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Important news: Bitget, a well-known crypto exchange, will join the exciting upcoming launch of Chiliz (CHZ) on the Chiliz Chain, soon making Chiliz (CHZ) deposits available on the Chiliz blockchain. See all the details below. Bitget embraces the revolutionary Chiliz Chain with support for crypto CHZ Chiliz revolutionizes the world of sports with the launch of the Chiliz Chain public mainnet Bitget is looking for new opportunities with Bitget Card and Web3 technology Bitget embraces the revolutionary Chiliz Chain with support for crypto CHZ As anticipated, Bitget, a leading crypto trading platform, is preparing to support the upcoming launch of…

In a recent move that signals changing perspectives on the crypto-gaming frontier, the French National Assembly has ratified the Sorare law. This legislation forms an integral part of the expansive Digital Space Regulation Law (SREN), laying down guidelines for the burgeoning video game industry that leverages Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs) and cryptocurrency-based monetization.The “Jonum Regime”Central to this legislation is the introduction of the term “Jonum Regime,” which translates to games endowed with monetizable digital objects. By bringing this into the legal lexicon, France aims to strike a balance between spurring innovation in its startup ecosystem and bolstering safeguards for users. This…

AxLabs has updated Neow3j to align the toolkit with Neo v3.6. The significant v3.21.0 release incorporated support for the latest opcodes, native contract methods, and transaction attributes featured in the Neo upgrade. A subsequent update reintroduced the test framework. Neow3j v3.21.0 was released shortly after the Neo MainNet upgrade. Included in the SDK is the new findstorage RPC method and improvements to the NeoToken native contract, such as an improved unclaimedGas function and support for the lastGasPerVote field in AccountState. The devpack was enriched with the new ASSERTMSG and ABORTMSG opcodes, which can give context to a developer on the…

COZ has released an update for Boa, its Python smart contract compiler. The v1.1.0 update is aimed at streamlining the developer experience and provides access to key Neo v3.6 features, such as tools for zero-knowledge proof verification. Applications leveraging zero-knowledge proofs are supported through the inclusion of the CryptoLib native contract methods for BLS points, including: Serialization and deserialization Arithmetic (addition and multiplication) Pairing Equivalence checking Two new opcodes have been introduced, ASSERTMSG and ABORTMSG, which give developers more context when debugging execution failures. A method for converting bytes to printable strings was also added. General improvements include validation for…

The president of the Avalanche (AVAX) development firm Ava Labs is issuing his crypto predictions for 2024. In the interview with CNBC, Ava Labs president John Wu talks up the Friend.tech challenger Stars Arena, a decentralized social finance application (SocialFi) that launched on the AVAX blockchain in late September. “We just talked about Stars Arena, and they’re going back online, and we will see one of these SocialFi DApps figure it out. There’s been a couple already, and they’ve had booms and some busts, but sooner or later they’re fixing the business model and it will work well. So that’s…

The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTTC) has signed an agreement to acquire Securrency, a digital asset infrastructure developer. The acquisition will allow DTCC to embed digital assets gradually in its existing products and services, it said. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. It is expected to close “within the next several weeks.” Securrency will be renamed DTCC Digital Assets. Securrency’s top management and around 100 employees will remain with the company. The company was backed by State Street, U.S. Bank, WisdomTree and Abu Dhabi Catalyst Partners and partnered with cybersecurity and digital asset custodian GK8. DTCC president, CEO…

A new expansion arrives soon in Parallel named Planetfall. This expansion brings new cards, new faction abilities, new Keys, new Paragon skins, and more! There will be a presale phase starting on October 25th, with the public sale opening on the 28th. It’s time for some new stuff in Parallel! Specifically, a new expansion which will be sold in two phases — pre-sale and public. Players and NFT holders will receive access to a pre-sale. The snapshot for pre-sale access takes place soon (or has already been taken) and includes Prime Key holders. Avatar holders, Masterpiece holders, Terminal holders, Premium…

Insomnia Labs has partnered with several companies to incorporate web3 elements into brand loyalty. New York-based technology firm Insomnia Labs on Oct. 18 announced a partnership with several web3 companies, including Co:Create, Smart Token Labs, Cookie3, and Crossmint, to launch a brand loyalty initiative dubbed Loyalty+. In a statement shared with crypto.news, Insomnia Labs described the new initiative as leveraging an array of web3 technologies, such as blockchain, non-fungible tokens (NFTs), and artificial intelligence, to transform traditional loyalty systems. The platform offers a unified online portal where customers can view and redeem points from various loyalty schemes. In addition, it…

The utopian vision of thousands of blockchains happily running alongside and interacting with each other in an interconnected multiverse is becoming less likely, it seems. And while the rollup thesis appears to be replacing the appchain narrative of entities like Polkadot and Cosmos, Zee Prime Capital partner Fiskantes says, “it’s still the same thing,” ultimately. “The architecture, the structure is almost the same. It’s just, now we call it rollups, and it’s on Ethereum.” Whether its appchains or rollups, Fiskantes says he doesn’t see a future where thousands of chains will crowd the DeFi landscape. Even if it is trivially…

The Anoma Foundation, a charitable organization that focuses on blockchain technology, made an announcement on October 19 about the introduction of a Community Builders Program for Namada, a multichain privacy protocol. The aim of the program is to hasten the adoption of greater privacy features in public blockchain systems, according to the most recent information that Finbold has received. By using zero-knowledge encryption across a number of different blockchains, Namada offers anonymity that is independent of the underlying assets. The Namada Community Builders Program pulls together a network of people and groups in order to construct a gateway that bridges…