Cointelegraph By Ezra Reguerra
As decentralized finance (DeFi) space grows, regulators are giving more effort to conducting research and providing a means to better understand the emerging industry.Today, the International Organization of Securities (IOSCO) published a report that aims to give a perspective on DeFi and highlight some areas that may be...
Chainlink Labs recently announced a program that provides a blueprint to help new crypto projects in their blockchain business building journey. According to the company, the program called Startup with Chainlink will help early-stage founders and entrepreneurs with free information resources, community groups and access to mentors from...
Insurance company Lemonade has partnered with prominent blockchain companies to form the Lemonade Crypto Climate Coalition (L3C) decentralized autonomous organization (DAO) to protect farmers from climate change by offering blockchain-based insurance. The insurance firm founded Lemonade Foundation, a nonprofit focused on creating social and environmental change with the use...
Losing money to a Ponzi scam is not the ideal introduction to the crypto ecosystem. Thankfully, Mark Dave Manansala gave crypto and blockchain a second chance and discovered a new passion.It all started when Manansala was invited by an acquaintance to join a very popular crypto project in...
Despite the fall of nonfungible token (NFT) prices, play-to-earn NFT gaming carries on as more people see it as a potential way to make a living. In a survey conducted in the Philippines, 32 percent of the respondents said they would quit or consider quitting if NFT games allowed...
While many refer to crypto as the “Wild West,” some believe that this may only continue for a little longer.Thomas Shea, crypto tax leader at EY Financial Services, told Cointelegraph that taxation for crypto is an evolving area and new regulations may be implemented soon. “There is new...
Web2 lets big tech companies collect consumer data without paying the people behind the statistics. However, the advent of Web3 technologies may change the way data is collected and let consumers get compensation for the information they share, according to the founders of Chain Collective, a Web3 startup...
While the interest in metaverse seems to slow down, a pioneer in the space is still hard at work, advocating the open metaverse, a decentralized and interoperable multiverse.In an interview with Cointelegraph Brazil, Sebastien Borget, the founder of the open-world blockchain game The Sandbox, shared some of his...
There’s been a sharp decline in interest for the “metaverse” keyword in Google search. However, while the hype may be waning, it seems that companies are still very keen on dipping their toes into the virtual world.In March alone, companies have either launched or revealed plans to build...
A council formed by traditional finance conglomerates American Express, Discover, Visa and Mastercard welcomes a decentralized finance (DeFi) banking firm to a forum of participating organizations that help toimprove payment data security worldwide.Scallop, a regulated DeFi banking app recently announced its entry to the PCI Security Standards Council...
