Blockchain

According to the official press release shared with CryptoPotato, the latest move is a part of the collaborative effort, wherein BlockchainSpace plans to connect a huge number of guilds and players to the virtual world created by The Sandbox. The Sandbox-BlockchainSpace: Collaboration For the uninitiated, BlockchainSpace describes itself as the “guild hub of the metaverse.” It offers the infrastructure and technology. With the partnership, the team behind the metaverse...

WhatsApp has launched a new cryptocurrency-based pilot that will allow a select number of people in America to send and receive crypto funds to each other. The program is being powered by Novi, the new Facebook (or Meta) cryptocurrency wallet that has gone through a thousand name changes and struggled to get off the ground since being announced in the summer of 2019. The Novi Wallet Is Finally Launching Itself Novi was officially launched as a pilot roughly six weeks...

Entretien avec Alexandre Stachtchenko, co-fondateur de Blockchain Partner & Directeur Blockchain & Cryptos et KPMG France. « Alexandre Stachtchenko propose depuis plusieurs années d’accompagner des entreprises sur le terrain de cette nouvelle technologie. La transition n’étant pas aisée car la technologie est encore en pleine phase de développement, ses possibilités et ses risques sont innombrables. Les services de Blockchain Partner ajoutés à l’incroyable travail de...

Step aside, Brave, Opera Browser wants to become the king of Web 3 browsers. In an official blog post on Friday, December 10, Opera announced a partnership with Solana Labs to add native support for the popular blockchain, allowing it to run a native Solana wallet along with all the dApps in the ecosystem. Solana Goes To The Opera The Opera team said on Twitter that the integration was expected to be ready by Q1 2022. By then, users should be able to enjoy all the benefits of...

The member of the Republican party and Florida Governor – Ron DeSantis – proposed that the government should allow businesses to pay state fees with digital assets like bitcoin. He added that the authorities plan to launch pilot programs to explore the use of blockchain technology to monitor motor vehicle records as well as validate Medicaid settlements. Towards a Crypto-Friendly State Ron DeSantis included his idea as part of the 2022-2023 budget proposal during an...

Institutional-grade lending protocol for decentralized finance (DeFi), Parallel Finance, has won the fourth Polkadot parachain auction. Over $300 Million Contributed The press release shared with CryptoPotato informed that the protocol saw support from over 30,000 contributors who provided a total of 10.75 million DOT, worth a whopping $306 million, during the auction. According to the team, the figure makes Parallel Finance the third project on the Polkadot parachain auction...

Poker fans in the US are now able to access the global poker market after a 15-year streak from the Department of Justice (DOJ). This happens as Virtue Gaming introduces the first P2E (Play-to-earn) offering in the country. Reviving the Poker Field in the US With Blockchain The Play-To-Earn business model relies on blockchain technology. Some of the most successful titles have amounted to record-breaking valuations of over $2 billion, like the famous Pokemon-inspired,...

Craig Wright has won his bitcoin-related civil suit, casting doubt on all those who said the London-based Australian computer scientist wasn’t Satoshi Nakamoto. Craig Wright Is Victorious in Court The suit centered around an alleged stash of cryptocurrency and bitcoin units worth approximately $54 billion at the time of writing. A jury in Florida has dismissed approximately six of seven charges brought forth by the family of David Kleiman, who allegedly worked with...

Quizarena is a free-to-play (F2P) quiz and puzzle blockchain gaming platform, announced its new listing on Onus Finance. Onus finance conducted a Quizarena project appraisal voting event that  came to an end on December 3rd at 13:00 UTC. Quizarena received a resounding “Yes” (99.08 percent ). This indicates that the project will be available for purchase on the ONUS Launchpad. QZA, the native token of Quiz Arena is a utility coin that is utilised as a decentralised means...

Enabling avatars-as-ID in various metaverses through the combination of avatar NFTs and wearable items ‘Davaproject’, the first NFT project of Unopnd –  a startup studio of a global crypto fund Hashed –  held a davaproject NFT sale from Nov 17. NFT composability has been a hot topic but few projects have implemented it due to the additional challenges it brings. And very few have made composable NFTs fully on-chain. A composable system has components that can be selected...