Web3: LooksRare vampire attacks OpenSea; WeChat supports Digital Yuan; and Tron DAO
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NFT, Metaverse, and Gaming
⭐ NFT marketplace LooksRare goes live with vampire attack on OpenSea - The Block, January 10
ONE Sotheby’s Is Selling The First Real-World Home Through The Metaverse Using NFT Technology - Forbes, January 5
Quentin Tarantino to Release ‘Pulp Fiction’ NFTs, Flouting Miramax Lawsuit - CoinDesk, January 5
Singapore's Next-Gen Tycoons Join NFT Craze With Launch Of Collaboration Platform For Entrepreneurs - Forbes, January 5
Binance.US Is Building an Office in the Solana Metaverse - CoinDesk, January 9
GameStop Entering NFT and Cryptocurrency Markets as Part of Turnaround Plan - Wall Street Journal, January 6
Samsung launches metaverse store in Decentraland - Coin Telegraph, January 7
DAOs and Token Engineering
⭐ Announcement On TRON Foundation Restructured As TRON DAO - Medium, January 6
The daughter of Blockbuster's former CEO has joined the DAO working to buy the movie-rental company - Markets Insider, January 6
Ve(3,3) - Andre Cronje, January 6
An $11M Crypto Crowdfunded Golf Course Highlights DeFi’s Big Holes - Coin Telegraph, January 5
DeFi and Stablecoins
⭐ $139M Terra proposal to ‘bring awesome UST use-cases’ to DeFi projects - Coin Telegraph, January 7 .
A16z Leads Additional $25M Round for DeFi Credit Protocol Goldfinch - CoinDesk, January 7
Binance Labs leads $12M round for DeFi platform Woo Network - Coin Telegraph, January 4
Wirex Integrates World’s Largest Non-USD Fiat-Backed Stablecoin, XSGD on Platform - Fintech and Finance news, January 6
Estonia’s new AML laws target DeFi and ICOs, with fines leading up to $450K - Coin Geek, January 5
Public Blockchains
⭐ ‘We are 50% of the way there,’ says Vitalik on Ethereum’s development - Coin Telegraph, January 4
Livepeer Inc. raises $20 million to position for future growth - Business Wire, January 5
Shiba Inu Project Team Will Launch Shibarium, Layer 2 Solution - Bitcoinik, January 5
The World’s First Layer 1 Blockchain for Bandwidth, PKT, to List on Bittrex Global - Business Wire, January 4
Crypto, Fintech and Institutional
⭐ Major payments app WeChat to add support for China's digital yuan - Coin Telegraph, January 6
Grayscale Adds Flexa’s AMP to DeFi Fund, Removes BNT, UMA in Quarterly Rebalancing - CoinDesk, January 4
Central bank of Bahrain trials JPMorgan’s blockchain and token - Coin Telegraph - January 10
German neobank N26 to launch crypto trading later this year - Coin Telegraph, January 10
Bank With $87,000,000,000 in Assets To Support Bitcoin Trading for Its Customers Early This Year: Report - The Daily Hodl, January 5
Why DeFi platform WonderFi is acquiring crypto exchange Bitbuy - The Block, January 4
Crypto bank Sygnum raises $90 million, now valued at $800 million - The Block, January 6
Seba Bank Partners with Defi Technologies - Finews, January 5
Enterprise Chains and CBDCs
⭐ Jamaica plans to rollout CBDC in the first quarter of 2022 - Token Post, January 7
Walmart Canada Is Using Blockchain to Ease Supply Chain Burdens - Payments Journal, January 6
Polytrade Set to launch Mainnet on Polygon Everything about the major update - Digital Journal, January 7
Veritise is developing a blockchain application to prevent counterfeits in the supply chain - Logistics Manager, January 7
Medifakt, unleashing Blockchain’s potential for the healthcare industry - Newswires, January 9
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