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Business
The Winners Circle is Bringing Horse Racing to a New Generation of Web3 Fans
Racing League has a mission to reimagine horse racing—and Web3 loyalty platform The Winners Circle is a key pillar of its effort to introduce the sport to a broader audience. Powered by Zilliqa, The Winners Circle is creating a “more interactive experience” to draw young, tech-savvy fans to horse racing, the ERC-20 blockchain's Head of Business Development - Sports & Gaming, Tom Fleetham, told Decrypt. Those young audiences are “not going to passively just consume content in the way that previou...
Dec 20, 2023
Gaming
Web3War is Shaking up Crypto Gaming With ‘Skill-to-Earn’ Rewards
First-person shooter Web3War is a game with a mission: to overhaul the crypto gaming landscape. The problem, Valentin Cobelea, co-founder of Web3War developer Roll1ng Thund3rz told Decrypt, is that to date, Web3 games just haven’t been fun. That’s down to misaligned incentives baked into their reward system, he explained. The first generation of play-to-earn Web3 games require players to “consume time, click like crazy, change the mouse or click the keyboard, and you earn things.” That means gam...
Sep 22, 2022
Gaming
Zilliqa to Launch Web3 Games Console In Early 2023
Layer-1 blockchain Zilliqa is preparing to dive into the world of Web3 gaming, with the launch of a hardware console and gaming hub. A prototype version of the console was unveiled today, showcasing a sleek design with an array of ports including HDMI, Ethernet and USB-C and USB 3.0 connections. Full specifications for the console remain under wraps, though Zilliqa touts its user-friendliness, with Web3 capabilities including a crypto wallet and mining integrated to "hide the complexity of Web3...
Apr 25, 2022
Markets
Zilliqa, NEAR Protocol Suffer Double-Digit Losses as Crypto Market Dips
The price of Zilliqa (ZIL), the token underpinning the eponymous blockchain aiming to rival traditional centralized payment methods such as Visa and MasterCard, is down 14% on Monday, declining to its monthly low of $0.097 by press time, according to data from CoinMarketCap. ZIL was trading at as much as $0.22 at the beginning of April, with the token rallying on the back of the launch of Metapolis, a Zilliqa-powered metaverse project. This price now appears overbought and has effectively wiped...
Dec 23, 2020
Markets
Crypto.com Lists Zilliqa, Sending Price Up 23%
Hong Kong-based crypto exchange Crypto.com listed the cryptocurrency Zilliqa (ZIL) this morning, as per an announcement. Traders bid the token’s prices up by almost 23% upon news of the listing. ZIL tokens can now be traded against Tether (USDT), a stablecoin pegged to the US dollar, or Crypto.com Coin (CRO), the exchange’s own cryptocurrency, as per the listing tweet. https://t.co/vCNztABJoG Exchange lists $ZIL! Trade #ZIL in #USDT & #CRO pairs now. Log in 👉 https://t.co/pVW3bHjtwV pic.twit...
May 18, 2020
Coins
Zilliqa activity, price surges after paying users to tweet about it
Last week, enterprise-centric blockchain app platform Zilliqa launched its SocialPay campaign, putting up 500,000 $ZIL (about $3,500 at the time) in rewards for users who tweeted about the service. By all indications, it worked. On Thursday, after the 72-hour pilot campaign concluded, social media metrics site LunarCRUSH showed $ZIL atop its Top 5 AltRank chart, which is based on “outstanding social activity plus exceptional price performance vs. Bitcoin plus rising trading volume.” The ranking...
Jan 12, 2020
Coins
Incognito now lets you make private transactions with Zilliqa and BNB
This week, Zilliqa and Binance, took their initial steps towards complete anonymity as the firms entered into partnerships with the privacy-centric platform Incognito. Privacy and anonymity are crucial facets of many cryptocurrencies. In an age where data is a precious commodity and security is paramount, adequate protection of financial information has become of utmost importance to many—and one of the critical factors drawing fresh blood to the Web3 movement. Thrilled to partner with @Incogn...
Nov 1, 2019
Technology
Oxford Women, Zilliqa team up to address crypto’s gender gap
The crypto “gender gap” is real. And some within the industry want to do something about it. Public blockchain platform Zilliqa yesterday announced that it is partnering with the University of Oxford’s Women in Computer Science Society (OxWoCS) to launch a series of blockchain workshops with the aim of improving diversity in the crypto industry. The Blockchain A-Z workshop series will be geared toward providing female students with a "foundational understanding of blockchain” in terms of both th...
Jul 31, 2019
Technology
Zilliqa is teaming up with Chainlink to build a data-driven ecosystem
Public blockchain platform Zilliqa is now using decentralized oracle network Chainlink to power its smart contracts. Launched in 2017, Zilliqa uses a technique called sharding to break up databases into easily manageable sections, which, in turn, is designed to help increase the network’s scalability without limiting its security features. Since then, it’s been making hay, launching its mainnet and getting added to Coinbase Pro. And now it has decided to get closer to real world data by integrat...
Jan 30, 2019
Coins
Zilliqa goes live on its great blockchain experiment
Could Zilliqa be the next big thing in speeding up blockchains? That’s what it hopes to achieve with its innovative platform, which launches January 31. A superfast blockchain has been the holy grail in crypto, ever since Satoshi himself said that bitcoin ought to be able to handle as many transactions per second as Visa. Beyond financial transactions, scalability will enable dapps to work more smoothly, and address all sorts of usability problems. However, it’s been a difficult problem to solve...