Tagged: dapps

November 17, 2021 @ 2:49 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The VeChain Foundation notes that after many months of hard work and dedicated effort, the arrival of Block #10653500 on the VeChainThor mainnet “officially marks the upgrade to PoA 2.0 phase 1 and the first steps towards the full-form of [their] protocol upgrade.” As they… Read More

November 14, 2021 @ 10:40 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Amasa, a micro-income stream investment platform, has teamed up with Polygon Studios in order to support the ongoing adoption of play-to-earn gaming and facilitate the transition of game development and studio building “from Web2 to Web3.” As mentioned in the announcement, Polygon Studios serves as… Read More

November 14, 2021 @ 8:07 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Evrynet is pleased to confirm that it will be joining the Stanford Future of Digital Currency Initiative (FDCI) as a member. As mentioned in the announcement, Evrynet joins other members including IBM, Ripple, Celo, and others in order to help develop universal digital currency APIs…. Read More

November 13, 2021 @ 11:07 am By Tony Zerucha  |  

Aleph Zero, a company using blockchain technology to serve the unique needs of the enterprise, today launched their mainnet. The development comes on the heels of a successful $14.8 million private sale. The funding comes from pre-seed and seed funding rounds in addition to its… Read More

November 9, 2021 @ 10:50 am By Omar Faridi  |  

After a lot of hard work, rigorous testing, and steady support from their partners and the developer community, Crypto.com is pleased to confirm the introduction of the Cronos mainnet beta (on November 8, 2021). Cronos is reportedly the first Cosmos Ethereum Virtual Machine or EVM… Read More

November 9, 2021 @ 7:40 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Binance Smart Chain (BSC), the decentralized finance (DeFi) and non-fungible token (NFT) infrastructure, has confirmed its plans of working with information technology universities internationally via the $100 million Talent Development (TD) program that is “focused on advancing research, education, and career opportunities in crypto and… Read More

November 7, 2021 @ 1:16 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Since launching, many Internet Computer initiatives have reportedly adopted Motoko for development. Here’s a quick update on this language and where they’re currently at. Two years back, the Internet Computer team confirmed the launch of Motoko, an actor-based programming language “designed for the Internet Computer.”… Read More

October 28, 2021 @ 11:11 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Umbrella Network , a decentralized Layer-2 oracle solution, has announced its launch on Polygon. At the time of launch, more than 2000 data pairs will be made available “across the ecosystem, including price data from cryptocurrencies, cryptocurrency options and derivatives, US equities, commodities markets, and… Read More

October 23, 2021 @ 11:38 am By Omar Faridi  |  

We recently connected with Sergey Gorbunov, Co-founder and CEO of Axelar, the decentralized interoperability network that connects blockchain ecosystems, applications and users. In August, Axelar had entered into a strategic partnership with Keplr, the largest Cosmos interchain wallet. The partnership had aimed to integrate the… Read More

October 20, 2021 @ 8:15 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

We recently caught up with Tim Glover, Co-founder of Chronicle, an NFT marketplace, and studio that is committed to delivering eco-friendly NFTs of popular brands’ collectibles to their fans. In this conversation, Tim explored the problems that Chronicle is aiming to solve in the nascent… Read More

October 18, 2021 @ 9:15 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

In just 5 months since their Genesis launch, the Internet Computer blockchain has seen steady growth of its developer community, whose decentralized applications (dApps) and services have managed to attract around 250,000 users. On May 25, 2021, the DFINITY Foundation confirmed that the DFINITY Developer… Read More

October 13, 2021 @ 3:07 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

We recently connected with Stefany Rojas, Head of Business Development at Kahuna, a blockchain-based social media network that will aim to engage celebrities with their fans in a democratized manner. It’s worth noting that most blockchain-enabled social media projects such as Voice and Steemit have… Read More

October 3, 2021 @ 6:13 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

We recently caught up with Heikki Vänttinen, Co-founder at API3,  a collaborative initiative focused on delivering traditional API services to smart contract platforms in a decentralized and “trust-minimized” manner. It’s governed by a decentralized autonomous organization (DAO), and its code is open-source and its operations… Read More

September 29, 2021 @ 7:36 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

Blockchain-based app technology provider Algorand today announced the availability of the Algorand Virtual Machine (AVM). This upgrade to Algorand’s Layer-1 protocol, now available on MainNet, provides tools for developers and organizations looking to build applications of the future on fast, scalable, low cost and stable… Read More

September 16, 2021 @ 9:06 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Umbrella Network, the decentralized Layer-2 Oracle solution, revealed on Wednesday (September 15, 2021) that they had formed a partnership with IX Swap, which claims to be the first decentralized finance or DeFi platform that provides Automated Market Making (AMM) & Liquidity Pools (LPs) for security… Read More

September 15, 2021 @ 11:33 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Infura, a ConsenSys firm offering an extensive suite of blockchain or distributed ledger tech (DLT) developer tools, reveals that it’s introducing the public release of its Ethereum (ETH) transaction relaying service, called Infura Transactions (ITX). As noted in a release shared with CI, ITX makes… Read More

September 6, 2021 @ 11:07 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Metis, a Layer-2 Ethereum (ETH)-powered scaling protocol offering quick and economical transactions, as well as IPFS-based storage, announced that it will be conducting a METIS HACKATHON, which is an event that is scheduled to start on October 2, 2021 at 3pm UTC (the Opening Ceremony)… Read More

August 29, 2021 @ 1:26 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Digital assets firm Kraken is pleased to confirm that they’re now supporting Moonriver (MOVR) according to an announcement dated August 26, 2021. As noted in the update from Kraken, deposits and withdrawals are currently open. Trading will commence at around “09:00 UTC on August 27.”… Read More

August 27, 2021 @ 4:33 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

Polygon, an Ethereum scaling full-stack solution, recently announced a cross-chain bridge to decentralized storage network Filecoin to accelerate Web 3 interoperability between both ecosystems. The bridge will connect Filecoin and Polygon data stores and allow ecosystem projects pro gratis usage of the bridge and storage… Read More

August 24, 2021 @ 2:21 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Avalanche lending protocol BENQI has reached $1 billion in total value locked (TVL) only a few days after its launch. BENQI, an algorithmic liquidity market protocol, has managed to attract more than $1 billion in total assets to its “decentralized” platform since its launch on… Read More