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Maple Finance’s Loan to Alameda Research Loan Reaches $100 Million
18.2.2022
Maple finance made an announcement about the loan to Alameda Research reaching $100 million. Alameda Research received the third tranche of the loan, which accounts for nearly half of the entire loan amount so far. The lending pool reached this milestone just after a few months since the approval...
JPMorgan unveils research on quantum resistant blockchain network
18.2.2022
“QKD is the only solution that has been mathematically proven to defend against a potential quantum computing-based attack,” JPMorgan emphasized in its announcement
Why are hyperlinks blue?
14.2.2022
Last year, Elise Blanchard did some great historical research and discovered that blue hyperlinks replaced black hyperlinks in 1993. They’ve been blue for so long now that the general advice I always hear is to keep them that way. There …
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Bank of Zambia Expects to Complete CBDC Study in Q4
12.2.2022
The Bank of Zambia has said it expects to complete its study seeking to determine the feasibility of launching a Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC), before the end of the last quarter of 2022. Narrowing the Financial Exclusion Gap The Zambian central bank has said it expects to complete...
13 Years Ago Today, Satoshi Nakamoto Published the First Forum Post Introducing Bitcoin
11.2.2022
13 years ago today, the creator of the Bitcoin network, Satoshi Nakamoto published the inventor’s first forum post on the P2P Foundation website. The forum post called “Bitcoin open source implementation of P2P currency” introduced the e-cash system to the members of...
US Federal Reserve bank at the helm of CBDC research effort appoints new president
10.2.2022
Susan M. Collins is set to become the first Black woman to head a Federal Reserve Bank
Cointelegraph Research: Valuing a crypto payment token
9.2.2022
A new report valuing payment tokens estimates the market size of each token’s relevant use cases based on the rate of actual adoption
Saudi Arabia Medical Institution Implements Blockchain-Based ‘Digital Credentialing Solution’
9.2.2022
Saudi Arabia’s King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Centre recently became one of the country’s early adopters of blockchain technology after it implemented a “digital credentialing solution.” Saudi Arabia’s Blockchain Goal The Saudi Arabian medical...
Research Firm Predicts Bitcoin Will Hit $200K in Second Half of 2022, ETH to Reach $12K
8.2.2022
This week in a note to investors, Fsinsight, a Fundstrat company, said bitcoin could reach $200,000 during the second half of the year. In the investor’s note, Fsinsight’s head of digital asset strategy, Sean Farrell, said the parabolic growth would be due to “legacy market...
A quarter of people will spend time in the Metaverse by 2026: Research
8.2.2022
The report also estimated that 30% of the organizations in the world will have products and services in the Metaverse by 2026, with brands already gearing up to stake their claims in the digital world
African Web3 Startup Raises $6.45 Million in Pre-Seed Round, Serena Williams’ Investment Firm Participates
5.2.2022
An African startup, Nestcoin, said it raised $6.45 million in a pre-seed funding round in which tennis’ star, Serena Williams’ Serena Ventures took part. The startup, which was launched in November 2021, plans to use the capital raised to educate, build and invest in web...
Federal Reserve Bank of Boston and MIT Release Central Bank Digital Currency Research and Open-Source Code
5.2.2022
The Federal Reserve Bank of Boston and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have jointly published the initial findings of their central bank digital currency (CBDC) research. They also published the open-source code for the CBDC project. Boston Fed and MIT Publish Initial Findings...
SIDUS HEROES Receives Investment From Animoca Brands, Alameda Research, Bloktopia, OKEX, Polygon and Master Ventures
4.2.2022
PRESS RELEASE. February 04th – Sydney, Australia: SIDUS HEROES, the play-to-earn, blockchain, MMORPG game, announced today that it has raised $21 million in its seed, private and public funding rounds with Animoca Brands as its lead investor with Alameda Research, Bloktopia, OKEX, Polygon...
Fed and MIT's CBDC research: Distributed Ledger tech has ‘downsides’
4.2.2022
The researchers published results from “Project Hamilton,” which was first announced in 2020 to explore the use of existing and new tech to build and test a hypothetical CBDC platform
Bitcoin Network Transaction Volume Surpasses American Express: Research
1.2.2022
A recent NYDIG report found that Bitcoin had settled more transaction volume in Q1 2021 than “all credit card networks combined for the entire year” when including intra-network transactions
ADALend: Major Developments on the Horizon
31.1.2022
ADALend’s mission is to democratize the lending industry by using the Cardano blockchain to eliminate the traditional banking middlemen. This will be accomplished through the development of a platform that connects borrowers, and lenders in a decentralized manner. With the help of blockchain...
Ark Invest Expects Bitcoin to Exceed $1 Million by 2030 — Says BTC Could Transform Monetary History
31.1.2022
Ark Investment Management (Ark Invest) has predicted that the price of bitcoin could surpass $1 million per coin by 2030. “Our research suggests that bitcoin has the potential to transform monetary history by providing financial freedom and empowerment in a fair, global, and distributed...
Pokémon Legends: Arceus: Easy Pokedex Tips That Will Make A Huge Difference
28.1.2022
Pokémon Legends: Arceus does a lot of things differently from the mainline Pokémon games, and that includes completing your Pokédex. Where before the games tasked you with collecting the entire monster compendium to fill out the encyclopedia within the device, Arceus takes place in the past...
Pandemic Has Accelerated Crypto Market’s Transformation Into Commodity Market - Research
28.1.2022
The cryptocurrency market is beginning to consolidate and is increasingly similar to a commodity market, with an increased correlation between cryptos coinciding with the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to researchers from the Institute of Nuclear Physics of the Polish Academy...
ETH to hit $20 trillion market cap by 2030: Ark Invest
27.1.2022
ARK Invest’s new report predicts Ether’s market cap will reach $20 trillion and the Bitcoin price will exceed $1 million by 2030 based on BTC’s use cases and how ETH captures market share from TradFi