Meta brings fashion to the metaverse in partnership with luxury brands
    19 Jun 2022
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    Meta is bringing luxury fashion into the metaverse with the announcement of a digital fashion marketplace dedicated to its virtual avatars. Outfits of three high fashion brands – Balenciaga, Prada, and Thom Browne – could be worn across Meta-owned platforms, including Facebook, Instagram, and Messenger. Meta’s CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Instagram‘s director of fashion partnerships…

    Bitcoin goes under $17,800 as Ether touches $897

    On Saturday evening, at 20:30 UTC, Bitcoin plunged to about $17,749, and Ether fell to about $897 as the sell-off in the crypto market accelerated. The world’s two most popular cryptocurrencies are down more than 35% in the past week, as both breach symbolic price barriers. Two hours later, at 22:30 UTC, Bitcoin bounced back…

    Huobi Group obtains a crypto license in Dubai
    19 Jun 2022
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    Huobi Group, the major global crypto exchange, announced Friday it obtained a DIFC Innovation License in Dubai, seeing its development as a significant milestone in the group’s compliant growth. Huobi also got registration on New Zealand’s Financial Services Provider Register. The DIFC Innovation License is a license for innovative technology companies in Dubai and provides…

    WSJ: Crypto hedge fund Three Arrows Capital considers asset sales and bailout
    18 Jun 2022
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    According to The Wall Street Journal, cryptocurrency-focused hedge fund Three Arrows Capital Ltd. has hired legal and financial advisers to help work out a solution for its investors and lenders after suffering heavy losses from a broad market selloff in digital assets, the firm’s founders said on Friday. “We have always been believers in crypto…

    Elon Musk reveals plans to integrate crypto payments into Twitter
    18 Jun 2022
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    Tesla CEO Elon Musk, who has agreed to purchase Twitter for about $44 billion, spoke on June 16 at an all-hands meeting for the social network company. The billionaire said it “makes sense” to integrate digital payments into Twitter, according to a leaked Q&A session with employees. Billionaire Elon Musk shared further details of his…

    Immutable launches $500 million fund to boost its Web3 and GameFi ecosystem
    18 Jun 2022
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    The NFT and Web3 gaming-focused crypto startup Immutable announced Friday that it has launched a $500 million ecosystem development fund to accelerate the adoption of promising Web3 projects building on its Ethereum Layer 2 scaling platform, Immutable X. “The Immutable Developer and Venture Fund,” which is a mix of both cash and Immutable X’s native…