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Goldman Sachs Says FOMO Is Driving Institutional Investors to Bitcoin
26.5.2021
Investment bank Goldman Sachs says institutional investors and asset managers are driven to bitcoin by “fear of missing out” (FOMO). Goldman now considers bitcoin a new asset class. Nonetheless, institutional investors are facing several strong barriers to entry into the crypto market....
Promising Integrations Join the Polkadot Ecosystem
21.5.2021
As Polkadot’s vision of a decentralized web advances, the integrations of KILT Protocol and the fintech platform Current are adding new utility layers across the blockchain’s ecosystem, helping tear down the existing barriers between Web 2.0 and 3.0. Value-Driven Integrations...
Polygon to Democratize NFT Interactions by Improving Approachability
19.5.2021
To pave the way for greater adoption of non-fungible tokens and bring down the barriers hampering more widespread participation, Polygon is leveraging its parallel network’s proof-of-stake approach to reduce Ethernity Chain’s gas costs. Layer 2 Solution to Make Ethereum-Based NFTs More...
Polygon’s New $100M Fund Aims to Attract Next Million Defi Participants
29.4.2021
As part of its ongoing efforts to make the decentralized finance ecosystem more accessible through infrastructure development, this layer2 scaling solution has introduced a $100 million fund designed to lower the barriers to entry for yield farming and lending. #Defiforall to Support Development...
US House Passes Bill Mandating SEC and CFTC to Establish Working Group Focused on Digital Assets
22.4.2021
The U.S. House of Representatives has passed a crypto-related bill introduced by pro-bitcoin Congressman Patrick McHenry. It requires the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) to establish a working group focused on digital assets. Bill...
Validator Entry Thresholds on the Decline as Cloud-Based Staking Challenges Surmounted
12.3.2021
Through the novel use of hardware security modules in conjunction with a communication module, a collaboration between Bluzelle and Equinix will significantly reduce the barriers preventing the equal distribution of opportunities for potential proof-of-stake (PoS) node validators. Lower Cloud...
South Korean Financial Regulator Confirms Privacy Coin Delistings- Adds New Guidelines to Report Unusual Transactions
22.2.2021
South Korean financial watchdogs are about to start overseeing crypto-related activities in the nation, and additional barriers for exchanges keep appearing. Moreover, one of the South Korean regulatory bodies codified the measures announced last year on privacy coin listings. No Major Domestic...
Everyone's talking crypto for solving sub-Saharan Africa's payments problems
3.12.2020
Stablecoins and continentwide regulations are key to breaking down barriers to Africa's economic growth
LZ Lending Innovates and Integrates Peer2Peer Into Platform
2.9.2020
LZ Lending, London’s premier cryptocurrency Peer 2 Peer lending solutions, announces the official launch of their new fully integrated and simple to use P2P platform designed to remove barriers and obstacles that have prevented millions of potential investors from entering the cryptocurrency...
OCC Seeking to Remove Structural Barriers to Financial Inclusion
11.7.2020
The OCC launched a project to identify ways to improve financial inclusion and remove barriers to credit access
Rethinking Twitter as a Serverless App
23.4.2020
In a previous article, we showed how to build a GraphQL API with FaunaDB. We’ve also written a series of articles [1, 2, 3, 4] explaining how traditional databases built for global scalability have to adopt eventual (vs. strong) consistency, and/or make compromises on relations and indexing...
Consistent Backends and UX: How Do New Algorithms Help?
26.3.2020
Article Series
Why should you care?
What can go wrong?
What are the barriers to adoption?
How do new algorithms help?
In previous articles, we explained what consistency is, the difference between "strong" and "eventual" consistency, and why this distinction is more important than ever to modern...
XRP Carries an Unstable Price Recovery; Barriers Above $0.16 Grab Attention
24.3.2020
The absolute mayhem currently present in the market is keeping mostly every investor in turmoil, and now it is getting difficult to predict when is this going to end. If we have a look at the overall crypto market’s capitalization, it clearly shows that all the gains acquired since...
Consistent Backends and UX: What are the Barriers to Adoption?
19.3.2020
There are very few scenarios in which an eventually consistent database is preferable over a strongly consistent database. Further, in a multi-region application scenario where scaling is necessary, choosing either an undistributed database or an eventually consistent database is even more...
Consistent Backends and UX: What Can Go Wrong?
12.3.2020
Article Series
Why should you care?
What can go wrong?
What are the barriers to adoption? (Coming soon)
How do new algorithms help? (Coming soon)
In the previous article, we explained what strong (vs. eventual) consistency is. This article is the second part of a series where we explain how...
Swiss Government Moves to Remove Legal Barriers for Blockchain Development
27.11.2019
The Swiss Federal Council has adopted a revised proposal to remove legal hurdles still holding up blockchain innovation, and will pass the legislation to the parliament
More Nations Join the Club of Crypto-Friendly Jurisdictions
14.10.2019
Regulatory barriers are a major concern for businesses working with decentralized assets. Not all governments, however, are putting obstacles in front of crypto companies. In fact the number taking a crypto-friendly stance is in fact increasing. Also read: Ukraine in a Rush to Legalize...
Community Coding For The Web
8.4.2019
Open source barriers
Right now, it's too hard to contribute to open source.
This leads to a few things that are bad:
People who have good ideas don't co