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Hey Waivly Crew! 🌊 Ukraine’s Vice Prime Minister has asked crypto exchanges to ban all Russian users. NFT platform Ucollex has closed a $10 million Series A funding round led by Animoca Brands.

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Ukraine asks crypto exchanges to freeze Russian accounts

Vice Prime Minister of Ukraine, Mykhailo Fedorov, has asked all major crypto exchanges to block addresses of Russian users.

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In a tweet on Sunday, Fedorov explained the reason for his call, saying: “It's crucial to freeze not only the addresses linked to Russian and Belarusian politicians, but also to sabotage ordinary users.”

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According to Reuters, Binance, one of the world's leading cryptocurrency exchanges by trading volume, has no plans to freeze user accounts in Russia. "We are not going to unilaterally freeze millions of innocent users' accounts. Crypto was meant to provide greater financial freedom for people across the globe," the representative said.

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However, Binance’s Charity Foundation is donating $10 million to help the humanitarian crisis in Ukraine as well as launching a fund to provide emergency relief through crypto crowdfunding.

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Kraken CEO Jesse Powell responded to Fedorov’s tweet in a thread, explaining the exchange “cannot freeze the accounts of our Russian clients without a legal requirement to do so.” This stance could change in the future as "Russians should be aware that such a requirement could be imminent."

Twitter introduces new content warning feature

Twitter is now rolling out the new content warning feature to all users, which the platform had first tested out last year.

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The new feature will allow users to obscure photos as well as videos behind content warnings for nudity, violence, and sensitive content. The feature will help Twitter users to avoid interacting with sensitive content that may upset users.

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It is now available for iOS, Android, and the web app. Twitter users can put content warnings on their posts by adding a photo or a video into their tweet then tapping on the edit button on the photo/video.

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Once the user taps the edit button, they will see a flag icon which will then bring up options for the content warning that includes: nudity, violence, and sensitive content. Users can tag multiple warnings for any photo or video they want to tweet out. Once the user tweets out the photo or video that has been tagged with content warnings, the viewer can click “show” to view the media.

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Despite not having a content warning category for film/tv spoilers, the new feature is versatile since many users can utilize the content warning feature to hide spoilers.

The Waves

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NFT Special

Ayyyliens First Edition

Mayo NFT is an art project dedicated to documenting Mayo's adventures on earth. All Mayo NFTs are unique 1/1 hand-drawn images. The "first edition" comprises 50 rare NFTs depicting scenes from the Mayo universe.

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CartoonCats

Cartoon Cats are colorful pets that were made specifically for NFT collectors. Anyone who buys two 2, gets 1 free!

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Pixel Piggies

Pixel Piggies was Buhi’s first NFT project that launched earlier this year. They went with pixel-style artwork because it reminds me of back in the day and the long nights with their old SNES.

Ucollex closes $10M Series A funding round

Hong Kong-based NFT platform Ucollex has closed a $10 million Series A funding round.

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The round was led by Animoca Brands along with the MCP IPX One Fund from Japanese investment firm MCP Asset Management. The valuation of the company is undisclosed.

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According to a company executive, the funds will go towards scaling operations, including platform and blockchain tech development, as well as helping drive marketing efforts related to significant intellectual property (IP) partnerships.

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Ucollex is a platform that sells unique and limited edition NFTs for toy and pop culture collectibles. A big focus Ucollex has is to make NFTs accessible for everyone by allowing users to invest in its collectibles without a digital wallet.

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CEO Robert Tran revealed Ucollex will focus its efforts on anime, toy, and pop culture illustrators in 2022, saying: “Anime, toy and pop culture illustrators are our major focus for 2022 as we believe these digital collectibles are shaping the new consumer spending in a very impactful way,”

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”’ Collectortainment’ is going to be our core offering here as we look to bridge the existing global fandom for pop culture collectables into the new paradigm of blockchain ownership and utility,” Tran added.

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Animco has been heavily investing in NFTs, blockchain gaming, and the metaverse. Over the weekend, GamesPad, the ultimate gaming, NFT, and metaverse ecosystem, also announced that it received investment from Animco Brands.

Own and secure your crypto with Ledger

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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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