Tagged: distributed ledger technology

February 21, 2022 @ 5:54 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The Cardano Foundation, the non-profit organization and custodian of the Cardano blockchain, recently announced that Fernando Luis Vazquez Cao will serve as a member of its board of directors. Fernando brings over 20 years of experience across the telecommunications, open-source software, and digital assets sector…. Read More

February 19, 2022 @ 9:44 am By Omar Faridi  |  

SKALE, an Ethereum native multi-chain network announced a $100 million ecosystem incentive program with the aim of increasing the onboarding of good applications and initiatives onto the SKALE Network. Given the steady growth potential and alignment with market demand, NODE will be starting off the… Read More

February 18, 2022 @ 4:53 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Solana (SOL) has become a major platform in the crypto space, after going live in early 2020. The high-speed, high-throughput, proof of stake chain is well-known for its fast transactions, scalability, and affordable fees (and also its recent performance/technical issues which have also been quite… Read More

February 18, 2022 @ 3:07 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The VeChain Foundation claims that 2021 “proved to be a significant year” for them with many developments taking place — some of which are “fundamentally game-changing” and others that “greatly benefit” their ability to serve the global economy with blockchain-based services. One such change that… Read More

February 18, 2022 @ 1:25 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The team at blockchain platform NEO have released their January technical development monthly report. As mentioned in the update: “Having delivered the milestone Neo 3.1 version in the final weeks of 2021, the core development team began the New Year at a more relaxed pace…. Read More

February 18, 2022 @ 1:07 am By Omar Faridi  |  

This week saw lots of work going on around Ontology technical developments, as work continued on preparing Ontology chain’s EVM or Ethereum Virtual Machine. Steady progress is being made “to ensure the launch happens in quarter 1 of this year.” As usual, the community had… Read More

February 17, 2022 @ 5:29 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Binance Labs, the VC and innovation incubator of Binance, made an investment in Manta Network, the Web3 privacy protocol focused on privatizing crypto-assets. Manta Network’s layer-1 network design “leverages zero-knowledge proofs to privatize crypto assets.” Built with the Substrate framework, Manta’s privacy tech interoperates with… Read More

February 17, 2022 @ 4:17 am By Omar Faridi  |  

1inch has released a spot price aggregator. The tool delivers spot price data from the blockchain, “enabling immediate displays of token prices in the interfaces of websites and apps.” As explained in an update shared with CI, 1inch‘s spot price aggregator aims to make token… Read More

February 17, 2022 @ 3:43 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Consistently ranked as one of the world’s best universities, Imperial College is known for its research-focused approach to science, engineering, and business. With crypto sitting at the intersection of these disciplines, the institution is well-positioned to leverage its expertise and capabilities to develop and explore… Read More

February 16, 2022 @ 9:39 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Developed by a team that has worked on FIFA, Battlefield, Halo, Disney, and Nintendo, MixMob is funded to introduce its game in phases beginning in April 2022. MixMob is a Solana-based Metaverse Game on Remix Culture that brings together play-to-earn with user-generated content. The project… Read More

February 15, 2022 @ 12:32 am By Omar Faridi  |  

New digital tools are offering powerful methods for businesses to enhance brand identities, service offerings and allow for considerable efficiency gains across many aspects of their operations. Canada’s IT consulting firm Micromation saw an opportunity and joined forces with the layer-one smart contract platform, VeChainThor,… Read More

February 13, 2022 @ 11:44 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The past few years have seen the crypto and blockchain space impact just about every industry in one way or another. However, one innovation in particular is leveraging blockchain or distributed ledger technology (DLT) in order to “fundamentally disrupt how organizations are structured, codified and… Read More

February 13, 2022 @ 10:18 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Binance Labs, the VC division and innovation incubator of Binance, is pleased to confirm its latest strategic investment in Automata Network, which is described as a decentralized service protocol that offers privacy middlewares for dApps (or decentralized applications). Automata Network addresses key pain points associated… Read More

February 13, 2022 @ 2:26 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Dignity Gold, LLC, the US-based digital security that is taking an innovative approach to using verified gold reserves to back its security token, has appointed Marina De Alba to its Advisory Board. Dignity Gold, a blockchain development firm using security tokens and a regulation-focused approach… Read More

February 11, 2022 @ 8:38 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Salesforce told its workers at a sales kickoff this Wednesday that the firm intends to launch an NFT (non-fungible token) Cloud. This, according to sources familiar with the matter (and cited by CNBC). As covered, NFTs are provably unique digital assets (and collectibles) that are… Read More

February 9, 2022 @ 8:09 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Just a few days following the Wormhole Portal hack that led to losses of more than $302 million, Meter’s Passport bridge has experienced a similar attack. The hack on meter.io has been estimated to be “a loss of around $4.3 Million, comprising $4.2 million in… Read More

February 8, 2022 @ 9:29 am By Omar Faridi  |  

We recently connected with Harjyot Singh, Technology Director at Human Protocol, which has been specifically designed for tokenizing work. HUMAN Protocol connects projects with millions of international respondents, offering not only access to a global Q&A, but the blockchain or distributed ledger tech (DLT) infrastructure… Read More

February 8, 2022 @ 9:22 am By Omar Faridi  |  

We recently connected with Seira Yun, the Founder & CEO at Socious, a Fintech/Community App for social change. Seira Yun, a Japanese serial social entrepreneur, full-stack developer, and impact angel investor told Crowdfund Insider that he’s interested in getting more involved in the decentralized/distributed autonomous… Read More

February 8, 2022 @ 8:52 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The team at Flow is pleased to announce that a FLOW/USD Chainlink Price Feed is currently available to decentralized applications (dApps) on the Ethereum blockchain. With a secure and reliable FLOW price feed, application developers and existing DeFi platforms on Ethereum may integrate FLOW into… Read More

February 7, 2022 @ 8:43 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Cardano (ADA) initially gained attention back in 2017 as one of the more anticipated Initial Coin Offerings (ICO) of that year. Over the years, the initiative persisted through an extended crypto bear market to earn its place among the top crypto-assets by market cap. In… Read More