A recent study by CoinGecko has found that virtual land prices on popular Metaverses such as Otherdeeds, The Sandbox, Decentraland, Somnium, and Voxels have decreased by around 90% from their peak prices in 2022. The most expensive property, Otherdeeds by Otherside, has seen a 78.2% decrease in value, while Voxels and Somnium have faced a 93.8% loss. Despite this, Voxels remains optimistic about a potential comeback. The upcoming release of Apple's mixed-reality headset could reignite global interest in the metaverse and potentially set the markets ablaze.

Despite negative market sentiment, Cardano's network activity and decentralized finance landscape have experienced significant growth in May, with around two million transactions on the chain so far this month. Developers are continuing to enhance the network's features, including wallets, scalability, and node functionality, which has led to a steady rise in development activity and boosted ADA's value proposition. However, ADA's volatility has decreased in recent weeks, resulting in reduced speculative interest and a narrower trading range. 

Bitcoin and Ethereum have both surpassed the $26,000 and $18,000 marks respectively, leading to a rise in the value of cryptocurrencies on Saturday morning. Other popular altcoins such as Ripple and Solana have also seen an increase in value. SingularityNET registered the highest growth with a 24-hour jump of 10.67 percent, while TRON had the largest decrease in value.

Streakk has successfully implemented its third-generation blockchain infrastructure one year ahead of schedule, in preparation for the release of its mainnet. This infrastructure allows developers and projects to create their own blockchains, with high levels of security, scalability, and speed. The network charges a fixed transaction fee of $0.001 and can process up to 100,000 transactions per second, with confirmation times between 2 and 4 seconds. Streakk's unique consensus algorithm integrates Proof of Stake and Simple Time Protocol, and the blockchain infrastructure includes a subsidiary chain, the Streakk chain, which is developed on the Streakk Main Chain. Streakk is also launching an incubation program for projects building on its blockchain, offering technical support, marketing assistance, and funding. The mainnet is set to launch in August, paving the way for community-driven initiatives on the Streakk blockchain.

The Tron network has seen a positive increase in the total number of accounts, which has exceeded 162 million as of May 26th. However, despite a surge in TRX's price by around 20%, the number of stakers and weighted sentiment have decreased over the last 30 days. The network has demonstrated a commitment to deflation and value growth by burning 17,304,991 TRX tokens. While TRX's Relative Strength Index (RSI) indicates buying momentum and the Moving Average Convergence Divergence (MACD) line suggests a bullish trend, the number of stakers has sharply dropped in the last 30 days. In other news, adpushup triggers were implemented for different platforms, and each trigger corresponds to a specific ad ID. The adpushup code was added to the website's window object, and the triggers were executed through the adpushup queue.

Bitcoin whale transactions have decreased significantly, leading to a decline in BTC circulation and exchange balances. However, regular transactions have surged to an all-time high, indicating resilience and continued momentum. Glassnode's data shows a significant slowdown in whale transactions, with an 85.4% decline in inflow value compared to the peak. Despite this, Bitcoin has maintained a healthy flow of activity across exchanges, with notable inflows and outflows. Retail transactions have been driving up the overall transaction count, even without substantial contributions from whales.

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The article introduces 0xScope, a decentralized knowledge graph protocol for standardizing and analyzing data. It emphasizes the team's vision to simplify data management and reduce costs for data consumers while considering data security.

Requests for personal user data from global governments are on the rise, according to a study by Surfshark. The study, which focused on the period between 2013 to 2021, found that there was a year-over-year increase of 38% in 2020 and 25% in 2021. Meta had the most accounts of interest from authorities, with two out of five accounts hosted by Meta being requested over the study period. Apple had the fewest with just 416,000 requested accounts from global authorities. The US requested more than double the accounts per 100,000 users than all countries in the EU combined. The rate of disclosure of user data by tech companies has also increased by nearly 71%, with Apple leading the pack in disclosing such information. The study suggests that data requests are often related to criminal investigations or civil or administrative cases requiring digital data. The rise in data requests has prompted concerns from civil society organizations about encouraging surveillance techniques.

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