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On Jan. 30, the South China Morning Post reported that one of the largest Asian pharmaceutical companies, Zuellig, had launched a blockchain-based system to track the quality of COVID-19 vaccines. Called “eZTracker,” it allows any user to “instantly verify the provenance and authenticity” of vaccines by scanning the QR code
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Ripple, a Fintech company, makes substantial headway in its legal fight with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. The XRP (the world’s seventh-largest cryptocurrency) issue will be resolved soon, according to CEO Brad Garlinghouse, who is optimistic about the case’s conclusion date. XRP continued a week-long surge in the market today
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Gamefi has been the talk of the town in crypto for a while now, and growing institutional interest suggests there’s plenty of race left to run. Whether it’s Gemini raising $400m to facilitate access to the metaverse, or the Tron Foundation launching a $300m gamefi fund, an apparently endless river
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This episode is sponsored by Nexo, Abra and FTX US.Download this episodeOn this week’s “Long Reads Sunday,” NLW reads David Z. Morris’ “Meta Leans In to Tracking Your Emotions in the Metaverse.”See also: Who Writes the Story of the Metaverse?“The Breakdown” is written, produced by and features Nathaniel Whittemore aka
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The National Cyber-Forensics and Training Alliance (NCFTA), an American non-profit, onboarded its first crypto firm Binance to aid their ongoing battle against cybercrimes. Founded in 2002, the NCFTA partners with law enforcement and various business and academic entities to source threat intelligence to identify and mitigate cybercrime threats. By partnering with
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With all the attention – and divisive debates – around Web 3 this past month, you might think the idea of a third, more decentralized internet era is entirely new.In truth, “Web 3.0” has been part of a two decades-long discussion around the societal, cultural and political distortions created by
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This episode is sponsored by Nexo, Abra and FTX US.Download this episodeThis week’s Long Reads Sunday features a reading of David Z. Morris’ “What Jack Dorsey’s Beef With ‘Web 3′ Is Really About”“The Breakdown ‘’ is written, produced by and features Nathaniel Whittemore aka NLW, with editing by Rob Mitchell
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Terraform Labs and its CEO, Do Kwon, are challenging the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), claiming the regulator improperly served Kwon subpoenas at Mainnet 2021 despite not having jurisdiction over Kwon or his company. They have asked a New York court to dismiss the subpoenas.Terraform filed a motion last
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As play-to-earn games continue to enter the market, one NFT-implemented fighting game is looking to stand out from the rest: Crypto Fight Club. The title has already launched their website, alongside a detailed white paper in recent months. Now, the emerging game has completed an immensely successful seed round, raising
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Puerto Rico recently announced that it may be looking for a blockchain solution to fight government corruption, particularly after a Puerto Rican mayor pleaded guilty to accepting a cash bribe of more than $100,000. But could a distributed digital ledger really make an impact in the unincorporated United States territory’s struggle
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