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01/09/2022

Mayo Clinic taps into blockchain technology for clinical trial design

On Thursday, Dutch blockchain startup Triall announced that it has partnered with American nonprofit medical center Mayo Clinic to optimize clinical trial design and the management of study data. Starting this September, Triall’s eClinical platform will support a two-year multi-center pulmonary ar...

01/09/2022

Ticketmaster Just Took a Substantial Step Toward NFT Tickets

The Alpha: Flow recently announced a groundbreaking new initiative with Ticketmaster. Via the Flow blockchain, all Ticketmaster event organizers can now link NFTs with each attendee’s ticket. The NFTs are positioned to offer ticket-owning event attendees richer experiences. Primarily, the linked N...

01/09/2022

US dollar smashes yet another 20-year high as Bitcoin price sags 2.7%

Bitcoin (BTC) faced familiar pressure on the Sept. 1 Wall Street open as the U.S. dollar hit fresh two-decade highs. BTC/USD 1-hour candle chart (Bitstamp). Source: TradingView Trader: DXY could hit 115 before ‘slowdown’ Data from Cointelegraph Markets Pro and TradingView followed BTC/USD as it ...

01/09/2022

Crypto.com backs out of $495M sponsorship deal with UEFA Champions League: Report

Cryptocurrency exchange Crypto.com has reportedly dropped out of a half-billion-dollar sponsorship deal with the Union of European Football Associations Champions League. According to a Wednesday report from SportBusiness, Crypto.com pulled out of a $495-million agreement with the Union of European....

01/09/2022

Ross Goodwin Performs AI Poetry at Metaverse Art Week

Decentraland recently hosted its third Metaverse Art Week, which saw top digital artists display their best work and even saw participation from beauty brand Estee Lauder. Throughout the week-long affair, all sorts of art mediums were used to show technological advancements and human creativity. One...

01/09/2022

Blockchain firms fund university research hubs to advance growth

The demand for organizations to adopt blockchain technology is growing rapidly. Recent findings from market research and advisory firm Custom Market Insights found that the global blockchain technology market size was valued at $4.8 billion in 2021, yet this amount is expected to reach $69 billion b...

01/09/2022

What’s on Guide to the Metaverse – Sept 2nd – Sept 4th

Happy Thursday NFT fam! We hope you have all had a great week so far. It’s time to celebrate the weekend in NFT style. So, without further ado, below are this weekend’s metaverse NFT events highlights in Decentraland and Voxels. Koami Art Lab Opening Party When: Friday, September 2 at 8PM UTC+3W...

01/09/2022

Kyle Roche files to withdraw from class-action practice after video leak

In the wake of allegations made by Crypto Leaks, high-profile crypto lawyer Kyle Roche has filed to withdraw as counsel on several crypto class-action lawsuits. According to a series of court records released on Aug.31, Roche is understood to be “no longer involved” in Roche Freedman’s class a...

01/09/2022

Nifty Gateway’s ‘Publishers’ Storefront Is Now Open for Curators

The Alpha: On Friday, Nifty Gateway announced it’s launching the beta-testing version of Publishers, its Shopify-like platform that will allow curators to build NFT storefronts and present collections from artists with whom they’ve partnered, according to an early release of a company blog post ...

01/09/2022

Indonesia plans to set up its crypto bourse by the end of 2022

The government of Indonesia returned to its plan to set up a digital assets exchange, publicly announced first time back in 2021. A so-called “crypto bourse” is planned to be established by the end of 2022. According to DealStreetAsia, Indonesia’s deputy trade minister Jerry Sambuaga confirmed...

01/09/2022

California State Assembly passes bill for licensing and regulating crypto firms

Lawmakers in California State Assembly 71-0 passed the Digital Financial Assets Law, also known as AB 2269, on Tuesday, Aug. 30. The bill is now in the hands of the state’s governor Gavin Newsom, who will either set it into motion or veto it completely. This bill requires digital asset exchanges a...

01/09/2022

Bitcoin price dips 14% in August as trader warns of ‘macro drop down’

Bitcoin (BTC) has sealed its worst August performance since 2015 after the monthly candle closed down 13.9%. BTC/USD 1-hour candle chart (Bitstamp). Source: TradingView Weekly candle “doesn’t look good” Data from Cointelegraph Markets Pro and TradingView confirms that BTC/USD finished the mont...

01/09/2022

NFT micro-philanthropy gives a new voice to the opera

The music industry has been a major adopter of Web3 integration, with use cases ranging from song rights, blockchain-based streaming and new forms of digital releases. Genres like pop, EDM and hip hop have represented nonfungible tokens (NFTs) in the music industry so far. However, classical music,....

01/09/2022

Ethereum Merge and the hefty tax bill you could be in for

Ethereum (ETH) hodlers that don’t play their cards right following the Ethereum Merge may be in for a hefty bill come tax time, according to tax experts. Around Sept.15, the Ethereum blockchain is set to transition from its current proof-of-work (PoW) consensus mechanism to proof-of-stake (PoS), a...

