The world’s first NFT mortgage lets you buy real property in new ways
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China’s new digital currency comes with an expiry date for better and worse
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Customers shocked after market crash sees two cryptocurrencies just turn their networks off
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Jack Dorsey wants Elon Musk to turn Twitter into a protocol not a company
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Space based communication company Starlink just signed its first airline customer
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Huupe unveils its interactive smart basketball hoop complete with Netflix
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The UK Government creates one government login to rule them all
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Australia’s ANZ Bank becomes the world’s first bank to mint its own crypto Stablecoins
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Australia’s central bank is sceptical on a digital currency, but signals that could change
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Blockchain could help autonomous swarms of drones and robots communicate securely
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Ukraine jumps onboard the crypto and NFT express to fund its war effort
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Miami becomes the first city to mine crypto and give citizens dividends
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China’s national digital currency is now available on WeChat
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Elon Musk’s Starlink space internet system brings 500Mbps to anywhere on Earth
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New survey says central banks are lining up to create CBDCs but not on the blockchain
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Researchers made the world’s smallest antenna out of DNA
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World’s first WiFi 7 demo shows of blazing fast next gen speeds
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The world’s first commercial quantum network is being built in London
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PayPal code reveals the company might be creating its own Stablecoin cryptocurrency
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First of a kind Chinese smart city to put AI in control of meeting citizen’s needs
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