VeChain has made a series of announcements that look to substantially grow usability and adoption of its native VET token. Supply chain blockchain project VeChain has announced a new partnership with crypto payment services, Alchemy Pay that will allow people to use its VET token as payment in over 2 million stores throughout 70 different...Continue Reading

“We want to be close to our friends in the United States on these issues as much as we can,” Australian Senator Andrew Bragg told Cointelegraph. Australian Senator Andrew Bragg hasmet with U.S. Senator Cynthia Lummis to discuss potential collaboration on cryptocurrency regulation between the two countries. Senator Bragg is a crypto-friendly politician from the...Continue Reading

Goldman Sachs has offered its first Bitcoin-backed loan, showing further signs of increased interest in cryptocurrency from Wall St institutions. Goldman Sachs has offered its first Bitcoin-backed loan, in a major step forward for institutional cryptocurrency adoption on Wall St.  A spokeswoman from Goldman told Bloomberg that the multinational investment bank had lent cash collateralized...Continue Reading

ICP-powered ORIGYN is leveraging blockchain and biometric technology to tackle the issue of counterfeit watches. ORIGYN, a Swiss foundation that uses artificial intelligence (AI) to identify and authenticate objects of value, has partnered with luxury watch marketplace WatchBox. The pair will co-produce certificates of authenticity in the form of NFTs that enable customers to trade the...Continue Reading

Software Freedom Law Center legal director Mishi Choudhary supported tokens that were not quite CBDCs nor cryptocurrencies, but with cash-like privacy features many users may want. Mishi Choudhary, the legal director of the Software Freedom Law Center, supported the efforts of some United States lawmakers to develop an electronic version of the U.S. dollar. In...Continue Reading

Ukraine continues to use crypto and NFTs to fund the two-month long ongoing Russia-Ukraine war. Mykhailo Fedorov, Vice Prime Minister of Ukraine and Minister of Digital Transformation of Ukraine, tweeted that the Ukrainian government will accept war effort contributions in the form of nonfungible token (NFT) donations and purchases. Via the official “Aid for Ukraine” crypto...Continue Reading

The regulatory agency asked crypto firms to adopt methods to ensure greater risk assessment for potentially problematic transactions. In a letter published on Thursday, the New York State Department of Financial Services, or NYDFS, recommended that all virtual currency companies operating under New York banking law adopt blockchain analytics to trace transactions. In supporting the...Continue Reading

More than 50% of respondents highlighted that they have a HODL mentality and see a future where non-fungible tokens could be important items in games. Although NFTs have been a part of the cryptocurrency market since 2014, interest and adoption ha risen rapidly over the last two years. At their height in August 2021, the...Continue Reading

The success of STEPN shows that the move-to-earn model is growing in popularity, but will it be a fading trend or the future of fitness? Axie Infinity was a pioneer of the play-to-earn movement and the project inspired new Web3 applications that aspire to apply the earning model to their respective ecosystems.  The latest project...Continue Reading

Independent Reserve’s survey revealed a strong affinity for various financial opportunities brought forward by decentralized finance and other investment opportunities. As Singapore continues to play an active role in boosting crypto adoption across the Asia-Pacific region, the country’s first licensed crypto exchange Independent Reserve conducted a retail-focused survey to better understand the underlying potential of...Continue Reading