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Proof of Play raised $33 million to create fully on-chain games that “quickly immerse players in fun gameplay.“ 160 Total views 4 Total shares Proof of Play, a company led by Farmville co-creator Amitt Mahajan, raised $33 million to create Web3 games, according to a Sept. 21 announcement. Majahan is the CEO of Proof of

Swiss cantonal bank Basler Kantonalbank becomes the first bank in Switzerland to announce its crypto plans. Basler Kantonalbank, or BKB, a government-owned commercial bank in Switzerland, is planning to launch cryptocurrency services through its banking subsidiary.According to an Aug. 3 report by local news agency Finews, BKB’s subsidiary and a national banking group, Bank Cler,…

President John F. Kennedy's nephew also worries that the government will seize the public’s Bitcoin. 82 Total views 1 Total shares Own this piece of history Collect this article as an NFTRobert F. Kennedy Jr. filed documents with the United States Federal Election Commission on April 5 to run as a Democratic presidential candidate in…

The Aragon community has officially proclaimed itself against ProgPOW. ProgPOW is a proposed protocol change to the Ehereum network that would close the efficiency gap available to application-specific integrated circuits. In a tweet on Nov. 2, the official account of the Aragon project posted voting results, showing that a proposal to block changes to Ethereum’s mining…

Effective altruism was used to justify “increasingly risky and ridiculous” actions at crypto exchange FTX prior to its ultimate collapse in November 2022, says a former software engineer at Alameda Research.Speaking to Cointelegraph just days before FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried’s Oct. 3 trial, Aditya Baradwaj shared how the ideology played a role in the company’s

ARK Invest and 21Shares' third application for a spot Bitcoin ETF now includes a surveillance sharing agreement. ARK Investment Management has amended its spot Bitcoin exchange-traded fund (ETF) application with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), making it similar to BlackRock's recent filing. The amendments include a surveillance sharing agreement with the Chicago Mercantile Exchange…

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