Tagged: avalanche

May 3, 2022 @ 10:12 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Ukraine and Russia lead the list of countries “with higher crypto adoption rates, with 12.73% and nearly 12%, respectively,” according to an update from DappRadar. DeFi transactions in Q1 hit the lowest levels since February 2021, “while the 116 million NFT transactions across all blockchains… Read More

May 2, 2022 @ 10:37 pm By JD Alois  |  

CounterPointe Sports Group (CSG), the new owner of the French basketball club Elan Béarnais is pursuing a security token offering allowing members of the public to purchase economic rights in a deal described as the first of its kind. The Avalanche blockchain will power the… Read More

April 28, 2022 @ 10:57 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Liminal, an “enterprise-grade” platform for digital asset custody, has announced a partner program with Avalanche, which claims to be the “fastest” smart contracts platform in the blockchain industry, “to secure projects built on their platform.” As noted in an update shared with CI, the collaboration… Read More

April 18, 2022 @ 12:00 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Arweave, a “decentralized” solution for archiving data using a blockchain-like “blockweave” and a proof-of-access consensus mechanism, has expanded to Avalanche. Now, Avalanche users can “utilize Arweave to store records, files, metadata, and other data.” Arweave strives “to store data cheaply and immutably for at least… Read More

March 23, 2022 @ 11:31 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Coinbase Cloud currently offers Web 3.0 APIs, services, and infrastructure ‘to power the next generation of software builders.” As part of Coinbase‘s vision to empower developers building the future of web3, they are launching “a suite of blockchain infrastructure solutions and services for the growing… Read More

March 23, 2022 @ 8:04 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The Lemonade Foundation, the nonprofit founded by Lemonade to “effect exponential social and environmental impact” via technology, has announced the “formation of the Lemonade Crypto Climate Coalition.” The coalition is being “constituted as a Decentralized Autonomous Organization (DAO), dedicated to building and distributing at-cost, instantaneous,… Read More

March 8, 2022 @ 10:34 am By JD Alois  |  

Avalanche has announced the Avalanche Multiverse, a project designed to support blockchain-enabled gaming, DeFi, NFTs, and more. Avalanche is a speedy blockchain alternative that solves existing problems in legacy networks like Ethereum.  Because of its superior performance it has seen solid growth. In a blog… Read More

March 3, 2022 @ 8:27 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Dr. Emin Gün Sirer has a “major beef” with the crypto economy: “It’s not growing fast enough.” As mentioned in an update shared by Mastercard, Dr. Sirer is an early crypto innovator who co-founded the blockchain startup Ava Labs with the goal of digitizing the… Read More

February 21, 2022 @ 11:04 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The team at digital asset firm BlockFi has added six new crypto-assets for their non-US clients via BlockFi International. They include Cardano (ADA), Solana (SOL), Polkadot (DOT), Avalanche (AVAX), Cosmos (ATOM), and Filecoin (FIL). The new assets will be available to buy, sell, and trade… Read More

February 19, 2022 @ 7:08 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Dr. Emin Gün Sirer, Founder and CEO at Ava Labs, ex-professor at Cornell, confirmed that BENQI liquid staking is live. Liquid staking is live. https://t.co/7ltUAvEXHn — Emin Gün Sirer🔺 (@el33th4xor) February 16, 2022 The team at BENQI noted that they are pleased to confirm the release… Read More

February 11, 2022 @ 12:07 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

METL is introducing what it claims to be the first-ever decentralized fiat gateway infrastructure of its kind “bridging Web 2 to Web3 in collaboration with Prime Trust and Avalanche.” METL’s roots date back to 2018 when the first MVP was created, in order to demonstrate… Read More

February 10, 2022 @ 10:32 am By Omar Faridi  |  

GMX, a decentralized spot and perpetual exchange that supports low swap fees and zero price impact trades, is currently live on Avalanche. Via this integration, users are able to trade AVAX, BTC, and ETH “with up to 30x leverage, with lower risk verifiable liquidation directly… Read More

January 20, 2022 @ 10:22 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The 1inch Network announced on January 20, 2022 that they’ve expanded to Avalanche (AVAX) and Gnosis Chain (GNO). As explained in the update, the expansion to the two fast-growing blockchains will aim to “offer 1inch users more options for low-costs, high-speed transactions.” The 1inch Network… Read More

January 18, 2022 @ 7:11 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The team at digital assets platform Celsius Network notes that since their goal is to bring the next 100 million consumers to crypto, they are constantly looking to offer (what they consider to be) the “best” experiences and “opportunities” for their community. This reportedly includes looking… Read More

January 12, 2022 @ 2:09 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Autonomy Network, an “off-the-shelf” decentralized automation protocol, is pleased to launch AutoSwap, which is a dApp providing limit order, stop loss, impermanent loss protection, and recurring payment features for Binance Smart Chain (BSC)-based DEXes like PancakeSwap. The dApp will also be available on Ethereum, Polygon,… Read More

January 11, 2022 @ 2:03 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Amber Group, a firm that helps clients buy and sell cryptocurrency products, earn yield, manage risk, and access liquidity, notes that one of the most “pressing” challenges that the Ethereum (ETH) network faces is scalability. In an extensive report, Amber Group explained that this issue… Read More

December 20, 2021 @ 9:41 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Digital assets firm Kraken notes that they’re pleased to confirm that their cryptocurrency trading platform now supports the Avalanche (AVAX) C-Chain. Funding and Trading Funding is currently live, and trading is scheduled to start on Tuesday, December 21, 2021 — at which point Kraken will… Read More

December 18, 2021 @ 10:00 am By Omar Faridi  |  

BitGo, the provider of digital asset financial services, now supports the Avalanche (AVAX) native token and assets launched natively on Avalanche’s C-Chain “across its custody and hot wallet products.” As mentioned in the update, this gives BitGo’s clients the “most secure and reliable way to… Read More

December 16, 2021 @ 3:07 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

Nansen, a blockchain data analytics platform, has raised a $75 million Series B round led by Accel. GIC, Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), Tiger Global, and SCB 10X are among the VCs and angel investors who also participated in the round. This funding will be used to… Read More

December 3, 2021 @ 4:54 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

Umbrella Network, a decentralized Layer-2 oracle solution, today announced its launch on Avalanche, providing the ecosystem access to high-scale and low-cost oracles. Avalanche is designed as a highly scalable ecosystem, with the aim of delivering near-instant transaction finality while levying low transaction fees. It has… Read More