Web3 startup Luda is focused on “create-to-own” experiences through new IP shaped by DAO communities, starting with Neo Fairies. For nearly two decades in total, Shannon Studstill was part of the PlayStation juggernaut as a co-founder of Sony’s Santa Monica Studio. She was lead producer on 2005’s smash “God of War” and worked on numerous other titles, and later served as executive producer on 2018’s acclaimed “God of War” reboot.

But after all that time overseeing ever-larger #DevelopmentTeam s working on increasingly massive AAA video games—plus a brief stint on Google’s Stadia team—she now aims to work with thousands or potentially millions of people to develop new entertainment franchises via decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs) on Solana.more

Stepn lets users earn crypto for exercising—giving them real returns for walking, jogging or running. But gameplay is complicated. Stepn is the evolution of two concepts that have been gaining traction for several years now: the augmented reality (AR) game and play-to-earn gaming.

AR games typically feature a virtual world overlaid onto the real one. The concept properly took off in 2015 with Pokemon Go, which scattered virtual Pokemon across a real life map of the world and let users track and collect them via GPS.more

In an effort to reduce exposure to Celsius, MakerDAO has disabled DAI loans using stETH as collateral through the Direct Deposit Module.
MakerDAO, the organization behind the DAI stablecoin, is set to disable the Direct Deposit Module (D3M) for DeFi lending platform Aave later today.

“The Maker Governance has voted to temporarily disable the Aave DAI Direct Deposit Module” tweeted MakerDAO. The governance proposal, put forward earlier this week, invited the community to vote on temporarily disabling D3M for Aave, in order to reduce Maker’s exposure to embattled crypto lending platform Celsius.more

আমাদের সবারই কিন্তু জানা রয়েছে ক্রিপ্টোকারেন্সি তে সবসময়ই মার্কেট আপডাউন করে। কিন্তু হঠাৎ করেই ক্রিপ্টোকারেন্সি মার্কেট এতটা ডাম্পিং হওয়ার কারণ কি??
আমি মনে করি ক্রিপ্টোকারেন্সি মার্কেট পুনরায় বৃদ্ধি পাবে কারণ দেখতে পেলাম ইলন মাস্ক তিনি আবারও ঘোষণা দিয়েছেন যে তার সকল পণ্যের ক্ষেত্রে ক্রিপ্টোকারেন্সি লেনদেন গ্রহণযোগ্যতা দিয়েছে। এজন্য আমি মনে করি অবশ্যই ক্রিপ্টোকারেন্সি মার্কেট পাম্পিং করবে।
আপনাদের কি মনে হয় ক্রিপ্টোকারেন্সি মার্কেট কি আবারো পাম্পিং করতে পারবে এবং পুনরায় সকল রেকর্ড আবারো ভাঙতে পারবে??

The meeting was scheduled for May 11. "The design of a CBDC would raise important monetary policy, financial stability, consumer protection, legal, and privacy considerations and will require careful thought and analysis—including input from the public and elected officials," the Fed chair said in a video message on May 20.

One day prior, on May 19, the acting Currency Comptroller Michael Hsu suggested forming an inter-agency task force with the Fed and FDIC specifically dedicated to crypto.

The May 11 meeting between Armstrong and Powell coincided with a crash in the price of Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies. Over the course of that week, Bitcoin dipped from the high $50,000s to around $40,000.source

South Korean cryptocurrency exchange Bithumb has banned its employees from using internal accounts to trade crypto. The South Korean exchange said it is clamping down on the practice to prevent insider trading. Bithumb will check whether its employees abide by its new rules through continuous monitoring, audits and internal reporting.
Bithumb said that it had already restricted its employees from trading crypto within working hours and from coins that had been listed for less than three days. At a closed-door meeting last month, South Korea’s Financial Services Commission told the country’s major crypto exchanges that it planned to ban so-called cross trading–whereby exchanges buy and sell the same asset without recording the trade–to prevent price manipulation.source

Expert witnesses and members of Congress weighed the risks and rewards of Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies this week. Here are the key takeouts. The U.S. Congress Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee, a division of the House Financial Services Committee, summoned cryptocurrency experts on Wednesday for a hybrid discussion on regulation. The experts included Peter Van Valkenburgh, director of research at Coin Center, a non-profit focused on the policy issues facing cryptocurrencies, and Alexis Goldstein, director of financial policy for think tank the Open Market Institute. Alongside members of Congress, they took part in a revealing discussion on the merits and risks of digital assets and blockchain technology.source