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2022-01-16 15:06:12 ​​Central bank of Bahrain trials JPMorgan’s blockchain and token.

Bahrain’s central bank initially announced its JPM Coin trial in May 2021.

Bahrain is the latest nation to explore blockchain technology by American investment bank JPMorgan, with the country’s central bank trialing JPMorgan’s proprietary digital currency.

The Central Bank of Bahrain (CBB) has successfully completed a digital payments test in collaboration with JPMorgan’s blockchain and cryptocurrency unit Onyx, according to an official announcement published on Thursday.

The trial involved two other major institutions, Manama-based international bank Bank ABC and Bahrain national aluminum smelter Aluminium Bahrain, also known as Alba. The test enabled Bank ABC to settle real-time payments to Alba’s counterparts in the United States using JPM Coin, a blockchain-based payments system and stablecoin pegged to the United States dollar.

According to the announcement, the CBB was responsible for supervising the trial.

CBB governor Rasheed Al Maraj said that the trial has been crucial for the government of Bahrain to address and potentially eliminate existing inefficiencies in the traditional cross-border payments industry.

“We are pleased to announce the success of this test, which is in line with our vision and strategy to develop and enrich the capabilities provided to stakeholders in the financial services sector in the Kingdom using emerging and pioneering technologies,” Al Maraj said.

The CBB previously disclosed plans to test out JPM Coin in May 2021, stating that the trial could potentially extend to its central bank digital currency development.

Originally announced in 2019, JPM Coin was commercially launched in October 2020.

The investment bank has been actively promoting its blockchain tech for global use, partnering with Singapore’s largest bank, DBS, to pilot a blockchain payments system. JPMorgan previously provided its Liink blockchain technology to the State Bank of India to reduce transaction costs and improve cross-border payments. Open / Comment

2022-01-06 22:41:16 ​Ethereum is Halfway Towards its 'Grand Vision' - Vitalik Buterin.

Ethereum (ETH) co-founder Vitalik Buterin has evaluated Ethereum's progress towards its vision to become more scalable and secure while preserving decentralization, asserting that it is some 50% of the way there.

During an episode of the Bankless podcast, Buterin detailed that Ethereum's progress would reach 60% after the Merge, when the current Ethereum Mainnet "merges" with the beacon chain proof-of-stake (PoS) system, and would pass 80% once there is a full sharding implementation, which would split the network into multiple portions called 'shards.'

“I would say around 50 [%]. I’d be willing to go past 60 once the merge is fully complete, and I’d be willing to go past 80 once we have a full sharding implementation,” Buterin said when asked to grade the roadmap progress to date - towards what the podcast host David Hoffman described as "the grand Ethereum vision for what it wants to be."

In early December, when celebrating the proof-of-stake Beacon Chain's birthday, Buterin released "an updated roadmap diagram for where Ethereum protocol development is at and what's coming in what order."

As per the roadmap, the first stage is the Merge, which is projected to happen around May or June 2022 if the code is completed by February. This update will ‘merge’ the Beacon Chain into the mainnet and finalize the transition to PoS. Open / Comment

2022-01-05 18:02:15 ​Starly is a space for creators who build economies around their gamified NFT collections. Built on the FLOW blockchain.

TEAM
Starly is created by an experienced team who founded social networks - F3 with 30 million registered users and Ask.fm with 150 million registered users.

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• The funding round includes some of the most notable investors such as Dapper Labs, Animoca Brands, LD Capital, Double Peak, Axia8, Youbi Capital, KuCoin Labs, Shima.capital, SkyVision Capital and high-profile angels including Marat Kichikov
• $500,000 in little more than a month after launch
• 40’000 users since launch in September
• Hosted Flow Fest Mystery Pack main event

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2022-01-03 22:22:31 ​Eminem Buys Bored Ape NFT for $450,000


BAYC NFT creator and member with the username GeeGazza created the “EminApe” NFT, which depicts Eminem in Bored Ape form adorned with a gold chain and a camouflaged cap; it sold out to the real-life Eminem for 123.45 ether (approx$450,000).

Before the sale, which popular digital agency Six facilitated, GeeGazza had earlier urged the Grammy award-winning rapper, Slim Shady, to purchase the NFT on the Twitter platform.

