Million Latam and Emerging Markets Crypto Metaverse Fund
31.5.2022
A VC company founded by former Binance employees, Old Fashion Research, has announced the launch of a new crypto fund in the midst of the current downturn the market is facing. The fund, which will have $100 million at its disposal, will focus resources on metaverse investments and in carrying...
While the New LUNA Records Gains, Do Kwon’s Terraform Labs Is Plagued by Controversy and Accusations
30.5.2022
It’s been two days since the Terra development team launched the new Phoenix-1 blockchain with the network’s native token LUNA. While the token dropped significantly in value during the first day of trading, the new LUNA has jumped 8.8% in value during the last 24 hours. Amid...
It's Your Last Chance To Grab The Pokémon Diamond/Pearl Sound Library
30.5.2022
Back in February, Nintendo made a very out-of-character move and provided access to a huge library of Pokémon Diamond and Pearl’s sound effects and music, even encouraging people to use them in their own (non-commercial) projects. What a lovely thing to do! So of course, three months later, it’s...
Frodo Tech Aims to Create Environmentally-Friendly Blockchain Ecosystem That Is Open to Everyone
30.5.2022
Frodo Tech aims to create an environmentally-friendly blockchain ecosystem based on a unique cryptocurrency service that all the people in the world can access, without any limitations based on race, region or country. Frodo Will Have No Limitations and No Mining Frodo Tech is an IT and Financial...
Report: FTX CEO Says Crypto Exchange Is Ready to Spend Billions on Acquisition Deals
29.5.2022
Billionaire and FTX co-founder Sam Bankman-Fried said the leading crypto asset exchange aims to make a number of acquisitions and could spend up to $2 billion on such efforts. The FTX chief executive officer highlighted in a recent interview that a fraction of the funds raised by the company were...