Sony to invest $200M More in Epic Games

by Masao Akimoto - April 12, 2022April 12, 2022

Epic Games has been conducting a $1 Billion funding round to boost the utility of the gaming company while entering the world of the metaverse. In this funding round, the entertainment giant Sony has been a key player and recently invested $200 million in Epic Games' funding initiative. Epic Games, on

Musk’s next “Adventure” – Twitter!

by Masao Akimoto - April 11, 2022April 11, 2022

The popular entrepreneur and crypto whale Elon Musk recently became Twitter's biggest shareholder. However, there has been a lot of speculation in the market around the true intention behind this move and how it will shape the future of Twitter. Not that long ago, Elon tweeted, saying he plans to launch

Why Success-Based Crypto PR Firms Are the New Industry Standard

by Masao Akimoto - April 8, 2022April 8, 2022

There are many factors that make a crypto project successful; good underlying technology, a genuine market gap that is being filled, good management, and, of course, good PR. In a market as competitive as crypto, it is fairly easy for even the best projects to fly under the radar without

The emergence of Traditional Trading Products in DeFi

by Masao Akimoto - April 5, 2022April 5, 2022

Decentralized finance was born out of the need for an alternative payment network powered by blockchain technology that can potentially replace the centralized finance system. While DeFi is unique, decentralized, and more secure than centralized finance, it still uses several of centralized finance’s core abilities, such as trading. To give crypto

LG Says I Do: Welcomes Cryptocurrency On-board

by Masao Akimoto - March 26, 2022March 26, 2022

What began as the basis of cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin, blockchain technology which is a virtual ledger capable of recording and verifying a high volume of digital transactions is now spreading across a wave of industries. In 2021, funding to blockchain startups surged 713%. Bitcoin’s popularity helped demonstrate blockchain’s application

Global council adds DeFi banking firm Scallop to help secure payment data

by Masao Akimoto - March 8, 2022March 8, 2022

The journey to create a global council came as a result of the need to have a unified system where transactions on Blockchain can only go through if all the members approve, which limits the chances of fraud and money laundering, as the digital currency cannot be forged or damaged,

Stratis Platform set to Launch Interoperability with Interflux

Cryptocurrency

by Masao Akimoto - March 7, 2022March 7, 2022

Stratis, a highly decentralized blockchain development platform; built to enable Microsoft developers to develop blockchain solutions in a language they know and love which provides a feature-rich ecosystem with tooling and Software-Development-Kits which allows solutions to be built with confidence and assurance has set a swift interoperability bridge as it

1inch Network adds a P2P feature to facilitate secure crypto swaps

by Masao Akimoto - March 4, 2022March 4, 2022

1inch, a decentralized exchange (DEX) aggregator which facilitates the exchange of tokens, unlike other DEXs that supply liquidity from a single pool, aggregating liquidity from multiple pools to give users the most efficient prices on trades, has added a P2P feature to its ecosystem to facilitate secure crypto swaps. A unique

South Korea Sky Dives as it invests $187M in national Metaverse project

by Masao Akimoto - February 28, 2022February 28, 2022

Ranking as 10th in the world by nominal gross domestic product (GDP) with its GDP growing from $943.94 billion in 2009 to over $1.63 trillion in 2020 as it retains a firm position as the 4th largest in Asia which has made it a force to appeal with which multi-billion

Ethereum Gets an Upgraded Scaling Testnet

by Masao Akimoto - February 25, 2022February 25, 2022

Ethereum, a decentralized platform powered by blockchain technology has started implementing a series of upgrades called Ethereum 2.0 that includes a transition to proof of stake and aims to increase transactions just got bigger with the new feat it attained via zkSync. zkSync, a protocol responsible for implementing Ethereum scaling