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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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Our Man in Shanghai: Filecoin the talk of the town, Polkadot and NFTs gain attention

Retail investors are flocking to buy Filecoin on exchanges with predominately Chinese user bases and the head of the PBOC thinks the digital yuan has an uphill battle to take on Alipay and WeChat Pay.

Distributed storage network project Filecoin is the talk of the town as FIL was the most highly traded token on Huobi, OKEx and Gate on Thursday. These three exchanges have a predominantly Chinese user base and represent a large part of the Tier One trading volume for major pairs. On Thursday afternoon, Huobi trading volumes of FIL were more than three times that of BTC as the price reached a 7-day increase of 170%.

Filecoin has had strong success in capturing the attention of Chinese investors, including large investment groups such as Fenbushi Capital, SNZ Capital and Neo’s EcoFund. These three were part of a group that backed the $23 million Filecoin Ecosystem Fund, announced on March 25. The Filecoin Ecosystem Fund is intended to support projects and help development on the network. It could also give backers early access to new projects, which is a lucrative model for VCs in an increasingly crowded investment space. It remains to be seen which of these two consequences are a bigger priority for the funds involved.

On March 28, OKEx produced a video explaining the concepts behind Filecoin, which received around 600 shares and 3400 likes on Weibo. This shows a high level of attention from the Chinese retail audience, a demographic that is tough to obtain and hard to preserve over longer time-frames.

NFTs in Beijing, Polkadot in Hangzhou

Beijing-based BlockCreateArt hosted a major NFT art exhibition on March 26 supported by auction house Christie’s, Digital Finance Group and mining rig producer Bitmain. Interest in digital art has increased on some levels in China, but cultural and artistic differences have led to a more pragmatic approach towards leading digital artists such as Beeple. The exhibition will be stopping in Shanghai early in April.

Hangzhou was home to the Open Days blockchain exhibition sponsored by Candaq Fintech Group. The event had one hall dedicated to Polkadot projects, with speakers from Rarelink, Litenty and Phala, among others. The upcoming parachain auctions have become a topic of interest with so many local projects and projects with ties to the region being built on Polkadot.

Central bank head says digital yuan playing catch-up

The head of the Digital Currency Research Institute at the People’s Bank of China has recognized that private payment processors Alipay and WeChat Pay are in a dominant position in the Chinese payment space. During a panel appearance, Wang Changchun noted that the government-backed digital currency would be needed to maintain stability should something happen to the existing solutions. For the moment, WeChat Pay and Alipay don’t seem to be in any imminent danger of losing their market share, but that could change quickly if government-led incentives were put in place for those willing to convert.

In enterprise news, electric vehicles brand IM Motors, working with SAIC Motor and Alibaba, announced a blockchain powered service network that would incentivize customers to share data with the company. In order to achieve some level of traceability and resistance to tampering, on-chain points would be given to customers using the vehicle and related apps.

The blockchain network was announced as exclusive and private, so while it represents a slight normalization of blockchain technology, it will likely have much in common with more centralized storage networks.

This weekly roundup of news from Mainland China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong attempts to curate the industry’s most important news, including influential projects, changes in the regulatory landscape, and enterprise blockchain integrations.

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