Crypto News Weekly Digest 30.09.22
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2022-09-30
Crypto market today
BTC - 19400 +0.18%
Bitcoin rose slightly, but the situation is not clear for altcoins.
Growth leaders among altcoins are XRP, ETHW, LEO.
Fall leaders are UNI, CAKE, TON.
BTC dominance is 41.04%.
Altseason index 65.
Apple Allows NFT Sales On Its App Store
Tech giant Apple now allows NFTs to be bought and sold through applications listed on its App Store. This enables developers of current apps to sell non-fungible tokens in-app and new apps to install NFTs within them.
The first catch, however, is that Apple applies its existing Web2 monetization structure, taking a 30% cut from app developers who make over $1 million through the App Store on an annual basis, and 15% making less than that.
Android’s app store Google Play applies the same policy.
Before this decision, apps that were storing or displaying NFTs may have been breaking Apple’s rules. Now, developers can sell NFTs with Apple’s blessing.
The growth of bitcoin ATMs has stopped for the first time in history.
The maximum number of installed cryptomats - 38760, decreased a month later to 38462. Dismantling happened for the first time, for the entire existence of cryptomats.
As a direct consequence of the market crash, several companies in the cryptocurrency industry have had to rethink their business strategies. In anticipation of a possible market recovery in the future, some organizations have been forced to stop their ATM installation activities.
THNDR Games launches P2E Solitaire mobile game.
The Microsoft version of solitaire has probably been installed on over 1 billion computers and still has 35 million monthly users and 100 million daily games.
The game was inducted into the World Video Game Hall of Fame in 2019. THNDR hopes to capitalize on this popularity by creating a version that is not only better but also rewards players with bitcoin.
Chinese University introduces a specialty in the study of the metaverse.
Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology now has a Metaverse Engineering Department.
Without going into details about the curriculum, the dean of the School of Artificial Intelligence, which houses the metaverse department, said he plans to train metaverse-focused masters, doctoral students, and postdoctoral students.
OpenSea implements the OpenRarity NFT rarity tracking tool.
OpenSea has included an OpenRarity scarcity tracking tool that lets buyers know the rarity of a particular NFT.
Rarity is now one of the first pieces of information a potential buyer sees when viewing an NFT.
Meta now lets you post your NFTs on both Facebook and Instagram
Meta announced today that it will now let users post their NFTs across both Instagram and Facebook. Users can connect their wallets like Rainbow, MetaMask, Trust Wallet, Coinbase Wallet and Dapper Wallet to post digital collectibles minted on Ethereum, Polygon and Flow.
“As we continue rolling out digital collectibles on Facebook and Instagram, we’ve started giving people the ability to post digital collectibles that they own across both Facebook and Instagram. This will enable people to connect their digital wallets once to either app in order to share their digital collectibles across both,” the company said in its blog post.