Alexa Durham 
Anheuser-Busch is out with a new, zero-carb beer ahead of Super Bowl LVI, dubbed Bud Light NEXT, along with the brand’s first-ever non-fungible token (NFT) project. After a decade in the making, the ‘super crisp’ light beer is hitting shelves on February 7th, 2022. The new brew was specifically created for a subset of upwardly-mobile …
Phone-focused blockchain Celo launched cREAL, a stablecoin pegged to Brazil’s local currency, the real. As of Thursday, cREAL will be available on Brazil-based crypto exchanges Ripio, FlowBTC and NovaDAX. Crypto wallets Bitfy and Coins will also support the stablecoin. NovaDAX users will be able to spend cREAL with the prepaid crypto card issued by the …
On a snowy and foggy morning, I took the 30-minute drive from Cody to Clark to try to find 40 acres known as parcel 0 to the citizens of CityDAO, which is a blockchain community. After 20 minutes driving the backroads of Clark, I found it. “That piece of land is kind of an experiment …
Binance, the world’s leading blockchain and cryptocurrency infrastructure provider, today announced that it has joined the National Cyber-Forensics and Training Alliance (NCFTA), a nonprofit corporation focused on identifying, validating, mitigating, and neutralizing cybercrime threats. Binance is the first organization from the blockchain and cryptocurrency industry to formally join the alliance. The NCFTA was established in …
You can run but you can hide from the deluge of cryptocurrency and everything related, like blockchain technology and those non-fungible tokens (NFTs). That doesn’t mean you can’t ignore all that stuff. However, if you want to go in the opposite direction and dive in browser-first, now you can—the Opera Crypto Project makes it possible. …
Russia must ban cryptocurrencies, the country’s central bank said in a report released Thursday. The report, “Cryptocurrencies: trends, risks, measures,” was presented during an online press conference with Elizaveta Danilova, the director of the Bank of Russia’s Financial Stability Department. The report says cryptocurrencies are volatile and widely used in illegal activities such as fraud. …
Animoca Brands has raised nearly $360 million in a new funding round that values the Hong Kong-based blockchain gaming business at $5 billion, the company announced Tuesday. The investment more than doubles its previous valuation of $2.2 billion from October 2021 and brings its total capital raised to almost $700 million. It plans to use …
Fintech Farm, a newly launched fintech startup based in the U.K. that creates digital banks in emerging markets, confirmed to TechCrunch today that it has raised $7.4 million in seed funding. The company said it plans to use the investment to launch neobanks in eight countries over the next 24 months. Flyer One Ventures and …
January 2022 continues to be rough for crypto investors as current markets see turbulent fluctuations in the price of Bitcoin (BTC) and other cryptocurrencies. Some have attributed the slump to recent federal intentions to introduce new rate hikes, and the political turmoil in Kazakhstan, which significantly lowered the hash rate of Bitcoin. On Jan. 14, …
As Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs) explode onto the Cardano blockchain, the Metaverse officially arrives in the form of the pavia.io project, which is somewhat similar in style to Decentraland but build on proof of stake blockchain technology. In the same way the Cardano blockchain took inspiration from the famous mathematician Gerolamo Cardano, this metaverse project takes …
Despite China declaring all cryptocurrency transactions illegal last year, China doesn’t want to miss out on the potential trillion dollar NFT market. It’s been noted that Chinese Businesses involved in the creation and sale of NFTs have been badly hit by the country’s decision to crackdown on cryptocurrency. This has in turn prompted China to …
It could be argued that NFTs are now well established as a method of digital ownership. Many industry commentators even suggest that NFTs could become a larger and more wide reaching market than cryptocurrencies in and of themselves, including bitcoin. Because NFTs can be used to record ownership of anything, including buying virtual land, books, …
Cryptocurrency payments for real estate are taking off, according to Upnest.com. And it’s not just bitcoin. Real-estate developer, Harbor Custom Development, will start accepting cryptocurrency payments for its developments, starting Jan. 24, 2022. The company will accept Bitcoin, Ethereum, USDC, XRP, DOGE, SHIB, Binance USD, Wrapped BTC, Litecoin, Dai, Bitcoin Cash, Pax Dollar, and Gemini …
Currently valued at $3b, Pine Labs seeks to raise about $500 Mn at $5b-$7b. Previously, the startup was reportedly looking for a $1b IPO. Pine Labs has hired investment banks Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs to manage the proposed IPO — a mix of fresh and secondary issue. Fintech unicorn Pine Labs is moving ahead …
Even though crypto markets are struggling right now, Metaverse crypto coins are holding support well, with some gaining over 1000% in the past 7 days. This article looks at our handpicked top ten Metaverse crypto coins that could propel your wealth in 2022, ordered by the current market cap, lowest to highest. 10 Verasity (VRA) …
The idea of the metaverse has rapidly seized the public conversation, for good or bad, and is a recurring theme in a good number of crypto conversations. Even with all of this conversation, however, there still is a gap between what crypto native organizations or experts perceive the metaverse to be, and what the – …
The value of digital assets along with the technology infrastructure that it supports can no longer be ignored, as reflected in the landmark increases in cryptocurrency participation we saw in 2021. Digivault, the digital asset custody business within Nasdaq-listed cryptocurrency exchange, has achieved a 30-fold increase in assets under custody in the 2021 calendar year. …
Your blockchain identity can’t just be about government-backed or biometric identity. It should also reflect the identity you’ve created for yourself in the digital world. According to Trust ID, passports and ID cards are the most commonly faked documents. In fact, fake passports have become a major international problem. Since 2002, more than 40 million …
Due to the rise in demand, it’s increasingly harder to purchase nonfungible tokens (NFT) on their initial launch. Because of the limited supply and high demand, some NFT drops have sold out after only a few minutes of release. With this, users who are interested in purchasing newly released collections have no choice to wait …