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PEZ partners with Quidd to launch historic NFT collection
In a pioneering collaboration that merges the classic charm of PEZ with cutting-edge technology, the iconic candy company has partnered with Quidd, the leading digital collectibles and NFT marketplace.
Together, they are set to release PEZ’s first-ever Non-Fungible Token (NFT) collection, marking a significant stride into the digital era of collectibles. Quidd joins a carefully selected group of best in class partners to expand the beloved PEZ brand into new product categories. PEZ and Quidd were brought together by PEZ’s Licensing Agency, Lisa Marks Associates (LMA).
Since its inception in the 1920s, PEZ has been a household name, captivating generations with its colorful, whimsical, and interactive candy dispensers. Now, in 2023, the brand is breaking new ground by introducing a limited edition series of NFTs, showcasing digital artwork inspired by its most iconic dispensers and candies. Read More
Bitcoin Halving Has Miners Prepping as Marathon Aims to Beef Up Rigs
Marathon plans to spend $179 million to buy two more Bitcoin mining sites in Texas and Nebraska.
In a Tuesday statement, the publicly traded company announced the acquisition of two Bitcoin mining sites for $178.6 million. The datacenter sites are based in Texas and Nebraska.
The move will add 390 megawatts of capacity, the company said, and it is expected it will reduce the cost per coin mined by around 30%.
The Bitcoin halving is an event which occurs roughly every four years. The event is baked into the Bitcoin protocol and ensures that miners—those who keep the network secure and process transactions—have their rewards cut in half. Instead of 6.25 BTC for each block they process, miners will be rewarded with 3.125 BTC.
The halving of rewards is meant to keep Bitcoin inflation in check. There will only ever been 21 million Bitcoin minted, but the halving makes it so the available supply entering the market is slowed down periodically. Read More
Did You Trade Ethereum NFTs in the Last Two Years? You Can Claim This Airdrop
Frame, a new layer-2 Ethereum scaling network for NFTs, launched a token airdrop on Tuesday. Here's how to claim it.
Amid hopes and prayers for the crypto bull market’s imminent return, the onslaught of “free money” airdrops for crypto users continues. The latest comes courtesy of Frame, an Ethereum scaling network designed for NFTs.
The project announced Tuesday that it will soon launch a native FRAME token, and that any crypto user who has transacted an NFT on Ethereum in the last two years is now eligible to collect varying amounts of FRAME. Criteria used to determine a user’s airdrop size is determined based on the number of NFT trades made, the financial volume of those trades, and the amount of creator royalties paid during those transactions.
While NFT traders can already claim FRAME via an online portal, those tokens won’t functionally exist until January 31, when they will go live alongside the Frame mainnet. Read More
Inscriptions push 9 EVM chains to reach yearly transaction highs
The inscriptions craze may not be all bad for blockchain networks, especially those that can scale to handle the spikes in throughput.
An ongoing craze to mint inscriptions on non-Bitcoin-base chains has seen several blockchain networks, including Arbitrum and BNB Chain, hitting all-time highs in throughput.
According to data from the pseudonymous analyst “hildobby,” a data researcher at crypto venture fund Dragonfly, Goerli, zkSync, Arbitrum, Gnosis and the BNB Chain all hit daily peak transactions per second (TPS) in December.
Between 83% and 97% of the transactions on those five chains have been inscriptions. Additionally, Fantom, Celo, Avalanche and Polygon hit new daily TPS records in November, according to the data. Read More
Also, Updates On New Integrations And The Markethive Wallet
As the bear market continues wth its crypto-cleanse and traders bemoan the adverse price action, some industry leaders opine these conditions will eradicate bad actors and create more significant opportunities for upcoming projects and future participants. Several leading crypto analysts and engineers embrace the idea that this is the time to engage in moves leading to the loftiest gains when the bull cycle returns.
Markethive stands firm with these sentiments and continues to build its next-generation entrepreneurial platform and be ready for the market-cleansed bull run. Those on the Markethive journey may be aware that new features are being integrated into the newsfeed in preparation for the five-channel dashboard housing various feeds.
The innovative five-channel dashboard integration will consist of five newsfeeds—the general newsfeed, the blog, the video channel, curation, and surveys.
