Top NFT News today: Mastercard files 15 metaverse and NFT-related trademarks

In today’s NFT news, The payment giant Mastercard has filed 15 non-fungible token (NFT) and metaverse trademark applications under USPTO.  The filing includes plans for building a virtual community for interaction with digital assets as well as processing payment cards within the metaverse. Read more on this NFT news below. 

Mozilla has recently updated its policy according to which it has removed support for assets running on the proof-of-work system. This sends a strong signal to the industry about the scalability of the PoW-based assets.  A detailed overview of this crypto news is below. 

Genies, an NFT platform has raised $150 million in one of its recent funding rounds which were led by the private equity firm Silver Lake to enhance its Web3 ambitions. More on this crypto news below. 

Crypto Prices Today 

 

Price Trend	Price for April 14, 2022	Percentage change
The global cryptocurrency market cap	$1,915,382,432,639	2.22%
The total crypto market volume	$80,669,784,272	-12.2%
Bitcoin Price	$41,327.79	2.81%
Ethereum Price	$3,111.35	1.53%

*All prices are latest by 11:30 AM, 14 April 2022.

Top Gainers and Losers Today

 

Top 3 Crypto Gainers  

Cryptocurrency	Price (Latest by April 14, 2022)	Change in %
Compound (COMP)	₹12178.82	16.28%
THORChain (RUNE)	₹724.35	15.88%
Bitcoin Cash (BCH)	₹27,302.26	12.72%

*All prices are latest by 11:30 AM, 14 April 2022.

 

Top 3 Crypto Losers 

Cryptocurrency	Price (Latest by April 14,  2022)	Change in %
Nervos (CKB)	₹0.87	2.13%
Shiba Inu (SHIB)	₹0.002	1.63%

*All prices are latest by 11:30 AM, 14 April 2022.

Crypto News Global 

 

Mozilla Foundation removes support for PoW crypto donations

Mozilla has recently updated its policy according to which it has removed support for assets running on the proof-of-work system. This sends a strong signal to the industry about the scalability of the PoW-based assets. 

The website stopped accepting donations in crypto in 2022 which has been in existence since 2014 supporting various cryptos being rolled out. However, the team found that these crypto transactions are in conflict with their commitments to climate which forced the company to rethink its approach to the matter. 

Read: How NFT and Metaverse can save the planet

Source: Cryptomode.com 

 

Top NFT & Metaverse News today 

 

Mastercard files 15 metaverse and NFT related trademarks 

The payment giant Mastercard has filed 15 non-fungible token (NFT) and metaverse trademark applications under USPTO.  The filing includes plans for building a virtual community for interaction with digital assets as well as processing payment cards within the metaverse. 

One of the trademark filings consists of multimedia files including text, audio, artwork, and video authenticated by NFTs. Another application shows the plans for its yellow and red circles logo to be able to process card transactions for payments of various goods and services within the metaverse. 

Source: Cointelegraph 

 

Silver Lake leads $150M round in NFT Platform Genies 

 

Genies, a NFT platform has raised $150 million in one of its recent funding rounds which were led by the private equity firm Silver Lake to enhance its Web3 ambitions. The latest funding round helped the US-based company reach a total valuation of $1 billion. This investment shall support the platform to provide tools as well as create and sell characters online. 

Read: Top 10 NFT marketplaces 

Read: How to create and sell your own NFT 

Source: CoinDesk 

 

NEW COIN LISTING ON COINDCX 

 

New Coin	Market Cap	Circulating Supply
Coti (COTI)	₹21,030,858,084	1.05B COTI
SuperFarm (SUPER)	₹20,008,008,986	404,410,904.42 SUPER
XDC Network (XDC)	₹51,614,779,895	12.31B XDC
Anchor Protocol (ANC)	₹48,202,098,134	277,899,714.90 ANC
Stacks (STX)	₹121,725,907,403	1.31B STX

*All prices are latest by 11:30 AM April 14, 2022.*