Fireblocks to Acquire Crypto Payment Platform for a Reported $100 Million – Featured Bitcoin News

Digital asset custody service provider Fireblocks has announced it will acquire First Digital, a fellow Israeli company, for $100 million. The acquisition, which is said to be Fireblocks’ first, comes less than three weeks after the company revealed it raised $550 million in Series E funding. Fireblocks’ $8 Billion Valuation Fireblocks, a digital asset custody firm, is set to acquire the stablecoin payment platform First Digital for $100 million, a report has said. The acquisition, when consummated, will enable Fireblocks to bolster the capabilities of its current payment platform. According…

Motorcycle expert turns passion project into sports analytics platform on blockchain

Skill sets gained from working on trading strategies, technology, data science and a personal passion for motorcycle racing made Scott Robinson launch a sports analytics platform. With a bit of blockchain added to the mix, the founder of Apex146 found new ways to proceed in the sports analytics business. Starting as a passion project, Robinson made an internship program offered to a professor at the University of California Santa Barbara. With the help of students, he developed a framework that looks at athlete performance in Grand Prix motorcycle racing. Using…

NASCAR Launches Daytona 500 Digital Collectibles via the Wax Blockchain Platform – Blockchain Bitcoin News

On Friday, the National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing (NASCAR) announced the firm launched digital collectibles for this year’s Daytona 500. NASCAR’s series of limited-edition Daytona 500 NFT drops is part of a partnership with the Wax blockchain team. NASCAR Reveals 2022 Daytona 500 NFT Collection NASCAR plans to issue Daytona 500 non-fungible token (NFT) collectibles and 500 ticket holders can get one NFT per wallet. The stock car racing company emailed 25,000 Daytona 500 ticket holders about the event prior to the launch. According to the announcement sent…

Universal Music Group Partners With Curio — Entertainment Giant Plans to Use NFT Platform for Labels, Recording Artists – Bitcoin News

The multinational music corporation  Universal Music Group (UMG) announced the company has partnered with the non-fungible token (NFT) platform Curio on Thursday. UMG says Curio will be a “dedicated global outlet for future officially licensed NFT projects” for the company’s labels and recording artists worldwide. Curio Platform Will Be Universal Music Group’s Dedicated Global Outlet for NFTs Following the UMG’s non-fungible token (NFT) metaverse music group project featuring four Bored Ape Yacht Club (BAYC) NFTs, the music-based entertainment company has revealed a new partnership with the NFT company Curio NFT.…

New Interactive NFT Platform Storyverse Welcomes The Bored Apes in First-Ever Community-Driven Story – Blockchain News, Opinion, TV and Jobs

Storyverse, the first-ever interactive story platform, empowering PFP owners to create and publish personalized interactive storytelling games, unveiled Ape Stories this week, an interactive storytelling game featuring Bored Apes owned by prominent members of the well-known Bored Ape Yacht Club. The Storyverse provides no-code interactive story game publishing tools for PFP communities looking to collaboratively create stories that grow and build value in their brand. Communities, tools, and tokens will work together to fuel an exciting, new community-driven character economy. Following the Storyverse’s February 3rd announcement, Bored Apes Yacht Club…

Cryptocurrency Trading Platform Uphold Reshuffles Top Brass

“Uphold has enjoyed phenomenal growth under JP’s leadership, which saw the introduction of the Anything-to-Anything trading interface,” McLoughlin said in a statement. “We’re delighted to introduce, shortly, a new revolutionary interface to cement Uphold’s position as the easiest place to invest, pay, or spend its extensive range of digital assets instantly.” Source

Ahead Of Big Launch, NAGAX Opens Its Social Trading Platform Whitelist

Experienced crypto traders who’re willing to share their insights with others in return for rewards might want to take a quick look at NAGAX now that the platform has opened for pre-registration. NAGAX is a new platform that’s aiming to bring the concept of “social trading” into the crypto trading space. In many ways it’s like any other cryptocurrency exchange, with more than 700 different cryptocurrency trading pairs to choose from. But it goes beyond what many traditional crypto exchanges like Binance offer, as it also provides the ability to…

CF Benchmarks and Open-Source Oracle Platform DIA Make Crypto Indexes Available On-Chain

DIA, the open source data platform for decentralised finance and the UK FCA-regulated crypto index provider CF Benchmarks announced today that they will make CF Benchmarks’ crypto index reference prices available via the DIA oracle suite. With a total settlement volume of more than $500bn since its inception in 2017, UK-based CF Benchmarks Ltd is the world’s leading crypto index provider. Acquired in 2019 by the global digital asset exchange Kraken, CF Benchmarks provides reference rates that are tracked by ETFs and ETPs listed on exchanges around the globe, including…

Decentralised Socialfi Platform Boom Live on App Store, Unveiling Two NFT Airdrops – Sponsored Bitcoin News

sponsored Decentralised socialfi platform Boom has announced the launch of its application on the App Store and Google Play in addition to the Android version. For most Cryptocurrency projects, having to launch a mobile app is a huge accomplishment as it will attract a large number of users into the application, bringing the benefit of the application towards more users in the Web 3.0 social world. Whether you are involved in the NFT or Cryptocurrency market or not – there’s massive hype and following inside the market, which resulted in…