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Bill Murray’s biographical NFT project set to be premiered by Coinbase

[ad_1] American actor, writer and comedian Billy Murray is a globally known figure within the entertainment industry following an acclaimed and on-going career that spans six decades.Commencing with The National Lampoon Radio Hour in 1973, Murray’s highlight reel includes Saturday Night Live, Ghostbusters, Groundhog Day, Lost in Translation, and Zombieland, among many other notable screen contributions.Murray has earned a plethora of major accolades — principally a British Academy Film &
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More than 2.6 million users signed up for the City of Shenzhen’s digital yuan airdrop

[ad_1] According to data obtained from local news outlet Sohu.com, the Shenzhen Chamber of Commerce has recorded over 2.6 million signups for its latest digital yuan, or e-CNY, airdrop. Two months prior, the City of Shenzhen announced that it would be airdropping 30 million of the e-CNY central bank digital currency, or CBDC, to local residents to stimulate consumer spending as a recovery measure to the country's strict coronavirus lockdown. Users
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What is a crypto airdrop and how does it work?

[ad_1] For most crypto investors, there is nothing more important than making a return on their investment. Thanks to the volatility, this can be done quickly or it can be a hugely difficult task. That's why crypto airdrops are an inexpensive way to make additional returns on your portfolio. After all, airdrop tokens are free and never hurt, right?Almost daily there are new crypto airdrops, with some easier to obtain
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BNB Chain launches DApp platform with ‘Red Alarm’ to warn users about scams

[ad_1] BNB Chain has launched a new platform, DappBay, to discover new Web3 projects. DappBay is equipped with a novel feature called Red Alarm, which assesses project risk levels in real-time and alerts users of potentially risky decentralized applications (DApps), according to a Thursday announcement.Red Alarm is a contract risk scanning tool offered by DappBay that helps users identify high-risk projects to protect their investments from rug pulls and scams. Users
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Blockchain-based solutions aim to address US disaster relief

[ad_1] Natural disasters in the United States are becoming more prevalent, resulting in increasing costs, a lack of transparency between state and government organizations and a slew of other issues impacting relief systems. The Pew Research Center found that the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s (FEMA) public assistance program spent 23% more on natural disasters between 2010–2019 than it did during 2000–2009. Data from Climate.gov further shows that 2021 was the third
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Mastercard partners with Indonesian crypto gateway to drive financial inclusion

[ad_1] Financial services firm Mastercard has partnered with crypto gateway provider Fasset to co-develop digital solutions that may drive adoption in Indonesia. The collaboration aims to expand financial inclusion in the country and extend opportunities to its local economy. In an announcement, Navin Jain, the country manager for Mastercard Indonesia, said that will support Fasset's efforts to advance financial inclusion within the country. According to Jain, the partnership will help locals
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Polygon selected to participate in Disney’s 2022 Accelerator Program

[ad_1] Layer-2 scaling platform Polygon has been selected to partake in Disney’s 2022 Accelerator Program to build on Polygon’s web3 technology, which will commence this week.The Ethereum scaling platform is one of six projects to be accepted into the Accerator Program, which is focused this year on augmented reality (AR), non-fungible tokens (NFTs) and artificial intelligence (AI), according to a statement from The Walt Disney Company on July 13. Polygon
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China’s central bank to expand deployment of e-CNY

[ad_1] According to China's state institution Xinhua News Agency, Lan Zou, head of monetary policy at the People's Bank of China (PBoC), announced that the country would be expanding the number of digital yuan (e-CNY) test sites in the country from 11 to 23. They are spread out across 15 out of 31 of China's provinces and autonomous regions. The PBoC is China's central bank and is responsible for the
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Playboy to launch in The Sandbox metaverse: Nifty Newsletter, July 6–12

[ad_1] In this week’s newsletter, read about Playboy’s upcoming virtual mansion in The Sandbox (SAND). Check out how a startup is offering lifetime Netflix and Spotify access through nonfungible tokens (NFTs) and how NFTs can bridge gaming and blockchain. Additionally, learn how game company GameStop launched its own NFT marketplace. And, don’t forget about this week’s Nifty News roundup featuring an “Ape Now, Pay Later” scheme from a decentralized finance (DeFi)
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Why Alex Tapscott quit his high-paying job to write a book about Bitcoin

[ad_1] "In 2015, I quit my job at the tender age of 29 to do something I'd never done, which is to write a book with no idea of what would come afterward." Fast forward seven years later, Alex Tapscott is now a renowned Canadian business author known for his national bestseller Blockchain Revolution: How the Technology Behind Bitcoin is Changing Money, Business, and the World. Aside from his writing