Team Liquid, the esports and gaming organization operating across major titles including League of Legends and Fortnite, has inked a four-year agreement with Coinbase. In a Nov. 10 announcement, Team Liquid said the partnership with the U.S.-based crypto exchange would be aimed at highlighting the crossover between gaming and crypto-curious audiences as well as creating new seemingly crypto-focused content. Coinbase…
Twitter has announced that it is launching a dedicated crypto team to explore decentralized apps. The new team, dubbed Twitter Cryptonot to be confused with everyday crypto Twitteris set to be led by Tess Rinearson, who has been tasked with setting the strategy for the future of crypto at (and on) Twitter, the company reportedly said, per the Financial Times.…
Cryptocurrency markets rose to record highs on Wednesday, as investors continued to pile into Bitcoin (BTC) and alternative coins against a backdrop of surging inflation in the United States. The cryptocurrency market capitalization an important barometer for the health of the digital asset class reached a high of $3.11 trillion, according to Coingecko. The asset class has grown by a…
154 days ago, a mystery bitcoin mining entity spent a string of 20 block rewards from 2010 that sat idle for well over a decade. Our newsdesk has been investigating this bitcoin whale’s actions since catching the entity in 2020. Now after the June 9th appearance, on November 10, the mystery whale returned once again to spend another 1,000 bitcoin…
The non-fungible token (NFT) boom of 2021 has swept digital artists like Beeple, Pplpleasr and FEWOCiOUS from obscurity to stardom, and seen the traditional art world grappling with how to present NFT artwork to its audience. Now, photo editing and design software manufacturer Pixlr is bringing its extensive expertise and its 500 million strong global community to bear, with plans…
Speaking at a COP26 press conference in Glasgow, Scotland on Wednesday, a panoply of experts from the tech-environmental sector spoke to global citizens across the world about improving coordination and support for climate action with blockchain technology. The GloCha United Citizens Organization for Action for Climate Empowerment has been launched at COP26 as a blockchain-based quasi-international organization located in Klagenfurt,…
Crypto payments company Circle has announced the launch of Circle Ventures, a venture capital fund with the primary goal of supporting early-stage crypto projects. Jeremy Fox-Geen, the firms chief financial officer, said that “Circle Ventures is another way to contribute, and we’re excited to support our industry’s innovators and entrepreneurs and identify compelling early-stage companies, technologies, projects, and protocols to…
In his monthly crypto tech column, Israeli serial entrepreneur Ariel Shapira covers emerging technologies within the crypto, decentralized finance (DeFi) and blockchain space, as well as their roles in shaping the economy of the 21st century. Whats in a name? A whole metaverse is what one could be led to believe when looking at the buzz around Facebooks recent transformation…
After the eruption of Mount Nyiragongo volcano on 22 May 2021, a restaurant worker and a blogger teamed up in the city of Goma, Democratic Republic of Congo and taught displaced families how to use Bitcoin, TechCrunch reported. Blogger Gloire Wanzavalere went to a refugee camp that popped up in Goma, offering to give Bitcoin to displaced families. Gloire told…
Amid all the talk in crypto about “the metaverse,” the CEO of crypto exchange Kraken foresees a multiplicity of metaverses. “I don’t think there’ll be any single metaverse,” Jesse Powell said on Tuesday at the Decrypt and Yahoo Finance Crypto Goes Mainstream event, adding that games and platforms such as World of Warcraft, the NFT-powered Axie Infinity, and Facebook itself…
