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Blockchain Visa, one of the world’s largest digital payment platforms, is digging deep into the cryptocurrency space. In an interview with Blockworks, Visa’s head of CBDC and protocols, Catherine Gu discussed the company’s current exploration of blockchain protocols and consensus mechanisms. She emphasized Visa’s keen interest in the area, saying that it aims to better comprehend blockchain’s underlying fundamentals and assess its potential role in shaping the future of payments. The payments giant recently released a technical paper that showcased how digital transactions could be transformed using account abstraction (AA). Ethereum mainnet currently sees roughly one million transactions every day.…

Gala Games announces the first implementation of NFTs into Dragon Strike, a mobile game they picked up earlier this year with their acquisition of Ember Entertainment. The world of casual gaming, especially on mobile devices, is a huge market. One in which web3 gaming is still working to get a solid foothold on. That effort now takes another step forward as Gala Games announces the first implementation of web3 tech into their recently acquired suite of mobile games. Earlier this year Gala Games purchased Ember Entertainment, an existing mobile game company to help give them a jumpstart into providing web3…

Blockchain A substantially scalable, secure, and rapid blockchain platform named IoTeX has started a partnership with the Web3-focused payment services providing platform Alchemy Pay. As included in the collaboration, the on and off-ramp payment solution of Alchemy Pay is to be launched by IoTeX in its ecosystem. IoTeX Provides On and Off-Ramp Solutions of Alchemy Pay as a Result of Its Exclusive Collaboration IoTeX intends to utilize the plugin of Alchemy Pay to permit the dApps and developers on its platform to matchlessly integrate the on and off-ramp operability of the payment company. This also enables consumers living around the…

Shrapnel opens up Callsign reservation, allowing players to reserve their unique handle / character name, for a fee paid in SHRAP tokens. Callsigns not only reserve the name just for you, but they also provide other benefits, and can even be sold and traded to other players! Shrapnel unveils their latest web feature, Callsigns. Callsigns are unique identifiers in Shrapnel that cannot be duplicated. Each one costs 250 SHRAP tokens and players can mint multiple Signs. minting a Callsign Aside from the bragging rights of being the only one in-game with the name Elon Tusk (for example), owning a Callsign…

beginner The cryptocurrency industry has seen extraordinary growth and innovation over the past decade. However, the technical complexities and high entry barriers have often left many interested individuals struggling to jump onto the crypto train. One intriguing project aiming to address this issue and bring crypto mining to everyday people is the Pi Network. Pi Network is a crypto project that I, Daria Morgen, the author of this article, have been interested in for a long time. Its accessibility aligns perfectly with the key ideals of the crypto market, like decentralization. I’m really excited to tell you more about it…

NFT Web3 fantasy sports company Sorare is introducing an alternate entry method for players based in France to abide by the country’s proposed regulatory framework surrounding non-fungible tokens (NFTs). Sorare is working with the French National Gaming Authority (ANJ) to help legally onboard players based in France. Sorare said in a blog post that the solution is short-term while they continue to develop their long-term roadmap amid ongoing regulatory discussions. The temporary solution is currently live for its flagship category Sorare: Football and will roll out for Sorare: MLB on May 26, 2023 and finally for Sorare: NBA in the…

NFT On Wednesday, prominent generative digital art collective Art Blocks will debut its latest curated series, “Human Unreadable”—a three-act conceptual work of choreography involving both on-chain art pieces and physical experiences. The project, courtesy of Ania Catherine and Dejha Ti—the Berlin-based art duo known collectively as Operator—will consist of 400 Ethereum NFT art pieces created by dance. While that descriptor may sound flowery, it happens to quite literally be true in this case: Catherine and Ti have devised a coding language by which sequences of human movements are translated into what they call choreographic hashes—code that determines the appearance of…

Early pioneer of the move-to-earn trend, STEPN, has broken new ground by offering NFT trading on Apple devices. However, the new development comes with a catch, users will face higher fees in order to accommodate the ecosystem’s astronomical 30% ‘Apple Tax.’Through the new development STEPN users will face a tough choice between convenience and lower prices. Essentially, providing the means for iPhone users to purchase NFT sneakers through the Apple Pay portal, without engaging with cryptocurrencies.To make this possible, STEPN has introduced a new in-app currency called ‘Sparks’ which users can purchase via apple pay for a flat $0.01 per…

NFT Swiss-based non-profit organization the Interchain Foundation (ICF) has partnered with Bianjie, a blockchain development company, to launch a new NFT standard. Users utilizing the new standard, dubbed ICS-721, will now be able to track and transfer their NFTs across different blockchains. ICS-721 — an homage to the ERC 721 NFT standard on Ethereum — is an application layer inter-blockchain communication (IBC) protocol, which means that it enables blockchains to communicate with one another without the need for a bridge. This new standard can enable NFTs to be integrated into various sectors in Web3. These include gaming, socializing, identity management…

Blockchain Manta Network, a layer-1 blockchain running on Polkadot, has teamed up with Linea, a rollup-based scaling solution, to offer users zero-knowledge soulbound tokens (zkSBT). Due to the inherent transparency of open blockchains, the team at Manta was to address one of the main concerns of cryptocurrency projects today, privacy. “The problem we are trying to tackle here is so that verification is only limited to certain on-chain activities, rather than share all data to an app,” Manta Network co-founder Victor Ji told Decrypt. Polkadot Privacy Project Manta Network Eyes Crypto’s Largest Trusted Setup Ever He added that users won’t…