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One of the original promises of Web3, the transfer of power from the platforms to the creator, is still alive and well.

OpenSea announced today that creators have now earned more than $1 Billion on their platform just this year.

That is more than Facebook, TikTok, Twitter, Instagram or Snapchat has paid out to creators.
👉 Telegram CEO Durov Plans to Build Crypto Wallets, Decentralized Exchange

Messaging
app Telegram has sold $50 million in usernames in less than a month through its blockchain-based auction platform, Fragment, CEO Pavel Durov said Wednesday. The figure speaks to the success of Telegram’s second go-around at bootstrapping its own crypto infrastructure. Fragment is built atop the Telegram Open Network, a blockchain Durov abandoned under regulatory pressure in 2020 and later returned to after its community kept it alive.Telegram is already a go-to messaging app for many crypto traders, giving it a captive audience from the start.
It appears as if Apple – the world's largest technology company – seems to have a fundamental misunderstanding on how blockchain technology works.

According to Coinbase, Apple has blocked updates from Coinbase Wallet until they can collect 30% of the gas fees required to send NFTs in-app.

Of course, this is not possible. Even if Coinbase wanted to comply, they couldn't.
🐴 1INCH Price Tumbles as Investors Reportedly Offload $8 Million Worth of Tokens

The chief communication at 1inch Network, Sergey Maslennikov clarified:“Actually, those wallets and token transfers are not connected to the 1inch Foundation in any way, but attribute to some of the 1inch Network’s backers who continuously receive their unlocked 1INCH tokens in accordance with the vesting schedule/timeline”Additionally, a Tweet from DonYakka claimed that the transfer “was not from the 1INCH foundation wallet.”He said: “It is via an early investor because they have claimed through vesting contract, the date that 25% drop happened the whole market did, 1INCH does have a BTC and ETH pair so when these pairs increase be ready for pump too.”.
Neuralink, Elon Musk's brain machine interface company, is aiming to put its first implant in a human subject in the next six months.

Announced tonight during a live event, Musk said the company has been “working hard to be ready for our first human,” and has submitted most of the required paperwork to the FDA to launch a study in humans.
🪙 Top decentralized exchange Uniswap launches an NFT marketplace aggregator

Uniswap
Labs, the developer behind the top decentralized exchange Uniswap, has announced the launch of its own nonfungible token (NFT) marketplace aggregator in an effort to break the separation between cryptocurrency exchanges and NFT markets. The new offering – which has been under development since Uniswap acquired the NFT trading aggregator Genie back in June – will aggregate NFTs that are listed for sale on the top marketplaces including OpenSea, X2Y2, LooksRare, Sudoswap, Larva Labs, X2Y2, Foundation and NFT20.
S. Korea energy conglomerate builds US$84 mln metaverse fund

South Korea’s city gas and energy group Daesung’s venture capital subsidiary recently established a fund worth 110 billion Korean won (about US$84.5 million) for expanding investments into startups in the metaverse industry, local media outlets reported Thursday.

Korea Venture Investment Corp., the country’s government-backed fund of funds, invested 60 billion won (US$46 million), with other limited partners including the Industrial Bank of Korea (IBK), Shinhan Capital Co. Ltd. and other subsidiaries of the Daesung Group. The fund will focus its investments in startups specializing in artificial intelligence (AI), extended reality (XR), blockchain and digital twin technologies.
🪙 UNI Surges After “Fee Switch” Vote is Proposed

Uniswap
’s UNI token jumped over 7% on Dec. 2 after a governance proposal calling for a vote to reserve a portion of trading fees was posted. the post on Uniswap’s governance forum doesn’t explicitly specify a plan for what will happen to the retained fees. Of course, that’s not stopping people from buying UNI — DeFi enthusiasts have long speculated that holders of the UNI token will one day be eligible to receive some portion of the fees charged on Uniswap trades — with the token pumping, it’s clear that at least some investors believe the proposal is a step towards providing some sort of yield to UNI holders. regulatory concerns associated with sharing protocol revenue with UNI holders.
This is truly one of the most impressive technologies of all-time, and a very real and raw glimpse into our near future – one which is heavily AI driven.

OpenAI, an artificial intelligence research lab founded by Elon Musk and Sam Altman (Elon has since left the company) has released ChatGPT – a simple chat-style UI powered by powerful language-generation AI.
💰 1inch tokens worth over $100 million set to be unlocked by Dec. 30

1inch
, a decentralized exchange aggregator, is about to experience a massive unlock that will see tokens currently worth $111 million released from their vesting schedule, according to data from TokenUnlocks. The DEX aggregator launched its native token in December 2020. Only 6% of the total supply was released then, with the remaining tokens locked in a four-year vesting schedule ending in December 2024. Tokens were initially distributed among entities including the core team, investors, advisors and the community, as with other DeFi projects.
📣 Blockchain, Metaverse and NFT ́s arrive in Granada in January with Block Wold Tour

The most prestigious and pioneer world congress of Blockchain has chosen the city of the Alhambra as its next destination. The organization of BlockWorldTour has always tried to promote Granada as a technological city, hosting the first ever blockchain event in 2019.

