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 …
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. …
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 …
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 …
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, …
A cutting edge provider of blockchain-based financial solutions has teamed up with a major bank to offer the bank’s B2B customers blockchain based payments. Tassat, the blockchain company, recently announced the partnership with Cogent bank. The payments are made in real time, and made using a platform fully developed in the US banking system. TassatPay™ …
Blockchain technology is being used in many of the creative industries to protect royalties and copyright. But now, it could also help book publishers boost their profits using novel innovations. Australian book publishers are grappling with global disruption. They are also facing huge changes to their industry. Digital technologies are changing the entire paradigm. There …
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 …
Square Enix president Yosuke Matsuda has published a letter in which he expresses hope that NFTs and blockchain technology will become a “major trend” in gaming. In a New Year’s letter, Matsuda expressed what he believes will be major areas of growth for the industry in 2022, including cloud gaming, AI, and blockchain games. The …