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First Group of Parachains Now Launched on Polkadot
The first 5 projects winning Polkadot Parachain auctions, Acala, Astar, Clover, Moonbeam, and Parallel Finance were officially launched on the network. They are focused on DeFi and will serve to enhance Polkadot’s scalability. In the blog post published on Dec. 18, the Polkadot team said that the...
Terra Surpasses Binance Smart Chain by TVL, LUNA Hits New ATH
Terra blockchain protocol has overtaken Binance Smart Chain by total value locked (TVL) in its smart contracts. According to data tracker DeFi Llama, the total volume locked in Terra currently stands at around $17.3 billion. The amount went up by over 36% in the last 7 days. Now, Terra is the...
Reddit Co-founder and Polygon Present $200 M Web 3 Initiative
Entrepreneur, Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian, and Polygon Network have built a $200 M initiative to drive the growth of web3-based projects. Ohanian's VC firm Seven Seven Six and Polygon will back the projects representing the industry. The Polygon blockchain will deliver the infrastructure for...
Ethereum Scaling Solution Optimism Removes Whitelist
Optimism, one of Ethereum’s off-chain scaling solutions, that uses rollups techniques revealed, removing its whitelist. Now, anyone can deploy applications to the Optimism mainnet. Originally Optimism launched with a whitelist, and only projects included in it could deploy smart contracts on the...
Justin Sun Is WTO Ambassador for Grenada, Tron Becomes More Decentralized
The founder of the crypto platform Tron, Justin Sun announced that he had received the invitation to become the Ambassador of the Grenadian Government to the World Trade Organization in Geneva, Switzerland. I have accepted the invitation and appointment of the Grenadian Gov. to officially serve as...
Melania Trump Released an NFT and Blockchain Tech Venture
Melania Trump, the former first lady of the US, presented her NFT platform MelaniaTrump.com. As the office of Melania Trump said, the platform will introduce NFTs regularly. It uses the Solana blockchain and is powered by social networking service Parler. Users can make purchases with Solana's...
Blockchain Analytics Firm Nansen Raised $75 Million
On-chain data provider startup Nansen announced raising $75 M in Series B. The round was led by the venture capital firm Accel. Among the participants were GIC, Andreessen Horowitz, Tiger Global, and a subsidiary of Siam Commercial Bank (SCB), SCB 10X. We’re excited to announce that Nansen has...
Circle's USDC Stablecoin Now Also Operates on Avalanche
Peer-to-peer payments technology Circle revealed that its stablecoin USDC started operating on the smart contracts protocol Avalanche. Released in 2018 on Ethereum, USDC is the second-largest stablecoin after Tether and the 7th largest crypto. The coin has a market capitalization of over $41.7 bln....
Cardano's Ehereum Converter Is Launched on the Testnet
Input-Output Hong Kong (IOHK) revealed the launch of testnet which allows tokens built on top of Ethereum to come to Cardano’s environment. For this purpose, Cardano collaborates with the decentralized AI protocol SingularityNET and its native crypto asset AGIX. SingularityNET allows creating,...
Solana May Have Experienced Another DDoS Attack
On December 10, Solana transactions slowed down. The founder and CIO of the crypto investment firm Cyber Capital, Justin Bons says there was a DDoS (distributed denial of service) attack, and the attacker exploited design flaws. Solana co-founder Anatoly Yakovenko replied Bons, saying he didn't get...
French and Swiss Central Banks Tried CBDC
In terms of the program Jura, national banks of France and Switzerland, together with the BIS Innovation Hub implemented a test for wCBDC (wholesale central bank digital currency). The experiment was a part of the Banque of France series of CBDC tests, which started in March 2020. It leveraged a...
Polygon’s Exciting News Is the Purchase of the Startup Mir
During the ZK summit, Polygon unveiled the big news it said was coming. That is the purchase of a startup, working on Ethereum scaling, Mir for $400 M. Previously, the Polygon team said it had exciting news to unveil. Mihailo Bjelic, Jaynti Kanani and Sandeep Nailwal, Polygon’s co-founders, spoke...
Ubisoft Launches NFT Platform on Tezos
Video game publisher and distributor Ubisoft partners with the blockchain protocol Tezos to launch an NFT platform, Ubisoft Quartz. As stated in a press release published by the company, players can get playable NFTs, Digits in an AAA game on the new network. Ubisoft will bring the first Digits to...
Eric Schmidt Now Is an Advisor at Chainlink
Eric Schmidt, an American businessman and software engineer, now is an advisor at Chainlink Labs, which stands behind the development of the popular open-source blockchain platform Chainlink. Schmidt has an impressive career history. Previously he was CEO and executive chairman of Google. Eric...
Brian Roberts Left His Position at Lyft and Joined OpenSea
Ex Chief Financial Officer of the ridesharing services company Lyft, Brian Roberts joined leading NFT marketplace OpenSea. Brian Roberts is the first CFO of the NFT platform. In his interview with Bloomberg, Roberts said although he loves Lyft, the decision of resignation became easier taking into...
Polkadot's 3rd Parachain Slot Auction Winner Is Astar
The winner of Polkadot's 3rd auction became Astar Network, which is a multichain dapps hub. As announced, the protocol will be onboarded at a block with the other first 5 winners on Dec. 18. Previously known as Plasm Network, Astar supports Ethereum, dapp staking, and Layer 2...
Congressmen will find out problems of the blockchain industry
The need for crypto regulation is periodically pointed out by many American politicians and departments, including the Treasury and the Federal Reserve. However, so far, the government and Congress have not agreed on a common approach to solving the problem of increasing the transparency of the...
Adidas Acquired a Bored Ape NFT to Join the Metaverse
Leading sportswear company Adidas stated its entrance to the metaverse cooperating with Bored Ape Yacht Club, Gmoney NFT, and PUNKS Comic. Today we leap Into The Metaverse with @BoredApeYC, @gmoneyNFT & @punkscomic.It’s time to enter a world of limitless possibilities.https://t.co/LmgtrRn20c...
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