Block World Tour will be announcing their speakers in platforms such as Instagram several weeks prior the congress. During the past editions, we have seen professionals coming from all sectors, which are booming while research falls short of innovation. Used to seeing references in the media of new trending terms such as Metaverse, DEFI or NFT.
📣 Hashflow partners with Wormhole for cheaper cross-chain crypto swaps

Decentralized
exchange (DEX) platform Hashflow has partnered with Wormhole, a crypto bridge service, to enable users to swap crypto tokens across several blockchain networks, according to an announcement issued on Wednesday. Crypto bridges are protocols used to send tokens from one blockchain network to another. Hashflow says its partnership with Wormhole will make native cross-chain crypto swaps cheaper for users. The DEX platform currently supports swaps across six Layer 1 and Layer 2 chains. These include Ethereum, Avalanche, Optimism, and Arbitrum.
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BR3AKING: Elon Musk introduced the new Tesla motors semi-truck tonight, boasting that the truck can drive for an incredible 500 mile range, fully loaded.
​🪙 Bitcoin Family Says They Are Moving $1M in Crypto to Decentralized Exchanges After FTX Collapse

In October 2017, Netherlands native Didi Taihuttu and his family sold all their valuable belongings and their house for bitcoin. The decision paid off and the Taihuttu family has traveled all around the world and recently moved to the island of Phuket. On Nov. 30, the 44-year-old Didi Taihuttu told CNBC that after storing crypto in cold storage, centralized exchange (cex) platforms, and decentralized exchange (dex) protocols for years, the Dutch family has decided to proactively transfer $1 million in digital assets to dex protocols in order to have more control via self-custody.Just over five years ago, Bitcoin.com News reported on the Taihuttu family after they decided to sell their home, children’s toys, and vehicles so they can accumulate bitcoin (BTC). On Wednesday, the patriarch of the family, Didi Taihuttu, spoke with CNBC and explained that the family is moving $1 million in crypto assets to dex protocols following the FTX collapse.
Uber now has robotaxis available for its customers to hail in Las Vegas.

The vehicles are operated by Motional, a joint venture between Hyundai and Aptiv, and will feature safety drivers behind the steering wheel, though the vehicles will be operated by Motional’s autonomous driving system.
Decentraland launches metaverse land rental

Decentraland has announced that owners of lands can rent them to other users. The new system will allow both LAND owners and tenants to rent LAND in a safe and decentralized manner, stored in a server managed by the Decentraland Foundation (off-chain).

Decentraland is a virtual world launched in 2020, where users can buy virtual plots of land using one of its native tokens, MANA, on the Ethereum blockchain. Apart from buying lands, users can also engage with each other, play games using interactive dApps, and carry out trades to earn money.
📉 Trader loses 70 ETH over bug in NFT marketplace Blur

A
bug in the new bidding system of non-fungible token (NFT) marketplace Blur caused a user to lose 70 ETH by accidentally overbidding on an Art Gobbler NFT. Paradigm-backed Blur launched on October 19, branding itself as the “NFT marketplace for pro traders.”

Blur replied to the thread saying that its policy is to refund users for platform bugs but not for user errors, adding that the platform will offer a 50% refund in this incident.After evaluating further, we see how this can be considered a bug from the user’s perspective, so we will refund 50% to traders who were affected by this UI behavior,” wrote Blur.
🪙 Leading Cardano DEX Suffers Front-Running Attack

Minswap
, the very first multi-pool decentralized exchange on Cardano, has experienced a front-running attack.  Front-running refers to the practice of getting prior knowledge of future transactions via various means. Traders who commit it can potentially secure risk-free profits. DEXes have to look for different ways to prevent such attacks. Minswap said that it had started investigating possible front-running on the DEX. “We are working on a fix to prevent it from happening again and we are working hard to finish that as soon as possible,” the project tweeted.
Decentraland launches metaverse land rental

Decentraland has announced that owners of lands can rent them to other users. The new system will allow both LAND owners and tenants to rent LAND in a safe and decentralized manner, stored in a server managed by the Decentraland Foundation (off-chain).

Decentraland is a virtual world launched in 2020, where users can buy virtual plots of land using one of its native tokens, MANA, on the Ethereum blockchain. Apart from buying lands, users can also engage with each other, play games using interactive dApps, and carry out trades to earn money.
🪙 Top decentralized exchange Uniswap launches an NFT marketplace aggregator

Uniswap
Labs, the developer behind the top decentralized exchange Uniswap, has announced the launch of its own nonfungible token (NFT) marketplace aggregator in an effort to break the separation between cryptocurrency exchanges and NFT markets. The new offering – which has been under development since Uniswap acquired the NFT trading aggregator Genie back in June – will aggregate NFTs that are listed for sale on the top marketplaces including OpenSea, X2Y2, LooksRare, Sudoswap, Larva Labs, X2Y2, Foundation and NFT20.