01/09/2022

Hackers try to sell NFT of Belarusian leader’s supposed stolen passport

A group of hacktivists called the Belarusian Cyber Partisans have been attempting to sell a nonfungible token (NFT) featuring the purported passport info of Belarus president Alexander Lukashenko. The Belarusian Cyber Partisans say the move is part of a grassroots fundraising campaign to fight “bl...

01/09/2022

CoinGecko reveals the US state most interested in Bitcoin and Ethereum

01/09/2022

Ripple’s plan to tokenize Colombian land stalls amid new administration

A partnership between the Colombian government and Ripple Labs to put land titles on the blockchain appears to have stalled following the project being “deprioritized” by the new administration. The project was initially announced by the outgoing government’s Ministry of Information Technology...

01/09/2022

Helium devs propose ditching its own blockchain for Solana

01/09/2022

Sneaky fake Google Translate app installs crypto miner on 112,000 PCs

Crypto mining malware has been sneakily invading hundreds of thousands of computers around the world since 2019, often masquerading as legitimate programs, such as Google Translate, new research has found. In an Aug. 29 report by Check Point Research (CPR), a research team for American-Israeli cyber...

01/09/2022

Hermès reveals plans for Metaverse fashion shows, crypto, and NFTs

Luxury brand Hermès is laying the groundwork for its entrance to Web3 after filing a trademark application covering NFTs, cryptocurrencies, and the Metaverse. According to an Aug. 26 filing to the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), the trademark covers downloadable software to view,...

01/09/2022

Ticketmaster selects Flow blockchain for minting NFT event tickets

According to Flow, a digital engagement layer-1 blockchain created by Dapper Labs, Live Nation’s subsidiary Ticketmaster has unveiled nonfungible tokens (NFTs) tickets for event organizers minted on its blockchain. The primary purpose of the NFT tickets will be for commemorative value. But aside f...

31/08/2022

Analyst says 40% of users in most Web3 games are bots — Here’s how to avoid being fooled

31/08/2022

Bitcoin holds $20K, but analysts say BTC open interest leaves room for ‘more deleveraging’

Bitcoin (BTC) price continues to struggle at $20,000 and repeat dips under this level have led some analysts to project deeper downside in the short-term. Earlier in the week, independent market analyst Philip Swift tweeted that the Crypto Fear and Greed Index had dropped back to back to “Extreme ...

31/08/2022

The CC0 Party Is Growing: a16z’s “Can’t Be Evil” License Drops

The Alpha: Venture capital firm a16z’s crypto arm just dropped a set of free, public NFT licenses eligible for any NFT creator to use. The licenses are designed to aid creators in protecting or freeing the intellectual property rights of their projects. Additionally, the “Can’t Be Evil” lice...

31/08/2022

Crypto Twitter shares security concerns regarding Meta’s recent NFT integration news

On Aug 29, Facebook and Instagram’s parent company Meta announced that its users will now be able to post digital collectibles and Non-Fungible Tokens, or NFTs, across both platforms by simply connecting their digital wallets to either site. We’re introducing the ability to post digital collecti...

31/08/2022

South Korean authorities arrest 16 individuals connected to $2B crypto forex transactions: Report

Authorities with South Korea’s customs service have reportedly arrested 16 people involved in illegal foreign exchange transactions connected to crypto assets worth roughly $2 billion. According to a Tuesday report from South Korean news agency Newsis, the country’s customs authorities plan to p...

31/08/2022

Bybit expands spot USDC trading pairs as support for stablecoins grows

Crypto derivatives exchange Bybit has partnered with stablecoin issuer Circle Internet Financial to expand its suite of spot trading pairs denominated in USD Coin (USDC) — a move the company says will increase retail and institutional access to USDC-settled products. Under the partnership agreemen...

31/08/2022

Twitter brings back suspended NFTs accounts as Solana threatens to pause ad spend

Early Wednesday, Twitter suspended access to nine accounts associated with promoting nonfungible tokens, or NFTs, on the Solana (SOL) ecosystem. The move comes just ahead of the highly anticipated launch of the y00ts NFT collection, a follow-up to DeGods, the most popular NFT collection on Solana, t...

31/08/2022

Accomplice of ‘Cryptoqueen’ Ruja Ignatova faces extradition to US: Report

Christopher Hamilton, a British national allegedly connected to Cryptoqueen’ Ruja Ignatova’s cryptocurrency scheme OneCoin, reportedly faces extradition to the United States on charges related to a scam going back to 2014. According to a Tuesday report from legal news outlet Law360, a judge in t...

31/08/2022

Will Ethereum 2.0 be vulnerable to censorship? Industry professional explains

The Ethereum network will be able to withstand censorship risks both in the short and long term, according to Ethereum community member and investor, Ryan Berckmans. The ban of Ethereum-based privacy tool ornado Cash by U.S. authorities earlier this month left many wondering whether Ethereum transac...