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Welcome to IN THE NOW Blockleaders news with Jillian Godsil and me Lisa Gibbons. We spend 30 minutes each week discussing the world of crypto and blockchain.  First the Headlines, this is the big picture this week: Philanthropy and NFTs at Websummit with Jillian Godsil taking ...read more

Dismisses notion of blockchain nationstates XP.Network, the first blockchain agnostic NFT ecosystem, has partnered with Unique Network to offer NFTs without limits. Currently blockchain ecosystems act like virtual bordered nation states, requiring users wishing to use them to ...read more

• From baroque art to graffiti art, items from 500-year unparalleled collection of art, relics, reliquaries, sculptures and modern artforms to be tokenised  • Proceeds to support SCML’s extensive social enterprise work  Lisbon and Hong Kong, 2 November 2021 -- Santa Casa da ...read more

Working with investors who recognise the opportunity offered with digital currencies, Invictus Capital has launched a dedicated institutional investment suite designed to bring the latest funds, strategies and intelligence to institutional investors globally. The Invictus ...read more

Philanthropy and art: The use of NFT for good (purpose) is the title of the panel on Wednesday at 1145am at the PANDACONF stage. Guests of the panel are: Pauline Foessel, founder and Director of the Art Curator Grid Dr Edmundo Martinho, Chairman SCML Fernando Martinho, Founder ...read more

The US dollar drifted lower throughout the week continuing its negative correlation with risk assets. Optimism in risk assets meant the USD lost ground against commodity pairs such as NZD and AUD. Fed Chairman Powell spoke and he confirmed that the taper is coming with a base ...read more

As we approach the tail-end of the first month in the last quarter of the year, one key macro view on the week ahead is the preliminary estimates of US Q3 GDP data. The market will look to assess how resilient the US economy is, and how it is hold up against a backdrop of global ...read more

The first NFT chain for Polkadot and Kusama offers greater flexibility for anyone who wants to build their own gallery or video game Unique Network, a next generation NFT chain for Polkadot and Kusama, announced today that it has raised $11.3million in the second round of its ...read more

from TheCapital One broker that adheres to trading principles and ensures maximum advantages to its users and subscribers base is Capixal. The broker is known for carving the most flexible and conducive conditions for its traders that help in reaching the maximum profits. The ...read more

Entry is free to students The Blockchain Academy, a blockchain education and workforce development organization offering over 40 programs in partnership with Universities and Associations has announced the launch of the University Crypto Trading Competition with $25,000 in ...read more

The Yen selloff continued through the week as a broader risk on strategy was adopted which spilled over into USD pressure. With little economic announcements the market was left to it's own devices and the continued strength in energy and commodity prices pushed the main ...read more

US equities traded higher last week as they rallied on strong earnings reports, which in turn helped global stocks to achieve multi-session gains. As a result the Dollar softens its stance against the majors with the exception to the Yen, despite benchmark yield offerings slight ...read more

There is a lot of scaremongering regarding the path towards a future filled with AI and Automation but realistically we are having trouble filling some of the existing roles in the marketplace. Gathering together the most recent data on the cryptocurrency and blockchain jobs ...read more

The Digital Pound Foundation has been launched today by a core group of founding members as an independent forum to support the implementation of a well-designed digital Pound and digital money ecosystem.  The Foundation believes that a digital Pound will underpin the UK’s ...read more

ARPA, the privacy-preserving computation protocol for blockchain networks, has recently announced a significant update to its already eventful roadmap regarding the rapidly growing Metaverse space.  The Metaverse is an online universe that blurs the lines between real and virtual ...read more

Despite a disappointing NFP on Friday the Dollar remained generally in control during the week. Yen lost across the board as treasury yields continued to rally. New Zealand dollar lost ground despite the RBNZ delivering its anticipated rate hike. Euro lost ground again as ...read more

The Crypto Trading Simulator has been launched by The Blockchain Academy (TBA). This Rolls Royce of Crypto Trading Simulators is based on Tier 1 Investment Bank Trading simulation models and is far superior to any other crypto trading simulator models available today.  It ...read more

