🦊 Russia’s largest bank, Sber, adds support for crypto wallet MetaMask on its blockchain.
Russia’s largest lender is moving into DeFi and Web3 by integrating its blockchain platform with the Ethereum blockchain.
Italy will impose crypto gains tax at 26% starting in 2023.
Portugal still the best. 2023 you don’t pay taxes holding crypto one year from fiat to fiat. Swapping zero taxes.
🇰🇷 South Korea’s Shinhan Bank starts ‘metaverse’ services, according to local media
Shinhan Bank, one of South Korea’s top four lenders by net profit, has opened a “metaverse” site to provide what it called financial and non-financial services.
TP ICAP gets FCA approval to offer crypto services to institutional clients
TP ICAP's - known as Fusion Digital Assets, will use the firm's electronic OTC platform, Fusion, to give clients access to a non-custodial cryptoasset exchange for order matching and trade execution.
👉 Telegram sells usernames worth $50 million on the Open Network blockchain
The names were sold via Fragment, a platform that secures name ownership on the blockchain. In slightly less than one month, Telegram has sold $50 million usernames on The Open Network.
🇪🇺 Policymakers crank the heat on new EU crypto laws in FTX hearing
EU policymakers laid pressure on enforcing bloc-wide crypto regulations in the European Parliament’s economic committee today following the spectacular collapse of FTX.
Kraken cuts 30% of staff to 'weather crypto winter'
Kraken, one of the world’s largest crypto exchanges, will lay off 30% of its headcount, or 1,100 people, “in order to adapt to current market conditions,” co-founder and CEO Jesse Powell said on Wednesday.
🇬🇧 UK university UA92 expands into metaverse & NFTs
University Academy 92 (UA92) will become a part of the metaverse in 2023 and provide unique NFT achievement awards in what it calls a first for higher education.
‘Big Short’ Investor Michael Burry Warns of Extended Multi-Year Recession in US
Hedge fund manager Michael Burry, famed for forecasting the 2008 financial crisis, has warned about “an extended multi-year recession” in the U.S.
⚡️Fed'S Powell: Rate-Hike Slowdown Possible Next Month, Inflation Fight Far From Over.
People get too caught up in figuring out if Powell's comments are bullish 📈 or bearish 📉 when they should be watching the charts…
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Elon Musk says Fed needs to cut interest rates immediately. Current trend is concerning and massively amplifying the probability of a severe recession.
⛵️ #OpenSea announces support of #NFT collections built on #BNB Chain
OpenSea took to Twitter to share that by listing non-fungible tokens built on the BNB Chain it would be able to handle trades for collections created by players like Goodfellas NFT and Pixelsweeper.