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Blockchain video game developer Animoca Brands aims at establishing a well-heeled specialized fund to facilitate metaverse projects. Animoca Brands plans to launch a $2 billion fund to invest in metaverse businesses, according to the company’s co-founder and executive chairman Yat Siu. In addition to focusing on digital property rights, Siu said that the Animoca Brands metaverse fund would develop the ecosystem. Furthermore, the Hong Kong-based game software, and venture capital platform,...

TRX is one of the legacy digital currencies around today but which have also been impacted by the ongoing crypto winter.The digital currency ecosystem has evolved over the years and despite the twists and turns, it has become a self-sustaining industry where users earn both passive and active from. The industry’s growth has seen the emergence of unique avenues to make money including staking, mining, yield farming, lending, and borrowing.Besides these established avenues for earning profits,...

The cost of living crisis was a major challenge for the region this year as it attempted to bring down energy costs. As the year is wrapping up, the efforts of the European Central Bank (ECB) to curtail the growing surge in inflation within the Eurozone seem to be yielding good fruits. Preliminary readings from Eurostat, the statistical office of the European Union, show that inflation is pegged at 10%, a figure that is lower than the 10.6% reported in October this year.Despite the slowing...

The regulator is pursuing a cease and desist order against FTX, Administrative Fines, and a refund of the assets received from investors amongst other demands.In an ongoing effort to uncover the mishaps that befell the FTX empire, the Texas State Securities Board (TSSB) has summoned Sam Bankman-Fried to a hearing billed to take place on February 2 next year. The TSSB has reportedly been investigating FTX US since October for allegations bordering on its offering of “Earn” which pays yields to...

Bitcoin turned 14 on Halloween this year. How Far Has Bitcoin Come? Back on October 31, 2008, Satoshi Nakamoto – the pseudonymous creator of the world’s largest and most powerful digital currency by market cap – sent the whitepaper for the new anonymous financial system to emails across the world. In the paper, Nakamoto wrote the following: What is needed is an electronic payment system based on cryptographic proof instead of trust, allowing any two willing parties to transact directly with...

The bill is now set to become law once signed by the President.The long wait is finally over, as the Chamber of Deputies gave a nod of approval to a Brazilian crypto bill seeking to regulate the country’s crypto space. The move follows after the bill remained stuck in the chamber since April when the Senate initially approved it. According to a Reuters report, backing the bill was important to Congress as it will help to keep the crypto industry sanitized.Brazilian Crypto Bill Aims to Protect...

The governor noted that Elon Musk is opening Twitter up for free speech, and Apple wants to take that away from him.New Twitter owner Elon Musk has been attacking iPhone maker Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) over various issues, including a recent threat from the technology company to remove the bluebird app from the App Store. Over the past week, the billionaire has been making reference to the Twitter-Apple relationship, mentioning the 30% cut of all digital sales made through the apps....

Development and adoption of the crypto space in the past years have prompted the expansion of mechanisms that assess the credibility of virtual tokens.FTSE Russel, the firm that launched the London Stock Exchange‘s measure FTSE 100 equity index, has revealed a bunch of standards for the crypto asset market.The FTSE Global Digital Asset Index Series includes eight gauges from large and mid-cap assets to micro-cap. According to a statement from FTSE Russel, the indices, built with Digital Asset...

A market analyst has spotted a pattern in the fund transfers made by the FTX hacker to OKX. The crypto exchange said that it is investigating into the matter.On Tuesday, November 29, the FTX hacker who drained $450 million worth of assets from the exchange, moved some of his assets to the crypto exchange OKX in an attempt to launder money. The FTX hacker has been constantly shuffling funds from one digital asset to other.Initially, the hacker converted all the stoled stablecoins into Ether...

In the latest announcement on France and Luxembourg collaborating on the Venus project, it was revealed that both institutions are proposing cross-border settlements.The Central Bank of France and the central bank of Luxembourg have partnered to roll out the “Venus Initiative”, which allows them to use an experiential CBDC for a 100 million euros bond. Worth $104 million, the bond is the latest means employed in a series of trials in tokenized financial markets. Apart from France and...