A lot of coins and tokens took a hard fall during the latest crypto-market crash as investors sadly stared back at the evaporated all-time-highs. However, one token’s market cap fell by around 80%, prompting some to accuse it of being a Ponzi scheme. And yet, Olympus DAO has responded to OHM’s fall in its own […]

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Last week, Cardano network launched Pavia, a gaming application on the Metaverse. This stands as the first metaverse project operated on the Cardano blockchain. The use of non-fungible tokens (NFTs), which operate with the same blockchain technology as cryptocurrencies, is increasing. They enable investors to get tokenized assets of their favorite art items, idols, places, etc. NFTs create representations of both tangible and non-tangible items. According to its design, Pavia has about 100,000 land parcels issued. Each land parcel’s minting is a non-fungible token, NFT, that possesses individual coordinates. Related Reading | Bitcoin Millionaires Are Flocking To This North American Tax Haven. But What Do The Locals Think? The pre-selling of the parcels kick-off since 2021 with more than 60% done between October and November. Also, there is a rush for the remaining portions which will be on sale within the first quarter of 2022. The functionality of Pavia’s native token is as an in-game asset. An airdrop of Pavia’s native token was made to NFT landholders. This was after the blockchain’s snapshot in December 2021. According to data from MuesliSwap, a Cardano-based exchange, Pavia tokens are selling around 20 cents per coin at the press time. Also, it has a market cap of more than $107 million. Furthermore, Pavia landowners are more than 8,300. The data has it that the users were unable to deploy assets over their land on Monday. Caution documents from Pavia have warned customers that they can neither visit nor deploy content to the plots. This was due to the development stage of the land parcels. More Craving For Metaverse Projects On Cardano The emergence of Pavia on Cardano is during the period of incredible carvings for virtual parcels of land. Presently, the sale of virtual plots of land runs into millions of dollars on several blockchains such as Ethereum. The value for land plats on Pavia runs as huge as 30,000 Cardano on CNFT, the Cardano NFT marketplace. This amount is equivalent to about $45,600 at the press time. The Metaverse is recently getting more attention. It is a virtual world that provides people with unrestricted interactions like the real world. This distinguishing factor is its digitalization of operations. The functionality of the Metaverse is attracting several firms as they intend to create their appearance on the platform. One of the companies interested in the Metaverse includes Binance.US, developing on Portals, an office. Portals is a Solana-based metaverse project. Related Reading | Bitcoin Implied Volatility Plummets To Pre-Bull Market Levels: What This Means Also, Samsung, a global electronics maker, launched a metaverse brand of its New York City flagship store. This launching took place this January on Decentraland. Featured Image From Britannica and chart from TradingView.Com

Bitcoin mining firm, Core Scientific, has officially gone public. The blockchain infrastructure firm debuted on the Nasdaq stock exchange yesterday January 20 with the tickers “CORZ” and “CORZW” for its shares and warrants respectively. The announcement came after Core Scientific completed a merger with Power & Digital Infrastructure Acquisition Corp. (“XPDI”) through a SPAC. Net

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On Thursday January 20, the Bank of Russia published a report that proposes ban of the use and mining of cryptocurrencies within Russian territory.

About the Metaverse For the last year, the metaverse has become a flashpoint of blockchain hype, culminating in Facebook renaming itself Meta, with the support from Cryptovoxels, one of the well-known projects in the Metaverse track.

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SINGAPORE, Jan 20, 2022 - (ACN Newswire) - 2021 was a huge year for the cryptocurrency market, with huge strides in growth and adoption of digital assets, NFTs, and blockchain worldwide. It was also an incredible year for Moonstake as we rose to the top rankings of global staking providers, reaching a total staking assets of $1.8 billion thanks to the support of our users and partners worldwide. As we begin the new year 2022, Moonstake as well as our strategic blockchain partners have many exciting news and programs in store for you as our platforms scale and evolve. To welcome our user community into the exciting new year, we're creating a series of articles in collaboration with our strategic partners on what you need to know about them in the year 2022, starting with Cardano (ADA).
Since August 2020, Moonstake has been a strong staking provider for ADA staking, Cardano's native cryptocurrency, as a strategic partner of EMURGO, the official commercial arm of Cardano. Recently, the group leading Moonstake's development, Infinity Blockchain Group, was acquired by EMURGO to strengthen EMURGO's strategic resources & accelerate research into the interoperability of Cardano with other blockchains.

