Blockchain analytics firm Chainalysis’s study revealed that the Middle East and North Africa region was the fastest-growing market for crypto adoption over the 12-month period that ended on June 30. Crypto users in the region received $566 billion in crypto from July 2021 to June 2022. Users based in The Middle East and North Africa…

Stock exchange Nasdaq has no immediate plans of launching a crypto exchange until there’s better regulatory clarity from policymakers, said the company’s executive vice president Tal Cohen. Nasdaq announced last month it would focus on crypto custody. As Cohen told Bloomberg, the retail side of the crypto market is fairly saturated and enough crypto exchanges…

Users of the decentralized exchange aggregator 1inch Network can now use human-readable addresses supplied by Unstoppable Domains within 1inch’s product ecosystem. Unstoppable Domains hit over 2.5 million registered domains, which can be used perpetually, amid a recent surge in domain name service popularity. According to the new agreement, users of the 1inch Wallet can purchase…

Global fast-food franchise McDonald’s started to accept Bitcoin and Tether as a payment method in the city of Lugano in the region of Switzerland, which is becoming a leader in crypto adoption in Europe. It follows after the Plan B Foundation has enabled Bitcoin payments for merchants across the city. A short video of ordering…

Payments giant Mastercard launches Crypto Secure, a new software product designed to help banks and other card issuers identify and block suspicious transactions from crypto exchanges. The service is powered by CipherTrace, a blockchain security startup acquired by Mastercard last year. According to a CNBC report, Mastercard on Sept. 4 debuted a new piece of…

Sega, one of the largest Japanese gaming companies, has announced the upcoming launch of its first blockchain game, based on Sega’s Sangokushi Taisen franchise, in partnership with development company Double Jump Tokyo. The game’s blockchain elements will be built on Oasys, a Japanese scaling project. One of the most prominent Japanese gaming companies, Sega, has…