Blockchain

The residents of Texas can now settle their solar panel bills in various cryptocurrencies, including the popular memecoin Shiba Inu (SHIB).  Numerous analysts have previously argued that mass adoption is among the essential factors in increasing the price of the coin. Paying Bills in SHIB The offering became available after the blockchain payment system FCF Pay partnered with Chariot Energy (a solar energy company based in Houston, Texas). Locals are allowed to use hundreds...

Elliptic, a leading blockchain analytics firm, has uncovered a network of 100 individual suppliers facilitating the illicit fentanyl trade by smuggling the precursor chemicals needed to synthesize fentanyl. The criminals have also been using cryptocurrency, specifically Bitcoin, Ethereum, Tron, and Monero, to make payments, facilitating the transfer of funds from buyers to suppliers, with the final destination being Mexico. Elliptic Uncovers Illegal Fentanyl Network In the...

The new MoneyGram non-custodial wallet will provide a more flexible way for users to handle funds and make transactions cheaper. International peer-to-peer payments and money transfer giant MoneyGram International has announced its intention to launch a non-custodial wallet to bridge crypto and fiat. According to MoneyGram, users will be able to exchange funds between fiat currency and the USDC stablecoin. The MoneyGram wallet confirms the payment company’s interest in crypto. According to...

The success highlighted by the feat reinforces the popularity of WaaS. Web3 infrastructure provider Particle Network has said that its rollout of Wallet-as-a-Service (WaaS) V2 is proving to be a huge success. According to a recent press release, the company saw more than 15 million wallet activations in under a year since it launched the service. The success highlighted by the feat reinforces the popularity of WaaS, but more importantly, it is also a testament to the ever-growing demand...

Each pack contains a narrative-driven, playable character for WAGMI Defense, the inaugural mobile game from WAGMI Games. The community-driven Web3 entertainment franchise WAGMI Games has revealed that its upcoming Founder’s Packs will be launched exclusively on the NFT marketplace OpenSea on September 27th. These Founder’s Packs, comprise 10,000 unopened card packs. It’s developed in collaboration with Gadget-Bot, the renowned art studio behind designs in popular franchises like...

Crypto integration into Xbox also has the potential to onboard millions to crypto, further propelling adoption. Recently leaked internal documents suggest that Microsoft plans to integrate crypto wallets into its Xbox gaming console. The documents were posted on the gaming forum ResetEra and reveal that an Xbox roadmap from May 2022 featured plans to add support for crypto wallets to the next version of Microsoft’s flagship gaming console. The documents were leaked in connection to a...

The platform’s usage is not limited to individual users but also extends to educational organizations. Global crypto exchange Binance’s open-access blockchain and crypto education platform Binance Academy has reported a 62% increase in the number of users.  According to platform data, from September 2022 to August 2023 there was a marked increase in individuals seeking crypto education. This brings the total number of individuals to use the platform to further their knowledge of blockchain...

This partnership is also a significant stride in the Japanese government’s endeavor to embrace blockchain technology and cryptocurrencies, fostering their broader adoption within the country and beyond. Binance Japan is partnering with Mitsubishi UFJ (MUFG) Trust Bank, a move squarely aligned with the Japanese government’s new Web3 policy. This collaboration aims to birth a new stablecoin, and the chosen platform for its development is the Progmat coin platform, a proprietary asset of...

In early 2024, NASA, along with Florida-based startup Lonestar and the Isle of Man, plans to send a payload to the Moon containing “data cubes” whose contents will be authenticated using blockchain technology when they return to Earth. In February 2024, the United States National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), in collaboration with Lonestar, a Florida-based computing startup, and the Isle of Man, is set to dispatch a payload to the Moon. This payload will carry “data cubes”...

More than $115 million was raised last week alone across a number of crypto startups. The largest raise of the week was blockchain game studio Proof of Play which netted $33 million in a round led by Andreessen Horowitz. The firm will use the funding to fuel the growth of its invite-only, on-chain pirate role-playing game, Pirate Nation. Its ambition is to create a decentralized “Forever Game” that does not rely on creator intervention or external servers to continue to...