The New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) has applied to register the term “NYSE” for an NFT marketplace, getting closer to setting up an online trading place for cryptocurrencies and NFTs. The move comes after the NYSE minted six NFTs last year, commemorating the debut of hot tech stocks on the exchange. Last year, the hype…

JPMorgan, the largest US lender, had become the first bank to arrive in the metaverse, having opened the Onyx lounge in a blockchain-based virtual world Decentraland. According to a report, the bank sees “limitless” opportunities in the virtual world, with a new workforce and expanded virtual real-estate ownership financed by DAOs. JPMorgan Chase has opened…

The 2022 Winter Olympics were supposed to be a sort of coming-out party for the digital yuan, China’s CBDC. The People’s Bank of China, China’s central bank, has been trialing the digital yuan in several areas for years now and has started allowing foreigners to use the digital currency for the first time during the…