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Prominent brands from the crypto universe are spearheading novel collaborations and partnerships with mainstream brands and organizations to unlock an array of fully immersive and gamified experiences revolving around the largest football event of the year in Qatar. As social beings, the desire to “belong” is deeply ingrained in us. Since time immemorial, humans have…

The Middle East, where crypto use is growing fastest, offers the starkest contrasts between cryptocurrency’s origins as anti-government money and the growing desire of governments to use the technology to modernize markets and monitor financial activity – writes Ben Schreckinger on POLITICO. At high-powered business gatherings this week, government officials and executives here highlighted their…

Dubai’s crypto industry leaders commented on how the FTX collapse will affect the crypto sector within the UAE. Among them, various professionals gave their perspectives on how Dubai and the UAE’s crypto landscape will be affected by the FTX debacle – from stricter regulations to better projects leading the way. Kokila Alagh, the founder and…

Decentralization was and still is the answer, the co-founder of Near Protocol Illia Polosukhin told CoinDesk. The spectacular $32 billion collapse of the FTX exchange and its sister trading firm Alameda Research recently once again has crypto’s detractors gloating in the headlines. In fact, FTX bears no resemblance to most of what the longtime believers…

The real reason why the FTX failure hits so hard is not that the crypto industry was duped but because it proved that the industry was vulnerable to being duped – Sam Kessler explains on CoinDesk. Depending upon whom you ask, last week’s FTX blowup feels bigger than when Mt. Gox, the original Bitcoin exchange,…

Jonah Van Bourg, Cumberland’s Head of Trading, said on Twitter that FTX’s collapse will trigger calls for significant changes in crypto markets away from centralization. He also said that these industry-defining events usually come before market recovery. The collapse of crypto exchange FTX would trigger significant market structure changes, namely moving away from a model…