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Gavin Wood – creator of Polkadot and co-founder of Ethereum – has exited his leadership position from the network’s major infrastructure provider, Parity Technologies. However, he will still remain closely involved with the company.  Though he will no longer be CEO, Wood will remain Parity’s majority shareholder, and will transition into a new role as its “Chief Architect.” “The role of CEO has never been one which I have coveted,” said Wood in a statement about the...

It seems Do Kwon cannot catch a break. After being tied to one of the most embarrassing fiascos to ever occur within the confines of the crypto space (the collapse of Terra Luna, an algorithmic stable currency), authorities in South Korea have issued a warrant for his arrest as well as many other executives or staff members thought to have been involved in the currency’s death. Now, it looks like all his crypto assets are being frozen. They Keep Pursuing Do Kwon...

The cryptocurrency market went through little volatility over the past seven days and is currently found almost where it was this time last week. The sentiment remains overly fearful as global inflation woes and economic unrest settle in. Starting with Bitcoin, it lost roughly 1.8% in the past seven days, going through almost no volatility whatsoever. The cryptocurrency attempted a break above the critical level of $20,000 but to no avail. It was quickly rejected by the...

Per the announcement, entries to participate in the buildathon will continue until January 9 2023, and the submissions will be judged by a panel of NFT and metaverse veterans.Renovi, a metaverse marketplace, and design studio has launched the first Non-Fungible Token (NFT) Buildathon in partnership with Aftermath Islands Metaverse Limited. As contained in a Press Release shared with Coinspeaker, the buildathon, dubbed the Next Top Metaverse Build will enable artists, architects, and entrants...

Besides its political differences and leanings from China, Hong Kong is also seeking to create a different path for itself when it comes to its administration and regulation of digital currencies and the emerging Web3 world.Hong Kong, the special administrative city of China is pushing for new reforms that will position it as one of the most forward-thinking crypto-positive regions in the world. In one of its latest moves as affirmed by Elizabeth Wong, head of the fintech unit at the...

Cross-platform, cloud-based instant messaging service Telegram has announced that it will auction usernames on TON.According to reports, Telegram plans to auction usernames on The Open Network (TON) blockchain. This decision comes two months after Telegram founder Pavel Durov first floated the idea. A message on an official channel belonging to the dual-headquartered platform read that “a few weeks ago, the founder and CEO of Telegram announced the upcoming ability to buy and sell unique and...

Snap blames its underperforming Q3 2022 financial report to rising inflation and the war in Ukraine. The report tanked other stocks.Snap (NYSE: SNAP), the first major social media company to release its Q3 2022 earnings, posted disappointing figures. For the period that ended September 30th, the prominent camera and social media company saw its shares plummet 25%. Furthermore, the California-based company warned that it would see no revenue growth in the typically busy holiday quarter. In a...

The British pound is collapsing as of late, and this – according to analysts – will ultimately present some solid opportunities for bitcoin and its crypto cousins to potentially step in and garner newfound respect. With the Fall of the British Pound, BTC Could Take Over Fiat currencies all over the world are falling like they never have thanks to increasing inflation, which is now at a 40-year-high in regions like the United Kingdom and the United States. The initial...

The global recession will probably last until the spring of 2024, guessed Tesla CEO Elon Musk over Twitter on Friday.  The billionaire cast his prediction in response to Dogecoin creator Billy Markus, who made a tweet joking about an “impending global recession,” and “nuclear apocalypse.” Musk replied that it would be nice to have one year without any “horrible global event.”  Another account – Tesla Owners Silicon Valley – then asked the billionaire how long the recession...

Twitter alongside other social media platforms continue to play remarkable roles in the quest to get NFTs to be globally recognized and adopted.Twitter is working with notable NFT marketplaces such as Rarible, OpenSea, GuardianLink’s Jump.trade, and Dapper Labs to launch a cool new NFT feature. Called “tweet tiles”, the feature will allow Twitter users to share non-fungible tokens (NFTs) as well as call-to-action (CTA) collection objects on the platform.It should be mentioned that the “tweet...