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Hey Waivly Crew! 🌊 Ukraine’s president has signed a virtual assets bill into law, declaring crypto legal. During Adobe Summit 2022, the company announced new tools to help companies get metaverse-ready.

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Ukraine signs virtual assets bill to legalize crypto

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has signed a law to legalize cryptocurrency in the country.

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In a statement, Ukraine’s Ministry of Digital Transformation first announced that President Zelensky signed a law "On Virtual Assets," which enables conditions for the launch of a regulated crypto market in the country.

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Before yesterday, cryptocurrency was not illegal in Ukraine, but the new law determines the legal status, classification, ownership, and regulators of virtual assets, as well as setting registration requirements for crypto services providers.

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The National Securities and Stock Market Commission will be in charge of regulating the new market, as it now has the power to determine the country’s policies on digital assets and issue licenses to virtual asset providers, such as exchanges.

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Ukraine has received nearly $100 million in cryptocurrency donations in Bitcoin, Ethereum Solana, Polkadot, and even Dogecoin, allowing the country to avoid running out of critical supplies while fighting off the Russian invasion.

Adobe announces metaverse tools at Adobe Summit 2022

On Tuesday, Adobe kicked off Adobe Summit 2022, the world’s largest digital experience conference, and this year, all eyes are on the metaverse.

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While Adobe has no plans to create its own metaverse, it wants to help creators and companies get metaverse-ready. At Adobe Summit 2022, Adobe unveiled a range of features and tools being developed by its research team, starting with 3D and immersive collaborative content creation products: Substance 3D and Aero.

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Notably, with Substance 3D Modeler users can create their own objects and scenes for 3D environments, such as virtual worlds, via desktop and virtual reality (VR) interfaces that they can seamlessly switch between. Aero, on the other hand, allows users to build, view, and share immersive augmented reality (AR) experiences.

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“The metaverse and other immersive experiences will only succeed if they are feature-rich, personalized, engaging and have interactive content,” said Scott Belsky, chief product officer and executive vice president of Adobe Creative Cloud.

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“To lead in the metaverse, brands should start creating 3D and immersive content now – it will not only prepare them for the future but make their product design and creation of marketing and e-commerce assets better, faster and cheaper,” he added.

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Hustle Special

Motivational quotes by influential women in business

In honour of Women’s History Month, here are six quotes on success from some of the most inspiring female entrepreneurs, CEOs, and celebrities.

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I believe ambition is not a dirty word. It’s just believing in yourself and your abilities. Imagine this: What would happen if we were all brave enough to be a little bit more ambitious? I think the world would change.” - Actor and entrepreneur Reese Witherspoon.

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"It's important to be willing to make mistakes. The worst thing that can happen is you become memorable." - Spanx CEO Sara Blakely.

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”The only people you need in your life are the ones that prove they need you in theirs.” - Entrepreneur Paris Hilton.

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“Comfort zone is a nice place, but nothing grows there. Take the leap today and start your business!" - Varo Ventures CEO Caroline Cummings.

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“We need to accept that we don’t always make the right decisions, that we’ll screw up royally sometimes. Understand that failure is not the opposite of success, it’s part of success.” - Thrive Global CEO Arianna Huffington.

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“Leadership is hard to define, and good leadership even harder. But if you can get people to follow you to the ends of the earth, you are a great leader.” - former PepsiCo CEO Indra Nooyi.

FTX partners with AZA finance to grow Web3 economy in Africa

Crypto Exchange FTX is partnering with AZA Finance to grow the Web3 economy on the African continent.

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The partnership will explore five key areas for Web3 development in Africa, including offering support for users to deposit and payout in African currencies on FTX.com with mobile money and local bank account integrations.

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It will also provide educational resources and network opportunities to African users to participate and learn about the Web3 economy. Notably, the fifth area of the collaboration involves onboarding African NFTs and artists to the FTX NFT marketplace.

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“We are thrilled to be working with FTX and to help them grow across the African continent.  Sam’s leadership, and his commitment to ethical expansion within Web3, is exceptional.  As we built Africa’s largest platform for trading African currencies, one thing has been clear – that this continent is the future of global, digital economies,” Elizabeth Rossiello, CEO and founder of AZA Finance said.

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The agreement was announced a day after FTX Europe revealed it received the first crypto exchange license to operate, open up a headquarters, and offer crypto derivatives products in Dubai.

Own and secure your crypto with Ledger

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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