Proof-of-Work Ban Removed From Europe’s Proposed Crypto Regulation
A text threatening to prohibit cryptocurrencies relying on energy-intensive proof-of-work mining has been deleted from the draft legislation aimed at...
Month: March 2022
Square Enix to Bring Dungeon Siege IP to The Sandbox
Square Enix, the Japanese game publishing and developing company, has announced a new deal with The Sandbox to allow one...
South African Crypto Exchange Valr Raises $50 Million in Series B Funding Round
South African cryptocurrency exchange Valr announced recently that it has raised $50 million in a Series B round led by...
Nifty News: Marketplace exploit on Smol Brains, NFT for trees, and Metaverse movies
An unconfirmed code exploit on the Marketplace from TreasureDAO has allegedly caused tens of Smol Brains NFTs to be sold...
$45,000 Bitcoin looks cheap when compared with gold’s market cap
BTC’s market cap is much smaller than gold, but Bitcoin’s daily volume and the amount held under management by funds...
Japanese wealth manager Nomura to explore crypto and NFTs with new unit
The firm stated in a release that it was establishing a new Digital Company, which would begin operations in April,...
Tencent files for patent related to virtual concerts in Metaverse
Chinese tech colossus Tencent has continued its foray into the metaverse after filing a patent for virtual concerts, flying in...
Monthly NFT buyers dip below 800K as searches ‘fall off a cliff’
There were 796,009 NFT buyers on secondary markets in Feb, accounting for roughly $2.6 billion worth of sales. The figures...
Bob Dylan goes meta as Sony and Universal partner with Snowcrash NFT platform
Solana-based NFT marketplace Snowcrash will release NFT collections of Bob Dylan and Miles Davis later this year. Solana-based NFT marketplace...
US Senator Urges Regulators to Increase Scrutiny on Crypto as It Risks Undermining Sanctions Against Russia
U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren is worried that “cryptocurrencies risk undermining sanctions against Russia.” She urges financial regulators “to take this...
Mobius Capital Founder Explains Why Bitcoin Is Rallying Amid Russia-Ukraine War
Veteran investor Mark Mobius, the founder of Mobius Capital, explains why the price of bitcoin is rallying as the Russia-Ukraine...
UK Regulator Bans Floki Inu Ad for Being Irresponsible, Exploiting Investor FOMO
The U.K.’s advertising authority has banned an ad for cryptocurrency floki inu (FLOKI). The authority says the ad’s “Missed Doge?...
Former ConsenSys employees file for audit claiming ‘serious irregularities’
“Joseph Lubin is the majority shareholder of both companies. The transaction was to the detriment of the minority shareholders of...
New York state ramps up blockchain monitoring to enforce sanctions
Blockchain analytics will help ensure that NY-licensed companies don’t send money to sanctioned Russians. New York state’s efforts to enforce...
Dragonfly Research claims Ethereum is the ‘MS-DOS’ of blockchains
Research shows that throughput on Solana surpassed the leading EVM chain by a wide margin, leading researchers to predict that...
