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Manchester City to build Etihad Stadium in the Metaverse
Premier League champions Manchester City and their new partner Sony have begun building a virtual replica of the Etihad Stadium which will be the team’s central hub in the Metaverse. Etihad Stadium is the home of Manchester City, England’s top soccer team at the moment. The team announced on Feb. 18 that it had signed a three-year agreement with Sony, which will provide virtual reality experts to use image analysis and skeletal-tracking technology from subsidiary Hawk-Eye. Manchester City is developing the metaverse’s first football stadium#Crypto #Metaverse #Blockchain #Football #ManchesterCity #CryptoNews #CloutNews https://t.co/nhpUmYixkO — Clout News (@CloutNewsMedia) February 21, 2022 Manchester City hopes fans will enjoy all the benefits of having a virtual stadium. Although Co...
Cardano daily transaction volume surges but ADA prices slump
The Cardano blockchain has experienced an explosion in on-chain activity and now trails only Bitcoin in current 24-hour transaction volume, surpassing Ethereum in the process according to Messari. Cardano (ADA) currently has $17.04 billion in 24-hour transaction volume, according to data from on-chain analytics firm Messari. With Bitcoin (BTC) at $18.85 billion and Ethereum (ETH) at $5.25 billion according to Messari, Cardano is in second place in that category and is closing in on the top position for this metric. #Cardano just surpassed $LTC and $ETH in transaction volume. Are you bullish on $ADA? — The Moon (@TheMoonCarl) February 21, 2022 Overall, this month has seen tremendous activity on Cardano. On Feb. 14, 24-hour transaction volume topped $35 billion and on Feb. 19 it reached $31 ...
On-chain metrics hint at a bearish outlook for Bitcoin
Blockchain analytics provider Glassnode has depicted a bearish scenario for Bitcoin as on-chain metrics suggest increased selling pressure is imminent. In its weekly analytics report on Feb. 21, on-chain metrics firm Glassnode said that Bitcoin bulls “face a number of headwinds,” referring to increasingly bearish network data. The researchers pointed at the general weakness in mainstream markets alongside wider geopolitical issues as the reason for the current risk-off sentiment for crypto assets. “Weakness in both Bitcoin, and traditional markets, reflects the persistent risk and uncertainty associated with Fed rate hikes expected in March, fears of conflict in Ukraine, as well as growing civil unrest in Canada and elsewhere.” It added that as the downtrend deepens, “the probability of a ...
Crypto trading firm Amber valued at $3B after big Singaporean investment
Crypto finance service provider Amber has landed a valuation of $3 billion following a funding round led by Singaporean state-owned investment firm Temasek Holdings. Amber Group was able to raise $200 million in its Series B+ funding round as revealed in a Feb. 21 announcement. Other participants included Sequoia China, Pantera Capital, Tiger Global Management, Tru Arrow Partners, and Coinbase Ventures. We are excited to announce our Series B+, which comes at a time of rapidly increasing crypto adoption globally. The investment reinforces Amber Group’s strategic alignment with its investors, as well as a shared vision of digital assets’ future in a new, digital economy. #wagmi pic.twitter.com/6EOHd1H8Gx — Amber Group (@ambergroup_io) February 22, 2022 Amber has now increased its valu...
Bitcoin investors are not giving up their holdings despite a shaky market
Investors are unwilling to let go of their Bitcoin to avoid making a sale they might regret later, according to Three Arrow Capital CEO Bitcoin’s daily active entities have hit mid-2019 numbers, but the activity remains on a rise Three Arrow Capital CEO Zhu Su has indicated that Bitcoin investors now have more patience and are not panic selling as they did for the Bitcoin copped between 2017-2018. On-chain data has revealed that the top digital asset holders have been hodling for more than an entire year despite the fluctuating prices and endless market corrections. A good number of the large Bitcoin investors have gone as far as adding more coins to their portfolios in that period. Su explained that traders who sold their holdings as the markets slumped between 2018 and 2019 soon en...
