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Web3 Gaming Has a Long Way to Go Before It Becomes Mainstream, Survey Says
A study from Coda Labs shows that only 3% of gamers own an NFT and generally don’t have positive feelings about crypto. Source link
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Middle East and North Africa Was the Fastest Growing Crypto Market Over Recent 12-Month Period: Chainalysis
Turkey accounted for $192 billion of the MENA’s total of $566 billion, the largest share by one single country in the region. Again, Chainalysis attributed this to steep currency devaluation. The Middle Eastern country has […]
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Federal Energy Agencies’ Unwillingness to Act on White House’s Crypto Mining Recommendations Miffs US Lawmaker – Regulation Bitcoin News
Jared Huffman, a United States lawmaker who advocates for increased scrutiny of crypto-mining entities, has reportedly chastised U.S. energy agencies that he accuses of failing to act on the White House’s call on them to […]
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SWIFT Says It’s Proved It Can Be the Way Forward for Global CBDCs
Following experiments involving the central banks of France and Germany as well as HSBC, NatWest, Standard Chartered, UBS and Wells Fargo, SWIFT said it has carried out transactions between different blockchain networks, using both CBDCs […]
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SEC Chair Gensler Insists Most Crypto Tokens Are Securities — Says ‘the Law Is Clear’ – Regulation Bitcoin News
The chairman of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Gary Gensler, has reiterated that most crypto tokens are securities, emphasizing that “the law is clear on this.” However, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) […]
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Top US Regulators Urge Congress to Pass Legislation on Crypto Assets – Regulation Bitcoin News
The U.S. Financial Stability Oversight Council (FSOC), a group of the country’s top financial regulators, has urged Congress to pass legislation for the regulation of crypto assets. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said: “Crypto-asset activities could […]
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Can Starbucks Bring Web3 Into the Mainstream?
First, Starbucks Odyssey is additive, not substitutive. Starbucks’ current reward program is arguably the most successful loyalty program in the world, with nearly 60 million rewards customers globally and 30 million in the U.S. alone. […]
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Markets Seem Hopeful the Fed Will Temper Rate Increases That Crushed Prices
● Bitcoin (BTC): $20,379 +4.2% ● Ether (ETH): $1,360 +3.0% ● CoinDesk Market Index (CMI): $989 +3.0% ● S&P 500 daily close: 3,790.93 +3.1% ● Gold: $1,735 per troy ounce […]
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Japan to Invest in Metaverse and NFT Expansion
The country has steadily been promoting investment in digital technology, including through tax incentives for companies that embrace a digital future. In his speech to Japan’s parliament, Kishida said the country will continue to focus […]
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Etherscan Set to ‘Deprecate’ Ethereum’s Ropsten and Rinkeby Testnets
“Sepolia and Goerli are considered the two testnets the ecosystem plans to support,” said Parithosh Jayanthi, a DevOps Engineer at the Ethereum Foundation, to CoinDesk. “Goerli has a relatively large dapp (decentralized applications) ecosystem and […]