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CoinMarketCap takes a look at the Atlético de Madrid Fan Token, a utility token for fans of the popular Spanish football club, and hosted on the Socios platform.

Plus, a report reveals how to make a profit on NFTs, OpenSea's users are angry at its plans to launch on the stock market, and why metaverse tokens were hardest hit by the weekend's crash.

Ether has fared even better. Prices stood at $4,390 at the time of writing — with gains of 10% over the past 24 hours. The ETH/BTC conversion rate has now hit its highest level since 2018.

According to Mike McGlone, the fact that BTC and ETH have already experienced sharp corrections may give them a "relative advantage" over the stock market in 2022.

CoinMarketCap takes a deep dive into a decentralized and scalable platform for a vast range of financial services for merchants, governments, payment DApps and stablecoin issuers.

With the metaverse still a fairly abstract concept that's yet to achieve mainstream adoption, it seems the current craze is based on hope of what these virtual worlds may one day be worth.

MyCryptoWallet, which was founded in 2017 by Jaryd Koenigsmann, had previously claimed that it had more than 20,000 users.

CoinMarketCap takes a deep dive into Omicron (OMIC), a DeFi token that spiked 900% due to the emergence of a fast-spreading COVID-19 variant with the same name.

This week, TokenInsight takes a look at what might be causing the latest slump in the markets.

A "stolen private key" meant up to $196 million was taken from BitMart, while BadgerDAO is trying to reason with an attacker who swiped thousands of Bitcoin from the popular DeFi protocol.

CoinMarketCap takes a deep dive into Merit Circle (MC), a play-to-earn gaming DAO that runs on a governance model and provides staking options to its token holders.

CoinMarketCap takes a deep dive into YooShi — a memecoin inspired by Yoshi, a green dinosaur in the Super Mario franchise, that has evolved into a metaverse-focused crypto with NFT offerings.

Cryptocurrencies aren't always about just making money — in this dive, we break down three crypto platforms that are donating crypto to animals in need.

We've got all of this week's crypto headlines — and some tasty details on how you can get free Bitcoin by ordering takeout.

Adidas is getting into the metaverse, a Banksy painting is being split into 10,000 NFTs, Bitcoin is being rolled out to hundreds of millions of Brazilians, and crypto donations have surged.

The project's co-founder Jeff Zirlin warned that the crypto sector is going to face "more powerful enemies" as digital assets and the blockchain go mainstream.

Generous investors dug deep for an average donation of $12,600 — and in a reflection of the market's stunning performance over the past 12 months, that's a 20% rise from 2020.

Data from the crypto company suggests that more than 34 million people in Brazil currently lack access to banking services — and it's hoped the crypto rollout will boost financial inclusion.