Crypto.com gives week deadline for users in excluded countries to repay their loans and the decision came within a month of BlockFi’s $100 million penalties for the lending products so let’s read further in today’s latest cryptocurrency news. Many speculated that the regulatory clampdown will be the main reason behind the decision. Crypto.com gives week […]

Virtual reality (VR) isn't a new concept, but the price of admission was fairly steep when the genre took off, and the entertainment offerings were limited to glorified tech demos.

Fortunately, affordable and powerful VR headsets entered the market, so developers are now creating first-party games and enhanced ports that take full advantage of the unique medium. With the rise of this industry, more excellent VR games continue to come on the market.

MAZE, the company built by a professional VR team, aiming not just at games, equipped with a wealth of experience of serving many teams, will create a metaverse game platform powered by advanced VR technology. Each VR game on the platform will bring users an immersive experience in various scenarios.

MAZE is but the first step.  

There are four maps in the MAZE. Stormy Desert/ Underworld Temple/ Lava Volcano/ Freezing Snowfields. Each map has its own unique background, monsters, upgrade modes, and irreplaceable fun.

Details in the map of ‘Stormy Desert'

The game is developed on the BSC blockchain. In order to attract more players to join, MAZE will be presented to all players through an innovative business model. The game also provides blind boxes to improve the fun. Players could get their dream characters/ items through opening blind boxes or sell the items they don't need anymore.

MAZE will be one of the best performing assets ever in the VR GameFi sector, and it will also bring huge business opportunities to the cryptocurrency world. The perfect economic model, high-quality VR game completion, beautiful original designs, and the rich operating experience will ensure the success of MAZE.

Official Maze Links:

Website: http://mazegamefi.com

Twitter: http://twitter.com/MazeMetaverse

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The iGaming software developer BetContruct’s latest product launch BetConstruct promises to deliver a complete A-to-Z guide to the gaming and betting business via an all-in-one single platform. The SpringNews app is the very medium that will keep you in the loop about the latest updates across the entire iGaming industry. A large team of industry […]

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Software firm HelpSystems continues on its cybersecurity buying spree, announcing on Wednesday that it has agreed to acquire Alert Logic, a provider of managed detection and response (MDR) services.

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Customers aren't locking down access correctly, leading to ~70 percent of ServiceNow implementations tested by AppOmni being vulnerable to malicious data extraction.

Making an open-world game where you fly around using an Iron Man glove seems like something that would be challenging for an indie team. Lienzo, the developer behind Mulaka and Aztech Forgotten Gods, still tried though. Soaring through the city is great fun at first, and many of Aztech Forgotten Gods‘ ideas are promising. Even the story is quite good despite the game looking like it came out well over a decade ago. But the whole thing feels unfinished, like the bare minimum was awarded for such an intriguing idea. Aztech Forgotten Gods concerns a delivery woman named Achtli. She lives in an alternate, hi-tech version of the historic Aztec city, Tenochtitlan. In this world, the Aztec culture continued to flourish. It’s a remarkably fresh idea that’s well suited to the medium. Achtli’s mother, Nantsin, is an archaeologist who was excavating nearby ruins until her boss calls the dig off. Not willing to let go of the potential discoveries, she has Achtli come wit...

Google says it has blocked a phishing campaign originating from China and aimed at Gmail users associated with the U.S. government.

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Also on the rise: DDoS attacks against Ukrainian sites and phishing activity capitalizing on the conflict, with China's Mustang Panda targeting Europe.

PotionLabs, the developers of the new risk management layer Potion Protocol, have announced the launch of the Potion Unlock NFT auction. Those who purchase NFTs in the auction will be able to participate in the Potion Unlock game, working with other community members to release the Potion Protocol into the public domain. With this one-of-a-kind strategy based on “aggressive decentralization”, Potion Labs seeks to avoid the dangers of a traditional project launch and to maximize community involvement. 

The mechanics of the game are simple. The codebase of the entire project has been stored in IPFS and protected with a strong password. This password has then been split into segments of various lengths and will be distributed across 10,000 unique NFTs.

In order for the code to be finally decrypted and made public, participants will have to collaborate to bring enough of the pieces together. The game itself is totally open-ended: players will have to self-coordinate - without the input of Potion Labs - to find their own solution to the problem. 

