Stellar’s CTO and co-founder is now building a team of industry experts and engineers to pioneer a new frontier of space exploration. Blockchain technology pioneer Jed McCaleb is shifting some of his focus to a new frontier, space. The prominent crypto billionaire announced the launch of his new venture “Vast” on Sept. 12, which is...Continue Reading

While Fidelity hasn’t yet confirmed rumors it will launch retail Bitcoin trading, the firm said enabling broader access to digital assets remained a key area of focus. $4.2 trillion asset management firm Fidelity Investments is reportedly working towards offering Bitcoin trading services to its 34.4 million retail investor base, according to Galaxy Digital CEO Mike...Continue Reading

Mark Zuckerberg’s little league baseball card has been tokenized and will be put up for auction, and Lamborghini has introduced a new utility for its second round of NFTs. Solana-based NFT project Outcast Academy has started dishing its newly launched $DRAMA tokens, rewarding the most popular shitposters on Twitter as nominated by the community. Outcast...Continue Reading

Newly filed trademarks from Paramount Pictures suggest elements of the teen cult classic may come back in the form of “crypto-collectibles” and non-fungible tokens (NFTs). According to tweets shared by licensed trademark attorney Mike Kondoudis, Paramount Pictures filed two trademark applications on Sept. 7 for the early 2000s teen comedy which stars former Disney actress...Continue Reading

The new Conservative Party of Canada leader has previously advocated for financial freedom through crypto tokens, smart contracts and decentralized finance. Canadian politician and noted crypto advocate Pierre Poilievre has taken the helm of Canada’s Conservative Party, which looks set to give the current administration a run for its money in the next federal election. ...Continue Reading

CoinShares’ head of research James Butterfill said the outflows come despite “the improved certainty of the Merge.” Institutional investors may be wavering ahead of the Ethereum Merge, with digital asset investment products seeing an outflow of $61.6 million of Ether (ETH), signaling concerns about the success of the upgrade.  In its digital asset fund flows...Continue Reading

Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot appears to be walking back some of the company’s enthusiasm for NFTs, months after receiving strong pushback for its NFT project Quartz. Yves Guillemot, the CEO of French gaming giant Ubisoft appears to have cooled the rhetoric behind the company’s NFT gaming project Quartz, noting in a recent interview that it...Continue Reading

A large chunk of the world’s wealth today is locked in illiquid assets, notes the report’s authors. The total size of tokenized illiquid assets, including real estate and natural resources could reach $16.1 trillion by 2030, according to the Boston Consulting Group (BCG). In a newly released report from BCG and digital exchange for private...Continue Reading

The trade group includes many of the industry’s biggest names among its members; director Kristin Smith calls them “a great group to help steer the success of this enterprise.” United States-based trade group Blockchain Association announced Monday that it had formed a political action committee, to be called BA PAC, thus joining an industry trend...Continue Reading

Abra announced its international venture and U.S. bank would work with officials to ensure regulatory and legal compliance and planned to launch in 2022 and 2023, respectively. Cryptocurrency trading platform Abra said it was “in the process of” establishing a United States-based state-chartered bank allowing clients to deposit digital assets. In a Monday announcement, Abra...Continue Reading