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PayPal Launches New Digital Payments App With Crypto Capabilities
Financial giant PayPal just announced the launch of a new financial application that will make crypto services even more accessible on its platform.
PayPal is sharing details about the first iteration of its digital wallet and payments app, which features an array of new financial capabilities.
As the announcement explains,
“The new app includes a personalized dashboard of a customer’s PayPal account, a wallet tab to manage payment instruments and direct deposit, a finance tab that includes access to high-yield savings and crypto capabilities, and a payments hub that includes send and receive money features, international remittances, charitable and non-profit giving, bill pay, and a two-way messaging feature to send notes of acknowledgment after peer-to-peer transactions.” Read More
Twitter launches crypto tipping for all users
Bitcoin tips are available to send through the Lightning Network using the Strike app, or by adding a BTC address directly to one’s profile.
In a Thursday blog post, Twitter staff product manager Esther Crawford said the crypto tips feature would be available for all iOS users globally and the platform plans to roll out options for Android in the coming weeks. The crypto option will allow users to link third-party apps, including Cash App, Patreon, Venmo, Chipper, Bandcamp, Razorpay, GoFundMe, PicPay, and Wealthsimple Cash — depending on their region — to their Twitter bios and individual Tweets to receive funds.
“We want everyone on Twitter to have access to pathways to get paid,” said Crawford. “Digital currencies that encourage more people to participate in the economy and help people send each other money across borders and with as little friction as possible — help us get there.” Read More
New NFT Platform From Gary Vee Targets Fine Art, Opera
Gallerist Vito Schnabel brings his artists into NFTs, including works from Francesco Clemente, Philip Glass, and Gus Van Sant.
Investor and social media influencer Gary Vaynerchuk has rapidly become a major player in the NFT space, launching his own hand-drawn VeeFriends series—which will have an in-person conference in 2022—and teaming with brands like Budweiser and the U.S. Open to get them involved with the digital assets. Now he’s partnered with a noted fine art gallery to launch an NFT marketplace.
Art Official is the name of the marketplace, and it’s an Ethereum-based platform for digital artwork. It was created in partnership between real-world gallerist Vito Schnabel—who has locations in New York and Switzerland—and Vaynerchuk’s VaynerNFT consultancy. Read More
Can the First Couple of Blockchain Deliver a Second Act for Tezos?
Arthur and Kathleen Breitman created one of the most influential early blockchains. Now they must make Tezos relevant again.
Tezos is one of the first and most famous "second generation" blockchains, but fell out of favor.
The project is rebounding from a recent slump and pushing for renewed relevance.
Kathleen and Arthur Breitman are crypto royalty. The husband-and-wife team created Tezos, an early leader in the “second generation” of blockchains, and are the authors of an influential series of essays on crypto governance. Read More
Markethive Taking Faucets To Another Level [HIVE]
Markethive Airdrops
Markethive is determined to take a large share of the new Market Network next-generation following the Social Network phenomena. That Market Network is defined as a platform that is integrated with a social network (like Facebook), SAAS tools (like GoToMeeting, ZOOM, and Google Apps) commerce platforms (like eBay, Freelancers, Coinbase, Alibaba).
Markethive has created its consumer coin, Hivecoin (HIVE), originally named MHV, as an instrument to their Ecosystem for Entrepreneurs. So Markethive will establish its niche as the only social (Market) Network with an infinity Airdrop and a system that rewards the users for using it with additional micropayments, otherwise known as a Faucet. Read More
From Ethereum to Solana and Back: Wormhole Lets You Send Your NFTs Across Blockchains
The Wormhole NFT Bridge moves assets from one blockchain to another, much like the earlier DeFi-centric bridge.
Ethereum may currently rule the NFT collectibles space, but Solana has recently emerged as a rival with puny fees and speedy transactions—neither an Ethereum strength. But you can’t buy Solana NFTs on OpenSea or use the popular MetaMask wallet, for that matter, so there’s clear distance between the ecosystems. Until now, that is.
Launched yesterday, the Wormhole NFT Bridge connects Ethereum and Solana with a way to transfer assets between the competing blockchains. It’s a bi-directional bridge that can send assets in either direction, effectively “wrapping” the original NFT asset to make it fully compatible with the other platform. Read More
Polker Is Integrating Chainlink Price Feeds Into Its Multi-Crypto Marketplace
Polker is proud to announce the upcoming integration of Chainlink Price Feeds. By integrating Chainlink-powered decentralized oracles, the Polker platform will be able to offer an even more decentralized and trusted service to players.
The initial Chainlink Price Feed implementation will replace the current price feed API within Polker’s patented Multi-Crypto Marketplace protocol. Although migrating the previous API to Chainlink Price Feeds is impressive, Polker has a lot more planned with Chainlink in the future. Read More
Ripple Announces Partnership With Central Bank of Bhutan Using ‘Power of XRP Ledger’
The San Francisco-based payments company Ripple says its technology will power a central bank digital currency (CBDC) pilot project in Bhutan.
The nation’s Royal Monastery Authority (RMA) is collaborating with the crypto firm to roll out its very own CBDC as a way of improving the efficiency of cross-nation payments and increasing financial inclusivity, according to a post on Ripple’s website.
“The RMA believes that easier, faster and more affordable payments, both domestically and internationally, will help it reach its goal of increasing financial inclusion by 85% by 2023.” Read More
Robinhood to Plan Testing Cryptocurrency Wallets, Speeding up Crypto Territory Escalation
Robinhood Markets has announced that it plans to start testing cryptocurrency wallets next month, with a broader rollout in early 2022 to allows its customers to move supported crypto assets in and out of their brokerage accounts.
On September 22, the new public brokerage firm has stated that it plans to begin surveying its current crypto trading customers in the next few weeks, who constitute about 60% of the app’s 21.3 million active users, and select a small group of respondents to start testing the new wallets and provide feedback.
Robinhood’s crypto lead Christine Brown talked about the development. She said that the firm would take the alpha users’ feedback and address it publicly via its blog and social media account on Twitter. Brown also stated that people on the waiting list will begin getting access to wallets by the end of 2021 and that Robinhood’s cryptocurrency wallets will generally be available in early 2022. Read More
Stratis to help guide UK policy as ‘APPG Blockchain’ member
The Stratis blockchain has joined the UK’s ‘all-party parliamentary group on blockchain’ (APPG Blockchain) to contribute knowledge and help guide UK blockchain policy.
APPG Blockchain already includes major organizations like the IOTA Foundation, Capita, SAP, and the British Standards Institute (BSI).
Now, alongside Stratis, they will collaborate on developing innovative blockchain use cases as well as providing policy recommendations to guide the UK’s approach to distributed ledger technology.
A prominent UK-based blockchain project, Stratis will bring expertise to areas of enterprise and open-source use cases. Read More
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