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Australia 5th in Global Crypto Rankings: Report
Australia ranks fifth among the world’s top crypto-friendly economies, according to the latest quarterly global cryptocurrency ranking...
Australian Open NFT Project ‘AO Metaverse’ Wins Big in Global Advertising Awards
The Australian Open Metaverse, in partnership with Melbourne Web3 studio ‘Run it Wild’, has won the first Cannes Lions award for an NFT ...
Adelaide-Based STEPN Announces $122 Million in Q2 Profits, Plans Buyback and Burn
On July 12, Adelaide-based move-to-earn platform STEPN announced a Q2 profit of US$122.5 million, which it says was generated through its pl...
Australia Ranks Last Out of 20 Countries in Digital Currency Ownership: UN Report
New data from the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) shows that only 3.4 percent of Australians own crypto, placing...
Australia’s First NFT-Ticketed Music Festival Launches For ‘The Grass Is Greener’ 2022
An annual all-ages music, food and art festival kicking off again later this year in an expanded format will be the first major Austral...
Australia Ranks 8th in ‘Most Interested in NFTs’, Report
Whether they love ’em or hate ’em, it’s clear Australians are highly curious about non-fungible tokens after ranking eighth globally f...
Australians Lost Almost $100 Million in 2021 to Crypto Investment Scams
Aussies lost more than A$2 billion to scams in 2021, including losses of A$84 million due to scammers seeking payment with cryptocurrency, a...
‘Black Mountain Energy’ Looks Set to Enter Bitcoin Mining in Australia
Black Mountain Energy, a US-owned resource company headquartered in Australia, has received a “non-binding” letter of intent fro...
Brisbane Man’s Crypto Bet Enabled Him to Buy a Home Mortgage-Free
In less than a decade, Brisbane IT specialist Joe Bridge turned a small-time household crypto mining hobby into an A$1.2 million profit that...
Millennials Prefer Crypto Over Investment Funds: Survey
A new survey conducted among young adults aged 25 to 40 in the US by French investment firm Alto reveals that more millennials are investing...
Australian Real Estate Body: Blockchain Will Revolutionise the Industry
A new report from the Real Estate Institute of Australia (REIA) confirms it is firmly in favour of blockchain adoption by the industry. The ...
ANZ Bank Uses Its Stablecoin A$DC to Buy Tokenised Carbon Credits
The stablecoin created by the Australia and New Zealand Banking Group (ANZ), A$DC, has been used by one of its large institutional customers...