Square-Enix backs blockchain-based football MMO ‘Soccerverse’

The artificial intelligence art gold rush began around 2018 when Christie’s auctioned “Portrait of Edmond Belamy” for an astounding $432,500. Since then, it has been an up-only journey for AI-generated images. “Théâtre D’opéra Spatial,” Jason Allen’s AI artwork, even won a prize at the Colorado State Fair art competition. This shows how AI-generated images have…

Singapore’s central bank is looking to join forces with China in exploring central bank digital currencies. 201 Total views 3 Total shares Singapore's central bank and financial regulatory authority is looking to cooperate with China in the field of central bank digital money.Ravi Menon, the managing director of the Monetary Authority of Singapore, or MAS,…

Crypto donations platform Engiven’s page for the archdiocese includes the option to send funds anonymously using many tokens, from Ether to 0x. 249 Total views 20 Total shares The archdiocese of Washington, D.C. of the Roman Catholic Church will begin accepting donations in cryptocurrency as part of an effort to grow its ministries.In a Tuesday…

Steve Chen, the mastermind behind the $147 million Gemcoin cryptocurrency scheme, has admitted to wire fraud and tax evasion in a plea agreement.The 62-year-old Southern California resident agreed that he and other co-conspirators fraudulently promoted a cryptocurrency called Gemcoin (or Gem Coins) that helped fleece $147 million from 70,000 victims.Chen, also known as “Boss,” reported…

In the past 72 hours, Yearnfinance (YFI) surged by 58% after dropping to as low as $12,260 at a few exchanges. Three factors that may have catalyzed the sharp rebound are: YFI had become deeply oversold, lead developer Andre Cronje’s deep commitment to the project and the ever expanding use cases for YFI within a large…

Blockchain financial services firm Diginex and the United Nations-led International Organization for Migration (IOM) jointly launched a blockchain tool aiming to prevent the exploitation of migrant workers in Hong Kong.According to a Diginex press release published on Dec. 16, the tool was designed to be used by about 1,500 Hong Kong-based migrant domestic worker recruitment…

Tech giant Meta has been given the green light from the European Union’s data regulator to train its artificial intelligence models using publicly shared content across its social media platforms. Posts and comments from adult users across Meta’s stable of platforms, including Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp and Messenger, along with questions and queries to the company’s

The man who claims to have written the Bitcoin (BTC) whitepaper may not have written his own law degree dissertation.That’s the picture painted by “PaintedFrog,” the pseudonymous writer of a Medium post on April 9. This post demonstrates large-scale similarities between Wright’s dissertation and several other publicly available sources. Wright’s dissertation for his LLM in International…