Roll out the (NFT) Barrel, We'll have an (NFT) Barrel of fun!
One of Australia's oldest wine company's, Penfolds Magill Estate, has teamed up with Non-Fungible Token (NFT) platform BlockBar to offer...
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Miramax sues Tarantino over plan to issue 'Pulp Fiction NFTs'
The path of the righteous man is beset on all sides by the inequities of the selfish and the tyranny of lawsuits. Production company...
Home run swing: bitcoin as payment for Perth Heat
The Perth Heat, a team in the Australian Baseball League, has announced it will become the first professional sporting club to pay its...
Seoul Local Council adopts public service Metaverse
The Seoul Metropolitan Government (SMG) has announced it is the first local government in South Korea to establish a metaverse platform....
China's Crypto Crackdown
The Peoples Republic of China's Central Bank has announced this week that all transactions of crypto-currencies are illegal. The news has...
South Korea to Lose Half of Crypto Exchanges Amid New Regulations
Over 50 per cent of South Korea's cryptocurrency exchanges are set to be shut down in the coming days as operators seek to comply with...
International Sporting Clubs Become Players in Cryptocurrency World
Professional sporting clubs have become the most recent players in the continuously growing cryptocurrency market. Professional European...
A Vast Step Forward for Hopeful Crypto Customers
Vast, a United States bank with Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) insurance and a Federal Reserve charter, has become the...
Judge Not Cutting Ripple Slack Over Internal Messages
In the ongoing lawsuit between Ripple and the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Ripple Labs has been ordered by United States...
Going Bananas: Sotheby's Latest NFT Auction Generates USD$26 Million
Bored Ape Yacht Club ('BAYC') has teamed up with Sotheby's for a two-lot sale of their Bored Ape Yacht Club non-fungible tokens...
SEC Targets Uniswap Labs
The United States' Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has launched an investigation into Uniswap Labs, the company behind the...
Swift Swiss laws bring blockchain benefits and regulatory certainty
A new set of Swiss laws on blockchain and distributed ledger technology was recently announced (DLT Laws) and approved by the Swiss...
Crypto companies praised by NYDFS for rapid response to recent Twitter Hack
the New York Department of Financial Services (NYDFS)has issued a report dissecting the July 2020 Twitter hack
SEC slaps SALT with penalty and refund order
The SEC recently hit Salt Lending with an order to refund investors in its 2017, $47 million ICO, as well as a penalty
Federal bank confirms CBDCs as a possible state defence against stress events like COVID-19
Just two weeks after the Central bank of the Bahamas announced it was set to become the first country in the world to launch a central...
Kraken rebuffed in court ruling regarding revealing office location
A US Court has ruled that an employee who revealed the location of a Kraken office was not spilling company secrets
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