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Investment Firm Franklin Templeton: Base to Lead Ethereum L2 Sector, Powered by Socialfi
13.5.2024
Franklin Templeton, a global investment behemoth, has praised the development and growth of Base, the Coinbase-incubated Ethereum L2. On social media, the company declared that Base had “hit a home run” due to its popularity with meme coins and socialfi applications, including...
South African Fintech Startup Leseka Tech Signs Deal to Buy Payments Provider for $86M
12.5.2024
Lesaka Technologies, a fintech startup based in South Africa, recently signed a deal to acquire Adumo, a payment solutions provider, for nearly $86 million. Under the terms of the agreement, Lesaka Technologies will pay Adumo $12.5 million in cash. The funds will be sourced both internally and from...
EigenLayer Opens Claims for Airdrop of EIGEN Token, Though It's Non-Transferable
10.5.2024
Perpetual futures markets price the fully diluted value of the token at around $15 billion
Celo Community Ratifies Plan to Use Optimism's OP Stack for New Layer-2 Chain
10.5.2024
The vote passed with overwhelming support, with 65 addresses representing 14.6 million CELO tokens signaling approval for the measure
Crypto Custody Tech Firm Fireblocks Unveils New York-Regulated Trust Company
10.5.2024
Fireblocks is also convening a licensed and qualified crypto custodian partner program with a starting line up of custodians from the U.S., the United Arab Emirates, Britain, Singapore, Thailand and Australia
Franklin Templeton Praises Base Network in SocialFi, Cites Success with Friend.Tech
10.5.2024
Franklin Templeton, has spotlighted Base, an Ethereum layer 2 (L2) network incubated by Coinbase, as a frontrunner in the realm of Social Finance (SocialFi) with its application, Friend.tech.
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U.S. officials seek easier pathways to ban AI exports and keep tech secrets in
10.5.2024
Amid the global race to obtain high-level AI models, legislators in the U.S. have unveiled a new bill that would make it easier to ban exports of AI tech to safeguard against mal-intended foreign actors
Could These Be The Real Nintendo Switch 2 Specs?
10.5.2024
While a follow-up to the Switch is as inevitable as night following day, its existence was only finally made officially official earlier this week. At the same time, we’ve seen dribs and drabs of leaks about screen sizes, controller changes, and other minutiae for months, if not years. But today...
Jack Dorsey Forecasts Bitcoin Will Surge to $1 Million By 2030
10.5.2024
Tech leader Jack Dorsey is betting big on Bitcoin, forecasting a price explosion to over $1 million by 2030. "I do think it hits that number and goes beyond," he said.
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Base set for ‘material share’ of SocialFi activity: Franklin Templeton
10.5.2024
Base is already home to 46% of transactions related to SocialFi on-chain, but the asset manager says it has even more room to grow
EigenLayer's EIGEN Airdrop Might Signal Demise of Once-Popular 'Points'
10.5.2024
EIGEN's airdrop comes after a wave of criticism of its distribution plan and points program
Math Olympian in Shadow of John Nash Tries to Solve Blockchain, AI Trust Dilemma
9.5.2024
Hyperbolic, the two-year-old startup focused on decentralized AI computing, said that it is introducing a protocol called “Proof of Sampling (PoSP),” aimed at addressing challenges with trust in decentralized AI networks
ETH Reverts to Inflationary Asset Following Fee-Reducing Dencun Upgrade
9.5.2024
Ethereum's recent Dencun upgrade, which was designed to reduce fees and help scale the network, has caused ether {{ETH}} to revert back to an inflationary asset -- potentially reversing one of the key benefits of last year's Merge
Protocol Village: Gnosis Inks Strategic Partnership with Zeal, Invests $2M
9.5.2024
The latest in blockchain tech upgrades, funding announcements and deals. For the period of May 9-15
Crypto degens ‘hungry’ for next big SocialFi breakthrough — K33 Research
9.5.2024
Crypto users are increasingly turning attention to new SocialFi apps, but analysts say it’s probably too early to say whether “SocialFi season” has arrived
The Protocol: From 'Node Sales' to 'Address Poisoning,' the Money's in Crypto
8.5.2024
In this week's issue of The Protocol newsletter, we dive into the crypto industry's fundraising method du jour – it's all about the decentralization! PLUS: Polyhedra says its ZK prover is 2x faster than anyone else's
US Banks and Mastercard Test Ledger Tech for Settling Tokenized Assets – Institutional Adoption on the Rise?
8.5.2024
The largest American banks are jointly experimenting with distributed ledgers to discover the potential of tokenized assets.
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Injective, Underperforming in Crypto Markets, Now Plans Layer-3 Chain on Arbitrum
8.5.2024
Injective’s "inEVM," which connects the Ethereum, Cosmos, and Solana networks, will rely on Arbitrum's Orbit toolkit
It's Not a Token Offering, It's a 'Node Sale': Sophon Blockchain Raises $60M
8.5.2024
The blockchain project's founders aren't even publicly named, but they've enjoyed remarkable success in fundraising, partly thanks to this increasingly popular fundraising method, where the longer you wait, the higher price you pay
Thiel-Backed Cryptography Startup Lagrange Raises $13M
8.5.2024
Lagrange, which specializes in zero-knowledge cryptography, is the latest startup to ride EigenLayer's "restaking" wave