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VARUS partners with Binance to accept crypto payments
A leading supermarket chain in Ukraine, Varus, has partnered with the world’s leading digital asset exchange, Binance, to launch cryptocurrency payments.
Through a Binance Pay wallet, customers can now access instant crypto payments and fast delivery in nine cities in Ukraine: the capital Kyiv, Dnipro, Kamianske, Kryvyi Rih, Zaporizhzhia, Brovary, Nikopol, Vyshhorod, Pavlograd.
The companies also launched a new “reward fund promotion,” where customers who order anything from the VARUS Delivery program worth over UAH 500 and pay with Binance Pay, will be rewarded with UAH 100.
At this year’s Kyiv Tech summit hosted on September 6th-9th, Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin made a surprise appearance and shared that: “Ukraine could well become the next Web3 hub”.
“A country can become a Web3 hub if its citizens are actively interested in this technology and decide to make a major contribution to its development,” he added. “Ukraine has both the capabilities and the determination to do this.”
Yuga Labs hires Chief Gaming Officer
Yuga Labs, the Web3 company behind Bored Ape Yacht Club, has hired Spencer Tucker as its first Chief Gaming Officer.
At Yuga, Tucker will oversee the development of the company’s gaming initiatives, starting with its upcoming metaverse platform, “Otherside.”
“Web3 is revolutionizing gaming, entertainment, and community in much the same way the shift to mobile revolutionized communication,” Tucker said. “I am beyond excited to join the Yuga Labs team and to continue building toward the new era of interoperability and community-empowered growth in the Otherside metaverse.”
Tucker previously held executive positions at mobile gaming firms Scopely and GREE, where he served as Senior Vice President of Product and President of Games, respectively.
“Spencer brings a passion for and deep knowledge of gaming and shares our vision for the Otherside metaverse,” Yuga Labs CEO Nicole Muniz said in a statement. “Yuga today is known most prominently for being the home of Bored Ape Yacht Club, CryptoPunks, and Meebits, but Yuga is more than that. Gaming is one of our main focus areas.”
In July, 4,300 Otherdeed NFT holders, known as “Voyagers,” were invited to explore the metaverse platform during its “First Trip tech demo.” Yuga Labs soon after published the Otherside’s litepaper.
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ECB chooses Amazon to prototype digital euro app
The European Central Bank (ECB) has chosen five companies to help develop user interfaces for its digital euro.
In a Friday announcement, the ECB said it had selected multinational tech company Amazon, fintech firm Nexi, Spanish digital bank CaixaBank, French payments platform Worldline, and the European Payments Initiative (EPI), to each focus on developing a prototype based on specific use cases of the digital euro.
Caixabank and Worldline will focus on peer-to-peer online payments. EPI and Nexi will focus on point-of-sale payments initiated by the payee. Amazon will focus on e-commerce payments.
The five companies were chosen from a pool of 54 front-end providers, the ECB detailed, adding that they best matched the “specific capabilities” required for the assigned use case.
The ECB concluded: “The prototyping exercise is an important element in the ongoing two-year investigation phase of the digital euro project. It is expected to be completed in the first quarter of 2023 when the ECB will also publish its findings.”
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