- Bitcoin appears to be tied to a value around $19,000. Currently, only 0.16% of global energy production is used for Bitcoin mining.
- A house was sold as an NFT directly on OpenSea. The property was sold for $175,000, and the title deed is the non-fungible token registered on the blockchain.
- This year's winners of the Ballon d'Or trophies not only won a trophy, they also received a unique NFT of the trophy and a golden Ledger key to secure it.
- Blockchain games and metaverse projects raised a total of $1.3 billion between July and September.
- Binance has launched the Binance CMC Top 10 Equal-Weighted Index, which includes the top 10 cryptocurrencies with monthly rebalancing. By the way , Binance has been granted a license by the Cypriot regulator.
- Dogecoin and XRP now accepted on Romania's largest ticketing platform.
- Meta partners with Microsoft to bring Office 365 apps to the metaverse.
- Metamask now allows US customers to purchase cryptocurrency directly from their bank accounts.
- N26: The European digital bank valued at $9 billion launches a crypto-trading service to its 7 million users.
- China floats the idea of an "Asian Digital Yuan" to reduce Asia's dependence on the US dollar for international trade.
- By 2024, Koreans will use blockchain-powered digital identity (ID) instead of traditional ID cards.
