In brief The NFL will offer free NFT virtual commemorative tickets for attendees of over 100 regular-season games next season. The NFTs are minted on the Flow blockchain. Last season’s NFT ticket stubs were minted on Ethereum scaling platform, Polygon. The National Football League (NFL) first experimented with giving away commemorative NFT ticket stubs to attendees of select live games…
Dogecoin (DOGE) has missed a much-anticipated technical upside target and is down nearly 10% over the past week amid an ongoing spat between Elon Musk and Twitter. Musk hurts DOGE price To recap: Musk, whose companies Tesla, SpaceX, and Vegas Loop accept DOGE payments, had suggested introducing the same checkout option on Twitter this April. Bitcoin spoofs a breakout while…
China’s biggest city Shanghai officially intends to boost the development of innovations such as blockchain, nonfungible tokens (NFTs), metaverse and Web3 in general during its next five-year plan. On July 13, Shanghai’s Municipal Government published the draft of its “14th Five-Year Plan for the Development of Shanghai’s Digital Economy”. A document sets the mission of “promoting the deep integration of…
A Russian university is ready to test its blockchain-based analogue to the global payment messaging network SWIFT, from which Russian banks were cut off as part of Western sanctions. The developers say their system would not allow the disconnecting of countries and banks. Russian Developers Create SWIFT Substitute Using Blockchain Experts from the Competence Center of the National Technology Initiative…
Unstoppable Domains has partnered with crypto payment firm MoonPay to incorporate nonfungible token (NFT) domains in transactions within the platform. With the collaboration, MoonPay users can send and receive digital assets using their domain names, eliminating the need to enter long and complicated wallet addresses. In an announcement sent to Cointelegraph, Ivan Soto-Wright, the co-founder and CEO of MoonPay, said…
The South African Reserve Bank is set to introduce regulations next year that will see cryptocurrencies classed and treated as financial assets to balance investor protection and innovation. Cryptocurrency use in South Africa is in a healthy space, with around 13% of the population estimated to own some form of cryptocurrency according to research from global exchange Luno. With more…
sponsored As crypto matures and continues along its path of inevitable adoption, so too does the importance placed on adequately accounting for crypto as an asset class and a source of income. Cryptocurrencies at their core were not designed to fit into traditional financial systems, after all, that’s where some of their primary benefits over fiat and banking systems are…
On Tuesday, the Vermont Department of Financial Regulation (DFR) alerted investors to exercise caution with the crypto lender Celsius. It called the lender “deeply insolvent” and operated without a proper license. The New Jersey-based firm offered interest-bearing products for cryptocurrency depositors on the platform. Celsius deployed its customer funds across high-risk and illiquid investment, trading and lending activities according to…
Bitcoin (BTC) rebounded from overnight lows on July 13 as markets nervously waited for United States inflation data. BTC/USD 1-hour candle chart (Bitstamp). Source: TradingView Countdown to “highly elevated” inflation reveal Data from Cointelegraph Markets Pro and TradingView showed BTC/USD climbing from $19,250 to $19,900 at the time of writing, up 3.3% on the day. With three hours to go…
Bear markets often result in investors showing extreme fear in tools that measure the market’s sentiments. However, despite the uncertainties during a crypto winter, some prefer to focus on the opportunities that it can bring. Alex Tapscott, managing director at Ninepoint Digital Asset Group, told Cointelegraph that the bear market is a time to focus on building. Tapscott highlighted that…
