The Dutchee Times
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#47: November 19-25
Cool Cats is creating a series of animated shorts. The first episode is out now. South Korea is launching a CBDC pilot for 100,000 citizens next year. Binance (BNB) Founder CZ pleads guilty to violating US anti-money-laundering requirements and agrees to pay $4.3 billion in fines. Binance’s new C...
#45/46: November 5-18
Coinbase revealed a new open-source protocol for on-chain payments to attempt to standardize on-chain payments on Base, Polygon (MATIC), and other EVM-based networks. Former OpenAI CEO Sam Altman’s controversial, eyeball-scanning Worldcoin (WLD) crypto is experiencing increased volatility following...
#44: October 29-November 4
Sam Bankman-Fried was found guilty on all seven counts. Berklee College of Music, the largest independent college of contemporary music & performing arts, is developing a music licensing platform built on NEAR (NEAR). Multi-chain crypto wallet & DeFi platform Coin98 launched a dapp store on NEAR ...
#43: October 22-28
Polygon (MATIC) launched the POL token contracts on the Ethereum (ETH) mainnet. The Solana (SOL) Foundation and Polygon (MATIC) Labs jointly hosted the first Crypto Policy Bootcamp in Washington DC. Solana (SOL) NFT project Claynosaurz is releasing physical plushies. IoTeX (IOTX) integrates Solan...
#42: October 15-21
41: October 15-21 WAX (WAXP) marketplace AtomicHub adds trading rewards. Buy and sell NFTs and earn WOMBAT. Ethereum (ETH) co-founder Vitalik Buterin invested 400 ETH in open-source VR headset company SimulaVR. Their headsets are expected to launch in 2024 for $2.7k (or $2k for a tethered-only ver...
#41: October 8-14
Coinbase trading volume is down 52% year-over-year. MetaMask was taken off the Apple Store for about an hour, causing Trust Wallet's token, TWT, to temporarily shoot up ~20%. Bitcoin hits a new all-time high hash rate. Bitcoin dominance versus altcoins is the highest it's been in 4 months. Canto...
#40: October 1-7
Messari shared a Q3 update on WAX (WAXP). Filecoin's (FIL) Protocol Labs partnered with popular blockchain tech company Consensys to support advanced-stage blockchain ventures. Adidas partnered with Italian fashion house Moncler. PROOF laid off part of its team "to adapt to the current market." ...
#39: September 24-30
The US Federal Reserve released a working paper on tokenization. PayPal partners with Crypto.com to expand the availability of PayPal's PYUSD stablecoin. Ethereum (ETH) block censorship is on the rise. FCF Pay partners with Chariot Energy to let Texans pay solar panel bills using Shiba Inu (SHIB)...
#38: September 17-23
NounsDAO forks into two DAOs after holders of ~56% of the NFT supply "ragequit." Paxos publishes a transparency report showing PYUSD's full backing. Solana (SOL) introduces Solana Permissioned Environments (SPEs), enabling enterprises to run their own private, customizable Solana VMs to power thei...
#37 September 10-16
KotaniPay closes a $2 million pre-seed round to improve the payments landscape in Africa, powered by Celo (CELO). Injective (INJ) integrates with Klaytn (KLAY), a top layer-1 blockchain in Korea. Gitcoin (GTC) co-founder Kevin Owocki plans to return to the project after departing in 2022. Vitalik...
#36: September 3-9
Nexo announces a hybrid credit-debit crypto card with Mastercard. Curve (CRV) is live on Base. According to Arkham Intelligence, Robinhood is the 5th largest holder of Ethereum (ETH). It holds $2.54 billion of ETH in custody for its users. (Robinhood has also previously been revealed as the 3rd la...
#33/34/35: August 13-September 2
Circle is bringing native USDC to Base network very soon. Web3 payments company MoonPay launches an investment arm, MoonPay Ventures. Nomadic Labs demonstrates 1 million transactions per second on Tezos (XTZ). Tezos (XTZ) NFT marketplace TEIA has begun distributing DAO tokens. Anyone who used HEN...
#31/32: July 30-August 12
PayPal announces its own dollar-pegged stablecoin, PYUSD, which is issued by Paxos and backed by dollars and other liquid cash equivalents. Maxine Waters is worried about PayPal’s stablecoin. Huobi will list PYUSD soon. Google Cloud is now running a Celo (CELO) validator. Aragon (ANT) launches i...
#30: July 23-29
Decentraland (MANA) now supports exporting avatars (as VRM files) for use in other metaverses & games. Etherscan adds support for Unstoppable Domains. Block adds former MIT Digital Currency Initiatives director Neha Narula to its board. Sam Bankman-Fried’s campaign finance charge has been dropped...
#29: July 16-22
Gnosis (GNO) launches a Visa card enabling individuals to easily spend self-custodied assets. The card will be available first in Europe, followed by a release in the US and Hong Kong. The United States sold another 8,200 Bitcoin. Unstoppable Domains adds support for .eth domains. Users can easily...