Outlier Ventures, a blockchain investment and accelerator network, announced it has teamed up with Protocol Labs to launch the Filecoin Base Camp, its first-ever collaboration accelerator that will fast track the development of 40 startups that leverage...
LongHash Ventures today announced it is opening up applications for its 7th blockchain accelerator, LongHashX applications will close on August 9th, 2021. This cohort will be segmented into 2 tracks: DeFi track, enabled by Asia DeFi Network. Filecoin Frontier Accelerator track, partnered with Protocol Labs. Both tracks...
Blockchain receives a boost in Vietnam as the country discloses plans to launch and store educational credentials on popular PoS public blockchain, TomoChain (TOMO). TomoChain (TOMO) will help ensure educational credentials remain trusted, unalterable, and authentic. Therefore, to a large extent reducing all forms of educational fraud. The importance of education cannot be over-emphasized. Sadly, there is also a disturbing increase in...
Yesterday, Twitter and Square CEO Jack Dorsey tweeted an announcement for The B Word. A one day summit happening next month, 7/21/21, on all things Bitcoin. The goal, destigmatize bitcoin crypto narratives to business leaders, explain the reasons for crypto adoption, and address issues in the network....
Porsche has announced its entry into the NFT market by launching an NFT trading platform called Fanzone. NFTs (non-fungible tokens) have become quite popular in the crypto space. Most especially in the art world where its use is most...
Brazil’s central bank, the Banco Central do Brasil (BCB), is pushing for more time to roll out its central bank digital currency (CBDC). Earlier in May, BCB released a document covering the general guidelines and characteristics of Brazil’s future CBDC. Roberto Campos Neto, BCB’s chief central banker, also stated earlier last year that the country would likely be prepared and ready...
El Salvador is set to become the first nation to accept Bitcoin as legal tender. In an announcement at the Bitcoin 2021 conference earlier today, El Saldavor’s President Nayib Bukele said that the bill to legitimize the major cryptocurrency as legal tender was well under way. “Next week I will send to congress a bill that will make Bitcoin a legal tender,” he...
In hopes to grow its financial products on the DBS Digital Exchange (DDex), Singapore’s DBS Bank just announced its issuance of a $11.3 million digital bond in its security token offering (STO). A security token offering is similar to that of an IPO, in that it’s a type of public...
According to the GreySpark Partners ICO report that covers 1,900 ICOs, over 890 of the ICOs failed to raise any money. As a result, by July 2019 more than 800 cryptocurrencies were dead. With more than 50 percent of all Initial Coin Offerings (ICOs) that started in 2017 and 2018 failing to raise a single dollar. What promised to become a valid alternative...
Having access to the internet today cannot be overemphasized. The internet is now a major player in the smooth functioning of almost every sphere in the world today. However, this mind-blowing invention has left people at risk of hacks and scams. Internet activity, as well as user personal details, are available to nefarious individuals, therefore predisposing internet users to risks like identity thefts,...
More blockchain use cases are coming to life, thanks to the ever-increasing interest of decentralized technology enthusiasts. Though still essentially a nascent space, the world is becoming more aware of the boundless possibilities embedded in the blockchain and crypto space. Popular oracle platform Chainlink (LINK) takes this surge a notch higher with its reliable and secure oracle...
The market for NFTs has exploded in the last 12 months, with more than $2 billion being spent during the first quarter of 2021. While sales, interest, and awareness of NFTs (non-fungible tokens) are booming, there are some problems looming over the horizon. Firstly, NFTs are subject to high fees, long wait times, and unpredictable network fluctuations. Platforms such as Binance are seeking...
Fantasy sports have been around for most of the 20th Century. They became popular in the 1960s through a National Football League (NFL) game created by Bill “Wink” Winkenbach. He was a minority owner for the Oakland Raiders when he set up the GOPPPL. In August 1963, the first draft of the Greater Oakland Professional Pigskin...
There are many good arguments for a truly free market. More heads are better than one. Unfortunately, a small handful of players have captured large portions of every industry, from insurance to retail. When one person controls the supply chain, they set the rates for businesses and set the prices for consumers. Middlemen in every industry have made it their goal to soak...
It’s safe to say that 2021 was an NFTs(non-fungible tokens) dominated year. What started with EVERYDAYS: THE FIRST 5000 DAYS by the digital artist Beeple being sold at Christie’s for $69m, turned into almost anyone with an audience minting their own NFTs. And a lot of them were sold - including NFT toilet paper. In April however,...
CryptoNinjas » WallStreetBets launches blockchain-powered app to decentralize indices WallStreetBets, the grassroots movement that gained international prominence by bringing powerful hedge funds to their knees, announced today plans for using blockchain technology...
If you only look at the surface of something, it’d be difficult to say if there’s any problem with it. Without diving deep into the details, problems can’t be found. The same is the case with the current e-commerce industry and platforms today. What exactly, you may ask. After all, you’ve been having a superb experience surfing through Amazon, finding products, and having...
NFTs have been surprisingly resilient. Although average prices have gone down about 60%, they are once again rising. Now, this dip could simply be the result of Beeple’s 69 million dollars NFT wearing off. They’re all anyone mentions these days. It has become part of small talk. Sales are over 40 billion dollars. That doesn’t necessarily mean that they are here to stay....
CryptoNinjas » Boson Protocol and Outlier Ventures outline framework for decentralized ecommerce ecosystem Following extensive joint research, Boson Protocol, the project building a capture resistant dCommerce ecosystem using NFTs...
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