FTX.US partnered with the Golden State Warriors basketball crew
The US subsidiary of cryptocurrency exchange FTX has become the official cryptocurrency spouse with the Golden State Warriors basketball crew.
As portion of the deal, Golden State Warriors will launch NFT collectibles, commencing early 2022, and FTX.US will be the principal hub for this campaign, launched on its NFT marketplace.
Ukraine Commercial Bank to test digital currency built on Stellar
One of Ukraine’s oldest commercial banks, Tascombank, is planning to test an electronic hryvnia, a digital version of its sovereign currency.
The electronic hryvnia will be built and tested on the Stellar network and be deployed via global fintech platform Bitt’s digital currency management system (DCMS).
Cash App now lets users ‘gift’ stock and bitcoin using their USD balance or a debit card
Cash App, owned by Block (the company formerly known as Square) will now allow users in the U.S. to send bitcoin, as well as traditional stocks, as gifts to other U.S. Cash App users.
Solana Ventures announces new $150 million fund for blockchain gaming
Solana Ventures, Forte, and Griffin Gaming Partners announced that they will invest $150 million in gaming startups building on the Solana blockchain. The new fund will invest in startups’ equity as well as token rounds and expects to be fully deployed over the next 18 months.
Germany’s biggest financial institution group is about to launch a crypto wallet
Leading German banking group Sparkasse with the network of 370 financial savings banking institutions across the country, just announced it is doing work on a cryptocurrency integration check task to permit buyers to access cryptography directly from their current financial institution accounts.
Tesla will accept Dogecoin payments for some products
Tesla will allow people to buy some of its branded products using the cryptocurrency Dogecoin, billionaire CEO Elon Musk tweeted on Tuesday. Following Musk’s tweet, dogecoin’s value surged by nearly 20% in an hour.
Avalanche (AVAX) supports the USDC stablecoin
Blockchain Avalanche (AVAX) continues to broaden the DeFi ecosystem by supporting the 2nd most common stablecoin, USDC. Avalanche is the seventh blockchain that supports USDC, just after Hedera Hashgraph, Tron, Ethereum, Algorand, Stellar and Solana.
Small Ethereum investors increase exposure as ETH loses $4K level
According to data gathered by Glassnode, the number of Ether addresses holding less than or equal to 0.01 ETH reached a record high level of 19.95 million on Dec. 4, the day ETH dropped to as low as $3,575.
Meanwhile, the number of Ethereum wallets with balances of at least 0.1 ETH also kept climbing despite Ether’s correction, eventually hitting a new ATH of 6.37 million on Dec. 12. As a result, the number of Ether addresses with a non-zero balance also reached a new record high of nearly 70 million.
PlayNFT plug-in to enable streamers to offer NFTs on Twitch
Blockchain games studio Enigma Games is using Enjin’s Efinity blockchain on PlayNFT, the studio’s NFT minting platform, to build a plug-in that will allow Twitch’s 9.2 million streamers to use NFTs to build greater engagement with their audience.
New farm and pool to earn KAI will be live soon on Apeswap
KardiaChain announced a partnership with Apeswap, a leading DEX with a trustable DeFi Protocol on Binance Smart Chain and Polygon focusing on offering a premier trading experience.
With KAI will soon be officially listed on ApeSwap, users can enjoy tremendous value through Yield Farming and Staking using the coveted KAI token, a feature that ApeSwap enables.