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January 2023

MetaMask Staking launches, plugging into Lido and Rocket Pool liquid staking

MetaMask Staking launches, plugging into Lido and Rocket Pool liquid staking

Users of MetaMask will soon have access to Lido and Rocket Pool, two Ethereum liquid staking providers, according to a new integration announced by ConsenSys. By using MetaMask Staking, users will be able to stake ETH. Tickers $1,534 lower, promising the service to enhance the security and decentralization of the Ethereum blockchain through the Lido […]

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MetaMask Partners With Lido, Rocket Pool To Enable ETH Staking

MetaMask Partners With Lido, Rocket Pool To Enable ETH Staking

Staking is now immediately accessible on the well-known cryptocurrency wallet MetaMask. ConsenSys, a blockchain software provider, announced today that MetaMask, a portfolio company, will collaborate with Lido and Rocket Pools to offer users of its browser-based and mobile wallets the ability to stake cryptocurrency directly. The MetaMask app now offers a test version of MetaMask

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Latest in Crypto Hiring: BlockFi Exec Finds New Home at Kraken

Latest in Crypto Hiring: BlockFi Exec Finds New Home at Kraken

The world’s largest digital asset exchange by trade volume announced intentions to boost its personnel this year despite the ongoing crypto layoffs. At the Crypto Finance Conference on Wednesday in Switzerland, Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao announced that the business intends to boost its personnel by 15% to 30% in 2023. According to CNBC, the CEO

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Crypto Ban Proposed by Bank of International Settlements as Regulatory Approach

Crypto Ban Proposed by Bank of International Settlements as Regulatory Approach

To summarise the approaches to cryptocurrency regulation in 2023, the Bank for International Settlements (BIS), a global banking coordination organization and “central bank of central banks,” has published a bulletin. Crypto should be banned, isolated, or regulated, BIS states. The Bank for International Settlements (BIS) noted in its latest skeptical thesis Addressing the risks in

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Want to rub shoulders at the Tribeca Film Festival? You'll need an NFT for that

Want to rub shoulders at the Tribeca Film Festival? You’ll need an NFT for that

NFTs are being released by the Tribeca Film Festival and the cryptocurrency exchange OKX, giving holders VIP access to the movie event. To mint one NFT, it costs 0.6 ETH, or about $838, plus gas, or $899 with a credit card. At the Tribeca Film Festival this year, do you want to mix and mingle

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Unstoppable Domains, Ready Player Me to connect metaverse avatars with domain names

Unstoppable Domains, Ready Player Me to connect metaverse avatars with domain names

Users will be able to link their virtual personas to their web3 domain name identities thanks to a new integration that Unstoppable Domains has announced with the avatar platform Ready Player Me. Web3 domain names have gained popularity as a method of online persistent identity. Users can now add their Ready Player Me avatars to

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Tribeca Film Festival Will Sell VIP Passes as NFTs

Tribeca Film Festival Will Sell VIP Passes as NFTs

The Tribeca Film Festival is capitalising on the growing number of use cases for non-fungible tokens (NFTs) by selling VIP passes as digital collectibles. The annual film festival’s first foray into NFTs, the VIP passes, was created in collaboration with the cryptocurrency exchange OKX. They will come with benefits like special access to movie screenings

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Sam Bankman-Fried: 'I didn’t steal funds, and I certainly didn’t stash billions away.'

Sam Bankman-Fried: ‘I didn’t steal funds, and I certainly didn’t stash billions away.’

Sam Bankman-Fried, the former CEO of FTX, has largely refuted the accusations made against him in a “pre-mortem overview” of the collapse of the cryptocurrency exchange. Bankman-Fried claimed in a post on January 12 on Substack that FTX US had been “fully solvent” at the time the company filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, with about

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How is Hong Kong’s new crypto policy beneficial to Bitcoin investors?

How is Hong Kong’s new crypto policy beneficial to Bitcoin investors?

Despite a brutal winter that has deterred neighbours like Singapore from investing in this volatile sector, Hong Kong has moved to embrace the crypto industry. The top securities regulator for the island city recently issued a directive encouraging investment in a select group of crypto assets with high liquidity. Highly liquid crypto assets for retail

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Bill Gates Pours Cold Water on Web3 and Crypto

Bill Gates Pours Cold Water on Web3 and Crypto

Bill Gates, a co-founder of Microsoft, recently poured cold water on Web3 and cryptocurrency during a Reddit ask-me-anything session, dashed hopes that these technologies would become the next big thing. Gates said artificial intelligence (AI) was “the big one” in response to a user’s query about whether a “mammoth technology shift like the Internet” was

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