Author: RareHippo Staff Writer

The metaverse and Play-to-Earn project, Ertha Metaverse, has secured an investment of $5.4 million, the company said Monday. Ertha has been marked as a leading player in both the blockchain and gaming industry, providing both token and NFT games. Investors include, LD Capital, Polygon Syndicate, OKEx Blockdream Ventures, Shima Capital, GD10, Genblock Capital, Momentum 6, X21, Dialectic, AU21, Zen Capital, Terranova. “We believed Ertha could gain adoption from traditional game players, so as to start a new wave of Play-to-Earn projects,” Xi Li, the Managing Director of LD Capital, said. Recently Earth launched IDO’s on three of blockchain gaming’s most…

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Binance Labs-backed StarSharks said Friday that it has secured a $4.6 million investment in a private round. The shark metaverse will use fresh funds to build new games and nurture the community, a statement said. “We are grateful to be supported by over 30 prestigious institutional investors and communities who believe in StarSharks’ vision, and we look forward to building the game platform of the next generation together,” said Franky, the CEO of StarSharks. The project aims to disrupt the current GameFi landscape where assets are isolated in one game. Players, developers, and investors can own, mate, and trade the…

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Abu Crypto has launched it’s an NFT project with a value-driven philosophy epitomizing the Middle East region’s culture and beliefs, a statement said on Friday. Their NFTs represent a collection of 4400 authentic 8-bit digital artwork depicting members of an Arab family. Every character in the group is bespoke, with in-built rarity levels and personalized traits to suit each character. Abu Crypto NFTs bear semblance to family valuesAbu Crypto NFTs represent a new way to explore collectibles and individualism while staying true to the mantra of togetherness. Abu Crypto FeaturesWith Abu Crypto, a minting process randomly generates eight unique family…

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Former UCLA football athlete Cordell Broadus is championing his own lane of innovation in the cryptocurrency and nonfungible token (NFT) industries. The new play-2-earn (P2E) gaming app Doge Dash tapped Cordell Broadus as its’ first-ever creative director to oversee its brand and artistic framework. Following his withdrawal from a career in sports, Cordell Broadus is now more interested in the rapidly growing billion-dollar digital industry. The 24-year-old entrepreneur is the inspiration behind his father, Snoop Dogg’s prolific rise and participation in the NFT and crypto movement. A proud holder of 1 Bored Ape and 2 Mutant Apes, Cordell Broadus who daps into the art,…

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Dubai-based FinTech firm iBLOXX was granted a license for proprietary trading in cryptocurrency commodities by the Dubai Multi Commodities Center (DMCC), according to a press statement released on Wednesday. iBLOXX develops models based on artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) algorithms for a variety of instruments, including crypto commodity markets. “This license will allow us to merge our expertise from the traditional financial markets with the crypto DeFi ecosystem,” said iBloxx’s CEO Domenik Maier. “Our fully automated algorithms are designed to maximize profit margins and minimize execution risk in a sub-zero milliseconds timescale through multi-asset, market-wide connectivity and on-chain smart contracts…

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Opera announced today an upcoming browser integration with Polygon, an Ethereum scaling platform onboarding millions to web3. The integration is set to occur in Q1 2022 and will enable millions of Opera users in-browser access to over 3,000 decentralized apps (dapps) on the Polygon network. The Opera crypto wallet, which is built into the browser, will also allow them to transact with MATIC. With Ethereum gas fees surging to unsustainable levels, Polygon’s fast, scalable, and ultra-low fee environment has made it one of the most popular Layer 2 Ethereum scaling solutions among users and developers alike. Polygon houses substantially more…

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The world’s first ethical DeFi ecosystem platform MRHB DeFi has launched its Souq NFT marketplace in partnership with Gachyi Land, a blockchain gaming gacha-launchpad ecosystem, according to a statement released Thursday. The two parties will mint and issue Hallal Gachyi, a unique Gachyi Land-themed NFT collection created for Souq NFT. Souq NFT is the first NFT marketplace in the world focussed on creating an ethical and halal marketplace for digital art and other NFT assets. Having launched their IDO on December 22nd. The $MRHB tokens were sold out on the DODO launchpad in half a day, with the second launchpad…

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Binance, the world’s largest crypto exchange, has listed around 16 Dubai-based job openings in its careers page, both onsite and remote opportunities. The openings are for posts in engineering, HR and product design, among others. Binance has been in negotiations with UAE financial authorities as it consider establishing the exchange’s global HQ in the UAE, most likely in Dubai. Binance Executives have been in talks with officials from special economic zones Abu Dhabi Global Market, Dubai International Financial Centre, and Dubai Multi Commodities Centre about a potential move. Earlier on Tuesday Binance signed a cooperation deal with Dubai World Trade Centre Authority,…

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