“EminApe” NFT is the latest addition to Eminem’s NFT collection under the moniker “Shady Holdings,” making it a total of 15 NFTs purchased on OpenSea.

Speaking on the sale of “EminApe,” the creator via his Twitter handle @Gee_Gazza, thanked the entertainer, “I’m living in a simulation. Thank you @Eminem, for buying my ape and joining the club! Madness. Let me write a lyric in your next single,” he wrote.

Eminem Exposure to NFT
Slim Shady’s activities in the NFT market have been pretty hectic, according to dappradar.com.

The top NFT aggregator and statistic tool record Eminem’s NFTs as 166, cutting across 32 different collections. His latest addition, “EminApe,” purchased for 123.45 ether, puts his address at 1.52.

The rapper has also transacted with georgio.eth on ENS, where the address transferred 124 ether to him. Eminem’s digital artworks include SABC #2615, Shaq Gives Back #4077, and Adult Fantasy Sub-Dude (130/151).

In April 2021, Eminem inspired animated Nonfungible tokens for Stans and sold the collections via the Nifty Gateway NFT platform. By August, Eminem, alongside Paul Rosenberg, also partook in a funding round that raised and invested $30 million in Makersplace, an NFT marketplace.

Eminem’s purchase of his “EminApe” NFT puts him amid other crypto-loving celebrities like NBA star Stephen Curry and talk show anchor Jimmy Fallon. BAYC trading volume is officially the second-largest NFT project on the OpenSea network.

CryptoSlam’s data puts secondary transactions for BAYC to be around 284,765 ether (approx. $977.6 million) with a floor price for its NFT set at 60 ETH.floornew floor price has now overtaken CryptoPunks. Open / Comment

2021-12-31 10:06:46 ​​Fashion Moves Into The Decentraland Metaverse

It’s still very early days, and footfall in the various metaverses such as Decentraland is still fairly low. However, institutions are starting to see the future opportunities, and land grabs are being made now in anticipation for what these virtual worlds will one day become.

“If you can imagine the metaverse as a monopoly board, and rather than have just 28 parcels of land and 8 players, there are many more parcels of land that you can develop, and potentially millions and millions of users that you can collect rent from, and create immersive experiences for.”

On a recent video on CNBC he admits that the current traffic in Decentraland is low and that things are in development. However, he says that in March next year, his company will team up with Decentraland in order to launch a fashion week that he hopes will attract all the biggest fashion brands from across the world.

His vision for the week is of virtual runways in virtual fashion shows that will display the virtual gear that can be worn by user avatars. He cites the brands such as Gucci, Chanel, Ralph Lauren, Nike, and Adidas, who are all already entering the metaverse and who are selling their products as NFT skins that any virtual avatar would want to be seen in.

Kiguel believes that the returns on his company’s $2.5 million purchase of land in Decentraland will be huge. His view is that the multi-million dollar opportunity afforded by the metaverse will consist of:

“the next iteration of social media, the next iteration of computing, education, advertising, and shopping, and so when you put all this together it’s really going to change the way the internet is used.”

The CEO says that the purchase of metaverse land is a “pre purchase of advertising space” that will pay off massively as the billions of visitors that were predicted by Mark Zuckerberg start to enter the space.

He says that each of the 116 parcels of land that his company owns, equates to a space 52ft x 52ft in the real world. So multiplied by 116 it can be seen that this is a gigantic amount of space that will be developed to host events such as fashion shows, which he is predicting will attract as many as 300,000 to 400,000 unique visitors over the week of the event.

“What we are going to create is going to be the 5th avenue or the Rodeo Drive of the metaverse, where people will be able to go there and browse various things that they can purchase, not just for their avatars but for their actual lives.” Open / Comment

2021-12-28 21:45:57 Introducing the World's first Nft Gallery Launching as an Nft!
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2021-12-24 06:21:34 ​​The Bank Of Russia Has Announced That They Intend To Regulate Rather Than Ban Cryptocurrencies.

The Deputy Chairman of the Bank of Russia has recently revealed that they intend to regulate, rather than ban, cryptocurrencies.

The Deputy Chairman of the Central Bank Vladimir Chistyukhin told reporters on Monday that Russia aims to regulate the circulation of cryptocurrencies,

The regulator also referred to changes in legislation that would enable cryptocurrencies to circulate, as opposed to a ban on transfers of funds from citizens' accounts in Russian banks to crypto exchanges that many were concerned about.

