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NFT Marketplaces
Many are minting NFTs and posting articles on Matters, a decentralized content-sharing platform, amid protests across China against Covid-19 lockdowns that turned political.
Timmy Shen
Advanced Blockchain Technologies
As many as 600 NFTs featuring a montage of audio calls and complaints made by Shanghai residents as they interacted with medical staff and neighborhood compound managers have appeared on OpenSea.
Timmy Shen
Metaverse Platforms
Wuhan, the major city in central China where Covid-19 first emerged, has announced plans to embrace the metaverse in an effort to boost its pandemic-devasted economy. Fast facts The government of Wuhan, the capital city of Hubei province, will push ahead with integrating the metaverse, blockchain, big data, cloud computing, geospatial information and quantum technology […]
Timmy Shen
Bitcoin News
Fed chairman Jerome Powell signaled that tighter monetary policy may be coming, which sent Bitcoin price's down slightly.
Jeanhee Kim
Bitcoin News
The impact was relatively short-lived, and many major tokens had already retraced most of their positions from Friday coming in Asia business hours.
Lachlan Keller
Regulation
China’s trial of e-CNY, the digital version of the national currency, the yuan, has extended to the insurance industry, with conglomerate Ping An encouraging medical staff in the southern city of Shenzhen to pay premiums for a Covid-19 insurance plan using the new currency. Fast facts One Ping An branch in Shenzhen is offering insurance […]
Timmy Shen
Advanced Blockchain Technologies
A team of doctors and engineers in Taiwan is developing a blockchain-based platform that could keep track of residents’ vaccination histories and health conditions.
Timmy Shen
Advanced Blockchain Technologies
The Chinese University of Hong Kong and Ethereum software company ConsenSys today announced the launch of a Covid-19 digital health passport.
Michelle Lim
Altcoins
The charity arm of Binance is sending 175 oxygen connectors to India to aid in the coronavirus relief effort.
Forkast.News
Advanced Blockchain Technologies
How can blockchain improve vaccine logistics? Forkast.News examines the frontiers of blockchain technology in this last article of a special five-part series.
Dr. Ariane M. Davison
