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Hey Waivly Crew! 🌊 Universal Studios has teamed up with MoonPay to create an NFT scavenger hunt. Walt Disney and Warner Bros veteran Stephen Teglas is the new Cool Cats CEO.

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UAE makes a deal to facilitate Bitcoin transactions

CoinCorner, a global leader in Bitcoin and Lightning services, has partnered with Seed Group, a company of the Private Office of Sheikh Saeed bin Ahmed Al Maktoum, to facilitate Bitcoin transactions in the United Arab Emirates (UAE).

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“Apart from individuals, a large number of companies are ready to embrace Bitcoin and other digital currencies as legal tender for future transactions,” said Hisham Al Gurg, CEO of Seed Group and the Private Office of Sheikh Saeed bin Ahmed Al Maktoum. “The UAE wants to offer a growth-oriented environment to fintech companies by establishing an ecosystem for digital currencies. Companies dealing in cryptocurrencies hold huge potential in the Emirates’ digital economy.”

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Seed Group will help CoinCorner expand its operations into the UAE and wider Middle East, reach the right audience, market its products and services effectively, and access top decision-makers in the government as well as private sectors.

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CoinCorner will focus on establishing a user-friendly platform where UAE residents can buy, sell, send, receive, and store Bitcoin, as well as offer local businesses solutions to deal in Bitcoin.

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Also Wednesday, the world’s largest crypto exchange, Binance, secured a license from Dubai's Virtual Asset Regulatory Authority to offer crypto-related services to qualified retail and institutional investors in the city.

Universal Studios launches NFT scavenger hunt

Universal Studios has teamed up with crypto payment platform MoonPay to create an NFT-based scavenger hunt at its Universal Theme Parks. 

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The NFTs, which feature unique Halloween characters, will be accessible via seven QR codes hidden throughout the Orlando and Hollywood Universal theme parks. Park attendees will be challenged to search for the QR codes in a scavenger hunt lasting through Halloween night.

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MoonPay will use its utility minting service Hypermint to create up to seven million NFTs. Park guests don’t need any prior crypto knowledge to participate in the scavenger hunt. All they need to do is scan the QR code and sign up via email.

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“Our collaboration with Universal marks a paradigm shift in how large enterprises go to market with new NFT collections," said HyperMint co-founder and General Manager, Semyon Germanovich. “We’re showing the world just how easy HyperMint makes it to deploy NFTs from end-to-end and at scale. The fact that there are a record-breaking number of NFTs in this collection is icing on the cake.”

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Hustle Special

Top 7 quotes for growth mindset

The path to success is hard, but when you adopt a growth mindset and realize your talents can be developed over time through hard work, good strategies, and input from others, things get easier. Here are seven quotes that may inspire you to embrace your own growth mindset.

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“Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed no hope at all.” - Dale Carnegie

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“I am always doing what I cannot do yet. In order to learn how to do it.” – Vincent Van Gogh

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“Improve by 1% a day, and in just 70 days, you’re twice as good.” – Alan Weiss

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“Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young.” – Henry Ford

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“Would you like me to give you a formula for success? It’s quite simple, really. Double your rate of failure.” – Thomas Watson

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“The problem human beings face is not that we aim too high and fail, but that we aim too low and succeed.” - Michelangelo

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“You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play better than anyone else.” - Albert Einstein

Cool Cats appoints Stephen Teglas as CEO

Cool Cats Group, the web3 company behind blue-chip NFT project Cool Cats, announced Wednesday that Stephen Teglas has joined the company as CEO.

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For 25 years, Stephen led brand management and commercialization for consumer products for The Walt Disney Company and Warner Bros. In February 2021, he made the leap into Web3 and oversaw brand partnerships at RECUR, an NFT technology company.

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As CEO, Teglas will use his leadership experience to execute Cool Cats' mission to become the largest global NFT brand and a robust media and content company.

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In addition, the company will set out to expand the iconic Cool Cats brand to fans worldwide via partnerships and collaborations in animated content, gaming, live events, consumer products, and publishing sectors.

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"I am thrilled to leverage my experience, knowledge and contacts to drive the growth of Cool Cats," said Teglas. "And I am grateful to have spent decades helping to build some of the most powerful global brands, as well as having served as an executive at RECUR, onboarding brands into web3," he continued. "I am committed to delivering value to the Cool Cats holders, while leveraging the knowledge and creativity of our community to show the world what's Cool."

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