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payment news
- bitcoin (btc) Custodian and Licensed Private Bank expo bank partnered with lightning network infrastructure builder lightspark and integrates with the Lightning Network, enabling users to instantly pay for small purchases of up to $100 at any merchant that accepts Lightning payments without high transaction fees and long blockchain confirmation wait times. “Xapo Bank also offers an annual interest rate of 4.1% on USD and will soon offer up to 1% on bitcoin, split over the year and paid daily,” it said. Said,
ethereum news
- Ethereum (ETH) developers have pushed back Shanghai hard fork for april – this will happen after about two weeks goerli Testnet launch is scheduled for March 14. [developer meeting] (March 16), “Ethereum Core Developer Tim Beiko Said, He explained, “The team was making suggestions for a possible mainnet fork roughly 4 weeks later, giving them 1 week to test + release, and then get people to upgrade their nodes.” Was given 2+ weeks.”
investment news
- global alternative investment firm Skybridge Capital and privately owned holding company Al Maskari Holding Announces strategic, long-term partnership with blockchain software and services provider Casper Labs, “Among Casper’s Growing Footprints Middle East And North Africa (MENA) region, Skybridge Capital and Al Maskari Holding will provide Casper Labs with strategic support including business development, investor relations and marketing services alongside the wider Casper community. Additionally, the companies are obtaining warrants to become shareholders in Casper Labs.” Said Press release.
- digital collectibles platform further away announced that it raised $10.5 million in a funding round led by blockchain investment firm pantera capitalwith participation from Cypher Capital, Huobi Ventures, extreme area, Lirk Ventures, Mantis Partners, K5 GlobalEtcetera. “The new funds will help further expand the platform’s capabilities, enhance the user experience, and increase the number of Web3 developers, as well as IP owners, who can benefit from the platform,” it said in a press release.
- In factA venture by Adam Lyons, Founder & CEO of Unicorn TheZebra.com, announced led its $18 million seed round polychain, sluice Founding Partner Mike Maples Jr., and other strategic partners. The company also launched a phone plan comparison tool, really dot com, allows individuals in the US to compare 56 carriers and 379 plans and switch to the service that’s right for them. “The continued and rapid adoption of Web3 and blockchain into our daily lives is revolutionizing telecommunications at an unprecedented rate,” said Mike Maples Jr.
- thousands Australian Those who used do-it-yourself (DIY) pension funds or self-managed superannuation funds (SMSF) to invest in crypto have lost hundreds of millions of dollars, Reuters informed of, Assuming that, an average 40% decline since market peak would mean a drop in value of SMSF crypto investments of around $600 million, it said. The DIY pension fund accounts for a quarter of Australia’s A$3.4 trillion ($2.29 trillion) pension pool. Australia has approximately $880 billion in SMSFs, with $1.4 billion of crypto accounting for it in fiscal year 2021, with the number expected to grow from then on.
security news
- web3 security forum not common announced its launch “as a one-stop shop for both artists and collectors to trade and display work,” Said Press release. It launched a curated, moderated blacklist of fraudsters, allowing users to crosscheck people and entities against a database of known bad actors. Following $1.5 million in funding, NotCommon’s beta launch aims to “reduce fraud within the Web3 industry and strengthen trust and security in the space,” said the team.
charity news
- Mete Umut Elmas, Head of MENA Business Development of the crypto exchange KuCoin, discussed the concept of crypto donations at the Blockchain Life 2023 conference in Dubai, arguing that crypto donations can encourage anonymous donations and enable greater equality, as well as a technologically-minded generation of philanthropy. Can introduce. Decentralized Autonomous Organization (dao) management of funds, can also lend credibility to press releases Said,
