Author: Donald Munn

A survey by the consultancy Sensemakers, has sought to discover what is the perception and knowledge of the metaverse in Italy. Sensemakers: research into awareness of the metaverse in Italy According to the research of Sensemakers, one in four Italians knows the metaverse The business consultancy Sensemakers recently carried out research to explore Italians’ perception, knowledge and opinions of the metaverse. The results were in some ways surprising. First of all, the research shows that about a third of Italians don’t really know what the metaverse is. This is surprising considering that, especially after Facebook’s decision to launch into this…

Yesterday, following the announcement of the purchase of 10% of Twitter by Elon Musk, the stock took off.  Twitter: the effects of Elon Musk’s purchase At the opening, the stock jumped from $39 to $47, an immediate jump of 22%, and then closed the day at almost $50, a gain of more than 27% compared to Friday’s close.  This jump was certainly due to the news about Elon Musk, but its pronounced size is probably also due to the fact that Twitter’s share price was particularly low until last week.  The year 2021 ended with a price of around $43,…

Also speaking on stage at the Non Fungible Conference in Lisbon that ended yesterday was Ian Rogers, Chief Experience Officer of Ledger, the popular hardware wallet company, who announced a new collaboration with The Sandbox metaverse. The goal is to bring greater security to the storage of NFTs Beginning his presentation, Rogers explained how “we’re all pioneers in this room”, referring to the audience in the room. In fact, if we think about it for a moment, crypto was not born too many years ago (Bitcoin in 2009) and NFTs only in 2017 if we consider the launch of CryptoKitties…

Yesterday, 5 April 2022, at 12 PM, a press conference was held by the French company The Sandbox in the presence of co-founder and COO Sebastien Borget during the Non Fungible Conference in Lisbon. The Sandbox’s figures presented at the NFC Summit in Lisbon During the press conference, Borget first outlined the numbers of his metaverse. Impressive figures if we think that a year ago they were less than half. In total, The Sandbox has 2.3 million registered users with a wallet, 20,000 land owners, 200 people in the company’s team, and several high-level partnerships with Gucci, Snoop Dogg and…

Bitcoin Analysis  Bitcoin’s price sold-off during the day’s final 4HR candle and concluded its daily session -$1,130.1. The first chart to analyze on today’s agenda is the BTC/USD 1D chart below from Satoshi_Nakaschwartzhouse. BTC’s price has been trading above the 0.236 fibonacci level [$41,556.83] on the daily timescale since the end of March and is now trying to successfully defeat bearish traders at the 0.382 fib level [$46,805.33]. The targets overhead for bullish BTC traders are 0.382, 0.5 [$51,047.27], and 0.618 [$55,289.21]. For those expecting downside for BTC’s price next, the targets are 0.236, and a full retracement back to…

Ethereum, the second most capitalized cryptocurrency, has surpassed both the Turkish Lira and the Norwegian Krone in value Ethereum surpasses both the Turkish lira and the Norwegian krone According to the latest data from CoinMarketCap, thanks to recent gains, Ethereum has jumped to 27th place in market value among all world currencies, overtaking currencies such as the Turkish lira and Norwegian krone. The currency created by Vitalik Buterin in 2015 would be one step below the Polish zloty and ahead of the Chilean peso, Turkish lira, Norwegian krone and Egyptian pound. In total there are 101 cryptocurrencies in the ranking,…

Lightning Labs has announced the launch of Taro, a new protocol that aims to “Bitcoinize the dollar”. Backers of the project with a $70m Series B funding round included investors including Valor, Brevan Howard, NYDIG and others.  Lightning Labs: Taro protocol to facilitate fiat currency transfers into Bitcoin A few hours ago, Lightning Labs, run by CEO and Co-Founder Elizabeth Stark and backed by entrepreneur Jack Dorsey, announced the launch of its new Taro protocol and the raising of $70 million in its Series B funding round on Twitter: Today we're announcing Taro, a new protocol to issue assets on…

There has been an abnormal amount of transactions on Bitcoin SV in recent days, albeit it has been outpacing all the other blockchains since December   Anomalous amount of transactions on Bitcoin SV The anomaly occurred on 3 and 4 April, when more than 8 million daily transactions in Bitcoin SV were surpassed.  It is enough to consider that on the same days the number of daily transactions on the Ethereum blockchain slightly exceeded one million, while the number of transactions on the Bitcoin blockchain was less than 300,000. There were more than 1.2 million transactions on the XRP blockchain.  However,…

Neutrino USD (USDN) is an algorithmic stablecoin issued by the Neutrino protocol whose value is tied 1:1 to that of the US dollar. Or at least it should be.  As can be seen from its price evolution, USDN has started to lose its peg in recent days, hitting a low of $0.68 just yesterday, 4 April.  The cause of the loss of the USDN stablecoin’s peg Neutrino is a project developed on the Waves blockchain and therefore USDN is issued against a collateral deposit in WAVES, a coin native to the blockchain of the same name.  The operation is very…

Boba Network is a layer 2 of the Ethereum blockchain that aims to provide security, lower gas fees and faster transactions. What is Boba Network Boba Network raise $45 million in a Series A funding Boba Network, enables the scaling and augmentation of Ethereum Layer-2. It complements the Optimistic rollup technology and provides new features such as switch-based onramp, fast exit, cross-chain bridging and others.  Boba Network has just raised $45 million in a single tranche of Series A funding from a number of major investors. The tranche boasts participation from Dreamers VC (Will Smith, Keisuke Honda), M13 (Paris Hilton…