Tagged: polkadot

August 8, 2020 @ 7:01 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Equilibrium, which describes itself as an all-in-one, interoperable decentralized finance (DeFi) Hub that lets users stake (cryptocurrencies) and earn, lend and raise liquidity “all in one place,” has partnered with Polkadot, a leading blockchain protocol that has been founded by Gavin Wood, an Ethereum (ETH)… Read More

August 7, 2020 @ 7:33 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Polkadot (DOT), a “decentralized” Web 3.0 compatible, blockchain interoperability initiative, recently launched its test network (testnet), in order to assess its planned sharding implementation – which will be based on parachains. As explained by the Polkadot team,  a parachain is an “application-specific” data structure that’s… Read More

July 29, 2020 @ 7:20 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Blockchain interoperability protocol Polkadot has acquired around $43.7 million in funding through a private token sale. The crypto token sale, which was conducted over the course of three days from July 24 to July 27, 2020, included participation from multiple investors, who provided 3,982 Bitcoins… Read More

July 18, 2020 @ 4:38 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Digital asset exchange OKEx claims that it’s now among the first cryptocurrency exchanges to have partnered with the Web3 Foundation, an organization established to nurture and steward technologies in the fields of decentralized web software protocols. The OKEx team also confirmed that they’ve now listed… Read More

July 9, 2020 @ 8:28 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Blockchain infrastructure developer Bison Trails is offering a new tool, called managed controllers, in order to automatically manage Polkadot participation for “large-scale” DOT token holders who are interested in optimizing their participation. DOTs are Polkadot’s native tokens that are used as part of transactions on… Read More

June 3, 2020 @ 9:39 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The Crypto Rating Council (CRC) has previously noted that Tron’s TRX, Nervos’ CKB token, and Polkadot’s DOT token might potentially be classified as financial securities, or at least there’s a fair chance they could. The CRC’s initial report on these digital assets was released in… Read More

May 16, 2020 @ 9:12 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

A proposal to redenominate Polkadot’s DOT tokens has been shelved for the time being by the Web3 Foundation, a Switzerland-based non-profit entity that supports the growth and development of technologies and applications in the fields of decentralized web software protocols. Polkadot is a sharded protocol… Read More

April 14, 2020 @ 9:00 am By JD Alois  |  

Bison Trails, a blockchain “infrastructure-as-a-service” company, has integrated with Coinbase Custody for institutional-grade offline storage. Coinbase Custody clients may now stake their DOT to Bison Trails’ validators. At launch, Bison Trails says it will support the Polkadot protocol with support for more protocols to follow…. Read More

April 11, 2020 @ 10:32 am By Omar Faridi  |  

During the past few years, blockchain or distributed ledger technology (DLT) has been adopted by a large number of companies from several major industries. There are currently hundreds of different DLT platforms being operated across the globe. Most of these blockchain-enabled networks are unable to… Read More

March 11, 2020 @ 11:27 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Framework Ventures, a tech investment firm that focuses on decentralized finance (DeFi) solutions, revealed on March 10, 2020, that it has invested $400,000 in Futureswap, a decentralized (or non-custodial) futures exchange. Framework Ventures has also invested $500,000 in Commonwealth Labs, the creator of Edgeware, which… Read More

June 29, 2018 @ 7:42 am By Cali Haan  |  

Every year, the foundation started by tech billionaire Peter Thiel gives away a total of $2 million dollars to 20 outstanding young and promising technology entrepreneurs, “young people who want to build new things instead of sitting in the classroom.” The money is granted in… Read More

November 8, 2017 @ 3:12 pm By JD Alois  |  

Parity wallet revealed a critical security issue this week regarding a vulnerability in the Parity Wallet. Earlier today, the Parity team posted an update regarding the hack: We very much regret that yesterday’s incident has caused a great deal of stress and confusion amongst our users… Read More