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PancakeSwap has revealed its upgraded version 3 (V3), offering a suite of new features and what it claims as improved functionality. PancakeSwap, a prominent decentralized exchange (DEX) operating on the Binance Smart Chain (BSC), has announced the launch of its highly anticipated version 3, bringing significant improvements to the platform and enhancing user experience.

Hearthstone, but make it crypto? It’s not a completely new concept, but Raini Studios’ debut game The Lords of Light fits the bill—and then some. And it differentiates itself from card-battling rivals by leaning into the culture (and memes) of its crypto heritage. Raini shared the open beta of its turn-based card strategy game—with NFTs available across Avalanche, Ethereum, and BNB Chain—at last week’s Game Developers’ Conference in San Francisco.

The Brazilian investment firm BTG Pactual has revealed that it would be releasing its very own stable currency, which will be known as BTG Dol. The bank's custody services will be required in order to have access to the stablecoin, which will have a one-to-one correlation with the US dollar as its backing. This action is in line with a trend that has been seen by major financial institutions all over the globe to provide cryptocurrency services to their respective client bases. The custo...

Fetch.ai, a blockchain platform that uses artificial intelligence to help people automate tasks, said it has raised $40 million in new funding from DWF Labs. Almost half of that amount has already been invested by DWF, Fetch.ai founder and CEO Humayun Sheikh told The Block in an interview. The rest will be invested in the next month, Sheikh said, adding that initial talks with DWF began in late January. The funding is a mix of equity and Fetch.ai (FET) tokens at a combined valuation of around...

Binance, one of the world's largest cryptocurrency exchanges, is expanding its global reach with the opening of a new blockchain hub in Georgia. The move is aimed at promoting further adoption of cryptocurrencies in the country, creating more job opportunities, and attracting talent to the Georgian blockchain sector. Binance referred to the hub as a "Web3 outpost," and it intends to use it to promote industry education and innovation, as well as to organize educational and hackathon even...

The Arbitrum blockchain, which recently launched its governance token ARB, has been rocked by controversy over a proposal to give the centralized Arbitrum Foundation control of 750 million ARB tokens, valued at almost $1 billion. The tokens would be used to fund a "special grants" program designed to foster growth on Arbitrum, the Ethereum layer 2 solution. However, the proposal, AIP-1, has sparked opposition because it would not allow ARB holders to have any say in how the Arbitrum Foundatio...

Scaling project Polygon has released a highly anticipated zero-knowledge-based rollup network, with Ethereum founder Vitalik Buterin set to perform the first symbolic transaction in a YouTube broadcast scheduled for 10:30 a.m. EDT. The network, called Polygon zkEVM, was under development for a year and provides a scalability solution for Ethereum apps, with ZK-rollups performing off-chain computations on a secondary layer to enable faster and cheaper transactions while still maintaining Ether...

the SEC's February crackdown on Kraken's staking program, Coinbase has submitted a "Petition for Rulemaking" arguing that staking should not be classified as securities. The 18-page document argues that staking is not a monolithic concept and that core staking services do not meet the criteria of the Howey test, which defines what constitutes a security. Coinbase argues that staking is not an investment of money, as the opportunity cost of staking is not an investment. Users retain ...