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Osprey Polkadot Trust Arrives as Institutional Interest in Altcoins Swells
6.5.2021
The newest investment trust tracking polkadot echoes other moves by the fund manager to make cryptos accessible via traditional equity markets and satisfy growing investor demand as interest in ETPs mounts. Low-Fee Offering to be Launched on OTCQX Market Bitcoin may have been the first crypto...
Gnosis Safe Multisig Now Accessible on Harmony
5.5.2021
Harmony, the dApp-focused organization, which last year deployed the latest version of its Blockchain, has announced that Gnosis Safe Multisig is now available on its platform. In recent times, users on Harmony can use NFT marketplaces, Ethereum, and decentralized exchanges with the help...
Coinbase Buys Data Firm Skew, Company’s First Acquisition Since the Nasdaq Direct Listing
30.4.2021
On April 30, the crypto-focused data analytics company Skew announced the firm has been acquired by the San Francisco company Coinbase. The exchange will leverage Skew’s data with the firm’s institutional subsidiary Coinbase Prime. The goal is to make “cryptocurrency markets 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...
Platform News: Using :focus-visible, BBC’s New Typeface, