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MLB Team Washington Nationals Partners With Terra Blockchain Community, Ballpark Plans to Accept UST

On February 9, the American professional baseball team based in Washington, D.C., the Washington Nationals, announced the team has partnered with Terra, the open-source blockchain platform and decentralized autonomous organization (DAO). The Washington Nationals detail that the team is a “leading innovator” and is “consistently introducing new technologies to enhance the fan experience.” Washington Nationals Ink Long-Term Deal With Terra Major League Baseball (MLB) team the Washington Nationals has partnered with the blockchain platform and DAO Terra, according to an announcement published by the team on Wednesday. The deal with Terra follows a slew of sports-related deals with crypto firms, but the MLB team will be the first to partner with an open-source blockchain project. In addition to the partnership, the algorithmic stablecoin UST that’s issued on the Terra blockchain will be “accepted as a payment method at Nationals Park as early as next season.” “The Nationals continue t...
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Cointelegraph Consulting: Hype for NFTs is real, but what about transaction volume?

The top two NFT marketplaces, OpenSea and Rarible, differ considerably in daily transaction volume.

Covalent’s latest findings in Cointelegraph Consulting’s biweekly newsletter indicate that the non-fungible token market has whales of its own.

The largest user on the OpenSea makes up $192 million in reserve capital while the other users in the top 20% by value transacted only account for $8 million. Similarly, Rarible has a whale with $311 million in its wallet, and other top 20% active users collectively have $9.2 million. 

OpenSea describes itself as the largest NFT marketplace. Indeed, the firm is the market leader with over $153 million in NFT transactions facilitated across 97,072 different transfers since the beginning of 2021. The major competitor, Rarible, is a not-so-close second with $33,794,800 in NFT transactions across 37,630 transactions since the beginning of 2021. 

Cointelegraph Consulting’s bi-weekly roundup breaks down the trends in institutional demand for digital assets and capital allocation over the past two weeks. More than $750 million was raised across the top five financing rounds in two weeks, with Blockchain.com having the third-largest capital raise in the blockchain industry. Notably, NFT marketplace OpenSea closed a $23 million funding round led by a16z amid the NFT mania. 

We also congratulate our partner Covalent on closing a strategic funding round led by the industry heavyweights Hashed VC, Binance Labs, Coinbase Ventures and Delphi Digital. 

As for the other hot trends, the race for registering a Bitcoin (BTC) exchange-traded fund is in full swing with three more companies filing rule change applications with the United States Securities and Exchange Administration. Fidelity Investments, SkyBridge Capital, and WisdomTree are following the attempts of VanEck and Valkyrie Digital Assets to list a regulated Bitcoin ETF.

Morgan Stanley became the first big U.S. bank to offer its institutional clients access to Bitcoin funds. The move encourages fierce competition among fund providers. In response, NYDIG reduced its access fee to 0.3%, more than six times lower than its closest competitor, Grayscale Bitcoin Trust.

Read the full newsletter edition here for more news and signals, complete with detailed charts and images. 

We also review the industry’s most important news, including mergers and acquisitions, changes in the regulatory landscape, and enterprise blockchain integrations. Sign up now to be the first to receive these insights. All past editions of Market Insights are also available on Cointelegraph.com.

Cointelegraph’s Market Insights Newsletter shares our knowledge on the fundamentals that move the digital asset market. With market intelligence from one of the industry’s leading analytics providers, Covalent, the newsletter dives into the latest data on social media sentiment, on-chain metrics, and derivatives.

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