Messari calls itself the Bloomberg of Web3; we dig into that statement to see if it rings true
Often cited as a source of on-chain and crypto data in news articles and white papers, Messari is known as "the Bloomberg of crypto."...
The Meta-funded Diem Association has sold its intellectual property and tech assets to San Diego’s Silvergate Capital in a $182 million deal.
The company’s plans for NFT features on Facebook and Instagram also continue to advance.
Meta Financial Group formed a partnership to provide personal loans to customers of NY based Liberty Lending; Meta said they will look to originate between $500mn to $1bn of personal loans during the three year partnership; “We are excited to partner with a respected and growing brand in online lending, and look forward to working together to deliver best in class loan products to consumers,” Brent Turner, Meta's head of consumer lending, said in a press release reported by American Banker. Source.
Three years after Facebook announced its ill-fated push into cryptocurrency, aka the Libra project, the tech giant has signalled another scaling back of its activity — announcing Friday that Novi, the digital wallet payments pilot it launched last October, will be ending on on September 1.
The payment operation, which has been awaiting regulatory approval for three years, will first focus on small merchants and will be implemented gradually in the South American country.
Meta, the Big Tech firm formerly known as Facebook, has begun testing a new payments feature within its Messenger platform known as Split Payments, according to a company blog post.
The ConsenSys-owned wallet provider says it want to bring “all organizations on planet earth into Web 3.”...
As August comes to a close, Metaplex, a Solana NFT platform, announced it surpassed $1 billion in direct NFT sales after one year.