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Blockchain-based crypto platform Algorand said it will implement smart contracts that automatically offset carbon emissions, and use part of the transaction fees to offset its carbon emissions. Climate change becomes one of the trending issues to tackle in the long term. The Crypto sector also looks for solutions to...
Wallet Street Venture Capital firm, Andreessen Horowitz (a16Z), announced establishing its own crypto research lab to conduct blockchain-related academic research. Led by Tim Roughgarden, adjunct professor of computer science at both Stanford and Columbia, and Dan Boneh, professor of computer science and electrical engineering at Stanford, the lab will...
Hong Kong's Regal Hotels Group has announced its entrance into the metaverse with project MetaGreen, scheduled for completion by October 2022. Regal Hotels has said that MetaGreen is a project to build an environmental, social and governance (ESG) themed plot of "LAND" in Animoca Brands' subsidiary, The Sandbox -...
Negotiations between Elon Musk, the CEO of Tesla Inc., and Twitter’s eleven-member board were in high gear on April 25. Musk eyes purchasing the social media giant and making it private. Musk has already floated a $46.5 billion offer as he seeks to gain full ownership after he recently...
CertiK, a web3 and blockchain security company based in New York, announced on Friday that it raised an additional $60 million just two weeks after it raised $88 million in a Series B3 funding round. The latest funding gives CertiK a valuation of $2 billion. The new round is...
American Premium Water Corporation announced the acquisition of cryptocurrency mining and staking company CloudXchange DataCentre Inc. (“CloudX”) for $45.6 million. Under the terms of the agreement, seller CloudX committed its wholly-owned subsidiary CloudX SG, which is primarily focused on cryptocurrency mining, to generate earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and...
Compass Mining, an American cryptocurrency mining firm, is looking for buyers for its gears stranded in Russia in a bid to avoid being sanctioned by the United States Department of Treasury. According to a Bloomberg report, citing Compass Mining’s Chief Executive Officer, Whit Gibbs, the mining facility it operates...
The idea of 16 Personalities is turning into non-fungible tokens (NFTs) and entering the metaverse for the first time through the XVI Citizens project. 16 Personalities is a widely used questionnaire that can help determine how a person interacts with the world and make decisions. The personality test has...
Hedge fund SkyBridge founder Anthony Scaramucci said he plans to shift the pace of SkyBridge Capital's investment to virtual digital assets, according to Bloomberg. SkyBridge is a global multi-asset class alternative investments firm, specializing in hedge fund solutions and opportunistic investment vehicles. According to Scaramucci, nearly half of SkyBridge Capital's...
Crypto lending platform SALT has partnered with Cion Digital to launch crypto lending-as-a-service for over 5,000 U.S. auto dealerships. SALT was founded in 2016 and introduced asset-backed lending to the cryptocurrency market, offering digital asset holders a new level of diversity. The partnership marks the launch of SALT’s embedded crypto...