Web3 Game Platform AQUA launches NFT Marketplace
Web3 gaming platform AQUA has launched a marketplace for trading in-game assets, a Coindesk report said.
The startup has also announced a $10 million investment from hedge fund billionaire Steve Cohen-backed DIGITAL.
Web3 game assets are typically NFTs, which allow players to take items such as weapons and armor into the ecosystems of other games.
Meanwhile, Mike Novogratz, the billionaire who founded Galaxy Digital, says cryptocurrency has been exercising recently because there aren’t many forced sellers left, Bloomberg wrote.
“We’re in this weird equilibrium where there’s a few buyers, there’s a few sellers, and there’s not that energy in the market that you see in the stock market or the bond market where you have to sell, right?” Novogratz said.
In addition, Irina Haivas, a partner with venture capital firm Atomico, has said that the difficult climate for digital assets has weeded out “tourists” in crypto, Bloomberg wrote.
Speaking at the Bloomberg Technology Summit on Wednesday (28 September), she said that the hype being gone has lightened things up a bit. She said those building crypto companies are now aware of market conditions, and “want to build something more sustainable rather than speculating around it.”
Furthermore, Coinbase Cloud and Chainlink Labs have partnered for NFT Floor Pricing Feeds, to help support NFT builders, a company blog said.
It comes because there has been a need for “accurate and reliable” real-time market data to help builders, who need “robust” market data solutions and reliable trust-minimized infrastructure.
In other crypto news, the EU will make stricter rules against Russian crypto investments, Coindesk wrote.
The bloc is trying to respond to what it says are “sham” independence votes in various Russian-occupied locations in Ukraine.
An anonymous source said a previous cap on crypto holdings of 10,000 euros, or $9,600, will be scrapped.
Finally, the Brazilian Securities and Exchange Commission (CVM) has requested that crypto exchange Mercado Bitcoin provide information on fixed income tokens that have been issued in the past two years, Coindesk wrote.
The agency wants to know how much Mercado Bitcoin raised with tokens, and the investors who participated.
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