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Coinbase has announced today that it has partnered with Blackrock, the worlds largest asset manager, to offer crypto to institutional investors. The news was announced on Twitter today. Blackrock's end-to-end investment management platform, Aladdin, will integrate with Coinbase ...read more

The metaverse is no longer a buzzword as more brands and individuals harness the potential of blockchain technology to create new services and reach new audiences. How can individuals and organizations use these new virtual worlds to tackle challenges in our physical world? This ...read more

Gucci has announced that it will be accepting ApeCoin in its stories. This is in addition to 12 other digital assets. The world-famous fashion brand has already carved out a name for itself in the metaverse, experimenting with new NFT collections and partnering with influencers ...read more

The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology has announced plans to develop the first virtual metaverse campus called Metahkust. In a broad move in support of virtual education, the University will be building a virtual reality classroom that allows all students from ...read more

The Crypto Gibraltar 2022 festival will take place from September 22 - 24. It was the first major crypto event following the pandemic and delivered a fantastic combination of informative discussions, productive networking and banging parties. The distributed festival that takes ...read more

While virtual reality has been helping to transform experiences like shopping or education to be more engaging, this technology is also helping law enforcement. Police departments around the United States are beginning to use virtual reality headsets and programs as part of their ...read more

Artist Damien Hirst is set to destroy physical works from his latest collection, The Currency. In a passionate account, world-renowned artist, Damian Hirst, expressed his struggle in choosing between physical and digital representations of his art. In 2021, Hirst announced that ...read more

Flare Network, the blockchain that aims to connect everything, has announced its first decentralized exchange on its protocol, Pangolin Exchange. Pangolin is one of the most popular and trusted DEXs on the Avalanche blockchain, with over $15B in total trading volume, 3K token ...read more

Topl, the blockchain-as-a-service, BAAS, provider, has raised $15 million in Series A funding. The fund was co-led by investors Mercury, Republic Asia, and Cryptology Asset Group. Topl pride itself on being the creator of the world’s only blockchain built to drive impact ...read more

Roblox is one of the biggest online video games on the planet. It is estimated that the game has around 23 million players. Everyone from adults to young children plays the game due to its easy to pick up nature. Roblox, much like TheSandbox and Fortnite, is one of the big ...read more

The leading blockchain-based platforms for the metaverse and Web3 Alien Worlds, Animoca Brands, Dapper Labs, Decentraland, Decentral Games, SPACE, Superworld, The Sandbox, Upland, Voxels, and Wivity have formed the Open Metaverse Alliance for Web3 (short: “OMA3”) to address ...read more

Let's take a closer look at how to reduce our crypto tax in an increasingly regulated market. In spite of the recent crash, cryptocurrency remains a popular asset across the world. It’s not hard to see why: although there is the risk of substantial losses, many coin traders, both ...read more

Mobile gaming master Stephane Baudet describes himself as the oldest guy in the mobile gaming industry. With experience dating back to the 80's when he first began working on console games (not even AAA games at the time), he may just be the most experienced mobile gamer today ...read more

Blockdaemon, the leading blockchain infrastructure provider, has announced a strategic expansion into APAC.  Blockdaemon already supports multiple institutional use cases with a single API integration and has begun its operations in Singapore as part of its expansion into the ...read more

Energy Web has announced a partnership with Volkswagen Group to roll out a new smart charging solution enabling EV owners to charge their vehicles with renewable electricity that is matched directly with the vehicle’s real-time electricity consumption.  Energy Web is a global, ...read more

Gemini, a leading cryptocurrency exchange, today received the first Virtual Asset Service Provider (VASP) registration from the Central Bank of Ireland.  It offers a platform that allows customers to buy, sell, and store cryptocurrencies like bitcoin, ether, and DeFi tokens. ...read more

The Crown prince of Dubai has launched the Dubai Metaverse strategy, aiming to support 40,000 virtual jobs. Metaverse and blockchain companies already contribute $500 million to the Dubai Economy. Hamdan bin Mohammed, the Crown Prince of Dubai, has indicated that metaverse and ...read more

