Search Results for: nfts

March 29, 2024 @ 7:58 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The UK’s HM Treasury is reportedly considering or looking into possibly making changes to its existing Anti-Money Laundering and Counter-Terrorist Financing (AMLCFT) framework. This may potentially mean that service providers of non-fungible token (NFT) trading platforms could get added within the applicable regulatory framework. At… Read More

January 31, 2024 @ 10:34 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Transak, the payments infrastructure provider for crypto and NFTs, has announced a collaboration with Visa, an enabler of digital payments, in order to implement Visa Direct capabilities and help enhance its global off-ramp service. This collaboration marks a significant milestone by “enabling users in over… Read More

December 20, 2023 @ 12:33 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Bytepitch, the team building the Crabble NFT lending platform, have deployed their contract to Agoric mainnet after their proposal had a passing vote. The second third-party application to launch on-chain on Agoric, Crabble offers a utility layer for NFTs on Agoric and “soon the entire… Read More

September 5, 2023 @ 12:45 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

For VCs, the negative impact of Bitcoin’s (BTC) disappointing 2022 run has had long-term adverse effects on the larger crypto and blockchain ecosystem. Although the flagship cryptocurrency has recovered to some extent, surging around 55% during 2023, investments in crypto-related startups have declined for the… Read More

July 17, 2023 @ 7:56 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Bitso, the crypto-powered financial services company in Latin America with more than 7 million customers, announced its business partnership with Mobile Streams plc (MOS), the intelligence company data specialist, next-gen content specialist, and creator of Heroes NFT CLUB . Thanks to this alliance, Bitso will… Read More

July 4, 2023 @ 12:11 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

As a part of their global rebranding to Pluxee across 31 countries, the French multinational giant Sodexo Benefits & Rewards Services (Sodexo BRS), a publicly listed leader in tech-enabled employee benefits and engagement platform, embarked on a journey “to embrace the world of non-fungible tokens… Read More

June 6, 2023 @ 11:04 am By JD Alois  |  

Regulated crypto exchange LCX has announced the launch of asset-backed NFTs [non-fungible tokens]. LCX has labeled the NFT project as Tiamonds, a service aimed to contractually enforce the bridging of digital and physical assets. Specifically, Tiamonds is a marketplace for diamonds which allows users to… Read More

May 8, 2023 @ 10:45 am By Omar Faridi  |  

SI Tickets, the ticketing site from Sports Illustrated, announced the launch of “Box Office by SI Tickets,” a self-service event management and primary ticketing solution built in partnership with web3 firm ConsenSys and powered by Polygon’s blockchain technology. Box Office is described as “the first… Read More

April 19, 2023 @ 3:53 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

MetaMask, the self-custody Web3 wallet developed by ConsenSys is pleased to announce Web3 educational programming at The Oculus at the Westfield World Trade Center in partnership with Superchief Gallery NFT, the IRL NFT gallery. As part of the partnership, approximately 300 students from marginalized &… Read More

March 14, 2023 @ 9:41 am By JD Alois  |  

Meta’s (NASDAQ:META) commerce and Fintech lead Stephane Kasriel tweeted yesterday that the social platform is exiting the non fungible token (NFT) market, at least for now. Kasriel said they are refocusing efforts on supporting creators, people and businesses. This includes “messaging and monetization opps for… Read More

February 7, 2023 @ 1:26 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The world of collectibles is a “real business” with a passionate following. When it comes to trading cards, the Topps brand is in “a league of its own,” according to an update shared by Checkout.com. The company known for its legendary baseball cards “has made… Read More

January 31, 2023 @ 1:17 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

FIO Protocol, the decentralized solution for global blockchain usability, has announced the launch of FIO Domain wrapping on the Polygon blockchain. Wrapping is the process of taking a token “from one blockchain and making it available for use on another.” This launch moves FIO Protocol… Read More

January 5, 2023 @ 11:17 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Since its launch on the Hedera network, LG Art Lab has continued to support innovation and “provide accessibility to the digital art world.” With the latest upgrades, LG Art Lab further “solidifies its position as a leading curator of digital art.” Fine art lovers “can… Read More

January 2, 2023 @ 8:30 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The team at FSN is pleased to announce a channel partnership with Chainlink Labs in order “to accelerate the widespread adoption of NFTs and the NFT ecosystem in South Korea.” The channel partnership between Chainlink Labs and FSN will “help boost the adoption of the… Read More

December 29, 2022 @ 5:14 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Gate.io, the global cryptocurrency exchange, announced the launch of Gate.io Fraction Token, making the “most popular” NFTs more accessible and available on the market. Fraction Token on Gate.io allows traders “to buy and sell ERC-20 tokens pegged to an underlying NFT asset, enabling traders to… Read More

December 26, 2022 @ 10:29 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The team at Kraken has announced that they have added ten new NFT collections to Kraken NFT for our current beta testers to explore, collect and trade. After revealing the first 70 collections earlier this year, and dozens more over the past few weeks, Kraken… Read More

December 5, 2022 @ 4:20 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The team at Ledger notes that NFTs are ushering in “an artistic renaissance that has barely begun to play itself out, changing how art, music and, more broadly, culture is digitally generated, owned and exchanged forever.” As the platform to secure and manage NFTs, Ledger… Read More

November 4, 2022 @ 8:53 am By Andrew Howell  |  

From sea shells to stones, physical tokens have represented units of value for thousands of years. Recently, blockchain technology has given rise to the digital token economy, where items of value can be represented cryptographically. A growing marketplace has rapidly formed around this new technology… Read More

November 1, 2022 @ 9:27 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Animoca Brands, the company advancing digital property rights for gaming and the open metaverse, and its subsidiary TinyTap, the platform for user-generated educational games, announced “the launch of Publisher non-fungible tokens (NFTs).” Each Publisher NFT is “linked to a bundle of educational games and other… Read More

October 17, 2022 @ 7:33 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

  CoinShares, which claims to be one of Europe’s largest and longest-standing full-service digital asset investment and trading groups, recently announced the launch of CoinSharesNFTAI (@CoinsharesNFTAI), a Twitter bot that “utilizes proprietary algorithms developed by CoinShares researchers to estimate the current fair market price for… Read More