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) Starbucks on Thursday launched a beta test of its highly-anticipated Odyssey experience, which combines customer loyalty rewards with non-fungible token (NFT) collecting and other gamified elements. The popular coffee chain opened up the Web3 extension to its Starbucks… : 6 : 0
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) Binance.US is getting rid of trading fees for ether (ETH), the company announced on Tuesday, expanding its zero-free program beyond just bitcoin (BTC). Free trading will apply to the following spot market pairs: ETH/USD, ETH/USDT, ETH/USDC and ETH/BUSD. The exchange will… : 4 : 0
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) In its latest update, the classic Windows media player Winamp has integrated music NFTs into its platform. Winamp’s new feature will allow users to play audio files embedded in their non-fungible tokens, calling it a Web3 desktop upgrade. Launched in 1997, Winamp’s… : 4 : 0
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) Crypto lender Nexo today announced it will gradually phase out U.S. products and services over the coming months due to hitting a “dead end” with regulators. The U.K. company said in a Monday announcement that it had been talking with regulators for 18 months but the U.S. “… : 4 : 0
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) Stablecoin provider Circle is no longer set to list publicly, in a decision that has been approved by the directors of both Circle and Concord Acquisition Corp. Circle had been eyeing an entry into the stock market via a merger with Concord Acquisition Corp, a New York… : 6 : 0
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) Russian President Vladimir Putin criticized the monopoly in global financial payment systems and called for an independent and blockchain-based settlement network on Nov 24, speaking at the International AI Journey Conference in Moscow. During the event organized by Sberbank,… : 4 : 0
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) Coinbase Chief Executive Brian Armstrong on Saturday condemned Sam Bankman-Fried’s account of how FTX found itself in an $8 billion hole. Armstrong said there is no way billions of dollars could have simply slipped past FTX’s founder and former CEO, who graduated from… : 5 : 0
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) Private equity giant Apollo Global bought Verizon Media—a group that includes Yahoo Finance, Yahoo Sports, AOL, TechCrunch, Engadget, and Autoblog—in May 2021 for $5 billion. Now its revenue strategy for those properties is becoming clearer. Axios reports that Apollo plans to… : 5 : 0
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) Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao announced that the crypto exchange had paused withdrawals linked to a recent attack on Ankr. "Initial analysis is developer private key was hacked, and the hacker updated the smart contract to a more malicious one," wrote Zhao.… : 3 : 0
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) DeFi protocol Ankr, which called itself the first ‘node-as-a-service’ platform, has suffered a multi-million dollar exploit due to a bug in its code that allowed for unlimited minting of its token. According to security research firm PeckShield, the code behind the… : 6 : 0
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) Non-fungible token (NFT) marketplace Magic Eden has updated its position on creator royalties, saying Thursday that it is launching a protocol that will enforce royalties on all new collections that opt-in to using the tool. The Open Creator Protocol (OCP) is an open… : 6 : 0
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) BlackRock CEO Larry Fink said that "the next generation for markets, the next generation for securities, will be tokenization of securities." In the world of blockchain, tokenization refers to a process where a digital representation of an asset is created on… : 6 : 0
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) Italy looks set to become the latest European country to cash in on crypto businesses moving into the region, with a plan to tax digital trading. In a proposal bundled in with the country’s 2023 budget, a 26% tax would be imposed on capital gains larger than €2,000 ($2,… : 6 : 0
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) Casa, a popular Bitcoin self-custody firm, is adding Ethereum support to its platform in what some may consider an unlikely move. An overhauled version of the Casa app will launch in January, according to the firm. Although the company's original CEO and co-… : 4 : 0
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) Non-fungible token (NFT) trading is now available on Uniswap, the decentralized crypto exchange said Wednesday. Uniswap users will be able to trade digital collectibles across OpenSea, X2Y2, LooksRare, Sudoswap, Larva Labs, Foundation and NFT20 marketplaces using the… : 3 : 0
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) Brazil has not designated Bitcoin as legal tender, but it did the next best thing: it passed a law legalizing cryptocurrencies as means of payment throughout the country, giving a regulatory boost to the adoption of digital currencies and the expansion of the ecosystem… : 3 : 0
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) Reuters: FRANKFURT, Nov 29 (Reuters) - The European Central Bank warned on Tuesday that it might make a loss as high inflation forces it to raise interest rates and foot the bill of a decade of aggressive money printing. Having raised interest rates to fight… : 4 : 0
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) Phantom, the popular self-custody wallet for Solana-based decentralized applications and NFTs, announced today that it would be adding support for rival blockchains Ethereum and Polygon to its desktop, iOS, and Android apps. The company argues that an easy-to-use self-… : 3 : 0
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) Game7, a Web3 gaming-focused decentralized autonomous organization (DAO), launched a $100 million grant program on Monday to help accelerate blockchain-enabled games by smoothing some of the technological bumps on the path to widespread adoption. "Improving smart… : 3 : 0
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) A few days ago, a new version of the most widely used Bitcoin implementation, Bitcoin Core, was released. Version 24.0 includes the configuration “mempoolfullrbf”, which has already been the subject of lively discussion within the Bitcoin community for several weeks, in addition… : 3 : 0
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) Is there anything we can learn from the whole disaster? ==== 1 ==== The fall of another false crypto idol The crypto industry has a way of building founders into idols to lionize, even though that flies directly in the face of Web3's utopian ideal of… : 4 : 0
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) Cryptocurrency exchange Huobi has said rumors that it will merge with Poloniex are "categorically untrue." It was reported today by Colin Wu that the two exchanges would merge, a rumor to which Justin Sun subsequently added fuel. Justin Sun, the… : 2 : 0
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) The most interesting story in DeFi this week was the return of the “highly profitable trader” Avi Eisenberg. You might remember that Eisenberg attacked Solana-based Mango Markets last month, making off with more than $100 million. This week, he took on a much bigger… : 2 : 0
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) In yet another "this just in regarding FTX and SBF", documents in their bankruptcy filing show that FTX somehow managed to buy their own US bank. This is just like a perpetual machine, but instead of free energy, this story just keeps getting worse and worse.… : 3 : 0
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) Ardana (DANA), a once-promising decentralized finance project built on perennial top-ten proof-of-stake blockchain Cardano (ADA) has halted development. ===== Hello Ardana community, Unfortunately due to recent developments with regards to funding and project timeline… : 3 : 0
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