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⁠Criminal use of crypto an ‘emerging threat’ — Australian police Law enforcement will need to “continually evolve” in order to keep pace with criminals, Australia’s federal police said.

⁠Global Bitcoin payments market projected to reach $3.7B by 2031: Research Private keys and hardware sub-sectors will drive the BTC payment expansion as demand from banks and emerging economies continue to grow.

⁠Volumes on crypto investment products drop to 2-year low: Coinshares Digital asset investment products recorded $5 million worth of cumulative weekly outflows in what Coinshare describes as an “apathetic period.”

⁠Reddit NFT trading volume hits all-time high as wallet holders near 3 million Meanwhile, the minting volume of nonfungible tokens have been declining steadily.

⁠Wealthy crypto believer and incoming UK PM Rishi Sunak once commissioned a royal NFT The new leader of the world’s sixth-largest economy is the former chancellor of the exchequer and is said to be richer than King Charl…

⁠Tel Aviv Stock Exchange to create crypto platform The five-year plan includes tokenizing various classes of digital assets and smart contracts.

​​Let them build: Democratizing game creation one player at a time Think you’ve got what it takes to build the next big fantasy gaming world? Well, here’s your shot. (Partnership material)

⁠Tesla's Bitcoin losses rise to $170M in first 9 months of 2022 The electric vehicle maker's actual BTC losses are far lower with $64 million worth of previously realized profits to offset the decline.

⁠Bitcoin '6-8 weeks' from breakout as Hang Seng echoes Lehman Brothers dip Volatility is closing in, but traders may have to wait until the end of the year if history repeats itself, one analyst warns.

⁠Warren Buffett-backed neobank picks Polygon for Web3 token — MATIC price eyes 100% rally MATIC has painted a bull flag setup with a profit target sitting nearly 100% higher than the current price.

⁠What are governance tokens, and how do they work? If you know about DAOs, you’ve heard about governance tokens. But how much do you know about how they work?

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​​Q&A: Play-to-earn mechanics 'kill' blockchain games — so what's the answer? In this Q&A, we talk to a gaming expert about why blockchain technology can shake up the space. (Partnership material)

⁠Women remain bullish on crypto investment despite market lull: Survey As the crypto winter rages on, new data from BlockFi reveals that women investors are still bullish on crypto, with 22% intending to buy in the next…

⁠Japanese port city wants to become the Web3 hub for the country Through a new collaboration with Astar Japan Labs, the city of Fukuoka aims to become the Web3 hub of the country, akin to Silicon Valley.

⁠How not to Bitcoin: User pays 1000X fee to send 4 BTC What could have inspired a Bitcoin user to overpay by 1,000 times the asking price to move roughly $63,000 in Bitcoin?

⁠Pan-African crypto exchange Yellow Card wins virtual asset license Yellow Card CEO said that the Botswana VASP license is the first license for African crypto exchanges established by an African country.

⁠Ethereum at the center of centralization debate as SEC lays claim Ethereum’s transition to PoS was celebrated as a key upgrade. However, a month after the move, centralization concerns are mounting high.

⁠Fireblocks launches crypto payment engine with Checkout.com and Worldpay as pilot partners Checkout.com settled $1 billion in stablecoin transactions during its initial pilot phase of Payments Engine.

⁠The Madeira Bitcoin adoption experiment takes flight An update on the Bitcoin rollout on the Portuguese archipelago of Madeira, which according to entrepreneur Jeff Booth is “a bigger Bitcoin Beach but in the EU.”

⁠S. Korean watchdog goes after crypto whales to ensure AML compliance The South Korean regulator noted that popular stablecoins used by the public might become a primary tool for laundering using digital assets.

⁠Santander bank trials blockchain platform for used cars in Brazil Santander Brasil is also reportedly planning to launch crypto trading services to its customers, CEO Mario Leao announced in July.

⁠Japan’s International Payments System will test plastic cards for CBDC Japan Credit Bureau will develop its CBDC infrastructure in collaboration with IDEMIA and Softspace.

⁠Web3 grows in online searches as interest in Bitcoin declines: Google Trends Online searches for the term ‘Bitcoin dead’ reached an all-time high owing to peak anxiety among investors amid ongoing selloffs at the time.

⁠FTX to give a 'one-time' $6M compensation to phishing victims FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried said the exchange won’t be “making a habit of compensating” users that are “phished by fake versions of other companies.”

⁠Ripple's lead engineer to exit after nearly a decade with the firm Nik Bougalis primarily worked on open-source code projects for the payments-focused XRP Ledger, with the recent push to introduce NFTs being a key imple…

⁠Fidelity to beef up crypto unit by another 25% with 100 new hires The Digital Assets division within Fidelity Investments will have around 500 total staff members by the first quarter of 2023, according to a spokesperso…

⁠Mango Market exploiter brags after rug pulling Mango Inu 'shitcoin' Avraham Eisenberg is at it again, following up his exploit of Mango Markets by deploying a new 'shitcoin' named Mango Inu to purportedly swipe liquidit…