The CBCat (Blockchain Center of Catalonia), of the Chamber of Commerce of Barcelona, held last Thursday an awards ceremony for the participants of its third Blockchain4SDG challenge; a programme aimed at university students that encourages training in blockchain technology, and its subsequent application in real projects, always focused on the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

Fiat-crypto payment gateway Alchemy Pay and its co-founder and majority shareholder, Shawn Shi,have been officially recognised by Forbes with the Web3 Innovation Pioneer award on 11 January. The Singapore-based payment solutions provider has a major research and development hub across Asia that has pioneered new payment systems at the very edge of modern fintech - convenient payments that seamlessly enable movement of funds between traditional fiat currency and cryptocurrency.

In partnership with the Philippine Government, the first and biggest Blockchain week was concluded on December 4, 2022, at the Resorts World Manila Hotel. From Nov 28, participants were able to witness big names in different industries pitching their ideas and thoughts on Web3.0, Blockchain, Metaverse, NFTs, DeFi, and anything in between.

Gear Technologies is the company behind the Gear protocol, an innovative substrate-based WebAssembly smart-contract platform promising to introduce a new paradigm for decentralized app development in the Web3 industry. Gear’s unique technology stack includes the actor model and persistent memory, which provide natively asynchronous messaging and parallel computation.

According to the official news, the Rugby League World Cup 2021 (RLWC 2021) drew to a successful close on November 19, 2022. Over the last month or so, this peak event presented global rugby fans with many brilliant moments. Meanwhile, CoinEx, the Exclusive Cryptocurrency Trading Platform Partner of RLWC 2021, also witnessed all the big moments of the athletes throughout the tournament.

After seven highly successful events, European Blockchain Convention 2023 is ready to be held again on Feb. 15 to 17 at the five-star hotel, Hyatt Regency Barcelona. The event will welcome more than 3,000 attendees at what will be the largest edition since the event was launched in 2018.

TOKEN2049 London, Europe's premier crypto event, has hit full attendee capacity, and is set to welcome thousands during the two day event on 9th and 10th of November at Magazine London. Bringing together the most influential executives, founders, and thought leaders in Web3, the conference has published a comprehensive agenda which includes a stellar line up of speakers.

OVER, the decentralized infrastructure for an open, AR-enabled Metaverse, has announced the 7th edition of a fully revamped OVER ARwards called the Venue Design Contest. The competition invites 3D creators and designers to build environments in the OVER Metaverse, choosing from four different categories: stores, art galleries, music rooms and showrooms. A prize pool of $30,000 in OVR Tokens is to be split among the most impressive competition entries.

The world’s first Staking Summit will convene this November to explore where crypto’s rapidly growing $300bn+ staking ecosystem goes post-Ethereum’s merge. Staking Rewards, staking’s leading data aggregator, will be hosting the full-day, in a real-life event, which will bring together some of the foremost experts and investors from across the industry, with big-name speakers from Ethereum, Cosmos, Polkadot, and many more.

Sensorium, a leading developer in the metaverse space, is joining GITEX GLOBAL for the second year in a row. The company has prepared a range of thrilling activities for all visitors to discover and experience the Sensorium Galaxy metaverse ahead of its public launch. As a key participant of X-Verse, a new GITEX event dedicated to immersive technologies and the Web 3.0 industry, Sensorium will showcase some of its latest innovations in the field of extended reality and artificial intelligence with an interactive multi-day program.