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The Cashflows Blink Payment Partnership introduces a strategic collaboration to enhance B2B payment solutions. Blink Payment gains from faster merchant onboarding and broader payment acceptance across sectors like financial services, insurance, and property management as a result of Cashflows becoming as a significant acquiring partner.

The partnership positions Cashflows as a Blink Payment key acquiring partner, enabling Blink Payment to leverage Cashflows’ robust and responsive acquiring infrastructure. In return, enhancing Blink Payment’s powerful front-end payments platform, renowned for its intuitive payment links, seamless API connectivity, and integrations with widely-used accounting software such as Xero and QuickBooks.

“Blink Payment has shown a deep understanding of the payments landscape and a clear commitment to delivering high-quality, flexible payment experiences to merchants,” said Paul Clarke, Chief Product and Innovation Officer at Cashflows. “This partnership allows us to support Blink Payment’s ambition to scale quickly and securely, while helping merchants across key sectors go live faster and accept a broader range of payments.”

A key objective of the partnership is to significantly reduce the time it takes for merchants to start transacting, helping Blink Payment expand its payment acceptance capabilities and accelerate speed to market. Through Cashflows’ modern and flexible infrastructure, Blink Payment aims to streamline onboarding processes and offer faster, more comprehensive access to a range of payment methods for its customers.

The joint offering supports card payments, direct debits, open banking, and digital wallets such as Apple Pay and Google Pay, providing merchants with versatile, reliable solutions that help them get paid faster and more efficiently.

This is particularly valuable for Blink Payment’s core sectors, which include:

• Veterinary and healthcare providers

• Builder & Timber merchants

• Waste Management & Skip Hire​

“We selected Cashflows because of their technology-first mindset, responsiveness, and strong reputation for collaboration,” said Ari Eder, Strategic Growth Director at Blink Payment. “Our priority is to widen payment acceptance and reduce the time it takes to get customers live. With Cashflows, we’re achieving both while also opening up future opportunities to jointly explore new verticals.”

The partnership is already in place with external launch activities now ramping up to a strategic future built on collaborative opportunities. Both companies are committed to delivering a frictionless onboarding experience, enabling merchants to go live faster and start accepting payments with minimal friction.

“This partnership is about delivering more than just functional integrations, it’s about providing smarter, scalable payment experiences to our customers,” added Ben Cohen, CEO, Blink Payment. “We’re proud to be working with a like-minded partner in Cashflows as we continue to build momentum in our strategic verticals.”

With the Cashflows Blink Payment Partnership, both companies are well-positioned to provide flexible B2B payment options, expand their sector reach, and accelerate onboarding.

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Remember when blockchain gaming meant million-dollar Axie scholarships and nonstop token pumps? And rug pulls? Lots of rug pulls.

Those days feel like a fever dream.

The industry that once promised to revolutionize gaming overnight through unsustainable play-to-earn models has quietly evolved into something far more substantial and sustainable.

In 2024-2025, blockchain gaming is experiencing a quiet renaissance, driven by fundamentals instead of FOMO.

Gone are the days when success meant token velocity and hype cycles.

Instead, serious capital is backing projects with real gameplay, legacy studios are engaging on their own terms and unexpected markets like Spain are emerging as strategic launchpads.

This isn’t the loud, flashy comeback many expected but the methodical rebuilding that actually matters.

From speculation to substance

The 2021 cycle was intoxicating in all the wrong ways. Success was measured by how fast a token pumped rather than by whether anyone enjoyed the game.

Projects launched with elaborate tokenomics promising sky-high returns, attracting players who treated gaming like a second job.

The collapse was inevitable, baked into the model from the start.

Today’s projects tell a different story. Developers are focused on gameplay, cross-platform interoperability and economic models designed to survive market volatility.

In 2024, blockchain games attracted 7.4 million daily active wallets – a 421% jump from 2023 – proof that players are sticking around for the fun, not just the tokens.

Developers are asking better questions. Will people still play this game without token rewards? Does it offer lasting value beyond speculation? Can the economy stand on its own?

What matters now isn’t token velocity but whether the game is fun. This shift from hype to substance is the industry’s most important evolution.

The new generation of blockchain games is being developed by teams that understand entertainment, not just cryptocurrency mechanics.

Blockchain is no longer the main event – it’s the technology quietly powering experiences people actually want to engage with.

Why serious investors are back

The smart money that fled during the 2022 crash is quietly returning, but with a very different mindset.

Investors like José Herrera, a prominent Spanish angel, aren’t just cutting checks but are also advising teams directly and backing founders they trust with long-term capital.

This is disciplined value creation, not just speculative noise.

With the blockchain gaming market valued at $14.8 billion in 2024 and projected to hit $1.17 trillion by 2033, the opportunity in sustainable models is too big to ignore.

Today’s investors are doing real due diligence.

They’re scrutinizing teams’ track records, evaluating partnership potential and stress-testing whether business models can weather market cycles.

Flashy whitepapers and polished roadmaps aren’t cutting it anymore. What matters is traction, working products, clear revenue pipelines and real product–market fit.

This new capital is sharper, more selective and deeply pragmatic. Rather than chasing token pumps, they’re backing capable teams, proven studios and strong IP.

The focus is back on fundamentals like compelling gameplay, strategic partnerships and business-savvy execution.

And that discipline is exactly what the industry needs to move beyond the hype and build something that lasts.

Mainstream validation and real partnerships

The most telling sign of blockchain gaming’s maturation isn’t on crypto X (formerly Twitter) but in traditional gaming boardrooms.

AAA and AA studios are stepping in as development partners, tech collaborators and strategic advisors.

Rather than crypto projects learning to build games, established game companies are exploring how blockchain can enhance what they already do best.

