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Hong Kong-based Animoca Brands has announced a partnership with Untamed Planet to develop and publish Untamed Metaverse, a game to help nature conservation efforts. Untamed Planets also completed a $24.3 million Series A funding round led by Animoca Brands, one of the biggest names in the gaming and metaverse...
Investment firm Marshall Wace is forming a blockchain team to focus on investing in private blockchain-related companies. The company has also hired William Benattar, who has made technology investments in UK property developer Nick Candy's family office, to prepare for its crossover investment The firm aggressively raised a new digital...
Blur announced that it is releasing Blur Beta, a real-time trading platform for non-fungible tokens (NFTs). In a series of tweets, Blur shared details about the platform. "Monthly trading volumes for NFTs have hit billions, but existing platforms are slow and refresh-based," it said in a tweet. Currently, the beta...
The London-listed Bitcoin mining company Argo Blockchain will officially launch its flagship mining facility Helios in Texas next week. According to the company's filings with the London Stock Exchange, The first phase of development of Helios will utilize 200 MW of power generation capacity, and Argo’s hash rate will...
California State announced that state agencies will work with the federal government to formulate digital currency regulations before officially accepting cryptocurrencies. Governor Gavin Newsom signed an executive order requiring agencies to coordinate and co-create regulations for digital currencies and explore blockchain computer codes, which are expected to be incorporated into...
After hitting the $40K level as Fed’s interest rate hike made airwaves on May 4, Bitcoin (BTC) finds itself on the receiving end because it has sunk to a two-month low. The leading cryptocurrency was down by 7.85% in the last 24 hours to hit $36,472 during intraday trading,...
To celebrate the 20th anniversary of Wildlife Warriors’ role in protecting injured, threatened, or endangered wildlife, Australia Zoo has launched a non-fungible token (NFT) project to raise funds and awareness to protect Australia’s wild places and wildlife. Per the announcement: “The rare NFT project will comprise of a series of...
The volatility of the Bitcoin (BTC) market for a couple of months continues. The leading cryptocurrency was down by 9.05% in the last 24 hours to hit $36,031 during intraday trading, according to CoinMarketCap. Bitcoin turned into the red zone approximately 48 hours after the Federal Reserve (Fed) announced...
Days after Argentina’s largest private bank Banco Galicia opened crypto trading services, the nation’s central bank cracked the whip by banning financial institutions from carrying out crypto transactions.   The central bank noted that its decision to stop crypto transactions in the entire financial sector was reached to “mitigate the...
Climate technology company Flowcarbon has partnered with the carbon-negative blockchain Celo Foundation to create a carbon market ecosystem, which enables carbon credits to be traded on the Celo network in the form of Flowcarbon's Goddess of Nature token (GNT). The carbon market ecosystem, that Flowcarbon and Celo are creating,...