Maker Minds #12 — Vitalik's new book — Binance's layer 2 — Sorare, Helium
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Here’s a recap of the most important crypto news.
Latest prices
Bitcoin: $20,163
Ethereum: $1,609
Solana: $34
Gold: $1,687
S&P 500: $3,946
💰Blockchain and adoption
🔘 Ethereum MERGE is live!
🔘 SEBA, a Swiss crypto-friendly bank, is launching a staking service on Ethereum for its institutional investors.
🔘 4% of the world's population now reportedly owns cryptocurrencies.
🔘 The giant LG is developing a crypto wallet based on Hedera Hashgraph.
🔘 Vitalik Buterin has collected texts written during the evolution of the network into a book called Proof of Stake. The book will be available from September 27, with special editions in the form of NFTs.
🔘 After an initial import paid for in cryptocurrencies earlier this month, Iran has again affirmed its willingness to use digital assets for cross-border payments.
🔘 Binance's NBB Chain unveiled zkBNB, a scaling solution that allows for more transactions, faster and at low cost. The technology will use Knowledge Zero Disclosure Proof to package many transactions into one and send them to the main chain through an encryption process attesting to their validity.
🔘 Crypto.com is pulling out of a $495 million deal with the UEFA Champions League, citing legal reasons.
🔘 Helium developers offer a full migration to the Solana blockchain.
🔘 CoinEx now accounts for more than 600 cryptocurrencies available for trading.
🔘 Netflix will ban ads featuring cryptocurrencies on its upcoming subscription offering.
🔘 Approved by the Paraguayan Senate in July, legislation to recognize cryptocurrency mining as an industrial activity was ultimately vetoed by the country's president.
🔘 More than a year after scamming several hundred thousand users out of $2 billion, the founder of cryptocurrency exchange Thodex has been found and arrested in Albania. Faruk Fatih Özer faces an exceptional sentence of 40,564 years according to Turkish justice.
🔘 French Police and Gendarmerie are recruiting blockchain experts.
👩🏻🎤 NFTs & Metaverse
🔘 There are signs that the overall downward trend may continue, as Nansen marketplaces and indices continue to see new lows in volume. On the other hand, web2 brands like Disney, UMG, Reddit, and Gamestop continue to show interest in NFTs. Some projects are still able to generate traction, with Solana showing momentum (DigiDaigaku, DeGods) and the free mint trend continuing (DigiDaigaku, Potatoz by Memeland/9GAG).
🔘 ENS domain names were the most traded NFT collection on Ethereum this week.
🔘 Polygon lands on the Seaport protocol of the OpenSea platform.
🔘 World Cup 2022: FIFA is getting ready to launch its NFT platform.
🔘 After Instagram, Facebook now allows you to post your NFTs by connecting your wallet.
🔘 OpenSea will not support a possible Ethereum fork in PoW.
🔘 After the success of NFT in America, the Motion Plus Design team is organizing NFT in Europe in Paris, at the Théâtre du Gymnase on September 17 for a day dedicated to the greatest artists of the NFT world.
🔘 Sorare, the French fantasy soccer unicorn, is taking it to the next level by partnering with a behemoth of American sports: the NBA. A new Sorare game entirely dedicated to basketball will soon be available.
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