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Representative Tom Emmer has introduced legislation in the United States House of Representatives that could limit the Federal Reserve from issuing a central bank digital currency, or CBDC.In a Feb. 22 announcement, Emmer said he had introduced the “CBDC Anti-Surveillance State Act” in an apparent effort to protect Americans’ right to financial privacy. According to the Minnesota lawmaker, the bill could prohibit the Fed from issuing a digital dollar “directly to anyone,” bar the central bank from implementing monetary policy based on a CBDC, and require transparency for projects related to a digital dollar.“Any digital version of the dollar must…

NFT SolanaFM recently announced their intention to become the official explorer for Solanart. With the collaboration, the zero-fee NFT marketplace will enhance its UI. SolanaFM is known for its elevated transaction overview. The explorer will allow Solanart users to trade and track their NFTs smoothly. Despite launching in August 2022, SolanaFM has established a widespread audience. The next-generation Solana Explorer has been making headlines ever since its launch. It started with the explorer managing to secure 4.5 million dollars in the seed funding round. SBI Holdings served as the funding round’s leader, along with companies like K3 Ventures, Etherscan, Zee…

Blockchain In a tweet, Emi Yoshikawa, Ripple’s VP of Corporate Strategy and Operations, shares her excitement about the newly published XLS-38d, a standard proposal for the cross-chain bridge, which she says might significantly expand potential use cases for XRPL. The Github document for the XLS-38d proposal was authored by Mayukha Vadari, a RippleX software engineer, and Scott Determan. Check out XLS-38d, a standard proposal for cross-chain bridge! ????This would significantly expand potential use cases for XRPL.Community members, please share your feedback!! https://t.co/t7CQdsUkVY — Emi Yoshikawa (@emy_wng) February 23, 2023 Mayukha Vadari shared this on her Twitter page: “We just published…

NFT The chief technology officer of NFT platform Art Blocks, purplehat.eth, recently announced on social media that the platform would continue to support creator royalties, despite recent adjustments made by OpenSea and Blur. 1/ With all of the recent conversation around marketplaces and creator royalties, we’re very excited to announce that we have expanded the secondary marketplace functionality at @artblocks_io to now include native listings/delistings, with creator royalties always baked in. — purplehat.eth (@purphat) February 22, 2023 According to purplehat.eth, Art Blocks firmly believes that creator patronage royalties are a meaningful cultural pillar of patronage. Additionally, Art Blocks has expanded…

NFT The National Basketball Association (NBA) will partner Ant Group – Chinese tech giant Alibaba’s fintech affiliate – to issue NBA-themed non-fungible tokens (NFT) and create content. Fast facts The collaboration will bring NBA’s fan engagement into the virtual space in China, according to a Tuesday announcement by NBA China, the basketball league’s Chinese business arm. As part of the partnership, NBA has launched a mini-app on Alipay – Ant Group’s flagship mobile app and China’s largest third-party payment platform – where fans can watch NBA video content and access services such as a joint membership of NBA and Alipay.…

Leading Web3 collecting and trading ecosystem, Crypto.com, has launched an NFT collection to assist victims of recent earthquakes in Turkey. Dubbed “The Art of Giving II,” this open-edition collection will run from February 21 to March 2, 2023, at 23:59 UTC. Each piece in the collection will go for $50, and all proceeds from the sale will be donated to victims of these natural disasters.To create the collection, Crypto.com partnered with 55 top Web3 artists, who each contributed various art pieces. These works will be sold on Crypto.com’s NFT marketplace. Supporters of this initiative can visit the marketplace and buy…

NFT Artist name: Grant Riven Yun Location: Milwaukee Date minted first NFT: Feb. 3, 2021Which blockchains? Ethereum, Counterparty (Bitcoin) Who is he? Grant Yun has always been an artist at heart with an early aspiration to have his work featured at a major auction house. A curious and motivated individual, Yun is studying medicine while juggling his work as an artist and performing as a breakdancer who has competed all over the United States. Since discovering NFTs a little over two years ago, the Wisconsin resident has propelled his art and personal brand into the stratosphere much quicker than he’d…

Blockchain Network explorer Polygonscan suffered some issues, which led to the blockchain not processing any transactions for a short span of time. Some users even began speculating that the network had faced an outage. The co-founder of Polygon, Sandeep Nailwal, addressed the community on Twitter about Polygonscan having some issues. He also advised the community to use OKLink Explorer while it is being fixed. It seems like Polygonscan is having some issues. You can use OKLink explorer in the meanwhilehttps://t.co/nt6vhGdF62 — Sandeep | Polygon ???? Top 3 by impact (@sandeepnailwal) February 22, 2023 However, the outage of Polygonscan Explorer triggered…

NFT Solana Mobile has unveiled Minty Fresh, a new NFT minting app built in-house. Solana hinted at more updates to follow in the upcoming weeks. Saga, Solana Mobile has unveiled Minty Fresh, a new NFT minting app built in-house. Solana Labs revealed the development of Saga mobile last year, which will be compatible with all the web3 use cases. And the device’s launch is to occur in the first quarters of this year. ????Saga unlocks brand new Web3 use cases.With Saga, anyone can be a creator anywhere, anytime.Today we unveiled Minty Fresh, an NFT minting app built by @SolanaMobile that…

Blockchain The number of daily active addresses and transactions for Canto, a Cosmos-based layer 1 blockchain that launched in Aug. 2022, both show high degrees of volatility in the start of the year, according to data from blockchain analytics firm Artemis.xyz. Canto says it is a permissionless blockchain running the Ethereum Virtual Machine, and in its technical documents it states its three primitives – the Canto decentralized exchange, unit of account and lending market – are “public utility protocols, or Free Public Infrastructure.” Sitting at 244 on Jan. 1, the number of unique wallet addresses that sent at least one…