BSC whales have been taking up Cardano (ADA) despite the price not looking up
The largest BNB whale recently acquired in excess of 5.1 million worth of ADA BSC whales have also been dabbling in Dogecoin and ALPHA tokens On-chain monitoring tool WhaleStats revealed that the biggest BNB whale added $5.1 million worth of ADA to their portfolio on Sunday. The blockchain service, which tracks the top hodlers on the BSC and the tokens they own, published the information on its BSC-focused Twitter account @WhaleStatsBSC. More specifically, the giant investor copped 5,367,075 ADA tokens for a price of $5,106,208. To note is that the tokens in question are ADA BEP20 tokens, which exist purely on the BNB Chain. They are not actual ADA (Cardano native) tokens but rather tokens tied to ADA’s price on Binance’s chain, meaning such tokens cannot be transferred t...
pSTAKE Finance brings liquid staking and a new airdrop to the Cosmos ecosystem
One of the most significant transitions to occur for the cryptocurrency ecosystem since the launch of Bitcoin (BTC) has been the increasing dominance of proof-of-stake (PoS) protocols over the proof-of-work (PoW) model, primarily due to energy requirements of the PoW model and growing concern over its environmental impact. As more projects launch or transition to the PoS model, a new class of protocols have emerged that are focused on offering liquid staking options that allow token holders to tap into the value held in their staked tokens while still earning a yield for locking their assets on the network. pSTAKE Finance is one of these platforms and here’s a brief look into its long-term goal of adding utility to the proof-of-stake model and how it differs from similar protoc...
FriesDAO scoops up fast food franchises as part of its crypto governance experiment
A new proof of concept decentralized autonomous organization, or DAO, called FriesDAO wants to democratize access to the fast food industry. Cointelegraph spoke to FriesDAO advisors Brett Beller and Bill Lee about their mission to be a “part of something that will connect crypto and virtual ownership to real-world assets.” FriesDAO aims to acquire and scale fast food restaurant franchises like Popeye’s, Burger King and Taco Bell by inviting FRIES token holders to run a decentralized network of Quick Service Restaurants, or QSR. Starting with Subway franchise owners, the FriesDAO team hopes to guide their partners about the blockchain space. What “started as a joke” turned into a serious proposition when they realized there “was a hole for people that were ready to run...
Law Decoded: Bitcoin’s censorship resistance capacity enters the spotlight, Feb. 14–21
Amid the barrage of last week’s regulatory news, from rumors of Joe Biden’s upcoming executive order on digital assets to another round of the Russian government’s crypto tug of war, the storyline that was arguably the most consequential for the mainstream narrative on the social effects of crypto has been the one around the Canadian government’s standoff with the Freedom Convoy. The government’s invocation of emergency powers to put down a protest movement — combined with the movement’s financial infrastructure being one of the main attack vectors — has led many observers to appreciate with renewed vigor Bitcoin’s capacity to resist state financial censorship. If a government as “civilized” as Canada’s can arbitrarily cut off a group it doesn’t like from the financial system, then any sta...
Komodo (KMD) rallies 54% after major push to expand interoperability with AtomicDEX
Interoperability between separate blockchain networks has become a major theme in the cryptocurrency market over the past year, but several major exploits — such as the $321 million Wormhole exploit — have highlighted the difficulties in achieving cross-chain transfers in a secure manner. One protocol that has been gaining traction in February thanks to its alternative approach to achieving cross-chain interoperability is Komodo, an open, composable multichain platform that is home to the AtomicDEX wallet and non-custodial decentralized exchange. Data from Cointelegraph Markets Pro and TradingView shows that after hitting a low of $0.446 on Feb. 20, the price of the platform’s KMD token surged 54% to a daily high of $0.687 on Feb. 22. KMD/USDT 4-hour chart. Source: TradingView Three r...
Huobi is planning a comeback in the US market, but not as an exchange
Huobi Tech co-founder Du Jun confirmed in an interview that the exchange is mulling a return into the US The exchange is, however, seeking to re-enter the market in the lines of asset management as opposed to an exchange Crypto exchange Huobi has plans to enter the US market, targeting a different sub-niche. Speaking in an interview with CNBC’s Arjun Kharpal, Huobi co-founder Du Jun expressed the company’s desire to expand into the US. Jun explained that Huobi was ready to get back into the competitive US market after redefining its strategy. The Huobi brand operated in the US market for a short while between 2018 and 2019 through– a US-based entity called Huobi US. The entity failed to stick the landing and consequently withdrew from the market in December 2019, citing regulat...
2nd Release By Former Bored Ape Yacht Club Artist: Sneaky Vampire NFT Collection
Los Angeles, California, USA, February 20, 2022 – Sneaky Vampire Syndicate (SVS) is an independent NFT project by former Bored Ape Yacht Club artist Mig which previously gained massive popularity. The artist officially announced they’ll be releasing their 2nd NFT collection called Sneaky Vampire. The collection consists of 12,345 female vampires that will join their 8,888 male counterparts from the first collection in The Lair. The Lair is the place all vampires call home – existing in the Metaverse away from the harmful sunlight and pesky Vampire Hunters. Mig collaborated with Superand, a team of veteran cryptocurrency leaders and developer in a joined effort releasing the first collection of 8,888 male vampires last year in September 2021. So far, this collection generated over 21,6...