The news of last week was how the Dollar would respond to the NFP data being released on Friday. Estimates were pointing towards continued US economic growth, however the market uncertainty resulted in mixed Dollar views ahead of the jobs report. The Scandies lead the way forward ...read more

‘Art in Motion’ Brings NFTs To NYC, Turning Iconic Penn Station into the Largest Public Digital Art Sale Ever New York, NY – October 6, 2021 – Plug Talk Media, an Out of Home (OOH) advertising agency, has announced a partnership with Intersection, an experience-driven Out of Home ...read more

When it comes to the finance sector and the climate crisis a transition to greener ways is inevitable. If the risks are underestimated, then the opportunities are vastly undervalued at this point in time. A move to a model supporting green finance will be a true game changer for ...read more

Decentralised Finance (DeFi) Sienna Network has launched its Automated Market Maker SiennaSwap to ensure that users enjoy DeFi tools in complete privacy.Most of current cryptocurrency protocols, coins and assets as well as institutions such as exchanges suffer from the lack of ...read more

Community-focused DeFi ecosystem MRHB DeFi is teaming up with Canadian venture capital fund Contango Digital Assets to expand its reach, offering and services beyond the crypto-fluent to excluded communities globally. Contango has made a strategic investment into MRHB DeFi, and ...read more

The USD gained across the board as stocks continued to falter. This led to a broader stronger greenback. NZD was the worst performer as further lockdowns due to rising COVID infections led to traders pushing back the chance of a rate hike from October to later in the year. The ...read more

During the past month the Dollar has been trending higher against the majors, on the back growing investor sentiment towards FOMC rhetoric supporting a rate hike later this year. The Fed will not be the first central bank of a high income country to raise rates, as Norway lead ...read more

Coinjar is now one of the first UK exchanges to be registered as a cryptoasset company with the FCA. One of the world’s longest-running cryptocurrency exchanges, CoinJar UK Limited has been officially registered by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) as a Cryptoasset Exchange ...read more

During the past month the Dollar has been trending higher against the majors, on the back growing investor sentiment towards FOMC rhetoric supporting a rate hike later this year. The Fed will not be the first central bank of a high income country to raise rates, as Norway lead ...read more

The world’s first halal decentralized finance (DeFi) ecosystem MRHB DeFi has received a strategic investment from NewTribe Capital, a Venture Capital Private Equity Group.  This marks the seventh institutional investment in the DeFi ecosystem startup, following strategic ...read more

DeFi, or decentralized finance, is an umbrella term for financial services using smart contracts tofacilitate transactions without relying on intermediaries. Over the past year, the ecosystem hasexploded, at this point last year the total value locked in all DeFi applications ...read more

USD and JPY were the key winners as risk of sentiment in stock continued throughout the week. China's Evergrande continued to worry equity markets with a risk off theme playing out throughout the week. Evergrande is China's second-largest property developer by sales, and has ...read more

The USD was mostly flat against European pairs as continued issues around gas supply and the risk of inflation muted any gains against the greenback. Yen was the largest winner as a hawkish FOMC meeting accelerated treasury yields. The Canadian Dollar was the weeks best performer ...read more

Unique network, an advanced NFT and gaming chain in the polkadot ecosystem, has set a precedent in recent weeks by decentralising their first marketplace. On September 1, Unique Network took a snapshot of all the addresses that own at least one Substrapunk and one Chelobrick and ...read more

Electroneum forks to a public blockchain with full transparency and smart contacts When Electroneum was original built off the Monero codebase it contained certain privacy elements including a stealth address, a onetime public key that prevented recipients’ funds from being ...read more

Market looking to Trade the ‘Corona’ Delta The Dollar could not hold onto the gains made earlier in the week, as it paired losses against most currency majors as well as emerging market currencies. The catalyst behind the sliding Dollar most likely stemmed from two sources. ...read more

Cover Image Also Released as an NFT, with Proceeds Benefiting the Nonprofit 9/11 Day The cover of this week’s New Yorker, “9/11: Then and Now,” by Pascal Campion, marks the twentieth anniversary of the 9/11 attacks with an image of two people sharing a moment of comfort and ...read more