"I think that we will resolve the issue through amendments to the legislation. There will be a more precise definition of how cryptocurrencies can circulate," Chistyukhin said.

The Bank of Russia previously released a list of requirements for banks to use when determining suspicious transactions, including cryptocurrency transactions, back in September which followed an earlier recommendation in July advising against the listing of securities tied to crypto assets on Russian stock exchanges.

The Bank of Russia is currently preparing a report on cryptocurrencies that will provide greater clarity on the role of cryptocurrencies in Russian finance, Chistyukhin revealed:

“I think we will publish a report on cryptocurrencies in the near future. This report will contain our approaches to the place for cryptocurrency we see in the Russian financial market. I give a hint – we do not see a place for cryptocurrency in the Russian financial market,”.

According to the latest reports from local media, Russian citizens and businesses will have the right to acquire and store cryptocurrency, but will not be able to do this through domestic infrastructure or intermediaries.

Despite the insinuation that cryptocurrency will not be banned, the Deputy Head of the Central Bank’s ‘hint’ that cryptocurrency will have no place in Russia’s financial market may see the digital currency unable to thrive, if legislators proceed to restrict rather than aid its growth. Open / Comment

2021-12-21 09:33:06 ​6ix9ine NFT Project Decried as ‘Scam’ by Fans Who Dumped Money Into It

A 6ix9ine NFT project that launched earlier this year is now being decried by some participating fans as an alleged “scam” that didn’t deliver on its promises to collectors.

Back in October, mere days ahead of the launch, 6ix9ine himself promoted the Trollz NFT collection in an Instagram post that has since been taken down. The project, which was immediately met with questions about its legitimacy, was billed at the time as an effort that would see a total of $100,000 going to various charity groups. Token owners, meanwhile, would receive royalties.

Friday, Rolling Stone—which previously raised questions about the collection—published a report detailing the latest developments surrounding the endeavor. In the report, one fan—a 26-year-old crypto investor identified only as Jacob—said the project “turned out to be a huge scam.” Jacob is said to have spent an estimated $40,000 and ultimately minted 82 NFTs, with his since-critical thoughts against Trollz organizers being shared by several other Trollz Discord members.

Among the claims in the damning new report are that royalties have not been delivered, promises of giving said royalty owners’ the power to make decisions about the disbursement of funds haven’t come to fruition, and a previously teased “boxing game” connected with the project was never unveiled. Additionally, Jacob claims, there is no proof of the philanthropic side of the project having been carried out as initially stated.

‘A Huge Scam’: Fans Who Bought Tekashi 6ix9ine-Backed NFTs Are Pissed https://t.co/6m2UEpHC3g

— Rolling Stone (@RollingStone) December 17, 2021 Open / Comment

2021-12-20 20:05:56 ​​ Battle Saga — это децентрализованная стратегическая метавселенная, основанная на базе известной игры Clash of Clan, которая реализовывает инновационную систему DAO для лучшего взаимодействия с пользователями.

Игровые аспекты включают виртуальную недвижимость вместе с боевой системой, где игроки могут зарабатывать прибыль, нападая или защищаясь от врагов. Игроки могут улучшать здания, тем самым увеличивая их ценность на рынке, чтобы потом продать и заработать на этом.

В Battle Saga используется собственный токен BTL, который обменивается на игровой токен GOLD. Этот токен можно использовать для обучения войск, улучшения зданий, прокачки героев и многого другого! На торговой площадке можно продавать героев или покупать героев для себя

Фонды: Oddiyana Ventures, Moonwhale, ExNetwork, Dutch Crypto Investors, Magnus Capital, Wealth Union, Halvings Capital, Vespertine Capital, BBS Finance, Fairum, MH ventures, GameFi Capital, Unilayer Capital, Avalon Wealth Club, Red Swiss Capital, Hot Capital, Unreal Capital.

Launchpad: Polkabridge, Multipad, Roseon, Synapse

IDO: с 21 по 22 декабря.

Планируется листинг на PancakeSwap

Информационные ресурсы:
Website
Pitch Deck
Official Telegram Group
Official Announcement Channel

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Reddit
Medium
Discord
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