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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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New ASEAN blockchain consortium targets cross-border cooperation

The new ASEAN Blockchain Consortium aims to engage with regulators to ensure compliance and raise industry awareness.

Blockchain associations from Australia and five Southeast Asian nations are joining forces to promote blockchain development and education.

Blockchain organizations from Australia, Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Indonesia and the Philippines signed a memorandum of understanding Thursday to promote blockchain collaboration in the Asia Pacific, Business Times reports.

Initiated by Blockchain Association Singapore, or BAS, the MoU aims to engage with regulators to ensure legal compliance alongside raising industry awareness and education through a new blockchain consortium called the ASEAN Blockchain Consortium, or ABC.

The ABC includes BAS, Blockchain Australia, Distributed Ledger Technology Association of the Philippines, Malaysia’s Labuan International Business and Financial Center, Thailand Digital Asset Operators Trade Association, and Asosiasi Blockchain Indonesia.

The MoU event was attended by several state representatives including Edi Prio Pambudi, senior advisor to the coordinating minister for economic affairs of Indonesia, and Sopnendu Mohanty, chief fintech officer at the Monetary Authority of Singapore. The initiative marks the first collaboration between blockchain organizations across Southeast Asia and Australia, BAS said.

“The growth in the digital assets and blockchain industry is tremendous and BAS is proud to collaborate with our Asean and Australia counterparts to further support the growth of the industry in a healthy and sustainable pace,” BAS chairman Chia Hock Lai said.

“There’s no better time to do it than now,” the executive added, noting increasing institutional interest in the industry, including recent crypto moves by Singapore’s DBS Bank, which set up a crypto trading platform in December 2020.

The consortium’s launch comes amid growing cryptocurrency adoption in Southeast Asia and Australia. According to data by Statista, Southeast Asia was among the top regions in terms of crypto adoption last year, with 20% of Filipino survey respondents indicating that they used crypto in 2020. The industry has also been gaining momentum in Australia, with nearly 20% of Australian adult respondents claiming that they owned crypto last year as well.

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