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Eyeball Games has recently gotten its hands on roughly $1.5 million in new funds to establish its new blockchain pool game. Pool Comes to the Blockchain We’ve likely all played pool. Whether it was at a friend’s or relative’s house, or because we were up one night at a bar with our amigos and we decided to get the billiard sticks out of the corner, we likely all have experience knocking a few balls around and pushing them into “side pockets,” but for those that...

The experiment was built on Swift’s earlier successes in connecting Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs) and digital assets with existing and emerging payment systems. The Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication (SWIFT), the global financial messaging network, has unveiled the results of a groundbreaking experiment hindering the widespread adoption of tokenized assets. According to an official announcement on August 31,  the company has successfully demonstrated that...

Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin is teasing what he thinks is one of the biggest and most significant upgrades to the network in history. So big, in fact, that he believes it could reduce all ETH costs in the future by more than 100 times. Vitalik Buterin Teases Big Things for Ethereum Over the past year or so, Ethereum has undergone several changes to its infrastructure as seen through upgrades like the Merge and Shapella. This was all part of Ethereum’s...

Binance will delist BUSD as a loanable asset on September 6 and will suspend withdrawals of Binance-pegged BUSD tokens via BNB Chain, Avalanche, Polygon, and Tron on September 7. Renowned crypto exchange Binance has officially announced its decision to discontinue support for its native stablecoin, Binance USD (BUSD), by February 2024. Paxos’ Role in Binance’s Decision The decision to phase out BUSD support is closely tied to developments involving Paxos, the company responsible for...

Ernie’s release follows the new regulation in the AI industry introduced by the Chinese government. Notably, Baidu became the first company to get an approval from the authorities.  On March 16, Chinese internet search services giant Baidu Inc (HKG: 9888) revealed its Chinese-language ChatGPT alternative – Ernie chatbot. At that time, the chatbot was not fully ready, therefore, it was available to a limited number of users, mostly business partners and those who were the first on the...

Sebastian Siemiatkowski, Klarna’s CEO and founder, said that the firm is very hopeful for the second half of 2023, suggesting that the aggressive cost-cutting strategy in 2022 may now be yielding. Despite its efforts towards profitability, buy now, pay later firm Klarna has revealed that it failed to record a half-year 2023 profit. The Swedish firm, which had earlier taken measures to cut costs, confirmed that the measures did help reduce its losses by roughly 67% in the period. However,...

The rewards program has the potential to bring blockchain technology to more users as Lufthansa Group has about 36 million members in its regular Miles and More loyalty program. Lufthansa Group, the parent company of airlines such as Lufthansa, Austrian Airlines, Swiss International Air Lines, Eurowings, Brussel Airlines and others, has announced the launch of a new NFT-based loyalty program. Eligible customers in the program will receive blockchain-based digital trading cards that they...

While on the surface, this may seem like an attempt to provide value to users, it highlights the ongoing tension between personalized experiences and the ethical use of personal data. X, the social media networking giant, formerly known as Twitter, has revised its privacy policy to incorporate the collection and utilization of users’ biometric information. The New Biometric Data Policy With its roots as a microblogging site, X has evolved into a global communications platform that plays a...

Ivy will use these funds to expand its footprint in different regions and partner with major payment service providers thereby helping them power their own open-banking offerings.  On Thursday, August 31, Berlin-based startup Ivy announced that it secured a staggering $20 million in funding in order to take the open-banking payments international. Ivy recently built an API to create a “network of networks” for open banking payments globally. Open banking, a concept where traditional banks...

AI21 Labs is planning to use the money raised for developing AI products that will compete with ChatGPT developer OpenAI and AI safety and research company Anthropic. AI21 Labs, a Tel Aviv-based AI lab and product startup, has raised $155 million in a Series C funding round that was led by such companies as Walden Catalyst Management LLC, Pitango VC, SCB10X Co Ltd, b2venture, Samsung Next, as well as Google LLC and NVIDIA Corp (NASDAQ: NVDA). The funding round has brought the company’s...