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Sam Bankman-Fried’s Legal Team Can’t Figure Out How to Install Spyware on His Parents’ Smartphones
It turns out that installing spyware on smartphones isn’t as easy as it sounds.Lawyers for Sam Bankman-Fried said that they have encountered unexpected challenges while attempting to comply with specific bail conditions set forth by the court. The issue in question is installing software on his parents’ smartphones that would take pictures of the user every five minutes in order to constantly monitor who was using them.“We learned recently that the monitoring software installed on the new cell…
NFTs
Helium Completes Solana Migration, Minting Nearly 1M NFTs in the Process
Crypto-fueled wireless network Helium has successfully completed its anticipated migration from its own layer-1 blockchain platform to Solana. Helium founders and backers see potential for Solana to unlock additional use cases around the network—which may be facilitated by a mass-scale NFT mint tied to the migration.As part of the migration process, an NFT is being minted to represent each physical hotspot node running on the Helium network, ultimately tallying over 991,000 Solana NFTs. Hotspot…
Gaming
Call of Duty, Apex Legends Veterans Reveal Kaidro Web3 Game on Immutable
Production company Gadget-Bot has been developing the “Kaidro” sci-fi universe for over a decade—and now the co-founders are bringing their visual storytelling experience from webcomics and social video into Web3 with a PC role-playing game (RPG) on Ethereum scaling network Immutable slated to launch this year.”Kaidro” is set in a post-apocalyptic world wherein a mech-wielding faction battles against powerful magic users. The game will combine player-versus-player, player-versus-environment, an…
Business
Space and Time Adds Blockchain Data to Microsoft’s Azure Marketplace
Thanks to a new one-click deployment feature, Microsoft Azure Marketplace customers can now quickly integrate the Space and Time blockchain data warehouse with their existing enterprise infrastructure.Launched as part the “Startup with Chainlink” initiative that supports the development of Web3 startups, the Space and Time leverages the Chainlink price oracle platform along with other sources to pull data from blockchain protocols, decentralized application (dapps), and off-chain systems with a…
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MiCA Will Mark End of Crypto ‘Wild West’: EU Lawmakers
European Union lawmakers say that new regulations on cryptocurrency in the region will end the industry’s ‘wild west’ era and restore trust, following the high-profile collapses of last year.Markets in Crypto Assets (MiCA) will go to a vote at the European Parliament in Strasbourg tomorrow, marking a major milestone in the proposal’s passage into law.Ahead of the vote, parliamentarians debated the merits of the package in the chamber today, with several hailing the introduction of a legal fram…
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Karate Combat Secures $18 Million for Crypto-Driven Martial Arts
The future of martial arts is more than just wax on, wax off. In a move that would make Mr. Miyagi proud, Karate Combat has landed an $18 million funding round to realize its vision of tech-enhanced full-contact sports.Launched in 2018, Karate Combat mixes full-contact karate with immersive computer generated environments and extended reality (XR) technology using the Unreal Engine from Epic Games.Investors joining fund lead Bitkraft Ventures in the raise include Delphi Digital, The Operating …