Blockchain & crypto news from India
Jack Dorsey, former Twitter CEO, has declared the latest platform in a tweet, called ‘Web5’, a combination of Web 3 and Web 2.0, developed on the Bitcoin blockchain. The platform assures to fix the issue of securing personal data. The firm said on its website that users struggle to protect personal data with several accounts…
Payments giant Mastercard announced this week that its cardholders can now purchase NFTs without crypto. The move comes as an effort to make purchasing NFTs easier and safer. The company has partnered with Immutable X, Candy Digital, The Sandbox, Mintable, Spring, Nifty Gateway, and MoonPay. So, what exactly does Mastercard’s latest initiative mean for the…
A global WEB3 E-Commerce SaaS platform – NFTCALLY declared the launch of “COMEARTH,” the go-to destination for commerce in the Metaverse. COMEARTH, a 3D immersive virtual setting, will be powered by NFTICALLY’s “Web3 E-Commerce Engine” and endorsed by the confidence and decentralization of the Polygon Blockchain. In COMEARTH, trademarks, companies, content creators, and celebrities will…
Ethereum’s big transition to a more energy-efficient framework that developers have been committing for years could be kicked down the road once again as they intend to postpone a so-called difficulty bomb that is designed to slowly boot miners off the blockchain. A special code that is always been a part of Ethereum, the difficulty…
The author who gave the term ‘Metaverse’ about three decades ago, Neal Stephenson is launching a metaverse-focused blockchain project called LAMINA1. He has also revised his vision for the Metaverse, quoting that the experience is probably to be focused more on flat 2D screens instead of augmented reality or virtual reality techs like lenses and…
The relaunch of Terra’s latest Luna token has noticed a sluggish start and failed to impress the investors who received the new tokens following last month’s collapse of the cryptocurrencies tied to the failed Terra blockchain. The original Terra Chain has been revived as Terra Classic. Additionally, Terra has been re-established as Terra 2.0 as…
Kenyan energy firm KenGen has asked Bitcoin (BTC) miners to move nearby and purchase its excess renewable power capacity. The company claims 86% of its energy is produced from renewable sources, mostly geothermal from pockets of ground source heat in the Great Rift Valley. According to reports, KenGen has space at its new industrial park…
On Tuesday, a bipartisan pair of the United States senators presented a bill that would set up new rules for crypto and hand the bulk of their oversight to the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC). Introduced by one of Congress’ most vocal cryptocurrency advocates, Republican Senator Cynthia Lummis and Democratic Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, the bill…
While replying to customer demands, PayPal declared today that its users will now be able to transfer crypto from their accounts, exchanges, and wallets. The latest functionality will enable customers of PayPal to transfer backed coins into PayPal, move cryptocurrency from its application to external cryptocurrency addresses including hardware wallets and exchanges, and send cryptocurrency…
Just one day after the Solana network temporarily stopped on June 1, in an announcement published by Alchemy, the Web3 development platform, and infrastructure provider declared its support for the controversial blockchain. Resulted due to a bug that made it impossible to reach network consensus, the Solana blockchain stopped for around four hours on Wednesday….