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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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Visa Partners With 60 Crypto Platforms to Let Consumers Spend Digital Currency at 80 Million Merchants

Visa’s head of crypto has revealed that the payments giant has partnered with about 60 leading crypto platforms “to launch card programs that make it easy for consumers to convert and spend digital currency at 80 million merchant locations worldwide.” He emphasized, “We’ve built a lot of momentum in this space, and we’ll continue to support the crypto ecosystem in several ways.” Visa Committed to Growing Crypto Ecosystem Cuy Sheffield, Visa’s head of crypto, talked about the payments giant’s digital asset efforts in an interview with NDTV, published Monday. “At Visa, the scale and scope of our work in crypto has grown dramatically,” he began. “The number of people cross-functionally at Visa working on crypto in some capacity is now in the hundreds — up from just a handful of employees. And we’ve more than doubled our number of partnerships with crypto platforms in the last 18 months — up to 60 partnerships today.” Sheffield elaborated: We’ve partnered with more than 60 of the lea...
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Ubisoft pursues NFT initiative with aleph.im following fan backlash

Ubisoft's first foray into nonfungible tokens was met with significant backlash from the gaming community. Now, it's pursuing "dynamic NFTs" with aleph.im. Earlier this year, gaming giant Ubisoft joined the aleph.im network as a core channel node operator after the blockchain-based storage and computing startup became a part of Ubisoft’s Entrepreneurs Lab . On Tuesday, aleph.im announced that it will offer a decentralized storage solution for Ubisoft Quartz in order to further incorporate nonfungible tokens (NFTs) into Ubisoft’s AAA games. https://t.co/oTzJGUOcyw partners with Ubisoft to bring playable NFTs to AAA games for the first time!!! Read all about how we did it here https://t.co/JiFlATvFcX #aaa #games #decentralized #storage #computing pic.twitter.com/eytP8etvyI — Aleph.im Network (@aleph_im) December 21, 2021 Players will be able to acquire dynamic NFTs called Digits on Quartz that will be used in Ubisoft’s Tom Clancy Ghost Recon Breakpoint g...
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Singapore Startup Affyn Raised More Than US$7 Million, Presale to Start in December 2021

PRESS RELEASE. Affyn’s private round was oversubscribed within a week of its website unveiling, resulting in the opening of a new strategic round that once again became oversubscribed, ahead of its presale in December 2021. Backed by more than 50 venture capitalists, institutional investors and partners, signaling high confidence and strong demand for Affyn’s Play-to-Earn Metaverse. The much anticipated presale round will be launched in December 2021 in preparation of the public launch in early 2022. Whitelisting is now open for registration on their website, www.affyn.com . SINGAPORE, Dec. 21, 2021 – Singapore startup Affyn, a blockchain-powered Metaverse project, is developing a Free-to-Play and Play-to-Earn mobile game with integrated geolocation and augmented reality (AR) capability. Reimagining Free-to-Play and Play-to-Earn As a metaverse-based project with geolocation capability and AR mechanics, Affyn incorporates the fun concept where every in-game character, which th...
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Behind the scenes of the first AAA shooter game built on the blockchain

In anticipation of the next paradigm shift for gaming, Neon Media focuses on building responsible systems, messaging and engagement, as well as product evolution. Shrapnel is the world's first AAA shooter game built on the blockchain , at the intersection of community, creation and ownership. The team is comprised of BAFTA and Emmy award-winning talent that has worked on blockbuster franchises such as HALO, Call of Duty, Madden, Bioshock, Destiny, Star Wars, Hawken Skylanders, Westworld and more. It is built on the blockchain gaming platform, Forte. In an exclusive ask-me-anything session with Cointelegraph Markets Pro , Don Norbury, head of studio at Neon Media, the game's developer, offered an in-depth take on what the game has to offer.  Shrapnel game banner .  Source: Shrapnel Cointelegraph Markets Pro User: When I think of gaming, I think of Galaga, Pac-Man, Tomb Raider, Timesplitters. These games were fun and puzzling and contained adrenaline-filled additions. So ...
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Mutual Bank in New Jersey to Give Customers the Ability to Buy, Sell and Hold Cryptocurrency

Manasquan Bank, a mutual community bank in New Jersey serving residents since 1874, has announced it is partnering with the company Bakkt to give its retail clients the ability to buy, sell and hold cryptocurrency through the bank’s mobile banking application. Manasquan Bank to Give Customers Access to Crypto A mutual community bank headquartered in Wall Township, New Jersey will give bank customers the ability to buy, sell and hold cryptocurrencies. Manasquan Bank announced this decision on Tuesday in a press release published by Bakkt Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: BKKT ). The New Jersey bank offers personal and business banking services and operates fifteen separate branches in Middlesex, Monmouth, and Ocean Counties. Bakkt’s partnership with Manasquan Bank is part of the company’s early adopter program. The program will begin in the second quarter of 2022 and is still contingent on the “adoption by the bank’s core financial service provider.” James Vaccaro, the chair, president, and ch...
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Ether’s growth as independent asset fuels ETH-BTC flippening narrative

There is growing data to suggest that the coming few months and years could see Ether truly deliver on its ‘flippening’ promise. The narrative surrounding Ether ( ETH ) of it fast transforming into an independent asset has been around for some time now. However, the last few months have seen this notion gain an increasing amount of mainstream traction, as is best highlighted by the fact that, since Oct. 1, ETH has showcased substantial northbound movement against Bitcoin ( BTC ).  To put things into perspective, toward the beginning of November, the one-month realized correlation between the BTC/ETH pair dipped as low as 60%, its lowest ever in the currency’s decade-old history. Furthermore, since the start of the year, while Bitcoin registered gains of 105%, Ether went up by a whopping 505%, thus outperforming the flagship crypto by nearly five times. Ether gaining an upper hand is perhaps best reflected in that, over the course of the last couple of months, the ETH/BTC pair...
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