As for Cardano, last year the blockchain underwent tremendous development updates and accomplished many great milestones. The network became fully community-governed and operated in April and launched public support of smart contracts and thus, DeFi applications in September with the launch of Plutus and the gradual rollout of the Alonzo update. In this article, we will be interviewing our partner EMURGO about what is in store for the Cardano ecosystem and its user community in 2022.

Q1 Which 2021 achievements are you the most proud of?

As mentioned, 2021 was a tremendous year for EMURGO and the Cardano ecosystem, with highlights such as the successful rollout of smart contracts to Cardano's network, a big increase in Yoroi Wallet adoption, and plans to release new EMURGO products such as Yoroi's dApp Connector which will greatly facilitate Cardano ADA user interaction with Cardano ecosystem dApps such as DeFi and NFTs.

In particular, EMURGO is proud of establishing a $100 million Cardano ecosystem investment vehicle comprising two entities - EMURGO Ventures and EMURGO Africa - to invest into early startup and growth stage companies that will build Cardano-based solutions.

EMURGO Ventures focuses on developed markets outside of Africa to facilitate the building of solutions and services on Cardano with seed investments into a variety of Cardano-focused startups and middleware solutions companies, including those building decentralized financial services (DeFi), non-fungible token (NFT) projects, blockchain developer education tools, and other decentralized applications.

EMURGO Africa's goal on the other hand is to ultimately support more than three hundred African startups through seed funding and incubation, and have Cardano's blockchain adopted as the technological platform standard in Africa for socially impactful solutions. For its launch to achieve this goal, EMURGO Africa partnered with Adanian Labs, a successful venture building studio operator in Africa, to support impact driven startups expanding the Cardano ecosystem across the continent; and Adaverse, a Cardano-focused joint accelerator program in Africa.

EMURGO's new Cardano investment vehicle will greatly enhance and support the development of socially impactful solutions utilizing Cardano's green blockchain technology, ultimately providing benefits to both developers and society.

For more information, please feel free to reach out to [email protected]

Q2 What measures are you going to take in 2022 to further increase adoption of Cardano?

EMURGO has many exciting things in store for 2022, including the official release of Yoroi's dApp Connector, and more cool features for Yoroi to enrich the Cardano ADA user experience in a rapidly expanding Cardano dApp ecosystem.

We are also highly looking forward to cultivating the Cardano NFT ecosystem and community with the launch of our own Cardano-based NFT marketplace, Fiborite, scheduled to come soon in early 2022.

Artists and musicians are encouraged to pre-register for the launch of Fiborite by going to the official site here (https://www.fiborite.io/) and follow Fiborite on Twitter at @FiboNFT.

As a founding entity of the Cardano blockchain, EMURGO's Cardano NFT marketplace Fiborite is uniquely positioned to offer the Cardano community and global artists the chance to easily mint, buy, and sell NFTs using Cardano ADA directly on the marketplace. Those unfamiliar with NFTs will be able to easily use Fiborite's simple and user-intuitive UX to either mint, buy, or sell NFTs of their choosing.

Additionally in 2022, EMURGO will also provide DeFi services built on Cardano directly through Astarter, including decentralized exchange (DEX), IDO launchpad for token projects building on Cardano, and more to come. This will provide more liquidity and utility for Cardano ADA users and make it easier for projects to utilize Cardano.

Q3 What can users expect from Cardano in 2022?

Users can expect Cardano to continue its consistent development with new dApps and technical upgrades now that Cardano has become fully decentralized with staking rewards given and smart contracts supported. Cardano is also looking to introduce Layer-2 scaling solutions such as Hydra to increase throughput and allow easier mainstream adoption of Cardano's scalable, sustainable, and interoperable third-generation blockchain. Users can follow Cardano's development roadmap with status updates at https://roadmap.cardano.org. EMURGO will also continue to support the development of Cardano's ecosystem through solutions development, Yoroi Wallet feature upgrades, developer education courses, and investments. Please follow EMURGO on Twitter @emurgo_io to always receive the latest news.

Moonstake is proud to be strategic partners of EMURGO and the Cardano blockchain. We will continue to maintain strong support for the ever growing and developing Cardano ecosystem and hope to bring even more great value to ADA and crypto users worldwide in 2022 to help accelerate adoption of the Cardano and Moonstake ecosystems together.

