Tottenham Hotspur will become the latest English Premier League team to tap into blockchain technology to issue and manage its own Web3 fan token to drive supporter engagement and rewards. Spurs will issue the fan token through Socios.com, the fan engagement platform built on the Chiliz blockchain that has attracted over 80 major sporting teams from different codes worldwide. The platform enables teams to issue and manage fan tokens, digital collectibles and real-world rewards, while users...

It’s been more than a decade since 850,000 BTC went missing from Mt. Gox, yet the collapse of the former exchange remains one of the most infamous black swan events of the cryptocurrency ecosystem. While creditors of the defunct exchange are edging closer to some form of restitution, Mt. Gox’s demise ended up playing an important role in the development of tools to identify, track and tackle the illicit movements of funds through the wider cryptocurrency industry. The search for answers and...

Europe remains fertile ground for the cryptocurrency ecosystem to flourish compared with harsher regulatory environments, according to prominent speakers at Blockchain Expo Europe 2023 in Amsterdam. Cointelegraph attended the event held at the RAI Amsterdam convention center for the second year running, with the Blockchain Expo forming part of a larger Tech Expo event being hosted in the Netherlands. The event has typically attracted prominent mainstream industry players from the financial...

The International Cricket Council (ICC) has partnered with Near Foundation to build a blockchain-powered Web3 fan engagement app for the 2023 Cricket World Cup in India, which promises to reach hundreds of millions of fans over the next six weeks. Cointelegraph spoke exclusively to ICC head of digital Finn Bradshaw and Near CEO Chris Donovan, who unpacked details of the Web3 mobile app aiming to drive fan engagement before, during and after matches at the global sporting event in...

A group of cryptocurrency venture investors has established a $20 million fund to invest in undervalued Web3 projects and companies focused on blockchain gaming and digital collectibles. Alpha Protocol Ventures (APV) will look to invest in a variety of projects across the Web3 ecosystem, its CEO and founder Vagelis Diamantis told Cointelegraph in an email interview. He said that gaming and collectibles will be a priority focus, while decentralized finance, layer-1 and layer-2 protocols will...