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Stripe customers will be able to accept cryptocurrency payments
📍‌Stripe will once again provide support for cryptocurrencies. According to TechCrunch, the technology company that provides online payment services will provide support for payments with crypto assets. Initially, cryptocurrency payments will be supported on Circle's regulated stablecoin USDC.
The media reported that Stripe customers will be able to use USDC to make payments from the Solana, Ethereum and Polygon Network blockchains.
According to the media, John Collison, co-founder and president of Stripe, will announce support for cryptocurrency payments during the Stripe Connect developer conference, which begins this week in the city of San Francisco, California.
Colison said recently that Stripe was working to bring back cryptocurrency payments and that the initial choice of stablecoins responds to the need to provide a better payment experience for customers and users. As their name indicates, stablecoins can maintain a stable value in the market, making them easier to use in daily transactions.
Franklin Templeton tokenizes a fund using Polygon and Stellar
📍‌Investment asset manager Franklin Templeton has used blockchain to tokenize a $380 million fund. Through its tokenized fund, the American asset manager allows its investors to trade fund shares as tokens on the Ethereum-secured Polygon and Stellar blockchains.
Franklin Templeton, who also operates one of the Bitcoin spot ETFs approved in January in the United States, commented that his tokenized fund gives users “the ability to send BENJI tokens to the digital wallets of other BENJI holders.” All this, in order to improve accessibility to blockchain technology, efficiency in asset management and liquidity.
NASA uses the Metaverse to train its astronauts
📍‌Astronauts prepare for future space missions using Metaverse technology combined with Virtual Reality headsets. In a statement released this month, NASA confirmed that it has been using Metaverse and VR technologies to fine-tune astronaut training for real missions in space.
El training, and It is focused mainly on the tasks that astronauts will have on the Gateway space station, humanity's first space station around the Moon.
Bitcoin ETFs break new records
📍‌Bitcoin spot ETFs are positioned at the top of the market, in terms of net asset inflow. Bloomberg ETF analyst Eric Balchunas commented on his
As expected, BlackRock's Bitcoin fund IBIT leads the pack, with over $17.000 billion in assets under management, after 71 days of consecutive inflows.
FBTC, Fidelity's spot fund, is in second place, with nearly $10.000 billion in net assets after 72 days. ARKB, from Ark Invest, and BITB, from Bitwise, occupy fourth and eighth place, respectively, in the ETF classification shared by Balchunas.
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