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Gerard Pique Invests $4.3M in Sorare
Blockchain-powered fantasy football game Sorare announced that Gerard Pique made a $4.3 M worth of investment in the non-fungible token (NFT) site. With this, Sorare’s total seed round reached $9 million. Recently the collector interest in the Ethereum-based NFT protocol has been rising...
Apple Co-Founder Steve Wozniak Announced a New Project
American electronics engineer, Apple's co-founder Steve Wozniak launches a crypto company called Efforce. It is a blockchain-powered marketplace to exchange tokenized energy. It's been 45 years since the launch of Apple and the second time Wozniak participated in co-founding of any company. Efforce...
IOHK Presents Two New Smart Contracts for Cordano
Blockchain engineering organization IOHK introduces 2 smart contract developer environments (devnets) for Cardano, termed KEVM and IELE. KEVM will let developers deploy Ethereum-powered apps on Cordano, while IELE allows building apps for Cardano in any computer language. Cardano is a crypto asset...
More Than 1 Million Eth Locked up in ETH2
After 4 days the beacon chain has launched, Eth2.0 keeps attracting deposits. The contract has received over 1 million ETH worth above $605 M. The stakers will get rewards in the future when staked amounts will be available for withdrawals. The closing day of the contract isn't defined yet. Rewards...
Ethereum Price Keeps Growing due to ETH 2.0 Launch
Ethereum 2.0 has released today, on December 1st. A huge amount of Ethereum has already been staked for its deposit contract as a component of the innovative proof-of-stake network. The latest data reveals that over $529 M of Ether has already been deposited. The opening move of Ethereum 2.0—the...
COTI Network Works with Dafabet
The leading online gambling company Dafabet builds a partnership with COTI in order to optimize digital currency implementation. This is important news for COTI as the platform seeks to develop its network for crypto transfers and in these terms, its interests coincide with the gaming industry,...
IOTA Cooperates with Pantos for R&D Lab
IOTA builds a partnership with Pantos to develop blockchain and distributed ledger technology within the framework of a new research institution aimed to innovate the two structures. On November 26, authorities informed that the multi-blockchain asset protocol Pantos and IOTA, along with...
Voting Requests of TRON Network were Approved
The creator of the protocol TRON Justin Sun highlighted the fact that the TRON network is still the lowest-cost public chain. He also said that with the efforts of all communities the network will achieve much progress. TRON is a decentralized system that was created to help guide the...
Ethereum-powered "TraceHsarvest" Project is Launched
BlockApps present an Ethereum-powered network with Bayer. The main goal of the project is to observe the process of farm products cycling including a major pharmaceutical firm among its clients. On Nov 18, blockchain as a Service company BlockApps introduced a blockchain-powered country yield...
Ethereum application user activity has renewed maximum
Ethereum continues to lead the blockchain ranking by the number of deployed applications (DApps). The DappRadar team found that over the past 30 days, the number of active users of Ethereum applications has exceeded 1 million. Researchers linked this trend to the rapid development of the DeFi...
Galaxy Digital Launches New BTC Fund in Canada
Bitcoin price is going up achieving new highs. Galaxy Digital also saw massive growth in its Bitcoin fund trading volumes in Q3 2020. Recently the founder and CEO of the company Mike Novogratz announced that they are extending services in Canada along with CI Global Asset management. The CI Galaxy...
Filecoin about the Launch and Project Goals
Filecoin aims to create a decentralized future for the web. Funded by a $ 257 million coin offering completed in September 2017, The Web 3.0 data storage project has since expanded its technology. For now, the main part of the world's information is managed by several firms, such as Google,...
Ripple Opens Local Office in Dubai
On November 7 Ripple disclosed that it has established a department in the Dubai International Financial Centre or DIFC. The crypto exchange firm apparently picked the place for its creative ways of control. Operating in the United Arab Emirates, the DIFC suggests blockchain organizations like...
HIVE doubles mining volume with new WhatsMiner M30S Devices
HIVE Blockchain, listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange, acquired and immediately installed 1,240 WhatsMiner M30S miners. That was reported in a press release. Representatives of HIVE Blockchain emphasized that this is the largest batch of new equipment in the history of the company. Thanks to...
Blockchain Startup Figure Inquires State Bank Charter
Bloomberg announced that Figure Technologies, the blockchain lending company founded by former SoFi CEO Mark Cagney, pursues a national bank license. The firm is investigating a national bank charter admitted by the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency. The assignment would lessen the...
Blockchain as a Means to Reduce Nuclear War Risks
Researchers at the Centre for Science and Security Studies at King’s College London have issued a report, where they analyzed "non-political" solutions for the problem of nuclear disarmament. From the moment nuclear armaments were created, they have been a major peril to humanity. ...
Australia is Looking for Ways to Practice a Wholesale CBDC
The Reserve Bank of Australia builds a partnership to find out the opportunities of practicing a blockchain-based central bank digital currency in a wholesale form. Today the officials informed the bank will be cooperating with the National Bank, an Australian multinational bank CommBank, the fund...
Blockchain Could be Used in the US DoD
Many people associate blockchain with safety and distribution systems. The winner of a contention held by the United States Department of Defense represented these features from a new perspective. As innovations have their impact on modern warfare, the DoD keeps exploring methods to practice them...
Blockchain is an extremely popular technology nowadays. Back in 1991, Nick Szabo has described the tech but did not find a way to bring it to life. Two decades later, in 2009, mysterious Satoshi Nakamoto realized Szabo's idea, and blockchain had become the basis of the famous Bitcoin.
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