Top crypto news from the Middle East region over the last week (Sept. 11–17, 2022): The 22nd World Blockchain Summit is set for Dubai on Oct. 17-18 The 22nd global edition of the World Blockchain Summit will bring together some of the world’s leading crypto influencers, policymakers, key government delegates, media, family offices, HNIs, and…
Investors should take note of some of Ethereum’s core traits that just changed — Christopher Robbins describes them on CoinDesk. Ethereum has been getting ready to “merge,” creating temporary disruptions in some crypto trading and potentially new opportunities for investors. Now the Merge has finally happened. But what does it really mean? In simple but…
OpenSea, the world’s biggest NFT marketplace, has officially announced OpenRarity, a new NFT rarity protocol for the NFT community, elaborated together with Web3 analytics experts Icy.tools, Curio Tools, and PROOF, to provide a new standard of NFT ranking methods. OpenRarity will be launched next week. Nowadays, there are several high-profile NFT rarity platforms, and each…
Top investment deals across the crypto sector over the last week (Sept. 10–16, 2022): VC firm Bloccelerate is raising $100 million for its second crypto-focused fund Venture capital firm Bloccelerate is looking to raise $100 million for its second fund, according to a filing with the US SEC on Sept. 9. The Bloccelerate VC Fund…
Amazon is among five companies to develop a digital euro prototype, as the European Central Bank (ECB) revealed its selected partners to collaborate. Amazon will be responsible for designing e-commerce payments during the prototyping exercise from September to December 2022. Meanwhile, Binance CEO praised the EU regulatory framework as a global standard for crypto regulations….
ETHPoW, a fork of the proof-of-work Ethereum blockchain, was down over 61% in 24 hours following The Merge. Meanwhile, Grayscale Investments said to an SEC it has the rights to ETHPoW tokens due to The Merge. The native token of EthereumPoW, a proof-of-work hardfork of the Ethereum blockchain, was trading down over 60% on Sept….