Once the protocol's file is decrypted and released into the public domain, a community with ‘skin in the game' and web3 operational capabilities will have been formed. This community will then have power and stewardship over the future of the Potion Protocol as a public good.

How Can Players Participate in the Potion Unlock Game? 

The majority of Potion NFTs will be sold to the public via a Dutch-style auction starting 14^th March (whitelisting already live) where high profile DeFi and NFT participants are expected to take part. 

To strengthen the participating community, two Potion NFT rarities (Kelly Knights and Wise Wizards), have already been distributed through a $12M private sale last January. These were bought by prominent DeFi players such as Polychain, Placeholder, Maven 11, Pantera, The LAO, MetaCartel, Parafi, Spartan, Robert Leshner, Fernando Martinelli, Synthetix founders, Crypto Plaza, Roble VC, CULTUR3, Lemniscap, Zee and beToken Capital, among others.

Finally, Potion's early community members (OGs or Original Gangsters), also received a generous allocation of Potion OG NFTs at no cost, in recognition for their early community support and inspiration. A significant number of OG NFTs have also been made available in the form of airdrops to 1,000 leading members of prominent DAOs, with the goal of building a high-quality community around the project. 

What is the Symbolism of the Potion NFT Design? 

Potion Unlock NFTs commemorate the release of the Lab's Kelly Machine and its key technical breakthrough: the synthesis of the Kelly Criterion into a bonding curve. To celebrate this, each NFT symbolically and artistically represents a different insurance contract. Various characteristic artifacts are used in each NFT to represent the specific parameters of an insurance contract. 

The collection of NFTs is made up of 10,000 unique pieces, which together embody one of the first artistic renderings of a financial product as well as providing a dictionary of Kelly Criterion bonding curves. Importantly, Potion NFTs are digital collectibles, not financial instruments: only the original NFT minters can participate in the Potion Unlock game. 

What are Potion NFT Rarities?

There are 6 NFT types or “rarities” in the game, each with a different “decryption power”, giving the various players different capabilities and powers. Each NFT rarity will also have a different “redundancy” level, so no single holder can block the resolution of the game. 

What is the Motivation Behind the Project?

PotionLabs is seeking to accomplish several goals with this launch model. The developers are deep believers in decentralization and designed Potion Unlock to transfer control of the Potion Protocol to the community. In this way, the approach delivers “aggressive decentralization' and avoids power becoming concentrated in the hands of the few, ensuring that it is instead spread across the community.

This form of protocol release is also meant to create a commercially viable way for PotionLabs to continue to finance its research work while operating within clear regulatory guidelines. PotionLabs also hopes this novel release model can be of use for other Web3 projects.

What do the Team Have to Say?

“We are excited about the opportunity to introduce a new class of services built from the ground up by the community for the community. We believe in a community-first approach to creating radically new technology aimed at helping users in DeFi manage the risk of their assets in a simple and reliable way,” said Guillem Mosquera, PotionLabs Co-founder, and CTO.

"We are deeply grateful to the community around the project who decided to support our vision and team. We are experimenting with new approaches to open source development for web3 and are lucky to have a visionary community willing to fuel and support our exploration. We are excited for them to continue playing a key role in the project's community," said Jordi Muñoz, PotionLabs Co-founder and CEO.

"Extremely sophisticated on the backend, surprisingly simple on the frontend, Potion ushers in a new era of risk management for DeFi liquidity providers (LPs) and consumers. By using the Kelly Criterion, Potion allows LPs to optimally price options according to their desired risk and yield parameters. Then, by aggregating all individual LP curves, Potion offers the best-priced options to the consumer. When people say DeFi 2.0, Potion sits at the top of that list", said Chris Burniske, Partner at Placeholder.

About Potion Labs

PotionLabs is a web3-native research and software development company that has developed a robust risk management layer for crypto assets, the Potion Protocol. It pioneers a new risk pricing model based on the Kelly Criterion, which results in long-term survival mathematical expectations for LPs, and deeper, more reliable liquidity markets for users. The release of the Protocol's code is launching shortly through the Potion NFT Unlock game. More on PotionLabs here: https://potion.fi & https://potion.auction 

Siemens has released 15 new advisories to inform customers about more than 100 vulnerabilities affecting its products, including over 90 security flaws introduced by the use of third-party components.