About Moonstake

As a world-leading staking service provider, Moonstake develops and operates decentralized wallet services for enterprises and end users.

Our full-scale staking business started in August 2020. With the support of users all over the world, our total staking assets has risen to 1.8 billion dollars. In June 2021, we ranked third among 15,000 staking providers globally.

So far, we have expanded our business and ecosystem through about 30 strategic partnerships, including major blockchains such as Cardano and its official commercial arm EMURGO, TRON, and NEO. In May 2021, we became a wholly owned subsidiary of the listed company "OIO Holdings Limited" on the Singapore Stock Exchange and we are working to further expand Moonstake's businesses and improve our visibility. https://www.moonstake.io/

About EMURGO

EMURGO is the official commercial arm of Cardano and provides socially impactful solutions to solve some of the most intricate problems of organizations. As a founding entity of the Cardano protocol, EMURGO is able to leverage its abilities for large-scale blockchain development and rapid solutions deployment to benefit its global clients.

EMURGO has offices in Singapore, India, and Indonesia, and a roster of global clients & partners. To connect and learn more, visit https://emurgo.io.

Copyright 2022 ACN Newswire. All rights reserved. www.acnnewswire.comAs we begin the new year 2022, Moonstake as well as our strategic blockchain partners have many exciting news and programs in store for you as our platforms scale and evolve. To welcome our user community into the exciting new year, we're creating a series of articles in collaboration with our strategic partners on what you need to know about them in the year 2022, starting with Cardano (ADA).

Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, Jan 20, 2022 - (JCN Newswire) - Hitachi Rail announced today that it has signed a 72.5 million EUR contract with Princess Noura Bint Abdul Rahman University to operate and maintain the autonomous metro system in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia for the next three years.
The Princess Nourah Bint Abdul Rahman University is the largest women university in the world able to host 60,000 students that can travel within the huge campus area with the autonomous train. The electric powered trains provide a sustainable low carbon alternative to travelling by car.

The rail network consists of four elevated lines spanning 11.5 km that connects 14 stations. The 22 two-carriage automated metro trains have a capacity of 110 passengers and can travel to a maximum speed of 60 km/h.

The contract will see Hitachi operate the whole autonomous metro system, while maintaining the trains and infrastructure, including stations, mechanical and electrical systems and the depot and viaduct. Hitachi Rail completed the building of the autonomous railway in May 2011.

Hitachi is the largest autonomous manufacturer in the world with 30% market share. The company first autonomous metro started running in Copenhagen in 2002, and was followed by Line 5 in Milan, Brescia, Line C in Rome and successful system in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia and Taipei, Taiwan. Other projects are in progress in Honolulu - Hawaii, Thessaloniki - Greece, and Australia.

Edoardo La Ficara, Executive Officer, Operation Service & Maintenance Division, Hitachi Rail said, "We are proud to be confirmed as operator and maintainer of the Princess Noura University automated metro. This award is an important further milestone that consolidates our presence in the Middle East, one of the Operation, Service and Maintenance Division target markets. We're happy to be able to contribute with our customers to the development of mobility in the countries in which we operate, in terms of growth and sustainable systems".

Hitachi Rail has operated and maintained the Princess Noura Bint Abdul Rahman University since March 2018. Building up on the recent announcement on the maintenance of the new Spanish very high speed fleet, this new award is proof of Hitachi's continuous and positive collaboration with its customers enabling to operate and maintain the system in Riyadh for the next three years, powering sustainable connectivity.

About Hitachi Rail

Hitachi Rail is a fully integrated, global provider of rail solutions across rolling stock, signalling, service & maintenance, digital technology and turnkey solutions. With a presence in 38 countries across six continents and over 12,000 employees, our mission is to contribute to society through the continuous development of superior rail transport solutions. We are proud of our global achievements, from our world -famous 'bullet trains', to our signalling solutions and turnkey projects, state--of-the-art traffic management and digital solutions. Drawing on the wider Hitachi Group's market-leading technology and research-and-development capabilities, we strive for industry leading innovations and solutions that can deliver value for customers and sustainable railway systems that benefit wider society. For information about Hitachi Rail, visit www.hitachirail.com.


Copyright 2022 JCN Newswire. All rights reserved. www.jcnnewswire.comHitachi Rail announced today that it has signed a 72.5 million EUR contract with Princess Noura Bint Abdul Rahman University to operate and maintain the autonomous metro system in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia for the next three years.