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📝#95: Visa, EY & Google Go Crypto
Crypto.com sues the SEC. Visa's new tokenization platform. PayPal, EY, and Google Cloud are using crypto for B2B payments. Meta launches OpenAI Sora rival.
📝#94: Starbucks & Heidi Klum
Starbucks & Heidi Klum enter Roblox. Global MMA brand partners with Sui. Lamborghini x Animoca brands. Rimowa's new virtual store.
📝#93: $16 Trillion By 2030
BlackRock is quietly backing a new stablecoin. CZ released from prison. SG Forge plans Euro stablecoin with Solana. Meta's new XR glasses. OpenAI CTO departs.
📝#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.
📝#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.
📝#92: NFTs Out, Gaming In
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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.
📝#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.
📝#90: Big Bucks, No Product
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📝#90: Priceless
Mastercard brings Bitcoin to 100M merchants globally crypto debit card.
📝#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.
📝#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.
📝#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.
📝#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.
📝#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.
📝#86: When Wall Street meets Bitcoin
Morgan Stanley jumps on the Bitcoin ETF bandwagon, pitching to clients like it's the next big thing. Meanwhile Polymarket touched $100m in volume & AI Pins miss the mark & more.
📝#86: Web3 Loyalty Revival
Adidas x Doodles. Cult Gaia's Web3 membership program with TYB. California puts 42M cars onchain. PUBG Mobile x Lamborghini. Türkiye blocks Roblox. Olympic esports heads to Saudi Arabia in 2025.
📝#85: Game Changer
SEC's token ruling. ManU's NFT game. Olympics goes Roblox. Adidas launches on Fortnite. Bitcoin announcements. OpenAI launches SearchGPT & more.
📝#84: Disney 2.0
Animoca Brands partners with TON. Pudgy rebuilds Disney. Louis Vuitton's new phygital. Balenciaga & Coach enter gaming. Ferrari accepts bitcoin. Spot ETH ETF launches in the US. Meta's new LLM.