Tagged: decentralization

June 25, 2023 @ 5:03 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

We recently connected with Dr. Ben Zhang, COO & Co-founder of NodeReal, which claims to be a one-stop blockchain infrastructure and service provider that embraces the high-speed blockchain era and empowers developers by “Make your Web3 Real”. They aim to provide scalable, reliable, and efficient blockchain… Read More

June 25, 2023 @ 12:30 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

MakerDAO, which claims to be the “longest-standing” DeFi lending protocol and creator of DAI, the original decentralized stablecoin, has announced that it has “completed the purchase of an additional $700 million worth of US treasuries, bringing the value of its total bond allocation to $1.202… Read More

June 23, 2023 @ 5:54 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The team at Stella, a leveraged strategies protocol with 0% cost to borrow — announced that it has integrated Chainlink Price Feeds on Arbitrum mainnet. By integrating the decentralized oracle network, Stella has access “to high-quality, tamper-proof price feeds needed to help power lending and… Read More

June 23, 2023 @ 3:56 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Energy Web, the world’s “largest” ecosystem of companies using open source, decentralized technologies to accelerate the energy transition, is coming to Polkadot, the next-generation blockchain network powering the movement for a better web. The move will allow Energy Web “to create the framework for a… Read More

June 23, 2023 @ 11:24 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Monero’s encryption tech, which makes use of signatures from several different users to conceal who has carried out a monetary transfer, has reportedly not been hacked by any nation (at least it has not been widely reported). As reported by Fast Company, analysts with the… Read More

June 19, 2023 @ 6:59 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Synthetix is pleased to announce the addition of Lido Finances’ stETH as the latest asset for leverage trading on Synthetix Perps. This new perpetual futures market “has been approved by SIP 2021 and had parameters set in SCCP 2015.” Synthetix Perps claims it is “the… Read More

June 19, 2023 @ 11:35 am By Omar Faridi  |  

We recently connected with Andrew Saks, who talked about the importance of financial inclusion for the vast majority. Notably, 1.4 billion people remain unbanked, which takes several countries in Southeast Asia to allow a larger virtual currency ecosystem to take root in their countries. The… Read More

June 15, 2023 @ 11:52 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Boson Protocol, an open-source, foundational infrastructure for facilitating decentralized commerce on Web3, has made the strategic appointment of Holly Wood as Director of Business Development. Holly will be “driving adoption of the protocol after Boson moved from closed beta to open access earlier this month.”… Read More

June 12, 2023 @ 4:36 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

DeFi has been suffering from a silent problem for years: a liquidity management gap. The lack of these services has caused a range of issues. It leads to increased price volatility, making executing trades at fair prices challenging and resulting in potential losses for traders…. Read More

June 12, 2023 @ 12:15 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Last week, IOG (which stands for Input Output Global – one of the organizations supporting Cardano (ADA) development) noted that they are aware of the recent complaints by the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) against Binance & Coinbase, which “contain references to the organization, the… Read More

June 3, 2023 @ 10:15 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

IOST is pleased to announce a collaboration with Professor Emil Chan, a Fintech visionary and digital transformation professional. Together, they will create NextEduDAO, a decentralized autonomous organization (DAO) dedicated to improving higher education “through innovation.” Their mission is “to establish a leading global education DAO… Read More

June 3, 2023 @ 2:22 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Nansen announces their partnership with Kaiko in order “to provide comprehensive market views for crypto teams and enterprises.” The team at Nansen confirms their recent collaboration with Kaiko, which is described as the foremost source of cryptocurrency market data, analytics, indices, and research. This working… Read More

May 31, 2023 @ 10:10 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Nansen recently announced their partnership with TRON in order to provide on-chain insights to their ecosystem. The team is pleased to work with TRON, which claims to be “one of the leading blockchain networks by TVL and activity.” TRON’s low fees and fast transaction speeds… Read More

May 29, 2023 @ 10:46 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Horizen, a layer 0 public blockchain, is pleased to announce a strategic partnership with Band Protocol, a cross-chain data oracle platform, “to provide real-time price feeds and reliable data for EON, Horizen’s new EVM-compatible smart contracting platform.” The partnership will bring decentralized oracle services “to… Read More

May 26, 2023 @ 6:29 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Symbiosis, a cross-chain liquidity protocol, announced the addition of Arbitrum Nova to its platform. This integration will “allow users to swap assets across 12+ chains.” Arbitrum Nova is a new chain that is designed to be more cost-effective and faster than Arbitrum One. It is… Read More

May 23, 2023 @ 11:17 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Ontology, a blockchain network focused on enhancing trust, privacy, and security in Web3 by offering decentralized identity and data solutions, has formed a partnership with Alchemy Pay to integrate its on and off ramp solution. Through Alchemy Pay’s plugin, dApps and platforms on Ontology “can… Read More

May 21, 2023 @ 9:59 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Mask Network, which claims to be one of the world’s leading decentralized social networks, has announced an investment in The Open Network (TON) in order “to further develop its ecosystem at large and provide innovative solutions for people across networks.” Founded in 2017, Mask aims… Read More

May 21, 2023 @ 7:06 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Beanstalk, which claims to be the “pioneering” monetary experiment built to address the inefficiencies of hard money, announces a series of protocol improvements voted in by the DAO. With the upcoming series of Mayflower Updates, the protocol and its DAO are focused on the task… Read More

May 21, 2023 @ 10:47 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Chainlink, the industry-standard Web3 services platform, and Arbitrum, the Layer 2 scaling solution suite for Ethereum dApp development, have announced the launch of Chainlink VRF (Verifiable Random Function) on Arbitrum One. Chainlink VRF is described as “the industry’s most widely adopted random number generator (RNG),… Read More

May 16, 2023 @ 4:11 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Users will be able to create dApps with wallet-based authentication and equip digital assets with DIDs. Apillon claims that it “marks a new important milestone by introducing a next-gen Web3 authentication service, powered by KILT Protocol, to the Apillon platform.” As devs will be able… Read More