Australia News
Aussie Consumers have Already Lost $200 Million to Investment Scams in 2022
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission’s Scamwatch site has found that Aussies lost over A$205 million to investment scams bet...
Move-to-Earn Token GST Drops After STEPN Hit With DDoS Attacks
Australian move-to-earn fitness application STEPN has reported multiple distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks in the wake of a major ...
Gold Coast Mayor Open to Rates Being Paid in Crypto
In a clear signal to younger ratepayers, former businessman and current mayor of Australia’s City of Gold Coast, Tom Tate, has su...
Bear Market Sees Aussie Crypto ETF Volumes Dry Up
Australia’s long-awaited and much-debated exchange-traded products are finally in circulation and investors seem … less than impressed. ...
ANZ Bank Pushes Forward With Stablecoin A$DC, But Isn’t That Bullish On Crypto Yet
The Australian and New Zealand Banking Group (ANZ) wants to extend the usage of its cash-backed stablecoin, A$DC, amid demand for access to ...
Australia’s Big Banks Remain on the Crypto Sideline, For Now
Major banks down under are reportedly vulnerable to losing customers to global ‘super apps’, according to the Australian Financial Revie...
Australian Labor Government Urged to Protect Aussies from Crypto Scams
Consumer advocates have begun urging the new Australian Labor government to protect citizens from crypto scams. This accompanies the release...
Aussie Dogecoin Creator: ‘I Wish It Was the End of Crypto’
Australian-born Dogecoin co-creator Jackson Palmer has renewed his trenchant criticism of the cryptocurrency industry in an interview to pro...
Australia’s Swinburne Uni Set to Officially Educate Students on Cryptocurrency
Melbourne’s Swinburne University of Technology will be uniting Web3 and education by partnering with two Australian fintech firms that wil...
Australia Ranks #2 for Interest in NFTs, Based on Google Searches
With exchange sites such as OpenSea registering record numbers of NFT listings and sales, the world has been quick to realise the potential ...
Australians Lag Developing Nations in Metaverse Awareness, Report
Compared to developing nations, a recent report by Ipsos has found that only 44 percent of Australians are familiar with the metaverse. In a...
Aussie Tech Unicorn ‘Immutable X’ Launches $40 Million Fund for Blockchain Games
Australia-based Immutable X has joined forces with gaming company Kongregate to establish a US$40 million fund giving grants to developers w...