Beer and a tapa please! I'll pay you in cryptos 😀
Blockchain and DeFi rankings, top NFT, top 5 blockchain games, the death of "state-controlled money", Ethereum marks a milestone and much more...
Dear Tokener,
The week is coming to an end, we're almost at the halfway point of March (watch out, the time will change soon, so we'll all get lost) and today we wake up to some good news: Stripe, the giant Internet payment gateway, is launching support for cryptocurrency payments.
Stripe is a company that allows other companies to create payment gateways. More than 200,000 companies in Europe work with Stripe and their payments, transfers and remittances are handled by Stripe.
It's not just Stripe, but all the companies that work with them. The importance of this move is precisely the great impact that Stripe has on the payment management of many companies, from Globo to Under Armour, through services such as Booking, Shopify or DocuSign. The fact that Stripe supports cryptocurrencies opens the door for these services to decide to go for cryptocurrencies without much trouble. It doesn't mean they're going to do it, but if Stripe supports it, they who work with Stripe could have it too.
So maybe the next pizza you order through any delivery service platform, you will already be able to pay for it with your cryptocurrencies. Just like you can already pay for a glass of beer and a pincho de tortilla (a very traditional tapa in Spain) with cryptos in a small town in Aviles, in the north of the country.
"It is the system of the future. Many of our customers asked us if they could pay this way. We decided to try this method", explains Jorge Rodriguez, owner of the premises. 😀😲
Obviously, the more sites that accept cryptos and the more platforms that offer them for payments in different media, the more they will become popular and grow. 💪
And on another note... today we bring you in "Forty Two (42)", our "Blockchain and DeFi rankings, top NFT and top 5 blockchain games". Plus, we tell you about Jack Dorsey quoting Ray Dalio to pronounce the death of "state-controlled money", a women-led startup that will help consumers monetise their data through blockchain, Ethereum reaching a major milestone, and much more.
Happy weekend, stay tuned for more news and updates
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Stripe launches payments support for crypto businesses, partners with FTX
Global payments giant Stripe has announced that it now supports crypto businesses including exchanges, wallet providers, and NFT marketplaces, among others.
According to a statement on its website on Thursday, Stripe now offers fiat payments API integration for crypto businesses to process crypto-to-fiat currency payments.
As part of the toolkit for crypto firms, Stripe says it is also offering flexible on-ramps for exchanges. These on-ramps, as co-founder John Collison put it on Twitter, will enable both fiat deposits and withdrawals for crypto exchanges.
Stripe’s crypto business toolkit also includes protocols for user identification and fraud prevention. Crypto exchange FTX and its US affiliate, FTX.US, have partnered with Stripe to improve their know your customer (KYC) protocols.
More info 🔗 TheBlockCrypto
Jack Dorsey Cites Ray Dalio To Pronounce The Death of 'State-Controlled Money'
Twitter Inc. co-founder Jack Dorsey has once again come out in support of Bitcoin and pronounced the death of fiat money.
What Happened: “RIP state-controlled money,” Dorsey said on Twitter.
He was responding to a tweet by a Bitcoin supporter that noted billionaire investor and hedge fund manager Ray Dalio has said in his new book “The Changing World Order” that the new rising power and future currency is within China.
Blockchain and DeFi rankings, top NFT and top 5 blockchain games
Weekly Report
Blockchain and DeFi rankings
by Jesús Fernández of beToken Capital Research
We begin our Blockchain ranking by looking at revenue levels, where Ethereum remains in the lead, outperforming the competition by a huge margin. LooksRare remains the second highest revenue-generating protocol, while OpenSea continues to decline, slipping to third place and being overtaken by DyDx. Avalanche continues to grow, but Metamask loses some steam (although it is still very close to Avalanche).
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Ethereum slightly increases its volume while Bitcoin suffers a 3% drop compared to last week. Despite this small reduction, Ethereum continues to lose volume to Bitcoin.
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Women-led startup to help consumers monetize their data through blockchain
Greta Menzies, the co-founder of Chain Collective, says that blockchain can change the “economics of data between consumers and businesses.”
Web2 lets big tech companies collect consumer data without paying the people behind the statistics. However, the advent of Web3 technologies may change the way data is collected and let consumers get compensation for the information they share, according to the founders of Chain Collective, a Web3 startup that enables consumers to monetize their data using blockchain.
Skills acquired from working in business intelligence and machine learning coupled with a passion for Web3 technologies led Jenny Walker and Greta Menzies to create a data marketplace. With blockchain technology, the all-female team aims to help consumers monetize their data and inspire women to enter the Web3 space.
More 👉 CoinTelegraph
Europe Crypto Regulations Set to Move Forward—Without Bitcoin 'Ban'
After European Union parliamentarians paused a comprehensive crypto regulation bill to rework unpopular language, it wasn't clear when it would land back on the docket.
Stefan Berger, the main force behind the Markets in Crypto-Assets Directive (MiCA), announced today that the bill is scheduled for a vote by the European Parliament's Economics Committee on March 14.
More info 🔗 Decrypt
Ethereum reaches a major milestone
Ethereum is down -4.86% on Thursday 10 March 2022, while ETH/USD is trading at $2,605.
At the same time, the shift from Ethereum's Proof-of-Work (PoW) mechanism to Proof-of-Stake (PoS) continues unabated. The number of Ether tied up in PoS contracts has surpassed the magic 10 million mark. This means that 8.4% of the total ETH supply is already on the most efficient version of the blockchain.
IntoTheBlock tweeted:
"Ethereum has just reached a major milestone: the ETH 2.0 contract has passed the 10 million mark.
More than 65,910 individual addresses contributed to this achievement, representing 8.4% of the outstanding supply."
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FCA issues termination order for Bitcoin ATMs
The financial watchdog in the U.K. has declared that all non-registered ATMs must be immediately closed down or be subject to undisclosed additional action.
Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), United Kingdom’s central financial regulator, has issued a verdict on the presence of Bitcoin (BTC) ATMs within the island country.
In what has come as a surprise to many within the industry, the U.K. authority has issued a stern “shut down or face further action“ order to operators of Bitcoin ATMs, outlining their intentions to contact these companies to affirm the notice.
The watchdog cited a lack of regulatory structure, the high-risk potential of fluctuating assets and the importance of upholding the principles established within the Money Laundering Regulations (MLR) as the primary reasons for the enforcement.
More at 👁 CoinTelegraph
Thorchain's RUNE Token Rallies Double Digits Amid Wave of New Features
DeFi project Thorchain has launched several new updates, lifting its native RUNE token by double digits in the past 24 hours.
Thorchain is up over 18% in the last 24 hours, following the cross-chain DeFi project's roll-out of synthetic assets and the announcement of a launch date for a suite of new features called “Thorfi.”
The project’s token has also enjoyed a healthy rise amidst this activity. On Monday, RUNE traded at $4.73, according to CoinMarketCap. Today, the price hit highs of $5.85, marking a whopping 24% increase over the past four days.
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