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Dogecoin soared 25% and briefly topped the $0.2 price range following Tesla’s announcement that it would begin accepting the meme coin. Tesla CEO, Elon Musk, tweeted that the automaker would finally begin accepting DOGE, a move that the meme coin community had greatly anticipated. Musk, a big proponent of Doge, had teased this adoption numerous…

“High-performance blockchain” NEAR Protocol has raised $150 million in its latest funding round led by Three Arrows Capital. The NEAR token has surged on the news, gaining 6.6% in the following hours. NEAR Protocol announced Thursday that it has successfully closed a $150 million funding round to accelerate Web3 adoption. Su Zhu and Kyle Davies’…

NFT is a huge branch of the blockchain economy that essentially formed before our eyes in 2021. And while few people knew what “non-fungible tokens” even were a year ago, by the end of the year, the most prominent corporations were already integrating NFT solutions into their products, and the market volume amounted to tens…

“Shark Tank” star and celebrity investor Kevin O’Leary predicted non-fungible tokens (NFTs) will be bigger than Bitcoin. He appreciates NFTs can prove ownership of real-world items, such as designer watches or flashy cars. Though, comparing Bitcoin and NFT, O’Leary said he’s “investing on both sides of that equation.” At Yahoo Finance Live the chairman of…

With the region’s youthful population, blockchain-based play-to-earn games are becoming one of the fastest-growing innovative sectors in the Middle East. They provide new models to help monetize time spent in games with crypto tokens, NFTs, and staking. Industry players believe that the $181 billion gaming revenue to be made this year will increase substantially soon…

The start-of-the-year drop in cryptocurrency prices is due to various reasons (which we will go through). Still, with a cool head, you may recognize that crypto, through complex mechanisms of self-regulation, rejects attempts to pump it up with fiat money. You can even say that cryptocurrencies want to maintain their role as money and not…