McDonald’s (NYSE: MCD) is the latest firm to seem set to explore the Metaverse, an online virtual world based on social interaction. In particular, eleven of the twelve trademarks which were filed on February 4 are references to virtual restaurants, symbols, cafés, and other virtual services. The founder of Gerben Intellectual Property, a law firm specializing in trademark law Josh Gerben was the first to bring attention to the applications on Twitter, pointing out that the fast-food company had submitted a total of ten applications....

This case represented the first DOJ case to challenge “algorithmic discrimination”, or unfair treatment across a system. According to the lawsuit, Meta’s housing advertising system discriminated against users based on race, color, religion, sex, disability, familial status, and national origin. Meanwhile, shares of the company ended the trading session down over 4%, despite the settlement, which will force Meta to pay a fine of $115,000 and develop a new system for housing ads....

Initially, Moderna had claimed that it will seek emergency approval of its vaccines as early as November 1st. The development also deals a blow to U.S President Donald Trump‘s promise of availing a vaccine before the elections. Speaking on Wednesday, Bancel noted that Moderna will seek approval for the general population use towards the end of January. If the vaccine passes all the tests, it will be available for full approval by at least March....

The development comes as the Bitcoin rally continues, with the asset hitting a new all-time high of $58,300. The surge has been motivated by institutional investments and crypto adoption by leading entities. The statement adds that the Bitcoin payments will be at the rate applicable during the payment date. Sino-Global CEO Lei Cao notes that the company is leveraging Bitcoin’s rising popularity as a payment option. Following the development, Sino-Global stock was up by 10....

Reports of the cybersecurity breaches were evident in the entire month as the users discovered strange account behaviour. Players said that funds got lost mysteriously from their accounts. Some users found illegal purchases of Fortnite’s virtual currency, V-bucks, on their account activity. It is still unclear how much was stolen from this hack. Nonetheless, it represents a significant security risk. Globally, over 53 million people have Nintendo Switch. That is not the company’s only console that has online functionality....

Allegedly, the shares investors own in New York, Hong Kong, and now Singapore, where Nio is listed, are all the same. Small price differences could in theory occur, which could possibly open the door to some scalping to occur playing the different exchanges. Nio founder William Li stated in the company’s press release on May 20: He also added: NIO chart and analysis With the recent 5% pop, the shares jumped above the 20-day Simple Moving Average; however, it’s not much comfort since, year-to-date (YTD), the shares are down over 50%....

As of November 26, the total number of smart contracts based on Plutus, a smart contracts platform by Cardano, stood at 3,791. The value represents a growth of 300% or 2,844 in 2022 after recording 947 smart contracts on January 1, data retrieved from Cardano Blockchain Insights shows. Notably, the spike in the number of Cardano smart contracts follows increased network development aiming to enhance the feature’s functionality. According to Cardano, the team recently worked on increasing script capacity, the Plutus Debugger MVP, alongside finalizing the rollout of implementation of full Babbage support in the Plutus tools before its release....

In fact, the number of new addresses created on the BTC network has dropped in the past few days, ending up at an average of 376,488 as of May 24, according to the tweet published by crypto analyst Ali Martinez on May 25. As per the chart the crypto trading expert published alongside the tweet, the number of new Bitcoin addresses according to the seven-day moving average before May 20 stood at around 425,000, which means that in the meantime, this number has declined by around 11....

In this line, data acquired by Finbold indicates that as of January 13, the total number of Bitcoin unique holders stood at 43,540,424, according to CoinMarketCap data. Bitcoin seven-day unique holders chart. Source: CoinMarketCap The number of current Bitcoin holders represents a share of about 0.54% of the global population of 8,010,885,391 at the time of publishing, as per Worldometer data. Therefore, it can be deduced that every 184th person globally potentially owns some Bitcoin....

As of June 26, 2020, data indicates that 2.79 million in Bitcoin was held on various exchange reserves. However, a year later, only 28.67% of the asset left exchanges, with the figure standing at 1.99 million. Almost a year ago, Bitcoin was trading at around $9,100, while as of press time, the asset was at $32,746, having plunged by almost 49.46% from the April all-time high of $64,800. Therefore, it would have highly been expected that most investors will be selling their Bitcoin holding....

