DeFi
Adoption
Gemini to back Peter McCormack’s local football club all the way to the Premier League
Hoping it would benefit the local economy and further the growth of grassroots football, McCormack decided to introduce a new financial model for running his team–envisioning the club to operate on a Bitcoin standard.
NFTs
Entering the era of decentralized video streaming with Theta Network
Purpose-built for media and entertainment, Theta’s blockchain technology is poised to bridge the online video industry into the new era–spearheading decentralized streaming.
NFTs
“Green” NFT platform OneOf enters a label-wide partnership with Warner Music Group
The collaboration will enable NFT releases from a range of artists across WMG's music catalog.
NFTs
Meet female artists building on Singular, the NFT platform built on Kusama
CryptoSlate talked to four NFT artists who are building on Singular about their art, background and what attracted them to the Dotsama ecosystem.
Adoption
NBA star LeBron James partners with Crypto.com to teach kids about blockchain
Students of the LeBron-founded elementary school in Akron, Ohio are going to learn about blockchain technology and all the ways it could impact their lives, and future careers.
NFTs
OpenSea pulls back its controversial NFT minting limit decision
The NFT marketplace recently back-pedalled on its decision and apologized to creators for imposing the limit to its free minting tool.
DeFi
DeFi protocol Qubit Finance exploited for $80 million in a recent hack
The attacked DeFi protocol on Binance Smart Chain lost 206.809 BNB.
Regulation
White House to pursue crypto regulation as a matter of national security
The Biden administration could soon pass an executive order–escalating crypto regulation into a matter of national security.
DeFi
Celsius is integrating Chainlink PoR to enable auditable wrapped tokens
Celsius integration counts as one of the first live use-cases of Chainlink PoR for auditing and securing the on-chain minting, redeeming, and burning of wrapped tokens.
NFTs
Reddit follows Twitter’s lead, tests NFT profile pic feature
Currently being tested internally, the feature would enable Redditors to use non-fungible tokens (NFTs) as avatars.
Blockchain experts discuss the philosophy behind Bitcoin
This week Cryptonites rolled out Part 3 of the edutainment channel’s documentary that explores the social impact, technology, and economics of Bitcoin.
Metaverse
Metascanning could soon become an everyday part of the metaverse–starting with Everdome
Promising a fully ubiquitous web3 experience, Everdome’s hyper-realistic version of the metaverse is preparing to revolutionize the virtual reality (VR) industry.