Announcements

Future Banks Summit KSA 2022 to reveal the future digital innovations in Saudi Arabia’s banking Following the success of the first two editions of Future Banks Summit (FBS), Verve Management announced the 3rd Edition of Future Banks Summit on 27-28 September 2022 at Riyadh Airport Marriott Hotel, Saudi Arabia. (Source: http://ksa.futurebanksummit.com/ ) Future Banks Summit…

BlackRock will use Kraken’s CF Benchmarks Bitcoin index pricing product for its first crypto offering. Previously, the world’s biggest asset manager launched its own Bitcoin private trust following announcing a partnership with Coinbase. As The Block reported, BlackRock’s Bitcoin product will be benchmarked using CF Benchmark’s indexes.  CF Benchmarks is a member of the Crypto…

Amid confusion over intellectual property (IP) rights, VC giant Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) is releasing a free licensing system for NFTs to address current challenges and ambiguities over the use of crypto collectibles. With help from Punk6529, the new licensing system attempts to standardize options, aiming to help the NFT sector fulfill its “economic potential.” The…

Event ticketing giant Ticketmaster announced that it will adopt the Flow blockchain for minting tickets as NFTs for select events. Five million Ticketmaster NFTs were already minted in a pilot program over the past six months. Ticketmaster NFTs will function primarily as collectible digital memorabilia, but also as a shareable “proof of attendance.” Over the…

Leading crypto exchange Coinbase is officially launching trading services for three digital assets – Aurora (AURORA), Near Protocol (NEAR), and Meta X Connect (MXC) – that were recently added to its listing roadmap. According to a recent announcement, Coinbase says that Aurora (AURORA) will be available with the “Experimental” label, which the exchange applies to…

Virtuzone, the UAE’s leading firm providing corporate and business formation services, announced a strategic partnership with Binance to enable digital payments via Binance Pay on August 29. The company joins the list of major businesses in the UAE, such as JA Resorts and Hotels and Majid Al Futtaim, to officially accept cryptocurrencies following the integration…