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March 9, 2022, 8:00 am ET Starter.xyz (https://starter.xyz), the leading IDO launchpad, incubator and investor network, which has raised over $40 million in seed, private and public rounds for 50+ projects across multiple blockchains, is celebrating its first anniversary. Starter.xyz is natively deployed on multiple top blockchain platforms: BSC/Binance Smart Chain, Polygon, Ethereum, Avalanche, Fantom.
 

Since its inception, Starter has had rocket development, taking first place as the go-to IDO launchpad after just one year and making it a milestone enabler for countless DeFi projects. As such, it's a key resource for both investors and startups. Key innovations it has introduced at record speed: Vetting, Investor Protection and Interoperability.

Within less than one year of its launch, Starter was named the leading IDO launchpad by ROI in Q4 of 2021 by CryptoRank, creating more than 50 times growth for its launch projects at their high point (53.3x ATH). How does a startup achieve that kind of result so fast? 

Starter's COO, Suvi Rinkinen, observed: “As a launchpad conceived to enable the widespread growth of DeFi, Starter was designed to ensure trust and provide quality for investors. This explains the rapid success that it has enjoyed early on.”

Blockchain has faced three main challenges which Starter has successfully solved with its innovations. These are:

1. Identifying the legitimate, high-potential projects in an ever-growing pool of countless startups. 

2. Protecting investors from scams. 

3. Providing enterprise-grade, scalable technology and interoperability. 

As a safeguard, all projects that conduct IDOs on Starter are curated and vetted by the community, ensuring objectivity and using systematic criteria to assess their quality. The vetting looks at all relevant project activities – assessing tokenomics, marketing, the roadmap, and team history.

To prevent “rug-pulling” – when a project conducts fundraising and absconds with the funds provided by investors –  after a raise on Starter, an IDO's funds are locked in liquidity pools and vested to bring yield in $START and $VEST in a win-win scenario for the investors and projects. 

Starter began on BSC, which works with Solidity, the programming language used by Ethereum. That's one of the reasons why the BSC platform has grown so fast, offering an alternative technology to ETH and the latter's scalability impasses and high gas prices. Starter consciously chose BSC to start its launchpad/integrator while targeting the bulk of DeFi on Ethereum, and then quickly added interoperability with four more major blockchain platforms, thus vastly increasing the accessibility, value, and user friendliness of individual projects and their offerings, beyond the potential locked on Ethereum.     

In response to solving these key challenges, Starter has seen considerable traction early on. Within its first year, it has completed 50+ in sales (seed, private, IDO), some of which sold out in seconds, raised $40M+ for hosted projects, created an incubator fund amounting to $17M+ in assets under management, and has almost 160 projects using their Liquidity Locking Service, StartVesting.xyz, which has over $40M TVL. Starter incubated and created the popular, Tamagochi-inspired PlayToEarn game, “Starchi”, offering revolutionary staking opportunities with up to 898% APY. As a result of Starter's early success, a second launchpad is in the making and soon to be announced. 

To celebrate its first anniversary, Starter held a virtual birthday party and inaugurated a metaspace that will become an interactive digital meetingplace to enable community engagement, live since March 1, 2022. As this short film shows, the forum will enable a new kind of virtual community interaction, inviting viewers to discuss everything from tokenomics to governance and new trends in digital assets. 
The kickoff is Starter's first native metaspace event at 11:00 am ET on March 10th, 2022. Participants are invited to join the event here. Access will be granted on a first come, first served basis five minutes before the event starts. The interactive program agenda will cover how projects like Cake Monster and Project Oasis worked with Starter to strategize their successful IDOs, and what advice they have for peers.  

For additional information regarding Starter's upcoming IDOs, please visit https://starter.xyz/. To learn more about Starter, Starter's community and how to begin investing, follow Starter's Twitter, Reddit and Telegram community channels. For upcoming events, follow Starter Announcements.

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About Starter

Starter (https://starter.xyz) is the leading IDO launchpad, incubator, and investor network for $MATIC, $ETH, $AVAX, $FTM, and #BSC, having raised over $40M for 50+ projects, including Cake Monster, WallStreetBets, Nasdex, and Enjinstarter. Starter provides projects access to funding opportunities without the hassle of bureaucratic hurdles or complex KYC requirements. Starter's suite of products include a venture arm Starter.capital, launchpad Starter.xyz, token vesting and liquidity locking StartVesting.xyz, and play-to-earn game Starchi.gg. 

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