Utopia, a decentralized ecosystem specifically developed to combat online surveillance and ensure the privacy of financial transactions, has been integrated by over 1800 online stores. Shopping using Utopia, one of the most confidential online payment methods, is now available to the online community worldwide.

Arkhia is an enterprise-grade Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) provider empowering blockchain and distributed-ledger technology (DLT) developers. Arkhia provides access points for developing at scale on DLTs, offering developers a set of modular services distributed across multiple clouds, regions, and redundant systems. First offering access points for the Hedera network, Arkhia will enable application developers to build both backend and client-side applications to capitalize on and grow the burgeoning Hedera ecosystem. 

Matr1x, the first-ever mobile shooting game in the Web3 industry, has successfully raised $10 million and is about to close a new round of financing. Past investors include Hana Financial Investments, a subsidiary of Hana Financial Group and a key financial holding company in South Korea; HashKey Capital, well respected for its early investments in Ether (ETH); Amber Group, one of the most important market makers in the Web3 industry; and SevenX, an elite Web3 fund investing heavily in the GameFi sector. 

As so-called decentralized finance (DeFi) applications boomed in the summer of 2020, the market has pivoted toward a new direction. DeFi makes financial products and services available to everyone who has access to the internet. Moreover, it helps eliminate third-party involvement in people’s businesses and private lives by creating fully secure and anonymous financial services. Next, DeFi empowers users to truly own their funds and utilize various tools to lend, borrow, stake, earn interest and more.

Binance, the world's largest blockchain ecosystem, recently partnered with the Cybercrime Investigation and Coordination Center (CICC) under the Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT), to share its insights and experiences in preventing cybercrime using blockchain forensics with the various law enforcement agencies.

SKYPLAY Inc. announced the beta release of its blockchain platform, SKYPlay and eP2E (easy Play to Earn) game, CoinGrid. Under the leadership of the Singapore corporation, SKYPLAY Inc. listed its cryptocurrency, SKP (SKYPlay Token) on MEXC and ProBit Global, the world's leading digital-asset trading platforms. SKYPLAY Inc. will continuously develop and publish a series of eP2E games based on the Ethereum layer 2 blockchain, the Polygon (MATIC) network, and has plans to release two more games within this year in addition to CoinGrid, which was launched together with the SKYPlay platform.

As the first of many announcements to come from the region, OpenNode intends to test a bitcoin payment processing and payouts solution via the Central Bank of Bahrain ("CBB's") Regulatory Sandbox. Bitcoin payments had been non-existent in the island nation until now, which highlights the growing interest in Bitcoin throughout the Middle East. OpenNode intends to provide the infrastructure to help the country grow its economy and will showcase why Bitcoin is synonymous with better business.

Samsung Goldex announced that it will actively promote the establishment of "Gold & Crypto Asset Bank", a new decentralized financial institute, combining the conventional gold exchange with the DEX. More specifically, the blockchain-based ledger is introduced in the gold market to cover digital gold platform and gold NFTs, as well as gold money, the traditional valuable assets.

Digital asset trading has long suffered due to high crypto exchange transaction fees, regulatory hurdles by regulators, and stringent crypto exchange rules. Then came CoinFloww, the most advanced digital asset exchange. Based on the world-class digital asset exchange technology, CoinFloww is proud to launch at a time when crypto exchanges are fighting for rights and struggling with a fraught market.

The last few years have witnessed a tremendous rise in the GameFi space in terms of revenue and user base. We now have several popular titles, but the craze for most of these tends to subside after a while. It’s mainly because these are centered around the game and do not focus on the other aspects of the domain. And this led to the creation of ChocoDoge, an NFT GameFi project on the Dogechain.