Tagged: decentralization

October 21, 2025 @ 9:08 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Péter Szilágyi, an experienced web3 developer for Ethereum’s Geth client, recently voiced concerns regarding Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin’s considerable influence over the ETH protocol and called into question the Ethereum Foundation’s rather “centralized” decision-making process / structure in a public letter. According to Szilágyi’s observations,… Read More

October 14, 2025 @ 10:37 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Pyth Network, a provider of institutional market data, announced its partnership with Kalshi, the U.S. federally regulated event-exchange platform, to deliver its prediction market information across 100+ blockchains. This reportedly marks the first time regulated event data will be streamed onchain at scale, allowing web3… Read More

October 12, 2025 @ 7:22 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Co-founder Tarek Mansour noted that Kalshi recently raised $300M+ at a $5B valuation, led by Sequoia and a16z. Since then, he claims that they have grown more than 3x, reached $50B of annualized volume, and became the largest prediction market in the world. And now,… Read More

October 1, 2025 @ 9:32 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Chainlink announced a technical solution enabling financial institutions worldwide to manage digital asset workflows from their systems “using Swift messaging and the Chainlink Runtime Environment (CRE).” With Swift messages and CRE, banks and institutions can “access blockchains through the same Swift infrastructure they have relied… Read More

September 16, 2025 @ 2:12 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Stocktwits, an online hub for investors and traders, has teamed up with Polymarket, a prediction marketplace for participants to invest on potential events. Announced on September 15, 2025, this alliance introduces earnings-related markets directly into the Stocktwits ecosystem, aiming to provide users with insights into market… Read More

September 14, 2025 @ 1:28 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

In the ecosystem of decentralized finance and event-based trading, decentralized prediction markets platforms are capturing investor attention with potential fundraising plans. Reports indicate that Polymarket, a blockchain-driven prediction market, is exploring a new capital infusion that could peg its worth at between $9 billion and… Read More

September 6, 2025 @ 10:14 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Polymarket, a decentralized prediction market platform, has reached a significant milestone by recording an all-time high in new markets created, signaling growth and increasing user engagement. In August 2025, the platform saw the creation of 13,800 new markets, surpassing the previous record set in July… Read More

September 6, 2025 @ 10:10 am By Omar Faridi  |  

In a seemingly dramatic turn of events, Justin Sun, a cryptocurrency entrepreneur and one of the largest investors in World Liberty Financial’s $WLFI tokens, has publicly criticized the Trump-backed decentralized finance (DeFi) project for freezing his assets. Sun, who invested at least $75 million in… Read More

August 31, 2025 @ 2:15 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

In the evolving ecosystem of cryptocurrency, tracing illicit financial flows and ensuring compliance with regulations are critical challenges. Blockchain analytics firm Chainalysis claims it has been at the forefront of addressing these issues, providing tools and insights to government agencies, financial institutions, and private firms…. Read More

August 30, 2025 @ 2:21 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Warden, a platform leveraging artificial intelligence to enhance trading strategies, reported achieving a key milestone: scaling its AI-driven trading interface to support over 650,000 swaps across 14 blockchain networks in three weeks. This expansion was made possible via the Uniswap Labs Trading API, a tool… Read More

August 25, 2025 @ 9:48 am By Omar Faridi  |  

SBI Group, one of Japan’s financial conglomerates with the USD equivalent of over $200 billion in total assets, and Chainlink, the so-called “industry-standard” oracle platform, announced a partnership focused on accelerating blockchain and digital asset adoption across global markets. Japan’s financial market and evolving digital… Read More

July 2, 2025 @ 1:32 am By Omar Faridi  |  

FEDROK AG, the Swiss blockchain innovator behind the Level 1 blockchain dedicated to tokenized carbon credits, has signed an MoU with Greentsika, an environmental social enterprise, to explore the monetization of “cash-for-trash projects through blockchain technology.” This partnership marks a strategic step towards “leveraging FEDROK’s… Read More

June 3, 2025 @ 11:22 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

A recent incident involving Chainlink’s oracle system has rocked the decentralized finance (DeFi) community. On May 29, 2025, over $500,000 in user funds were wiped out on the Avalanche-based Euler market. Omer Goldberg detailed the event in a social media post, highlighting vulnerabilities in DeFi… Read More

May 15, 2025 @ 7:09 am By Tony Zerucha  |  

In a world marked by tariff battles and near-shoring, the TWIN Foundation is working towards a better global trade system propelled by open-source technology and decentralized infrastructure. The TWIN Foundation debuted on May 8 at the AfCFTA Digital Trade Forum in Lusaka, Zambia. It’s an initiative of the Trade… Read More

May 11, 2025 @ 10:58 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Strands Technologies Ltd. has reportedly reached a milestone of over $6 billion in tokenized notional by integrating Derive.xyz, a decentralized protocol for on-chain derivatives. This partnership comes at a time when trust in the space has been shaken by the past collapse and “continued aftermath… Read More

April 26, 2025 @ 7:31 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Gitcoin, an Ethereum-based platform for funding public goods and open-source projects, announced on Friday that it will close its primary software development arm, Gitcoin Labs. The decision reportedly stems from mounting financial pressures, with co-founder Kevin Owocki stating that achieving profitability for the unit was… Read More

April 8, 2025 @ 11:12 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Twinstake has joined the IOTA Genesis Validator Set, which is described as an institutional-grade staking solution for a “secure future.” When the IOTA Foundation selected its Genesis Validators for IOTA Rebased, it wasn’t just seeking network participants—it was curating what it claims is the “bedrock”… Read More

February 21, 2025 @ 7:15 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Figure Markets, a platform for decentralized finance (DeFi), has recently launched the first interest-bearing stablecoin native to a public blockchain registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission. YLDS, described as a public security offered through Figure Markets’ wholly owned subsidiary, Figure Certificate Company, is “a fixed-price,… Read More

January 21, 2025 @ 11:22 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Open Campus, the community-led decentralized autonomous organization (DAO) building an on-chain education network, announced it has launched the EDU Chain mainnet, a Layer 3 blockchain on Arbitrum Orbit. EDU Chain is designed for consumer-facing education apps and on-chain education finance (EduFi), “powered by the EDU… Read More

January 13, 2025 @ 7:51 am By Omar Faridi  |  

OpenLedger, backed by Polychain Capital and Borderless Capital, is building a blockchain for (artificial intelligence) AI that provides a “decentralized” trust infrastructure for creating specialized language models. CoinList noted in a blog post that OpenLedger is offering up to “51% of its total token supply… Read More