Tagged: polkadot

December 29, 2023 @ 5:55 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Gavin Wood, an Ethereum co-founder who has focused on Polkadot noted that we are seeing a global return to normalcy and resurgence of (in-person) events with it (even though various of COVID still seem to be affecting a significant number of people despite vaccinations being… Read More

August 22, 2023 @ 10:27 am By Omar Faridi  |  

European digital asset fund manager CoinShares (Nasdaq Stockholm: CS) has released its digital asset fund flows Weekly report. As noted in a blog post by the firm’s management, disappointment from SEC ETF decisions has impacted sentiment. According to the update from CoinShares, digital asset investment… Read More

June 28, 2023 @ 12:59 pm By JD Alois  |  

Deloitte Switzerland has partnered with Polimec to provide reusable KYC or know your customer. These credentials will be using Polkadot, and the “banking grade” KYC credentials will be issued by Deloitte. The company explains that this information will be utilized to empower the global fundraising… 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

February 5, 2023 @ 9:45 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

We recently caught up with Dr. Torsten Stüber, Co-Founder and CTO at Berlin-based Pendulum, an initiative focused on traditional finance infrastructure blockchain solutions, which is “the missing link between fiat and DeFi.” Pendulum is an open-source blockchain built on the “proven” Parity Substrate framework, establishing… Read More

November 4, 2022 @ 3:43 pm By JD Alois  |  

Polkadot’s native token DOT is no longer a security, according to the Web3 foundation. Polkadot said it has been working with the Securities and Exchange Commission’s FinHub on the process. The Web3 Foundation said that DOT has “morphed” from a security to software, perhaps accomplishing… Read More

September 20, 2022 @ 1:47 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The “first” in-game NFTs have been minted on Efinity with the launch of the MetaHome NFT collection, immediately usable in MyMetaverse’s full suite of games. MyMetaverse, a game development company specializing in creator-led metaverses with play-and-earn economies, “ensured that on launch, the NFTs perform different… Read More

August 21, 2022 @ 8:02 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The team at Gemini are pleased to announce the launch of Gemini Staking, which allows you to seamlessly “receive staking rewards in [their] Gemini account.” As of August 18, you may “start staking MATIC on the Polygon network.” Ethereum (ETH), Solana (SOL), Polkadot (DOT), and… Read More

August 15, 2022 @ 8:58 am By JD Alois  |  

Acala’s stablecoin aUSD, the “decentralized stablecoin of Polkadot” has lost its stablecoin status as it has depegged from the US dollar – now trading at around $0.85 but having dropped to almost $0.50. In a series of Tweets, Acala claimed the fall in value was… Read More

July 23, 2022 @ 6:54 am By Omar Faridi  |  

peaq, the Web3 network powering the Economy of Things (EoT), announces joining the Substrate Builders Program. Run by Parity, the blockchain solutions company behind Polkadot, the program “will support peaq on its mission to build a decentralized Economy of Things.” Parity’s Substrate Builders Program “supports… Read More

July 13, 2022 @ 2:50 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Digital asset firm Gemini is pleased to announce support for Polkadot (DOT), which adds a new blockchain network to Gemini’s growing list of supported networks. DOT is now available “for trading on [their] API/FIX and ActiveTrader applications for USD trading pairs, and on the Gemini… Read More

July 12, 2022 @ 1:41 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Revolut, the international financial “Super App” with over 18 million customers worldwide, is taking yet another solid step towards its goal of bringing clients the best financial products and services to manage their finances. Revolut’s “Learn & Earn” courses have been developed to assist clients… Read More

June 29, 2022 @ 3:49 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

peaq, the Web3 network powering the Economy of Things (EoT), has raised $6 million in its latest funding round, which was led by Fundamental Labs. The funding will “support the ongoing expansion of the peaq network, which empowers individuals and organizations to build, govern, and… Read More

March 29, 2022 @ 8:07 am By Omar Faridi  |  

James Butterfill, Investment Strategist at London-based CoinShares, a digital asset manager focused on expanding access to the cryptocurrency ecosystem while serving as a “trusted partner” for its clients, notes in a blog post published on March 28, 2022 that sentiment “recovers” with record digital asset… Read More

March 21, 2022 @ 10:18 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Parallel Finance, the DeFi parachain hub of Polkadot and Kusama, has executed a  coordinated launch of “six separate products in one day across many different DeFi primitives.” The complete list includes: Parallel’s Automated Market Maker (AMM), Farming, Liquid Staking, v2 Crowdloan Platform, Cross Chain Bridge,… Read More

March 4, 2022 @ 8:18 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Ukraine is reportedly funding its war against Russia by appealing to the global crypto community. This, as the nation will soon introduce non-fungible tokens (NFTs) in order to help support financially its armed forces. Mykhailo Fedorov, the Vice Prime Minister of Ukraine, recently confirmed that… Read More

March 2, 2022 @ 3:17 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

The roster for CoinList Seed’s Winter 2022 batch is proof positive venture capital funding for blockchain startups is as strong as ever, the company said. Between 2020 and 2021 VC funding for blockchain-based startups soared from $3.1 billion in 2020 to $25.2 billion only one… 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 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 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