Vitalik Buterin says corporate metaverses will “misfire” while venture capitals piles in
02 Aug 2022
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Vitalik Buterin, a co-founder of the world’s largest smart contract platform Ethereum, has criticized “existing corporate attempts to intentionally create the metaverse,” in a series of Sunday tweets primarily aimed at Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta Platforms. Facebook’s pivot towards the technology under the Meta Platforms rebranding is destined to “misfire” said Buterin, due to a lack…

Burn-to-Earn: German entrepreneur in Dubai merges fitness and crypto
10 Jul 2022
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Ferhat Kacmaz, a German entrepreneur who moved to Dubai, took the risk of merging fitness and crypto, incentivizing his customers to train with cryptocurrency in his own “burn-to-earn” app Fit Burn. His Fit in Time chain has already spread in the UAE, Bahrain, and Kuwait, with plans to soon open in Saudi Arabia, reflecting the…

Bankman-Fried says FTX has ‘a few billion’ to support the crypto industry
09 Jul 2022
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Sam Bankman-Fried, head of FTX, one of the largest crypto exchanges, said he and his company still have a “few billion” on hand to shore up struggling firms that could further destabilize the digital asset industry, adding that the worst of the liquidity crunch has likely passed. Bankman-Fried, 30, who lives in the Bahamas where…

FTX CEO says Alameda could ‘step in’ to prevent wider crypto collapse
21 Jun 2022
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FTX founder and CEO Sam Bankman-Fried said his Alameda Research and FTX could “step in” the situation with Celsius and Three Arrows Capital to prevent further contagion across the crypto sector. He also rejected rumors that Alameda played a part in jeopardizing the stability of Celsius. The downward trajectory that has greeted the crypto market…

Elon Musk reveals plans to integrate crypto payments into Twitter
18 Jun 2022
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Tesla CEO Elon Musk, who has agreed to purchase Twitter for about $44 billion, spoke on June 16 at an all-hands meeting for the social network company. The billionaire said it “makes sense” to integrate digital payments into Twitter, according to a leaked Q&A session with employees. Billionaire Elon Musk shared further details of his…

Despite ‘crypto winter,’ billionaire Steven Cohen keeps investing in DeFi
15 Jun 2022
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While the crypto market has lost $2 trillion in value since November 2021, the venture arm of the $22 billion hedge fund run by Steve Cohen, the man who inspired the “Billions” TV show, last week announced it had invested in its fifth crypto company, a decentralized finance firm that provides data and trade execution…