Announcements

Video game and electronics retailer GameStop Corp. unveiled on May 23 a digital asset wallet that will let gamers and others store, send, receive and use cryptocurrencies and NFTs on several decentralized apps without leaving their web browsers. Upon the announcement, GameStop shares jumped nearly 3% in pre-market trading on Monday. According to a company…

After 2 years of the Covid-19 pandemic, Blockchain Economy Summit is again back in Istanbul on July 27-28, 2022. The event will bring together more than 3,000 participants from 55 countries around the world to discuss the future of finance, Web3, NFTs, Metaverse, DeFi, regulation of the crypto sector, the implementation of blockchain technology in…

Eros Investments, India’s investment company, has partnered with Dubai’s Virtual Asset Regulatory Authority (VARA). It plans to fund and support more than media, art, and entertainment 100 startups by 2025. Eros Investments, run by India’s Lulla family, plans to develop Web3 and blockchain businesses out of Dubai as part of a partnership deal to operate…

Museum of the Future, a futuristic Emirati museum in Dubai, has teamed up with leading crypto exchange Binance to cultivate and present a collection of NFTs. Celebrating International Museum Day, the museum, deemed the world’s most beautiful and futuristic building, is introducing a brand new concept that talks about the possibilities of the future. Launched…

The European Union could issue a digital euro within four years, a senior official from the European Central Bank (ECB) said. Peer-to-peer payments could be a first test case, though no final decision has been made yet. “At the end of 2023 we could decide to start a realization phase to develop and test the…

Ethereum’s main public testnet, Ropsten, which allows for blockchain development testing before deployment on the mainnet, is estimated to undergo “the Merge” on June 8 in preparation for the main Ethereum blockchain to switch to proof-of-stake (PoS) consensus. Parithosh Jayanthi, who works in devops at the Ethereum Foundation, merged the pull request on GitHub today,…