Nigeria is expected to designate cryptocurrency as capital for investment if the country’s House of Representatives votes to approve a bill that seeks to amend the Investments and Securities Act of 2007, a report has said. A Nigerian lawmaker, Babangida Ibrahim, suggested that the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) is not well positioned to regulate cryptocurrencies. The CBN and SEC Feud The Nigerian House of Representatives is expected to pass a bill that seeks to give the country’s securities regulator the right to designate cryptocurrency as capital for investment, a…
Day: December 20, 2022
Meta Chief Sees Its Struggling Metaverse Project as Test
Despite the stock slump and the cutback on the company’s staffing, Mark Zuckerberg has reiterated plans to maintain its metaverse drive. Meta Platforms Inc (NASDAQ: META), the parent company of Facebook with a new ambition to pioneer innovation in the metaverse world is not relenting in its push into the emerging technology. As reported by Decrypt, citing Andrew Bosworth, the Chief Technical Officer of Reality Labs who wrote in a company post that despite the strain the company has experienced in the past year, it is not ready to give…
Bitcoin Development Company Layer 2 Labs Raises $3M to Bring Drivechains to Network
According to Sztorc, the purpose of drivechains is to give Bitcoiners access to innovative features and products currently confined to altcoin networks. Examples would be Zcash’s zero-knowledge proofs, a way of proving something without revealing sensitive information, and Ethereum’s Augur, a prediction market where users bid on specific outcomes. Source
ETHEREUM ETH PRICE PREDICTION TECHNICAL ANALYSIS NEWS 2022
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Animoca Brands is the most funded metaverse developer in 2022: Nasdaq
The crypto bear market has also been called a builder’s market by many leading figures and companies in the industry. New data from Nasdaq reveals that investors had this mindset as they continued to sink money into Web3, particularly metaverse-related projects. According to the data over the last year 216 metaverse funding deals were completed, totaling out to nearly US$2 billion in funding. At the top of the funding pool were “support” based services, aka the main components for building. “Digital architects, game designers, AI developers, content creators and custom…
Defunct Crypto Lender BlockFi Looks to Restart Customer Withdrawals
“Simply put, the [clients] were unable to, and did not, effectuate any transactions on the BlockFi platform beginning the moment of the Platform Pause Time Stamp,” the filing said, referring to the exact time (on Nov. 10, 2022 at 8:15 p.m. Eastern Time) when withdrawals were halted. Source
South Korean court freezes $92M in assets related to Terra tokens
More than six months after the collapse of the Terra ecosystem, South Korean authorities continue to investigate and freeze the funds of persons involved in Terra. After seizing 140 billion won ($108 million) from Terra co-founder Shin Hyun-Seong in November, the Seoul Southern District Court has recently ruled to confiscate more assets related to Terra. The South Korean court has ordered to freeze of 120 billion won ($92 million) in assets of former and incumbent CEOs of Terraform Labs’ affiliate firm Kernel Labs, The Korea Economic Daily reported on Dec.…
Central African Republic Delays Crypto Coin Listing to 2023
“We are going to postpone the listing of sango and the 5% release to Q1 [the first quarter of] 2023,” said the statement, posted by moderators in sango’s Telegram channel, cited “current market conditions” and seasonal factors such as the holiday season. Source
Meta Will Continue to Push Metaverse Investments in 2023 According to Head Of Reality Labs – Metaverse Bitcoin News
Meta will continue to invest in VR (virtual reality) tech in 2023, according to statements made by Andrew Bosworth, head of Reality Labs, the metaverse division of the company. While Meta has made some changes and adapted to the current shaky economic atmosphere, Bosworth states that the company is still committed to its metaverse pivot. Meta to Continue Pushing Metaverse and VR in 2023 Meta, the social metaverse company, is planning to continue to develop metaverse and VR-related projects during 2023. In an article written on Dec. 19, Andrew Bosworth,…
Projects would rather get hacked than pay bounties, Web3 developer claims
As hacks and exploits continue to go rampant within the crypto industry, the importance of finding vulnerabilities to prevent potential losses becomes of utmost importance. However, a Web3 developer highlighted that it’s not rewarding to do so. In a tweet, a Web3 developer claimed that he found a vulnerability in a Solana smart contract that would have affected several projects and around $30 million in funds. According to the dev, he reported and helped patch the vulnerabilities. However, when it was time to ask for a reward, the projects just…