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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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OpenSea acquires Dharma Labs and a new CTO

The NFT marketplace buys the nearly five-year-old DeFi protocol but does not share financial terms.

OpenSea announced Tuesday the acquisition of Dharma Labs, a cryptocurrency lending platform and digital wallet, for an undisclosed amount. According to the statement, Dharma Labs would effectively shut down and its co-founders, Nadav Hollander and Brendan Forster, will become OpenSea’s new chief technology officer and its head of strategy, respectively.

OpenSea claimed this acquisition will help accomplish its mission to scale product development, grow its team, expand its safety and reliability efforts and invest in the nonfungible token (NFT) and Web3 ecosystem.

Devin Finzer, OpenSea’s co-founder and CEO, believes that the “union” between the marketplace and Dharma Labs will “help us dramatically improve the experience of buying, minting and selling NFTs on OpenSea.” 

He added that the two companies share a vision “that NFTs will be the cultural focal point of crypto’s adoption for years to come — and that vision can only be realized if using NFTs becomes easy & delightful for the average person.”

As OpenSea’s new chief technology officer, Hollander is expected to use his expertise to improve their products’ technical reliability and uptime, as well as to build Web3-native mechanisms that reward loyal community members.

Related: OpenSea surpasses $3.5B in monthly Ether trading volume, setting new ATH

According to a statement from Dharma Labs, its Dharma Smart Wallet will be deactivated in 30 days. It thus urges its users to withdraw or sell their funds before Feb. 18, 2022 and clarifies that they will not have to pay any fees to do so.

Additionally, OpenSea recently announced the creation of a private NFT Security Group that will steer investment efforts and tackle security and safety challenges that face the NFT and Web3 ecosystem. Co-founder and current chief technology officer, Alex Atallah, will assume the role of overseeing the group’s development.

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