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Headquartered in New York City, Tern is a fintech as a service innovator dedicated to enabling startups and established financial institutions alike to launch embedded banking and payments services products. The company, founded in 2015 by CEO Brion Bonkowski, offers a multi-currency, multi-language prepaid and stored-value platform with embedded AML, KYC, CIP, and fraud mitigation Read more...

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Inflation is a term that has dominated news, media, and financial headlines all throughout 2021 and continues as we progress into 2022. Many key analysts and economists around the world are concerned about the economic impact the mass amounts of money printing, done in response to the pandemic, is having on economies. Inflation is one […]

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Bitcoin has enjoyed some uptrend over the past day as the crypto once again visits the $44k price level. On-chain data suggests that an uptick in exchange outflows may be behind the move. Bitcoin Exchange Outflows Observe A Spike In The Past Couple Of Days As pointed out by an analyst in a CryptoQuant post, the BTC exchange outflows have showed raised values recently. The “all exchanges outflow” is an indicator that measures the total amount of Bitcoin exiting wallets of all exchanges. When the value of the metric goes up, it means more BTC is currently exiting exchanges. Such a trend has usually been bullish as holders usually withdraw their coins to personal wallets for hodling purposes. Prolonged large outflows can be a sign of whale accumulation. On the other hand, when the indicator’s value stays low, it implies not many investors are moving their Bitcoin off exchanges at the moment. This trend can be bearish if the opposite metric, the inflow, spikes up. This is because holders usually deposit to exchanges for withdrawing to fiat or for purchasing altcoins. Related Reading | Bitcoin Death Cross 2022: What You Need To Know About The Deadly Signal Now, here is a chart that shows the trend in the Bitcoin all exchanges outflow indicator over the past year: The indicator's value seems to have spiked up | Source: CryptoQuant As you can see in the above graph, the value of the Bitcoin outflow has shown an uptick recently. This means that a large amount of withdrawals has taken place over the past couple of days. Related Reading | SOPR Shows Bitcoin Holders Continue To Sell At A Loss, Similar To May-June 2021 According to the quant, this trend might show that the $40k price level is important to some investors. Whenever the crypto approaches a support level, outflow spikes like these usually occur as holders are keen to buy more as Bitcoin’s value dips to such levels. BTC Price At the time of writing, Bitcoin’s price floats around $43.8k, up 2% in the last seven days. Over the past month, the crypto has lost 12% in value. The below chart shows the trend in the price of BTC over the last five days. BTC's price seems to have finally shown some upwards momentum | Source: BTCUSD on TradingView After weeks of trending downtrend, Bitcoin finally seems to have shown some solid movement up as the crypto broke past the $44k mark several times in the past day. The move may have been fueled by the recent uptick in the exchange outflows. It’s unclear at the moment if this is the rally that will help the crypto escape from the $40k to $45k range. Nonetheless, it’s some upwards momentum for the coin at last. Featured image from Unspash.com, charts from TradingView.com, CryptoQuant.com

