Visa’s head of crypto has revealed that the payments giant has partnered with about 60 leading crypto platforms “to launch card programs that make it easy for consumers to convert and spend digital currency at 80 million merchant locations worldwide.” He emphasized, “We’ve built a lot of momentum in this space, and we’ll continue to support the crypto ecosystem in…
Earlier this year, gaming giant Ubisoft joined the aleph.im network as a core channel node operator after the blockchain-based storage and computing startup became a part of Ubisoft’s Entrepreneurs Lab. On Tuesday, aleph.im announced that it will offer a decentralized storage solution for Ubisoft Quartz in order to further incorporate nonfungible tokens (NFTs) into Ubisoft’s AAA games. https://t.co/oTzJGUOcyw partners with…
Clearing one’s mind and gazing into the machinery of the economic world, one is left with little besides absolute awe. Humanity’s inventions and their subsequent compounding throughout the years have manufactured a world of great abundance – one which would be close to unrecognizable just five generations ago. Airplanes physically connecting every point on earth, the internet digitally connecting every…
press release PRESS RELEASE. Affyn’s private round was oversubscribed within a week of its website unveiling, resulting in the opening of a new strategic round that once again became oversubscribed, ahead of its presale in December 2021. Backed by more than 50 venture capitalists, institutional investors and partners, signaling high confidence and strong demand for Affyn’s Play-to-Earn Metaverse. The much…
Shrapnel is the world’s first AAA shooter game built on the blockchain, at the intersection of community, creation, and ownership. The team is comprised of BAFTA and Emmy award-winning talent that has worked on blockbuster franchises such as HALO, Call of Duty, Madden, Bioshock, Destiny, Star Wars, Hawken Skylanders, Westworld, and more. It is built on blockchain gaming platform Forte.…
Today, Texas’s City of Abilene and Taylor County announced a large-scale partnership with Houston-based infrastructure company, Lancium, to build a $2.4 billion data center campus, per a press release sent to Bitcoin Magazine. The data center campus, which will be powered by renewable energy, will host bitcoin mining and other energy-intensive applications. This project will begin at 200 megawatts of…
Manasquan Bank, a mutual community bank in New Jersey serving residents since 1874, has announced it is partnering with the company Bakkt to give its retail clients the ability to buy, sell and hold cryptocurrency through the bank’s mobile banking application. Manasquan Bank to Give Customers Access to Crypto A mutual community bank headquartered in Wall Township, New Jersey will…
The narrative surrounding Ether (ETH) of it fast transforming into an independent asset has been around for some time now. However, the last few months have seen this notion gain an increasing amount of mainstream traction, as is best highlighted by the fact that, since Oct. 1, ETH has showcased substantial northbound movement against Bitcoin (BTC). To put things into…
DAOs went from crypto jargon to mainstream consciousness in 2021 as they surged in number and in total funds raised. The acronym stands for decentralized autonomous organization—internet communities that emerge around a crypto project or unified financial goal that can’t be completed by just one person. The aim could be as simple as pooling funds to buy an expensive piece…
Blockstream announced it is now a sponsor of the Mempool open source project.Mempool will focus on adding new capabilities and enhancements to its platform related to the Liquid Network.Blockstream created Liquid in 2015 as a Bitcoin federated sidechain for asset issuance and rapid interchange settlements between Bitcoin companies. Blockstream, a builder of crypto-financial infrastructure based on Bitcoin, is now a…
