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Crypto Payments Come to Adelaide Oval via Crypto.com

First-Ever Crypto Payment Integration for Major Stadium in Australia VIDEOS AND IMAGES AVAILABLE IN LINK BELOW Adelaide, April 4, 2024 - Crypto.com, trusted by more than 80 million customers worldwide and the industry leader in regulatory compliance, security and privacy, announced today that sports fans and concert-goers can now pay via Crypto.com Pay, Crypto.com’s payment solution, at Adelaide Oval, the home of the Adelaide Crows. Supported by Adelaide Oval, Adelaide Crows and financial systems software firm DataMesh, which is providing the payment technology and terminals, this integration will mark a

JCB, IDEMIA and Soft Space launch “JCBDC” Phase 2 pilot to trial CBDC offline P2P payments

Tokyo, Paris, Kuala Lumpur, Dec 13, 2023 - (JCN Newswire) - Japan's only international payment brand JCB Co., Ltd. ("JCB") has launched the “JCBDC” (JCB Digital Currency) Phase 2 pilot project with IDEMIA, a global leader in identity technologies, and the world’s leading fintech company Soft Space Sdn Bhd. ("Soft Space"). In Phase 1 of the JCBDC project, JCB, IDEMIA, and Soft Space developed a CBDC (Central Bank Digital Currency) payment solution, enabling merchants to accept CBDC without the need to modify their POS (point of sale) terminals and payment

What is AVAX? Everything You Need to Know About Avalanche

SINGAPORE, Dec 1, 2022 - (ACN Newswire) - Welcome to this edition of 101 article exploring one of the staking coins on Moonstake. This time, we'll be looking at Avalanche and its native coin AVAX which has grown rapidly since its inception just a few years ago and is in the list of the most popular cryptocurrencies on the market. What Makes Avalanche Unique? Launched in September 2020, Avalanche is a Layer-1 blockchain that functions as a platform for dApps and custom blockchain networks. As a rival to Ethereum, Avalanche aims to dethrone it

The Four Quadrants of MEV Protection

Understanding the MEV Solution Landscape Like many other crypto narratives, the dark side of blockchain was first introduced on Reddit in a post titled “Miners Frontrunning.” In the now historical post, the author outlines how given the Ethereum mempool is inherently public, miners can frontrun transactions and profit on the ultimately arbitraged difference in that transaction. However, this isn’t an entirely new phenomenon in finance. The 2014 book, Flash Boys: A Wall Street Revolt by Michael Lewis investigates frontrunning orders in high-frequency trading. The paper Flash Boys 2.0, published in 2019, takes these observations into

What is SOL? Everything You Need to Know about Solana

SINGAPORE, Nov 14, 2022 - (ACN Newswire) - Welcome to this edition of 101 article exploring one of the staking coins on Moonstake. This time, we'll be looking at Solana and its native coin SOL, which has grown rapidly since its inception just a few years ago and is now one of the most popular cryptocurrencies on the market, referred to by many crypto experts as one of the "Ethereum killers". What Makes Solana Unique? Originally launched in 2020, Solana is a layer-1 blockchain that focuses on scalability, speed, cost minimization, and energy-efficiency. Solana's

The NPD Group: First Quarter 2021 U.S. Consumer Spending on Video Game…

The growth driven by the new platforms, combined with gains experienced in mobile, PC and VR content spending, as well as the continued strength of Nintendo Switch, have pushed the market to new highs. PORT WASHINGTON, N.Y. (PRWEB) April 29, 2021 According to the Q1 2021 Games Market Dynamics: U.S.* report from The NPD Group, overall total consumer spending on video gaming in the U.S. totaled $14.92 billion in the first quarter (Q1) of 2021 (January - March), an increase of 30% compared to Q1 2020. Gains were seen across

What is ChainGuardians? Anime-style Gaming NFT

ChainGuardians is a game with an anime-cryptocurrency theme, backed with NFT in-game assets. Have you ever thought about bringing your gaming assets to life? Well, who hasn’t? Anyone who has invested his time and energy into his favorite games gets that feeling, wishing they could carry their rewards and assets over to other games – or more, convert them into real-world assets – money! While game lovers have given up on the idea that their gaming efforts could be transferred through different games, brazen gaming companies have stood up to restore

Ethereum fees are skyrocketing — But traders have alternatives

With the rapid growth of decentralized finance, upcoming scaling developments on Ethereum 2.0, and increased crypto allocation in the portfolios of institutions, the price of Ether (ETH) is rapidly ascending. In fact, we’ve already seen ETH break the $2,000 barrier for the first time, marking a brand-new all-time high. All this action may be bullish for ETH holders and DeFi investors, but for smaller DApp developers and other users on the network — such as traders using ERC-20-based stablecoins — it’s quickly pricing them out. That’s because the cost of

The NPD Group: Fourth Quarter 2020 U.S. Consumer Spending on Video…

Growth across almost all gaming segments drove the market to record spending in both the fourth quarter and the year. PORT WASHINGTON, N.Y. (PRWEB) February 01, 2021 According to the Q4 2020 Games Market Dynamics: U.S.* report from The NPD Group, overall total consumer spending on video gaming in the U.S. continued to break records, reaching $18.6 billion in the fourth quarter (Q4) of 2020 (October – December), an increase of 26% compared to Q4 2019. Full-year U.S. games industry consumer spend across all categories reached $57 billion, a 27%

8Hours Platform Guide: Everything About EHRT

Combining the real world with virtual space would have seemed impossible decades ago. There have been many issues such as data integrity and information security that impeded the development of the technology. However, the 8Hours Foundation, among other companies, showed that it can actually be done. Through the help of blockchain technology and its innovations, 8Hours made the tokenization of physical assets to create their digital counterparts possible — and enjoyable. In this article, we shall explore how the 8Hours foundation took advantage of revolutionary blockchain technologies like Vechain and