Legal Thoughts on the Metaverse (I): Intellectual Property Rights | Footprint Analytics

About the Metaverse For the last year, the metaverse has become a flashpoint of blockchain hype, culminating in Facebook renaming itself Meta, with the support from Cryptovoxels, one of the well-known...

Google Hires PayPal Executive to Expand Crypto Footprint

Alphabet Inc. subsidiary Google has hired former PayPal Senior Vice President and Chief Product Architect Arnold Goldberg to lead its payments division, according to a report today from Bloomberg.  Ju...

Polygon Expands Its Footprint As Evolving NFT And Gaming Ecosystems Seek Ethereum Alternatives

Built with an emphasis on simplicity and ease of use, Polygon (previously Matic) is designed to let organizations and businesses create and deploy their own decentralized applications (dApps). The pla...

Top 10 Crypto Stories of 2021 | Footprint Analytics Annual Report 2021

In 2021, crypto finally broke away from being just BTC and ETH into a multifaceted industry with dozens of promising chains, tokens, projects and applications.   Some of these projects, especially in ...

The Rise of NFTs | Footprint Analytics Annual Report 2021

While the concept of NFTs has been around since 2014, they were mostly under the radar until last year, when they suddenly commanded headlines around the world. Just as DeFi brought capital into the c...

What to expect from the blockchain world in 2022? | Footprint Analytics Annual Report 2021

2021 was an exciting year for the blockchain. The total market cap of blockchain projects surpassed $2 trillion, and Bitcoin’s price touched a record high of $67,674. Meanwhile, Ethereum skyrocketed 5...

Footprint Analytics: Over 600 Projects Got REKT in 2021, $2.2B Lost | Annual Report 2021

In the crypto world, there are 4 main ways you can get REKT (“experience significant financial loss due to shady malfeasance”—in crypto terms.)  An exit scam is a project that simply vanishes with inv...

Footprint Analytics:  Where Did the Influx of Capital to Blockchain Go? | Annual Report 2021

Overview of 2021 Blockchain Funding Number and Amount of Funding Capital flowed into the blockchain sector at an unprecedented rate in 2021, especially after March. According to Footprint Analytics, t...

Footprint Analytics: Will 2022 See the Emergence of GameFi 2.0? | Annual Report 2021

According to Newzoo’s 2021 Global Gaming Market Report, the number of global gamers grew by 5.3% from 2015 to 2021 compared to 2020, and now exceeds 3 billion. In the same year, total global gaming re...

Footprint Analytics: Rapid Expansion of the Stablecoin Market | Annual Report 2021

The second thing most people do after entering the world of blockchain, after buying BTC or ETH, is getting some Tether or USDC. As a bridge between the real world and Web 3.0, stablecoins play an inc...

Footprint Analytics: Public Chain Development in 2021— From Ideal to Reality | Annual Report 2021

In 2021, the blockchain world officially went multi-chain. According to Footprint Analytics, there are now 86 public chains in total, compared with 11 at the beginning of last year, a seven-fold incre...

Footprint Analytics: Will the London Upgrade Deflate ETH? | Annual Report 2021

Ethereum remained the top blockchain in 2021, but its market share continued to erode, dropping from nearly 100% at the beginning of the year to 65%. Its main problem is the PoW (Proof of Work Mechani...

Footprint Analytics: Can 2021 Foretell This Year’s Token Gains? | Annual Report 2021

In 2021, dozens of promising projects in DeFi, NFT, and GameFi brought more tokens to the market than any one person can follow. Whereas most tracked the price of BTC and ETH, we saw some new tokens b...

Footprint Analytics: After BTC’s Big Rally in 2021, What’s in Store for 2022? | Annual Report 2021

Record highs and long-awaited institutional acceptance made 2021 the most important year for BTC since its inception. According to Footprint Analytics, the price of BTC rose from $29,022 at the beginn...

Footprint Analytics: Will NFTs disrupt the music industry next?

At the close of 2021, Collins Dictionary named “NFT” the word of the year. Non-fungible tokens have already shaken the world of art and have become a household name. When you say “NFT”, most people wi...

Footprint Analytics: Stellar aims for rebound in 2022

By [email protected] Analytics Date: 8th January 2022 Data source: Stellar dashboard Last month, the Stellar Development Foundation (SDF) participated in a cryptocurrency hearing hosted by the U.S. Ho...

Why You Should Consider Crypto’s Potential, Plus The Crimes And Carbon Footprint Involved

getty The nascent crypto ecosystem remains unregulated in the United States, which poses some serious risk for crypto traders… and, evidently, the planet. While crypto had quite the popular year in 20...

U.S. Congress Reportedly Set for Hearing on Bitcoin’s Carbon Footprint

Key Takeaways The House Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations may be planning a hearing on Bitcoin’s carbon footprint.  The subcommittee is reportedly working on a list of witnesses who may tes...

Footprint Analytics: What Will 2022 Bring for The Sandbox?

By Grace ([email protected]) Data source: The Sandbox Dashboard The Sandbox is one of several major GameFi projects whose token jumped by a couple of thousand percent in October and November.   As hou...

Bitcoin mining manufacturer Canaan expands footprint in Kazakhstan

Bitcoin (BTC) mining hardware manufacturer Canaan Inc is expanding its footprint in Kazakhstan after signing new strategic partnerships with multiple crypto mining firms in the country.  The Nasdaq-li...

Footprint Analytics: Will the rebranded Anyswap be the next Web 3.0 bridge?

On Dec. 16, Anyswap announced it will rebrand as Multichain, reflecting a change in focus from asset cross-chain solutions to multi-chain asset interaction technology. In short, Anyswap (which will no...