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French video gaming giant Ubisoft is allegedly exploring potential blockchain applications in gaming as a strategy to gain a more competitive edge in the industry. The news was reported by daily French financial newspaper Les Échos on June 11.Per Les Échos, Ubisoft has been quietly exploring blockchain applications for several months, and has allegedly already…

Memecoins that draw their likeness from Gary Gensler and the SEC have rallied significantly since the regulator sued Binance and Coinbase. A number of memecoins drawing their likeness from the United States Securities Exchange Commission (SEC) and its chair Gary Gensler have seen a sharp spike in price following the regulator's lawsuits against crypto exchanges…

Continued adoption of nonfungible tokens across a variety of industries from video gaming, music, art and digital collections could see the sector valued at $231 billion by 2030. 325 Total views 4 Total shares A market report published by Verified Market Research (VMR) provides a lofty prediction for the future of the nonfungible token (NFT)…

Maritime shipping firms Ocean Network Express and Hapag-Lloyd have joined blockchain tracking platform TradeLens, financial news outlet The Wall Street Journal reports on July 2.The Japan-based Ocean Network Express and Germany-based Hapag-Lloyd will join the TradeLens platform launched by Danish logistics conglomerate A.P. Moller-Maersk and tech behemoth IBM.As Cointelegraph reported at the time, the world's…

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has charged Sergii Grybniak, the founder of the initial coin offering (ICO) project Opporty, according to a Jan. 21 press release. Despite raising approximately $600,000, the commission targeted Grybniak for falsely declaring the project as “100% SEC compliant.”Opporty launched its ICO between September and October 2018. The project purported…

ETF issuers are getting creative with two new filings for inverse and leveraged funds. 1054 Total views 17 Total shares Exchange-traded fund issuer Direxion has filed for a product that would enable speculators to buy contracts that short the price of Bitcoin.In a filing made to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on Oct. 26,…

Challenges to internet freedom are threats to grassroots protests, panelists agreed. 1134 Total views 13 Total shares On Friday, NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden led a panel discussion as part of a fundraiser for the Tor Project.Joining Snowden were three experts in internet privacy and human rights. The four focused on global protests over the past…

The number of crypto-based exchange-traded products in Europe continues to expand as 2022 draws nearer. 1201 Total views 20 Total shares Nasdaq Stockholm has announced that 21Shares has listed its first two physically backed exchange-traded notes (ETN) on the Swedish trading platform. The two instruments listed, with Bitcoin (BTC) and Ether (ETH) as underlying assets, represent a…

Some of South Korea’s biggest cryptocurrency exchanges have passed a government security audit, but the majority could be exposed to attacks, local tech news outlet ZDNet reported on Jan 10.Bithumb, Coinone and Korbit, in addition to four other major exchanges, satisfied investigators during the audit, which took place between September and December 2018.Of the tranche…