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📝#93: Google x Solana
Puma doubles down on gaming. Visa launches a tokenized asset platform. Arbitrum launches gaming chain. Google Cloud partners with Solana. Coach taps into Poshmark’s 80M+ users for instant resale.
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🚨BREAKING: PayPal enables 30M US merchants to buy, sell & hold crypto
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📝#92: Stablecoin for 45M Users
Token 2049 Singapore highlights. SEC approves BTC option trading. Revolut plans to launch stablecoin for 45M users. Microsoft and Blackrock launch $30B AI fund.
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📝#92: NFTs Out, Gaming In
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JUST-IN: Nike Ditches NFTs, Doubles Down on Gaming💥
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📝#91: From Wall Street to Dubai
Circle is moving its global HQ to NYC. MicroStrategy buys $1.1B in Bitcoin. Standard Chartered launches crypto custody services in UAE. Blackrock becomes third largest Bitcoin holder.
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📝#91: Virtual Play, Real Pay
Roblox partners with Shopify. ENS integrates PayPal and Venmo. NFL partners with Bitpanda. Ford and Toyota file 43 blockchain patents. Animoca Brands Japan partners with Tokyo Stupid Games & more.
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Meta Spark Shuts Down – Death of Smartphone AR?
Meta Spark will shut down its third-party AR tools and content platform on January 14, 2025.
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📝#90: Big Bucks, No Product
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📝#90: Priceless
Mastercard brings Bitcoin to 100M merchants globally crypto debit card.
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MasterCard Goes All-in on Bitcoin
JUST IN: Mastercard brings Bitcoin to 1B+ users & 100M merchants worldwide🔥
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📝#89: Sky High💨
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📝#89: Death Sentence for NFTs?
SEC sends Wells notice to OpenSea. Manchester City partnered with Sony to launch the virtual Etihad Stadium. Trump’s new NFT collection. PGA TOUR is building a Web3 golf game.
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📝#88: Fight For Freedom
Telegram founder Pavel Durov arrested, faces 20 years. X releases new improvements to Grok 2. Sony launches new blockchain. Tether teases about it's new stablecoin.
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📝#88: Adidas, Walmart & Drake
Adidas partners with Doodles. Pantera Capital eyes TON for gaming. Crypto.com X UEFA. Drake's new memecoin. The Sandbox partners with leading Indian content company.
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📝#87: Old Gold vs. New Gold
Norway's and Swiss National Bank buy “bitcoin”. Optimism teases its Superchain. JPMorgan has launched its own LLM Suite for its 60,000 employees. Perplexity AI partners with Polymarket.
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📝#87: Apple Opens to Crypto 💥
Apple to bring USDC payments to 1.4B iPhone users. AC Milan teams up with Bitpanda. MBL launches NFT marketplace. Lamborghini teams up with Animoca Brands in its biggest Web3 leap yet.
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