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As the usage of social media keeps increasing, brands are increasingly dependent on social media influencers to help push their products and services to their wide range of audiences. Because of this, influencer marketing has turned into a lucrative business, with the industry said to become a $15 billion industry by the end of 2022. As per the latest calculations, 43% of all social media influencers make an average of $50,000 a year and the influencer economy is estimated to be more than $100 billion.  The Metaverse and Influencer Marketing  The Metaverse is a virtual ecosystem where immersive digital spaces are manufactured for a range of human activities and this involves the integration of both virtual and physical spaces. Back in the 90s when Neal Stephenson coined the term “metaverse” in his science-fiction novel “Snow Crash,” it was just what it was, an imaginary world from fiction. Recent happenings however have clearly shown that the Metaverse isn’t just the product of a talented writer coining words for his book, but that it is a concept that is already here with us and will be a huge part of our future.  To back this claim, we can easily point to tech giants who are obviously in a race to be the first to market for the Metaverse industry. Meta (previously Facebook) invested $10 billion in 2021 to build its Metaverse, while Nvidia is developing an Omniverse, which will connect virtual worlds in the Metaverse. Music star Travis Scott had his virtual concert at Fortnite attended by 12 million people. Microsoft is building its metaverse.  All of these events prove one thing: The Metaverse is real, it is a big deal and it is happening now. As more and more tech giants and social media platforms make the transition into the Metaverse, a big opportunity to create something much bigger presents itself. That opportunity is creating an influencer-centric ecosystem in the Metaverse.  Even though a large majority of social media influencers are untapped when it comes to Metaverse, blockchain and NFT concepts, the Influencer Marketing (IM) niche is worth only $15 billion at the moment. And the NFTs and Metaverse estimated addressable market is valued at more than $1 trillion.  All of these inspired the team at Metafluence to delve into creating a product that plugs the issue of influencer marketing but this time, for the Metaverse. What is Metafluence? Metafluence is a platform that enables influencers to monetize their influence, social media power and creativity in the Metaverse. Metafluence is the world’s first influence-to-earn platform and the solutions they provide for influencers automatically addresses the brand and audience challenges. This enables all the parties to thrive in Web 3.0. Metafluence is the name of the city in the Metaverse and this city is ruled by social media influencers. Metahuts will be the homes of Influencers and will serve as the main architectural elements of the city. This is similar to the plot of lands in the Metaverse. To be considered an Influencer, you must have at least 100+ engagements (including likes, shares and comments) in one of your social media channels. Up to 100 influencers can come together to create a Metaclan, to unify their social media influence and reach.  Vision  Metafluence’s vision is to build an influencer-focused ecosystem in the Metaverse where social media influencers, brands and their audiences can engage easily in a transparent and incentivized manner. Through Metafluence’s influence-to-earn platform, they aim to convert social media influencers into Metaverse entrepreneurs (Metapreneurs).  Token  $METO is the native utility token of the Metafluence platform. It would be used throughout the Metafluence ecosystem and its utility includes but is not limited to; Acquisition of Influencer Homes (Metahuts) or their upgrades Purchases and transactions — NFT purchases, event tickets, premium access, brand stores etc.  Community incentives and governance — This includes incentives for holding the token, affiliate incentives, transaction fee incentives, staking incentives and incentives for being active.  $METO will also be used for voting, curation and as a means for Metaclan memberships. Tokenomics  Token name: Metafluence Ticker: $METO Total Token Supply: 5,000,000,000 METO Initial Market Cap: $155,000 Fully diluted market cap: $25m Token Allocation and Vesting Schedule  Seed Round (3.2%) — Locked for 30 days with daily vesting for 23 months. Total vesting of 24 months.  Private Round 1 (6%) — 5% released at TGE, then locked for 30 days with daily vesting for 17 months  Private Round 2 (3%) — 10% released at TGE, then locked for 30 days with daily vesting for 14 months Public Sale (1.2%) — 10% released at TGE and then vested daily over 6 months  Team (16%) — 6-month lock followed by a 42-month daily vesting  Advisors (5%) — 6-month lock followed by 18-month daily vesting  Partners (4%) — 3-month lock followed by 33-month daily … Continued

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Visa Inc has revealed its plans to begin a piloting program with blockchain software company ConsenSys to test central banks’ digital currencies with wallets and cards.

US crypto exchange Coinbase has acquired derivatives platform FairX. In a new blog post, Coinbase says that a well-regulated derivatives market is critical for the long-term success of investors looking to get a foothold in the evolving crypto economy. “Today, we’re announcing the acquisition of FairX, a CFTC-regulated derivatives exchange or Designated Contract Market, which […]

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The Northwest Arkansas Council is launching a cryptocurrency incentive program seeking to attract professionals that want to work remotely. The program is targeting entrepreneurs and [...]