As the majority of cryptocurrencies experienced a turbulent second quarter with millions being wiped off the markets, fan tokens continued to perform well.  Fan Tokens are up 10% despite rocky market conditions. Paris Saint-Germain token PSG is up 12%, Lazio is up 8%, Barcelona ...read more

Genesis has occurred for Flare Network, the blockchain built for universal connectivity with other blockchains and real world data sources. Flare is a powerful new blockchain with the first new consensus protocol for external data. Decentralized applications on Flare can safely ...read more

Zebu Live, the UK’s most highly anticipated crypto, blockchain, and web3 conference, is today announcing Steven Bartlett as their headline speaker. Steven Bartlett is an Entrepreneur, Speaker, Investor, Author, BBC Dragon, and the host of one of Europe's biggest podcasts, 'The ...read more

The final date of launch has not been revealed, however, the famous Playboy mansion is going virtual as the iconic brand teams up with The Sandbox to build the MetaMansion.  The media giant had already dropped hints of its latest development when it launched the Rabbitar NFT ...read more

United Arab Emirates (UAE) is planning the launch of the first hospital in the metaverse. The virtual medical center will launch in October and be managed by the healthcare provider, Thumbay Group. The virtual hospital aims to offer medical tourism services. Patients will be able ...read more

It has been more than three months since Russia invaded Ukraine and many of us around the world are doing our best to help all those in need. Now, if we look around, the sad truth is that with the ongoing crisis that is crushing Ukraine, their national lottery operation has been ...read more

Ahead of this year’s much-anticipated EXIT Festival, the two-time winner of the Best Major European Festival award and one of the world's leading cultural, social, and entertainment events is set to launch two new NFT collections. EXIT is one of the best known festivals in ...read more

Beyond relatively simple, limited use cases like collectibles for NFTs lies a whole world of possibility and limitless potential. Fr om real-estate to healthcare and blockchain gaming, those who truly understand the power of NFTs know that when you dig deeper into the potential ...read more

Unique Network has just launched a Chest NFT at Polkadot Decoded 2022. The Chest NFT is to hold refungible (RFT) tokens which in turn can be traded as whole NFTs. Interested parties need to register for “Punks for the People” to claim a free Chest. The concept is simple: using a ...read more

Blockchain technology is gradually taking over the world as we switch from traditional centralized finance to decentralized finance. Thanks to cryptocurrency and other digital assets, individuals, companies, and governments are slowly integrating blockchain technology into their ...read more

As blockchain technology infiltrates more industries, digital assets as proof of ownership are growing in demand. The use of nonfungible tokens (NFTs) to represent physical properties in the real world has begun to take off. Many people today are being priced out of the current ...read more

Circle Internet Financial, a global internet finance firm and issuer of USD Coin (USDC), announced that it is preparing to issue a fully-reserved, euro-pegged stablecoin from the United States called Euro Coin (EUROC).  Available June 30, Euro Coin is a regulated, euro-backed ...read more

Is the Metaverse too big an opportunity to ignore? A new report published by McKinsey & Company forecasts the metaverse has the potnetial to grow up to $5 trillion in value by 2030. The report details the various forces that will shape this growth including e-commerce, virtual ...read more

The aftermath of the global financial crash of 2008 uncovered some unpalatable facts. First, it showed how national governments were hellbent on bailing out the private banks with public money. At the same time the little man was totally ignored and left to his own devices; to ...read more

A new home for global commerce is under construction—and it’s virtual. Oft-hyped, virtual reality (VR) was at a low ebb until Mark Zuckerberg’s announcement last October: Facebook would be renamed Meta, Inc. after ‘the Metaverse’, a term coined by sci-fi author Neal Stephenson ...read more

One year ago, the world started to exit from lockdown and the President of El Salvador announced that his country would be using Bitcoin as legal tender – becoming the first country in the world to do so. President Nayib Bukeke made the announcement at the Bitcoin Miami ...read more

It is easy for many to believe that the term “metaverse is a new one, but that is not true. Records show that as far back as 1838, Sir Charles Wheatstone had already introduced the concept of “binocular vision” for making a single 3D image. This eventually resulted in the ...read more