October 2021: Blockchain news
News from the blockchain and distributed ledger field in October 2021 covered developments including: China’s moves to bridge centralized and decentralized financial systems; blockchain-backed voting in The Philippines; India’s regulatory gray zone around cryptocurrency; fashion brand moves into NFTs – nonfungible tokens; a variety of Metaverse focused articles; and more.
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- ICYMI: Visa looking at creating universal payment channel for global transfers of digital currencies, connecting different blockchains to manage stablecoin and CBDC transfers
- Australia: Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology ranked no.2 globally by CoinDesk for blockchain-related courses, research, student clubs and more
- Philippines: Axie Infinity blockchain-based play-to-earn gaming firm to launch a decentralized exchange, making it easier to move tokens off the platform to trade them
- A brief look back at the recent world-first Crypto-Fashion Week
- The Verge takes a dive into defining ‘the metaverse’: “One part definition, one part aspiration, one part hype…”
- A look at Taiwan’s Blockchain Ecosystem Map for H1 2021, providing a snapshot of the companies and communities in the industry
- China’s Binance cryptocurrency exchange launches $1BN accelerator fund in bid to boost adoption of Binance Smart Chain blockchain platform
- China’s Asia Digital Bank partners Bianjie blockchain tech provider to build out new digital infrastructure to bridge gap between centralised and decentralised finance
- ICYMI: Playboy to release series of 11,953 unique 3D NFTs called Playboy Rabbitars
- Vietnam: Sipher raises $6.8M with PC-based blockchain game, looking to add NFTs and decentralized finance components
- The Philippines’ Commission on Elections recently ran trials of blockchain-based voting for residents and overseas workers in attempt to address low voter turnout
- Asia’s tech news, issue 098: Vietnam & blockchain gaming, Huawei & EVs, Philippines voting tech, Australia & Bitcoin mining…
- Tokenized music royalties: “Of the $40BN in annual revenue earned by the music industry, only 12% is actually paid out to artists..”
- South Korea: An overview of the country’s metaverse developments, following the government’s launch of K-Metaverse Alliance now boasting over 200 company members
- A brief look at use cases around ‘enterprise NFTs’ for India’s blockchain firms
- Nepal: An overview of the recent ICT Startup & Innovation Fest 2021 and the tech firms and startups that participated, working in blockchain, agri-tech, IoT and more
- ICYMI: “Dolce & Gabbana’s NFT Experiment Is A Million-Dollar Success Story”
- India: Chingari short-video platform to launch its own crypto token, aiming for the $GARI token to be tradeable on cryptocurrency exchanges
- India: “Blockchain…will also attract billions of dollars of investments…However, a regulatory grey zone around cryptocurrency is certainly blocking our opportunities…”
- India: Bollywood actor Salman Khan joins Amitabh Bachchan on NFT bandwagon in selling digital assets as Non Fungible Tokens
- Asia’s tech news, issue 089: Myanmar agri-tech, China’s 5G, blockchain in Taiwan, IoT & COVID in Singapore…
- ICYMI: Genopets raises $8.3M with NFT-driven ‘move-to-earn’ game where players are rewarded for physical steps they take in real life, pulling data from phones and wearable devices
- Asia’s tech news, issue 093: HK fintech, Singapore VC, Vietnam e-commerce, blockchain gaming, Apple & surveillance…
- India: Biconomy blockchain-based transaction platform adds 12K new token holders via token listing, generating $11.5M
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