Indeed, crypto tracking website CoinMarketCap is running an end-of-the-year wrap-up poll, asking participants to cast their votes according to whether they believe the following year will be bullish or bearish. Bulls vs. bears At press time, the results are overwhelmingly on the bullish side, with 83.11% of voters demonstrating a bullish attitude for the next year on the crypto markets, as per data retrieved by Finbold on December 14. On the other hand, 16....

The payments platform, however, noted that cryptocurrencies come with additional advantages like speeding up the money transfer process but stated that it’s avoiding the costs of exchanging money, Lupana reported on September 5. In this line, Barreiro noted that Wise is also exploring the Latin America region for the crypto option while singling out the vibrant digital assets market in the area. Wise relationship with cryptocurrencies At the moment, Wise only allows users to purchase cryptocurrencies using funds in their accounts....

Indeed, Polkadot’s creator, Gavin Wood, made the announcement on Twitter on January 17 that XCM v3 had been merged after it was in development for 15 months. XCM v3 enables bridges, cross-chain locking, exchanges, non-fungible tokens (NFTs), conditionals, context-tracking, and more. Its main functions include programmability, decomposition of the functions of relay chains into different parallel chains, and bridging between different chains so that certain applications can be built across parallel chains....

The Bitcoin network security uses a cryptographic algorithm called SHA-256 and is, as of now, utterly impenetrable for modern computers. However, in a research paper published on January 25, 2022, Sussex University’s scientists suggested that quantum computing is expected to change that within the next decade. Bitcoin is based on Blockchain, a series of digital blocks linked together as a list, and maintains records of all transactions occurring in its network, essentially a permanent public and transparent ledger of who owns what....

Indeed, after confiscating a large quantity of Bitcoin (BTC) and Ethereum (ETH) from the Plus Token scheme in 2019, the Chinese government now holds more of it than MicroStrategy or Elon Musk’s Tesla, Inc. (NASDAQ: TSLA), crypto writer Paulo A. José reported on November 13. China holds 194k Bitcoins, 833k Ethereum This information was originally published on November 2 by the founder and CEO of blockchain data analytics platform CyptoQuant, Ki Young Ju, who also posted a table listing the public companies with the largest Bitcoin holdings....

In this line, social intelligence platform LunarCrash has released the 2022 top ten cryptocurrencies based on its Galaxy Score. Notably, the Galaxy Score leverages artificial intelligence and machine learning to break down crypto movements. A higher ranking shows the specified digital assets are performing well under metrics like social volume, market volume, and price moving average. Below are the top ten LunarCrash coins based on the Galaxy Score. Crypto #1: Bitcoin (BTC) The flagship cryptocurrency has lost its value by almost 75% in 2022 from its all-time high of $69,000 recorded in November 2021....

Garlinghouse said in a recent interview that Ripple would have spent more than $100 million on legal expenses by the time the litigation was resolved. ‘The SEC bullies companies into settlement’ According to the Chief Executive Officer of Ripple, the astronomical costs associated with engaging in a legal fight with the SEC have always worked in favor of the securities regulator. As per Garlinghouse, the SEC counts on the fact that the majority of crypto-related enterprises lack the financial resources necessary to file a legal challenge against the agency....

The transaction that involved a property valued at $175,000 in Columbia, South Carolina was the first USDC Homes lending pool sale powered by onchain financing, RoofStock said in a press release on October 18. Under the plan, the sale was enabled by Roofstock onChain (ROC), which serves as RoofStock’s Web3 subsidiary that facilitates instant transactions for the single-family rental houses. The house was listed on RoofStock’s NFT marketplace, built on Origin Protocol....

According to data acquired by Finbold, the number of holders of the SpaceMoon token has increased by 25,568. In particular, the number of holders has grown since the start of the month, from 2,905,468 holders on November 22 to 2,931,036 on December 6, as per bscscan.com. SafeMoon Price Currently, Safemoon is trading at $0.000001363 down 10.87% in the last 24 hours and 58.08% over the previous seven days. Furthermore, the total market cap of SafeMoon currently stands at $798,322 million....

The corporate bond scheme seeks to provide investors with an opportunity to predominantly invest in corporate bonds. Furthermore, SBI Securities will use blockchain technology to manage investors who hold corporate bonds internally. The company also plans to use digital securities to finance business development in the future. Back in 2016, SBI Securities partnered with IBM to test the potential of blockchain technology for bond trading. From the trial, SBI Securities was to commercialize the technology....