When the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange (TASE), the only public stock exchange in Israel, announced that it drafted a proposal for regulation-friendly crypto trading on Feb. 27, it echoed across the crypto industry as a step forward for crypto adoption. However, some experts have framed the proposal as a somewhat underwhelming update to the current crypto landscape in Israel. In…
Month: March 2023
Coinbase Announces ‘Wallet as a Service,’ Hints at ‘Household Name’ Partners
Coinbase unveiled a new service Wednesday that it says will make Web3 tech more approachable for both companies and consumers by simplifying digital wallets. Simply called Wallet as a Service, it is a set of developer tools that allow companies to embed custom, digital wallets directly in their applications. The goal is to make setting up a wallet as easy…
How CyberBrokers Creates Quests Across Multiple NFT Community: Josie Bellini
How CyberBrokers Creates Quests Across Multiple NFT Community: Josie Bellini Josie Bellini, NFT artist and creator of CyberBrokers, tells Decrypt’s Stephen Graves at NFT Paris how CyberBrokers creates “missions and quests” for its holders to complete that lead them to other hubs like Cryptovoxels, Mona, and other projects “so that we’re not just in our own silo.” Source: https://decrypt.co/videos/live-events/EiBJFsTS/how-cyberbrokers-creates-quests-across-multiple-nft-community-josie-bellini
EU asset manager gives 5 reasons why
The ongoing cryptocurrency winter and massive collapses in the industry do not mean that digital assets like Bitcoin (BTC) are doomed to fail, according to a major European asset manager. Despite BTC failing to protect investors against rising inflation in 2021 and 2022, Bitcoin’s limited supply may still attract more attention if inflation remains above the central banks’ targets, according…
Vitalik Buterin’s Fund Donates $15M in USDC to Airborne Pathogen Research
The Balvi Filantropic Fund, directed by Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin, has donated $15 million in USDC to the University of California San Diego for research into airborne pathogens. It is reportedly one of the largest donations made to an American university and the biggest till-date toward open-source research on aerosols. The money will be used to set up a new…
BTC Falls Below $22,000, as Powell Warns of Higher Rates – Market Updates Bitcoin News
Bitcoin moved below the $22,000 level on March 8, as markets continued to react to U.S. Fed Chair Jerome Powell’s testimony. Speaking in front of the Senate Banking Committee, Powell said he expected rates to be higher than initially anticipated. Ethereum has also slipped on the news. Bitcoin Bitcoin (BTC) dropped below $22,000 on Wednesday, following yesterday’s comments from U.S.…
Bitcoin thought leaders weigh the pros and cons of Ordinals
Ordinals are here to stay. Ordinals, or the ability to permanently ink the Bitcoin (BTC) blockchain with data, typically in the format of a picture or jpeg, are a controversial topic among some members of the Bitcoin and wider crypto community. Not so for the builders and the CEOs of Bitcoin-focused companies who were present at the Bitcoin conference, Advancing Bitcoin…
Transform Ventures launches holding company for blockchain with $100M AUM
Transform Ventures has co-invested in a new holding company in what it states is an effort to accelerate blockchain investment and innovation. Alpha Transform Holdings (ATH) aims to support the blockchain ecosystem through investments via two new funds. ATH was created by merging select assets from Transform Ventures and Alpha Sigma Capital’s parent company, which will include two funds amounting…
The metaverse is getting a greenhouse and a garden full of NFT flowers
The world of Web3 has offered users the opportunity to recreate their digital identity, along with offering new avenues of creative expression and individuality. This is more so the case as nonfungible tokens (NFTs) become more dynamic and personalizable. On Feb. 8 a new project from Snark.art and OG.Art called Heterosis launched a collection of dynamic NFT flowers that are…
Like Venezuela, Some Retailers in Argentina Are Now Pricing Items in Dollars – Economics Bitcoin News
Some retailers in Argentina are already pricing imported items in U.S. dollars, according to reports from local news outlets. The idea behind this would be to keep prices stable and avoid repricing articles each day, a practice that has already been adopted in other Latam countries like Venezuela, which present high levels of inflation. U.S Dollars Now Used to Price…