Blockchain Ireland is taking place next week, and as it's a virtual event, the whole world is welcome! You can sign up using this link. The event is called NFTs: Strategy Fit & Marketplaces and will focus on the why and the what of non-fungible tokens rather than the how. Date/Time Date(s) - February 22, 2022 8:30 am - 9:45…

Progress on a digital USD brings CBDC standards into focus Written by: Simon Chantry, Co-Founder & CIO, Bitt The release of the Federal Reserve’s CBDC paper, and the following release of the Boston Fed and MIT’s joint CBDC research and development project (Project Hamilton), has confirmed that the largest monetary authority in the world is examining the feasibility…

BCB Group, Europe’s leading provider of business accounts and trading services for the digital asset economy, today announced the launch of BCB Yield, a product that lets customers earn a return on both fiat or crypto funds. This latest development in BCB’s growth strategy builds on opportunities that exist in fiat lending for crypto market participants.…

Wasted Talent strikes deal with Token||Traxx, furthering its imprint on the music industry as music NFTs are set for the mainstream A major media partnership has been announced this week between a global music and lifestyle brand and a new, independent music creator economy which signifies a seismic paradigm shift for the music marketplace. Wasted Talent ,…

Bolide Finance, a DeFi yield optimization platform announced the successful closure of a Private Sale. The seed round is valued at  $3million. These funds will help Bolide to fulfil its mission of creating an ecosystem with a variety of investment strategies in the DeFi market. A number of high profile angel investors got BLID governance…

Spark, a new and unique marketplace built on Avalanche for solving the problems of whitelisting and randomised minting in NFT drops, have announced the successful closure of their seed fundraising round. The raise was led by a roster of respected investment firms, including: Genesis Block Ventures, Magnus Capital, Alphabit Fund, Pluto Digital Assets, Moonrock Capital, Netzero Capital, Block Pioneers, J8 Ventures, Bluewheel Capital, and Contango. Spark…

Hayabusa Studios to launch AAA survival game built in Unreal 5 in Summer 2023 Development budget over US$10 million Mobile game focused on in-game economy to launch this summer Lepricon to build dedicated blockchain as the game’s economic engine Lepricon will provide wallet, marketplace, and batch minting technology Joshua Galloway,…

Token||Traxx, the upcoming music NFT platform,  has announced the allocation of $10,000 TRAXX tokens for distribution via a community bounty campaign to celebrate the forthcoming Token Generation Event (TGE), scheduled to take place on the 14th March 2022. The unique relationship between music artists and fans powers the Token||Traxx: it’s this community that is at the…

BCB Group, Europe’s leading provider of business accounts and trading services for the digital asset economy, announced today that it has acquired LAB577, a software engineering venture studio at the nexus of financial services and emerging technology. With a dedicated focus on institutional payment services, BCB Group provides business accounts, cryptocurrency and foreign exchange market…

In this weekly column Harry Horsfall, Co Founder & CEO of Zebu Digital - a London-based crypto and blockchain digital marketing agency - shares his thoughts on the moving and shaking taking place in the industry this week. Having been involved in the crypto scene since 2011, I’ve been a first-hand witness to the subversive…