Partnerships with major entertainment and sports IPs signal a real shift in confidence.

When legacy brands license their properties to blockchain games, they’re doing so because they see viable, long-term value and not for short-term novelty.

These alliances bring more than recognition. They offer seasoned distribution networks, monetization expertise and deep understanding of what makes entertainment succeed.

Rather than trying to disrupt the gaming world from the outside, the new wave of projects is integrating blockchain inside existing entertainment frameworks.

The result? Games that feel familiar to mainstream players but that also offer something truly new through digital ownership, interoperability and community-driven economies.

Why Spain is becoming a Web 3.0 gaming powerhouse

While much of the crypto world focuses on Silicon Valley or Asia, Spain is quietly emerging as one of Europe’s most dynamic hubs for Web 3.0 gaming.

Thanks to supportive policies, like regulatory sandboxes, developers can test blockchain projects in a supervised environment, free from much of the regulatory drag found elsewhere.

In 2024-2025, Web 3.0 investment in Spain is surging.

Early-stage capital is flowing into infrastructure, DeFi and gaming projects, with new funds launching to target opportunities across both Europe and Latin America.

Spain also boasts robust market momentum in emerging gaming formats.

Its metaverse gaming sector is forecast to reach $472 million in 2024 and grow to $2.7 billion by 2030. This growth mirrors rising digital media spending and gaming adoption across the country.

On the ground, Spain blends competitive dev talent, startup agility and strong connections to Latin America, giving Web 3.0 gaming projects a unique advantage – EU-level infrastructure and regulatory clarity, coupled with access to a rapidly growing Spanish- and Portuguese-speaking market.

Compared with slower, more cautious European tech hubs, Spain is fast, connected and culturally aligned with what comes next in gaming.

It’s not just joining the blockchain gaming renaissance but is helping to lead it.

The next era isn’t loud – it‘s built to last

Blockchain gaming is no longer trying to disrupt traditional gaming overnight. Instead, it’s seeking to integrate with it.

This quiet shift signals real maturity.

The projects succeeding now aren’t the loudest or most ambitious. They’re the most sustainable, the most playable and the most useful.

Builders rather than hype men are leading this new phase. They’re creating games people genuinely want to play, economies that hold up and partnerships that move the needle.

The future belongs to teams that can blend great gameplay with real-world utility, not those chasing token pumps or social media virality.

The next chapter of blockchain gaming won’t be written in pump-and-dumps.

It will be shaped by playable, investable and enjoyable experiences that put the tech back in service of the player. This isn’t a comeback. It’s a new game entirely.

Xavier Baldó is the CEO and founder of EFC and a member of the Blockchain Game Alliance. With a strong background in automation, robotics and blockchain technology, he is a visionary leader known for driving innovation and leading multidisciplinary teams.

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Bank of America’s chief investment officer views stock market dips and several sectors as prime buying opportunities, despite record market highs.

In a new interview on CNBC’s Closing Bell, Chris Hyzy says the explosion of spending on AI represents a boom that will boost the markets for years to come.

“If you look out over the next six or seven years and we just kind of pause for a second in the next week or two weeks, the greatest capex boom that we are going to witness is yet to come.

We’ve got trillions yet to go. There’s billions that have been deployed in terms of what has been announced but in terms of actual input into the actual infrastructure, the digital infrastructure space, it’s just beginning.”

Hyzy says that amid the long-term bullish market conditions, certain sectors still offer investors potential bargain buys.

“Weakness in financials, industrials, utilities, information technology, those areas are buying opportunities even though we’re at all-time highs…

In our opinion, you could potentially be looking at another double in the S&P, which is not a lot of heavy lifting because that matches the return that we’ve seen in markets over the last six, seven, eight decades.”

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Celebrity investor Kevin O’Leary, aka Mr. Wonderful, has thrown his optimistic stance on the crypto future under President Trump’s regime.

In an interview with Fox News, the Shark Tank star stressed that crypto is out of the “cowboy era.” He argued that the asset class has entered a “new phase” under President Trump’s administration.

Kevin had a crypto conversation with American politician Lara Trump at the crypto-themed Pubkey bar in New York, that President Trump had previously visited.

“The reason they’re not comfortable with [crypto] right now is they’ve watched the cowboy era of crypto, but all the crypto cowboys are in jail or out of business,” Kevin noted.

He referred to the high-profile fraud cases in the industry, including the debacle of FTX crypto exchange. The entire industry faced a reckoning in 2022, following the collapse of the exchange. FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried is currently serving a 25-year sentence after being convicted of fraud and conspiracy in 2023.

Crypto to Become “Payment System, Investment Vehicle”

Additionally, Kevin O’Leary praised the recent pro-crypto moves by President Trump, adding that there is a “new tone with the government.”

He noted that crypto developments will “provide regulations,” which would allow cryptos to become integrated with American financial institutions.

“It’s going to become a payment system, an investment vehicle,” he told Lara Trump.

Further, he also believes that cryptos would become the 12th sector of America’s economy.

“It’s going to become part of all the sectors of our economy. We have 11 sectors. Eventually, I believe crypto will be the 12th.”

A New Era for Crypto Lies Ahead Under Trump Administration

The now-47th president recently signed an executive order to establish a Strategic Bitcoin Reserve. On March 7, the first-of-its-kind crypto summit was held with industry presence, including Strategy’s executive chairman Michael Saylor and Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong.

During Kevin’s conversation with Lara Trump, Pubkey co-owner Thomas Pacchia also expressed views on the future of crypto under Trump. He called the crypto’s leadership under former President Biden, “atrocious.”

“For four years, it was a very aggressive administration. I think the biggest win was just moving on from that and not getting stuck with another 4 or 8 years of that,” he stated.

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