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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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Cryptocurrencies are the “new frontier” says financial researcher

Optimism around the long-term adoption of digital assets remains high despite quantitate volatility in recent weeks.

In an exclusive television interview with Fox Business on Wednesday, JMP Securities Director of Financial Technology Research, Devin Ryan spoke candidly on a range of topics within the cryptocurrency industry. This included the macroscopic regulation amid the impending expectations of a White House policy framework, U.S states accepting Bitcoin as legal tender, as well as the vast potential for consumer adoption in the coming year.

Cryptocurrency assets have experienced significant volatility over the past month, with leading asset Bitcoin falling almost 44% from all-time highs and Ethereum recording a similar demise.

Despite price drawbacks, capital investment, consumer adoption, community optimism and corporate valuations for the digital asset space has never been higher, the latter epitomised by recent multi-billion-dollar valuations for Animoca Brands, Fireblocks and FTX, at $5 billion, $8 billion, and $32 billion, respectively.

On the subject of coin supply within the market, Ryan stated that “many of them we don’t think really have a future, but some of them really have use-cases to help solve problems in the world with blockchain technology."

Additionally, he cited the potential of crypto mechanisms being integrated within the gaming space, assessing that “people can monetize their time in ways that haven’t existed before”, stating that cryptocurrency is “the new frontier” and continuing on to say predict that overall growth of the sector will be preceded by volatility in the short-term as these technologies vie for mainstream adoption.

Related: Kraken CEO reverses $100K BTC 2021 forecast: Crypto winter now possible

Responding to a question on Miami and New York’s endeavours to create a state-wide digital asset, in addition to Arizona and Wyoming pursuing various methods of Bitcoin adoption, Ryan stated that there is “tremendous innovation and capital formation happening", and that states and countries will be keen to become a headquarters to foster the technology.

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