Solana Pay is a peer-to-peer payments infrastructure designed to enable the global market of online merchants and point-of-sale providers the ability to accept and settle payment transactions in a panoply of digital assets. A joint collaboration between Solana Labs, Checkout.com, Circle and Citcon, in addition to wallet integrations from Phantom and FTX, the platform’s inbuilt software development kit acts as…
sponsored In the growing DeFi panorama, both institutional traders and retail investors are starting to notice the inherent privacy issues with the most popular Layer-1 blockchains. The extreme transparency of L1s such as Ethereum, Solana, and Avalanche, to name a few, leaves investors vulnerable to attacks such as front-running and MEV. Meanwhile, the lack of interchain features to seize the…
Central Bank of Jordan (CBJ) has revealed that it is researching issuing a digital currency. The central bank digital currency (CBDC) would be linked to the Jordanian dinar and have legal standing. Adel Al Sharkas, the governor of CBJ, has reportedly stated that his institution is researching the option of creating a legal digital currency. He also predicted that cryptocurrency…
Bitcoin (BTC) jumping to $39,000 has already activated large-volume investors this week, the latest data shows. Analyzing whale behavior, on-chain monitoring resource Whalemap revealed accumulation underway at levels above $36,000. This week’s BTC price “triggered” whales Identifying clusters of whale bids, Whalemap uncovered what appears to be renewed market confidence among those with some of the largest BTC balances —…
In brief Sports Illustrated will launch an NFT platform in partnership with startup OneOf. The NFTs will be minted on Polygon. OneOf’s music NFT platform is based on Tezos. The bustling sports NFT collectibles market is about to add another potentially major player. Today, 68-year-old magazine Sports Illustrated announced an alliance with NFT startup OneOf to launch a sports NFT…
The Crypto Open Patent Alliance (COPA) has welcomed Meta as a member, with the social media giants vowing to make its core crypto patents accessible to all. Meta, formerly Facebook, has joined the COPA, a group that advocates for public patents on crypto and blockchain-related technologies. On Monday, the organization published a statement announcing Meta and noting that Shayne O’Reilly…
The NFT scene might be setting records this year, but Mozilla co-founder and Brave Software CEO Brendan Eich thinks the scene still needs to be vetted of “silliness” and its “scammy side,” according to a new interview published by Tech Radar. Eich’s words are part of his broader argument that the nascent NFT space is still a “frontier town” for…
Major cryptocurrency exchange Binance continues pushing operations in the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) by preparing a new crypto payment card in Ukraine. Binance is looking to reach a dominant position in the crypto market of Ukraine by offering a wide range of local crypto services, Binance Ukraine’s new general manager Kirill Khomyakov said in a Monday interview with Forbes…
Hopium is back on the menu for solo Bitcoin (BTC) miners. A circa $240,000 reward, or 6.25 BTC, was generated by yet another solo miner this morning. This time, the odds were less than 20%, according to Con Kolivas, a Bitcoin software engineer and administrator for ckpool, whose name takes his initials. It’s the fourth “blockfind” for the ckpool since…
Bob Iger, former CEO of Disney, hinted at the company’s metaverse ambitions while predicting an “explosion” in the non-fungible token (NFT) space. Speaking to New York Times journalist Kara Swisher on the Sway podcast, Iger likened NFTs to the baseball cards he collected as a child. “We forget, in our generation, that things don’t have to be physical,” he said.…
