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Hey Waivly Crew! 🌊 Epic Games is introducing a new way to experience fun interactions with other players with Fortnite Party Worlds. Crypto.com has acquired two US exchanges in a $216M deal with IG group.

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Epic launches Fortnite Party Worlds for socializing

Epic Games is taking a step further into the metaverse with Fortnite Party Worlds, maps that are solely intended as spaces for friends to socialize.

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Fortnite first launched solely focusing on its battle royale game mode, but recently Epic has shared its strong ambitions for a Fortnite metaverse. Party Worlds will be designed as places for players to hang out, play fun mini-games, and make new friends.

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Unlike Hubs, these worlds don’t link to other islands and focus on socializing over combat and damage. Epic has noted these virtual spaces "should have a high focus on self-expression through emotes, sprays, outfit changes, or other mechanics," and that they should "encourage social interaction, giving people a way to make new friends or team up with existing friends in new ways."

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For its launch, two Party worlds have been developed with community members Fivewalnut and TreyJTH. Fivewalnut's social space is called Walnut World and is an amusement park focused on hanging out with friends. The second, called Late Night Lounge, has a nightclub vibe, making it the perfect place to relax.

Sony’s $9,000 Airpeak S1 drone is available for pre-order

Sony first revealed its first drone, the Airpeak S1, back in January, and now it’s finally going on sale.

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You can now pre-order the drone directly from Sony’s website. It is expected to start shipping on December 24th, so if you’re thinking of buying the drone as a Christmas present, it likely won’t arrive on time.

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The drone starts at an expensive $9,000 and is capable of flying for up to 22 minutes and up to 12 minutes with a heavy payload. Along with the drone, the $9,000 will get you two pairs of propellers, two batteries, a charger, and a remote.

The Waves

👀 South Korea embraces the metaverse

🚫 Facebook loosens ban on cryptocurrency ads

🤦 China’s central bank wants to monitor the metaverse and NFTs

🎮 PlayStation Plus December games revealed

Hustle Special

There’s never a right time to take the leap

A lot of people consider following their dreams, whether that be starting their own business or working on their passion, but are too scared. If you can relate, use this as a sign to take the leap!

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The main factor that holds people back from just going for is the never-ending fear every time they think about taking a leap of faith. Even if you enjoy challenges, the fear of failure is often the biggest barrier holding you back from pursuing your goals.

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Like the quote “There is no right time, just time and what you do with it” goes, it’s important to realize there will never be the perfect time to chase your dreams, so instead of contemplating making a move, just go for it!

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When you start to overthink and get scared, sit down and create a vision of what you want to achieve, what your end goal is, and write it down. Realizing what the future can hold if you are successful will help you make the first step towards what you want.

Crypto.com acquires two US exchanges in $216M deal

Crypto.com, which has been in the news lately for its naming-rights deals, has acquired two exchanges from financial services firm IG Group Holdings Plc.

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Yesterday, Crypto.com announced that it is purchasing the IG Group’s North American Derivatives Exchange and the Small Exchange in a $216 million deal. The deal is expected to close in the first half of 2022, following regulatory approval.

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The North American Derivatives Exchange, also known as Nadex, offers instruments like binary options, call spreads, and Touch Bracket contracts. The Small Exchange provides futures products to mainly market makers, trading firms, and hedge funds.

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“Our goal as a platform is to offer our customers a trusted, secure, and regulated platform with world-class tools to achieve financial independence,” said Kris Marszalek, Co-founder and CEO of Crypto.com. “This proposed acquisition builds on that promise and will give our customers access to an entirely new set of financial tools to complement our current offering.”

Own and secure your crypto

If you’re into cryptocurrency and own crypto assets, you need a secure place to store your coins and tokens. You probably already know that you shouldn’t store your crypto on an exchange due to potential hacks, not being solely in control of your crypto’s private keys, and for other reasons, and so a hardware wallet is the way to go and the best option to protect your private keys, therefore, you should make the move to a Ledger wallet.

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Ledger wallets are an extremely secure and premium way to secure, manage, and grow your crypto assets with their Bluetooth-enabled hardware wallets, and easy-to-use app which lets you manage your portfolio on the go. They let you manage multiple assets, buy, sell, grow, and exchange crypto, gain financial freedom by you being in full control and ownership of your private keys, and so much more.

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The wallets are really simple to setup, and to move your crypto over to, so there’s no reason not to secure your assets and take control of your cryptocurrency now and get yourself a Ledger device. You can manage 1800+ coins and tokens directly in the Ledger Live app once you’ve got your device up and running, so you’ll always have your entire portfolio covered.

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