Day: December 23, 2021

Interview With The GensoKishi Project On How They Reinvented Themselves On The Blockchain

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2021 has been the year of DeFi, NFTs, the Metaverse, and GameFi, these trends leverage the power of blockchain in an attempt to provide users with new experiences. Together they have the potential to transform billion-dollar industries and integrate them with the digital economy. The first big game to break into the mainstream was Axie Infinity with an innovative model that allows players to receive rewards for the time, effort, and creativity that are put into their games, called Play-To-Earn (P2E). Despite its recent popularity, a lot of projects have…

Crypto mainstream adoption: Is it here already? Experts Answer, Part 2

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What does mass adoption mean for the blockchain industry? Has it started yet? If not, what could get it going? Yaniv Tal of The Graph Yaniv is the co-founder and CEO of Edge & Node and a co-founder of The Graph, a decentralized indexing protocol used by blockchains such as Ethereum. Mass awareness of crypto and Web3 has already started. Celebrities, mainstream media and even the U.S. government are all talking about crypto. The next stage is for usage to exceed speculation, which we see coming very soon. As the…

Bakkt President Adam White Announces His Departure

Adam White, the president of cryptocurrency firm Bakkt, is leaving the company he helped build from scratch as a founding executive. White spent the last three years at Bakkt, a company that launched in 2018 with the ambitious aim of making institutional crypto adoption a reality before pivoting to a suite of more retail-focused products. Prior to his time with Bakkt, White was VP and general manager for five years at cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase. “After a great 3+ years at bakkt, next week will be my last,” White said in…

Pakistanis Own $20 Billion in Crypto, Report Reveals – Bitcoin News

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In the absence of regulations, people in Pakistan have invested a serious amount of money in digital assets. New research claims Pakistanis keep some $20 billion in cryptocurrency, allegedly more than what their central bank has in foreign reserves. Government Urged for Regulations as Study Shows Pakistanis Hold $20 Billion in Cryptocurrency The Pakistani nation owns more cryptocurrency than foreign reserves, according to the Pakistan Frontier and other media outlets quoting a new report by the Federation of Pakistan Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FPCCI). The study, produced by the…

Nexo’s Antoni Trenchev on the Stories That Shaped Crypto in 2021

This episode is sponsored by NYDIG. Download this episode Today on “The Breakdown’s” “End of Year Extravaganza,” NLW is joined by the co-founder and managing partner of Nexo. Find our guest on Twitter: @AntoniNexo See also: Crypto Lender Nexo Teams Up With Fidelity to Offer Products for Institutional Investors “The Breakdown” is written, produced by and features Nathaniel Whittemore aka NLW, with editing by Rob Mitchell, research by Scott Hill and additional production support by Eleanor Pahl. Adam B. Levine is our executive producer and our holiday theme music is…

Dmitry Buterin – Cointelegraph Magazine

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This is part two of an extensive interview with Dmitry Buterin, looking at his relationship with Vitalik and his insights as a father. For Part 1, which detailed his own fascinating life story, click here. Dmitry Buterin recalls the day in 2013 when his son Vitalik showed him the Ethereum white paper at their home in Toronto. “He‘s like, ‘Hey Dad, I was working on this thing, are you interested to look at it?’” the Chechyna-born Toronto resident says in his idiosyncratic accent. Vitalik had dropped out of university a…

Avalanche Taps StackOS for DeCloud Capabilities

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Decentralized cloud protocol StackOS is joining forces with the Avalanche blockchain platform, after being declared the network’s preferred DeCloud provider for its growing developer ecosystem. The confirmation follows a poll conducted on the official StackOS Twitter account, one that saw users quizzed about which blockchain they would like to see the protocol become interoperable with. After thousands of followers had their say, Avalanche was named the winner with 75.9% of votes cast, beating out the likes of Cardano, Polygon (formerly Matic), and Solana. As the first decentralized cloud protocol operating…

Ebay Alternative Platform Ethair Market Launches Its Token, Sellers Can Now Accept Crypto for Goods – Sponsored Bitcoin News

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sponsored Ethair Market has listed ETHR token on Uniswap as a result of its first governance vote by the holders. Utilities of the token are directly tied to a user’s interaction with the marketplace. On top of the proprietary token, Ethair Market currently supports fiat and cryptocurrencies such as: Bitcoin, Ethereum, Litecoin, Stellar and USDC, and more. The marketplace is currently in beta, allowing sellers to their items before the full release. Ethair Market operates in the traditional B2C/C2C modes with two types of listings: Market which are new fixed…

CoinDesk ‘Most Influential’ Artists Sell Charity NFTs for 50 ETH

CoinDesk’s annual “Most Influential” list recognizes the extraordinary people who defined the year in crypto. And to do their stories justice, we illustrate them with a range of striking original portraits. Each December we pick the subjects of these profiles through a reader survey and editorial deliberations, hoping to represent the full breadth of the crypto industry. See also: CoinDesk’s Most Influential 2021 This year’s list featured the likes of Sam Bankman-Fried of FTX, Gary Gensler of the Securities and Exchange Commission, and Trung Nguyen of the Axie Infinity gaming…

Are Spot Crypto ETFs Really Worth the Wait?

Why are we waiting on cryptocurrency ETFs? Seriously. I know there are now a few options to invest in bitcoin futures via an exchange-traded fund (ETF), and there are spot bitcoin ETFs available in Canada, but it seems like many financial advisors and writers are waiting with bated breath for a spot bitcoin ETF in the U.S. to suddenly open up the floodgates of digital asset investing to the entire world. I think that a sizable cohort of ETF watchers is terribly misled – and even worse, is misleading others.…