Ubisoft launches Ubisoft Quartz platform for playable and energy-efficient NFTs
Starting with Ghost Recon Breakpoint, Ubisoft will drop NFTs to PC players on the Tezos blockchain on Thursday. French video game publisher Ubisoft announced its first foray into nonfungible tokens (NFTs) via a new platform called Ubisoft Quartz to launch …
CIA director says agency currently has ‘a number of different projects’ focused on crypto
William Burns said that building knowledge on crypto was “an important priority” for the CIA, and he planned to devote “resources and attention” to it. Central Intelligence Agency Director William Burns said his predecessor at the United States government agency …
What Facebook’s rebranding tells us about Big Tech’s ‘Game of Platforms’
While built on the idea of connectivity, the Metaverse could instead break the internet apart, but the solution lies in how the business is done. In his monthly crypto tech column, Israeli serial entrepreneur Ariel Shapira covers emerging technologies within …
Smart crypto policy could keep India’s tech dominance on top
Experts are fairly confident that the Indian government will most likely choose to regulate rather than ban its thriving crypto economy. There’s no denying that the Indian government shares a contentious relationship with cryptocurrencies, as was made clear recently when …
French fintech startup Lydia raises $100 million in series C funding round
The series C funding round was led by existing investors Tencent and Accel. French crypto-friendly fintech startup Lydia has raised $100 million in a series C funding round, as per a report in TechCrunch. The latest capital raise reportedly helped …
Survey says crypto popular holiday gift for Americans — NFTs not so much
Bitcoin, Dogecoin and Ether lead the list as the most popular cryptocurrencies Americans plan to gift during the holiday season. Cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin (BTC), Dogecoin (DOGE) and Ether (ETH) are set to become the gift of choice for people of …
SBI announces crypto joint venture with Swiss digital exchange SIX
The crypto venture is expected to formalize its operation by the end of 2021 and start offering its services by early 2022. SBI Digital Asset Holdings, a fully owned subsidiary of Japanese banking giant SBI Holdings, announced a joint crypto …
Dogecoin and Ether rank in top 10 news searches on Google in 2021
Dogecoin was the fourth-most popular news on Google in 2021 both globally and in the United States. Major cryptocurrencies Ether (ETH) and Dogecoin (DOGE) made the list of the world’s most searched terms in 2021 on Google On Tuesday, Google …
Russia’s largest bank struggles to register its digital asset platform
State-owned bank Sber is trying to launch digital asset tools, but regulators remain skeptical about the industry. Sber, Russia’s largest bank, is apparently struggling to obtain regulatory approval for its digital asset issuance platform as the company continues delaying registration …
Can Bitcoin’s hard cap of 21 million be changed?
Satoshi Nakamoto, the creator of Bitcoin, set a hard cap of 21 million BTC, which means there will only ever be 21 million Bitcoin in existence. How could Bitcoin’s hard cap be modified? Despite the above-mentioned opposing incentives, a supply …