It will significantly streamline your activities and business facilitation and will include a search engine so you can build your personal algorithms. This will save time and effort by eliminating what you don’t want to see in your newsfeeds, be more intuitive, and enhance the user experience.
CEO of Markethive, Thomas Prendergast, and the team of engineers have made substantial headway with the wallet. It is all but done, and the release is imminent. It’s not a simple wallet that just transfers coins. It is a complete portfolio and accounts of all your transactions, payments, and affairs, including your ILPs. The wallet comprises fourteen major foundational processes and is your internal wallet on the Markethive database. Read More
SocialFi platform tackles downsides of social media without sacrificing usability
Web2 platforms have been the main way for creators to share their work for years, providing not enough value to content creators. But now, a new chapter is beginning.
RepubliK, a new social media platform, aims to bridge the gap between Web2 and Web3 by supercharging the creator economy and making social media fairer. It rewards users for their contribution to the ecosystem, focusing on sustainable tokenomics and making its technology accessible to all.
The current social media landscape has been criticized for its lack of fairness toward content creators, users and the broader ecosystem.
Major Web2 platforms like X (previously Twitter) and YouTube have been accused of failing to adequately compensate creators for their work while favoring large brands and influencers with millions of followers through opaque algorithms. Read More
The UK's New Digital Securities Sandbox: A Step Forward for Crypto Innovation
The UK government has recently made a significant stride in the world of blockchain and cryptocurrency. On December 18, 2023, they announced the introduction of the Digital Securities Sandbox (DSS) as part of the Financial Services and Markets Act 2023. This groundbreaking initiative, set to become operational on January 8, 2024, is designed to foster innovation in the financial sector by allowing crypto firms to test their products and services within a controlled environment in the UK.
A New Era for Financial Technology:
The DSS represents a new era for financial technology in the UK. By facilitating the testing of emerging technologies in financial market infrastructure activities, the sandbox aims to encourage the development and application of digital assets and related technologies in the financial sector. The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) and the Bank of England will oversee the sandbox, ensuring a regulatory framework that supports innovation while maintaining consumer protection. Read More
Cardano Foundation teams up with Brazil’s oil giant Petrobras for blockchain education
The Cardano Foundation is joining forces with Brazil’s state-owned oil company, Petrobras, to provide blockchain education and explore technology use cases in the energy sector.
According to an announcement on Dec. 20, the foundation will lead blockchain education workshops for Petrobras’ 45,000 employees, with Cardano Academy content available via Petrobras University. Founded in 1953, Petrobras is the largest corporation in Brazil and South America, with revenues of $124.7 billion in 2022.
The program’s scope will cover diverse blockchain applications and use cases, as well as interactive quizzes. To mark the launch of the program, the Cardano Foundation conducted two workshops in the metaverse, looking at blockchain regulations in Brazil and around the world. Read More
Redditors report deepfake Ripple scam on YouTube
A Reddit user claims to have received a reply from Google’s Trust and Safety Team saying that the advertisement does not violate its policies.
Reddit users have spotted a deepfake video of Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse asking XRP holders to send their coins to a certain address, promising to send back double the amount, which is a common strategy employed by fraudsters.
In a Reddit thread, a user of the online forum reported that they had seen the advertisement on YouTube as early as Nov. 25 and Dec. 3. Other Redditors in the thread also claimed to have seen similar advertisements on the platform and reported it.
In the video, a seemingly AI-generated likeness of Garlinghouse invited viewers to participate in an XRP event where they should send tokens to a “designated address.” In return, the character in the video promised to return “double the amount” as part of the fake giveaway. Read More
UK top court rejects patents for two inventions birthed by AI
Computer scientist Dr. Stephen Thaler attempted to file two patent applications in the name of an AI model he created.
The United Kingdom’s top court has rejected an appeal from a computer scientist who has been trying to get his AI model recognized as the inventor of two new patented products.
In its judgement, the court said computer scientist Dr. Stephen Thaler couldn't have his AI product — DABUS — recognized as the inventor of a food container and a flashing light beacon.
The Dec. 20 judgement was reached unanimously and supported earlier decisions made by the U.K. Court of Appeal and U.K. High Court.
The court concluded that a “natural person” must be behind a patent. “DABUS is not a person at all,” the court explained in dismissing Thaler’s appeal. Read More
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