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2022-08-24 20:04:57 The Beijing authorities sent the "Action Plan for Innovation and Development of the Metaverse" for 2022-2024 to the district institutions and committees. The purpose of the document is to promote the development of Web3 and industries related to the segment.

According to the plan, Beijing should become a "reference for the digital economy." The authorities demanded that municipalities create technological infrastructure and promote its use in various fields, including education and tourism. Open / Comment

2022-08-24 09:46:11 Senior market analyst of the Oanda platform Edward Moya suggests that crypto winter has come to an end
According to him, some crypto investors are starting to buy more significant volumes of BTC and other cryptocurrencies Open / Comment

2022-08-23 20:49:36 Binance cryptocurrency exchange announced that it now supports zero-commission trading for Ethereum (ETH), the second largest cryptocurrency.
Its users will be able to trade ETH for free against their own stable Binance USD (BUSD) coin starting from August 26. Open / Comment

2022-08-23 11:39:08 Mark Zuckerberg made a statement after a flurry of criticism of users towards the visual component of the game: social media users laughed at Horizon Worlds, saying that the graphics there are even worse than in a similarly functional multiplayer game of 2003 Second Life. Open / Comment

2022-08-22 09:04:35 The American company Best Buy, which occupies 17% of the consumer electronics market of the United States and Canada, which owns a chain of stores, made the sale of goods for cryptocurrency available. The retailer has entered into a partnership agreement with the BitPay payment system.

Users of the crypto service can purchase Best Buy gift cards for ETH, SHIB, DOGE or "wrapped" Bitcoin, as well as other common cryptocurrencies: LTC, BCH, XRP and stablecoins. Open / Comment

2022-08-21 20:59:24 One of the leaders in the cryptomat market, General Bytes, reported a hacker attack on its bitcoin ATMs around the world.

The attackers successfully carried out a zero-day attack on General Bytes servers, taking advantage of a vulnerability in CAS hardware management software. They managed to create a fake administrator account and modify the settings for buying and selling cryptocurrency so that users of devices send digital assets to a wallet owned by criminals.

General Bytes employees asked customers to stop using bitcoin ATMs until specialists make a patch to the software installed on 18 servers. Open / Comment

2022-08-21 16:38:29 Top coins traded on Binance by price increase over the past 7 days. Open / Comment

2022-08-21 14:26:00 Uniswap has blocked 253 crypto addresses related to stolen funds or sanctions.

Decentralized exchange Uniswap has blocked 253 crypto addresses in its four months of working with blockchain analytics firm TRM Labs. The data was published on GitHub by Uniswap software engineer Jordan Frankfurt, according to Yearn Finance core developer Banteg, who saved the data in a tweet thread and on GitHub. Open / Comment

2022-08-21 11:16:32 The Sandbox Launches Alpha Season 3 in August

One of, if not the best platform in the metaverse, The Sandbox, a subsidiary of Animoca Brands, is launching Alpha Season 3 at some point this month. Alpha Season 3 expands on the successful Alpha Season 2 which attracted over 325,000 players.

Alpha Season 3 Summary

To summarize, The Sandbox COO Sebastian Borge said: “Alpha Season 3 will bring more multiplayer options, more partners, more creators, more rewards for owners and players through the play and earn mechanic, more collections and more excitement.”

Simply put, Alpha Season 3 will be an enlarged and improved version of the previous seasons of The Sandbox. Open / Comment

2022-08-20 17:50:44 After blocking Tornado Cash, privacy protocols came under close attention, interaction with which can cost users to block accounts.

Chinese journalist Colin Wu reported that the FTX exchange blocked user accounts for transferring funds to the ZK Money account. Wu wrote on Twitter that FTX "identifies Aztec Network as a mixing service" and strongly recommends its customers not to use the services of this service in order to avoid blocking accounts. Open / Comment