Warner Music Group, the major record label, announced on Dec. 6 a multi-year partnership with the Ethereum sidechain network and the Web3 music startup. Artists signed to Warner Music Group labels will be able to release music NFTs through the upcoming Polygon-based marketplace LGND Music. LGND Music is an online marketplace set to launch in…

Aave Companies has acquired Sonar, a mobile metaverse app whose users pilot NFT-linked avatars through digital worlds, with plans to integrate its Lens social media protocol with the platform. Following the acquisition, Lens Protocol will be integrated into a game app with about 20,000 monthly active users. Software development company Aave Companies announced on Dec….

Staking for decentralized oracle network Chainlink is now live on Ethereum for early access users, which is one of the most highly anticipated events for its network. After being open fully on Dec. 8, holders of its native token LINK will be able to contribute to the network’s security and receive appropriate rewards. Previously, Chainlink…

Investment bank Goldman Sachs plans to spend “tens of millions of dollars” to buy or invest in crypto firms whose valuations declined after the collapse of crypto exchange FTX, Reuters reported. “We do see some really interesting opportunities, priced much more sensibly,” said the bank’s digital asset head Mathew McDermott. According to a Reuters report,…

Coca-Cola has teamed up with Crypto.com to release a collection of 2022 FIFA World Cup NFTs based on heatmaps of the games played. The move is the latest corporate play to try to capitalize on crypto fever amid the World Cup in Qatar. Coca-Cola is releasing a set of 10,000 World Cup NFTs, which are…

USDC stablecoin issuer Circle and publicly traded special purpose acquisition company Concord Acquisition Corp mutually ended their proposed business combination after the deal “timed out.” The mutual termination comes after over a year and a half of deliberating around the terms of Circle’s potential multibillion-dollar listing. Previously, Circle had been eyeing an entry into the…

Sam Bankman-Fried is a con man and fraudster of historic proportions. But you might not learn that from the New York Times, CoinDesk’s Chief Insights Columnist David Z. Morris writes. In the weeks since Sam Bankman-Fried’s cryptocurrency empire was revealed to be a house of lies, mainstream news organizations and commentators have often failed to…

Breaking crypto news from the last week (Nov. 26–Dec. 2, 2022): Nov. 27: Recently announced, Binance’s Proof-of-Reserves system met criticism from Kraken’s CEO Jesse Powell. Soon, Binance CEO Changpeng “CZ” Zhao responded on Twitter to the remarks made by Jesse Powell. CZ was quoted as saying “Upcoming Plans: Involve third-party auditors to audit PoR outcomes.”…

Despite the liquidity crisis in the crypto sector, criminal activity targeting the crypto industry does not seem to be slowing down, Gulf News reported. The UAE cryptominers must beware of ‘cryptojackers,’ as 11% of all corporate users affected by ‘cryptojackers’ in the META region this year were from the UAE. According to cybersecurity and anti-virus…

Top investment deals across the crypto sector over the last week (Nov. 26–Dec. 2, 2022): Crypto news site CoinDesk draws buyout interest: Semafor Crypto news site CoinDesk, owned by Digital Currency Group (DCG), has received takeover interest including one that suggested a $300 million purchase price, according to Semafor, according to Semafor. Potential buyers circling…