Interest in Metaverse and associated features, like virtual lands and real estate, is in hot demand, available data from DappRadar shows. Over $100 million was spent on purchasing these virtual properties last week, including the Sandbox grossing over $80 million and Decentraland above $15 million. According to DappRadar, Metaverse-related projects like The Sandbox, Decentraland, CryptoVoxels,…

Breaking crypto news from the last week (Nov. 27 – Dec. 3, 2021): Nov. 27: The analytic report suggests that the Bitcoin network already transfers more the dollar value than PayPal and could potentially match Mastercard’s network after 2026. Nov. 28: Emirates Post Group (EPG) announced on November 28 the first in the region issuance…

HAYVN, a digital currency trading platform based in Abu Dhabi, UAE, has closed a Series A funding round, which will help the institution become the largest global institutional digital currencies platform. Abu Dhabi-based digital currency trading platform HAYVN has closed a Series A funding round. This round of funding, the amount of which was not…

Another “veteran” cryptocurrency has added smart contracts to its network. IOTA is very different from other cryptocurrencies: For starters, it doesn’t run on the blockchain, using a slightly different technology instead. Now it also features smart contracts, though currently still in beta version. The official blog of the IOTA project released a message that smart…

Nuqtah, Saudi Arabia’s first non-fungible token (NFT) marketplace, has closed its pre-seed funding round but is not revealing the amount of raised funds. Accroding to Founded this year, the company enables artists to register and trace their work and serves as a global platform for buyers keen on acquiring the latest NFTs by the Middle…

Bitcoin plunged along with other cryptocurrencies on Saturday, which is another indication of the risk aversion sweeping across financial markets. The biggest cryptocurrency was down about 18%, the largest one-day loss since September. Bitcoin was trading at $46,743 by 11:30 GMT on Yahoo Finance on Saturday, down 18% on the day. It was the largest…