Proof-of-Work Ban Removed From Europe’s Proposed Crypto Regulation
A text threatening to prohibit cryptocurrencies relying on energy-intensive proof-of-work mining has been deleted from the draft legislation aimed at...
Month: March 2022
Square Enix to Bring Dungeon Siege IP to The Sandbox
Square Enix, the Japanese game publishing and developing company, has announced a new deal with The Sandbox to allow one...
South African Crypto Exchange Valr Raises $50 Million in Series B Funding Round
South African cryptocurrency exchange Valr announced recently that it has raised $50 million in a Series B round led by...
Project aims to take on SAP ERP with decentralized apps
Energy Ledger CEO William Pete claims that their team has developed a decentralized ERP solution that integrates blockchain to supply...
Tencent files for patent related to virtual concerts in Metaverse
Chinese tech colossus Tencent has continued its foray into the metaverse after filing a patent for virtual concerts, flying in...
Monthly NFT buyers dip below 800K as searches ‘fall off a cliff’
There were 796,009 NFT buyers on secondary markets in Feb, accounting for roughly $2.6 billion worth of sales. The figures...
Bob Dylan goes meta as Sony and Universal partner with Snowcrash NFT platform
Solana-based NFT marketplace Snowcrash will release NFT collections of Bob Dylan and Miles Davis later this year. Solana-based NFT marketplace...
Japanese wealth manager Nomura to explore crypto and NFTs with new unit
The firm stated in a release that it was establishing a new Digital Company, which would begin operations in April,...
Drawbacks of centralization: Moscow Stock Exchange remains offline amid ongoing Russo-Ukrainian war
The closing of the exchange, along with a plunging ruble, may have a devastating impact on the lives of ordinary...
FTX integrate Bonfida’s flagship service to enable domain withdrawal function
The ability for users to withdraw digital assets from centralized exchange FTX is expected to enhance security, ease-of-access and traversing...
Former ConsenSys employees file for audit claiming ‘serious irregularities’
“Joseph Lubin is the majority shareholder of both companies. The transaction was to the detriment of the minority shareholders of...
New York state ramps up blockchain monitoring to enforce sanctions
Blockchain analytics will help ensure that NY-licensed companies don’t send money to sanctioned Russians. New York state’s efforts to enforce...
Dragonfly Research claims Ethereum is the ‘MS-DOS’ of blockchains
Research shows that throughput on Solana surpassed the leading EVM chain by a wide margin, leading researchers to predict that...
Customer demand prompts Charles Schwab file for Crypto Economy ETF
Schwab’s crypto ETF would buy into stocks on its Crypto Economy Index to give investors indirect access to digital assets...
US Senator Urges Regulators to Increase Scrutiny on Crypto as It Risks Undermining Sanctions Against Russia
U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren is worried that “cryptocurrencies risk undermining sanctions against Russia.” She urges financial regulators “to take this...
