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The Central Bank of Argentina has opened its doors to host a cryptocurrency-themed art exhibition for the first time. The show, titled “Art, Artificial Intelligence and the Future of the Economy,” includes a series of bitcoin mining machines, several spheres that display ether and bitcoin prices, and another sphere filled with destroyed physical money. Alberto … Read more
Franklin Templeton, one of the world’s largest investment managers, has announced that it has integrated Benji, a blockchain-integrated record-keeping system, on top of Base, a Coinbase-incubated Ethereum rollup. According to the institution, this move makes it the first organization to build a tokenized fund on top of Base. “Base is a layer 2 blockchain built … Read more
Sazmining, a green Bitcoin mining company with operations in Wisconsin and Paraguay, aims to improve the heating business using mining as a key element. The company reported that it is currently working on substituting the traditional petrol-based heating elements of a building for a system that recycles the heat produced by bitcoin miners in a … Read more
A recent report by A16zcrypto titled “Estimating the Number of Real Crypto Users” found that only up to 60 million current holders were actively using their cryptocurrency each month. The numbers represent only 10% of the estimated 617 million global holders, a number released by Crypto.com in June. The report assesses that “this differential suggests … Read more
Trader Willy Woo reflected on market trends and the behavior of altcoins in what he called this third alt-cycle. This cycle, Woo stated, is marked by the emergence of meme coins, “a piss-take on the crypto space.” Unlike the last cycle, which Woo linked to the appearance of decentralized finance (defi), he believes this time, … Read more
Off The Grid, the so-called Web3 extraction shooter built on the Avalanche blockchain, has maintained momentum after its launch in the early access stages. While the game has fallen from the top 100 most viewed games on the streaming platform Twitch, it has maintained 500,000 daily active addresses (DAA) since its launch, with over 6.6 … Read more
Buenos Aires’ Innovation and Transformation Secretary, Diego Fernandez, confirmed that Quarkid, a self-sovereign decentralized blockchain ID project, has already been implemented as part of the city’s app, Miba. In a recent interview, Fernandez explained that users who have verified their identities with authorities can now use Quarkid’s sovereign technology, which allows them to store their … Read more
The volume of cryptocurrency transactions in Brazil has yet again registered record numbers. According to figures offered by the Brazilian IRS equivalent, volumes grew 24.2% compared to last year, reaching over $43.5 billion between January and September 2024. Stablecoin volumes were significant, with Tether’s USDT leading the charge. The leading stablecoin registered volumes of $27.4 … Read more
Mercado Libre, the Latin American e-commerce and financial services giant, has reached a milestone with meli dolar, an in-house distributed dollar-pegged stablecoin. The token, launched in August, is now in millions of wallets, according to Ignacio Estivariz, VP of Fintech Services at Mercado Libre. “We already have millions of users who have received meli dolar … Read more
Presidential candidate Donald Trump recently acknowledged the existence of the crypto-based prediction market platform Polymarket. In a video posted on Polymarket’s X account, Trump referred to the platform as “a new phenomenon gambling poll,” mistakenly calling it Poly-Poll.” “I’ve never heard of it,” Trump stated, while someone in the audience corrected him about the platform’s … Read more
