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Ilman Shazhaev Founder, CEO at Farcana Metaverse

Metaverse: the Next Stop for Social Networking and Influencers?

While many projects like to pitch the metaverse as the new way to experience gaming, it’s a place for so much more. First, the metaverse developers aim to create a virtual landscape meant to replicate the real world. Concerts, promotional events, hangouts, and all kinds of interactions can all occur in the space, giving easy access to experiences ...

07 March 2022 /crypto /markets

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Is this the end for meme coins on the tube?

Anyone who has been on the London Underground in the past few years cannot have failed to notice the exhortations to invest in BitCoin, or the next big meme coin, as this freedom of information request shows. Social media is awash with celebrities and influencers flogging crypto, something that had already caught the attention of the UK's financi...

10 February 2022 /regulation /crypto

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The banking sector isn’t keeping pace with Web 3.0

Crypto-native and crypto-curious businesses are creating a massive demand for transactions that simply isn’t being met by the traditional banking sector. The banking sector has historically done a pretty good job of taking care of transactions. While cash still reigns supreme in emerging markets such as India or Indonesia, most payments in mature ...

09 February 2022 /payments /crypto

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Bitcoin to tap $200K in H2 2022

While the $100K predictions withered away during the last month of 2021, bitcoin (BTC) price predictions are starting to resurface this year. In a note to investors, Fsinsight, a Fundstrat company said that BTC could increase by almost 500% from the current price point to around $200,000. The prediction stems from Fsinsight and the firm’s head of ...

09 February 2022 /crypto

Pierre Suhrcke Venture Partner at TempoCap

Why DeFi could signal the beginning of the end of traditional Fintech

How do you know when an industry has gone from disruptor to establishment? When people start to talk about how it is going to be disrupted. That’s the situation Fintech, that fusion of financial services and technology that has helped propelled all aspects of finance into the digital era, currently finds itself in. The pure Fintech players, such a...

08 February 2022 /crypto /predictions

Marten Nelson Co-founder and CEO at M10

Paving the way to payments modernization with a Shared Hierarchical Ledger System

Last month the Secretary of the U.S. Treasury admitted that she’s still on the fence about digital currency. Unlike the Bitcoin-loving president of El Salvador, Secretary Yellen thinks further study is warranted before diving headfirst into the digital currency deep end. This hesitancy is good. It’s worth asking a few questions: What’s so great ab...

03 February 2022 /payments /crypto

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Cryptocurrency Payment Gateway Plugins: New Opportunities for Merchants

These are exciting times for online merchants. Last year's events pushed the global acceptance of ecommerce, indicating enormous possibilities for forward-thinking online enterprises. Simultaneously, many merchants are hampered by out-of-date payment layers. As a result, rather of seizing the worldwide prospects presented to them, companies are con...

02 February 2022 /payments /crypto

Tatsiana Kuchminskaya Chief Financial Officer (CFO) at Andersen

How Crypto Signals Help to Sell Digital Currency

In cryptocurrency trading, the speed of decision-making is essential. A well-thought-out strategy and sound tools will help you make the right deals quickly. Crypto signals are one of such tools. In this article, FinTech solution development experts are talking about whether crypto signals are useful for making money on the exchange. A trading sig...

31 January 2022 /crypto /markets

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Could the U.S. become crypto global leader in 2022?

U.S. regulators have taken extraordinary measures in 2021 in voicing their concerns around the cryptocurrency industry along with passing critical regulation that will bring more clarity for crypto companies and how they can operate in the jurisdiction. The US Securities and Exchange Commission chairman Gary Gensler said recently that the governme...

25 January 2022 /payments /crypto

Gustav Korobov Senior Sales Executive - Core Banking platform at Advapay

Uptake of CBDC increasing around the world

At the time when fintechs are launching their payment and crypto projects, and regulators are introducing new legislation to control these companies, central banks around the globe are continuing to look into developing of CBDC projects. So, What Exactly IS CBDC? To the uninitiated, CBDC stands for Central Bank Digital Currency and it represents a ...

19 January 2022 /payments /crypto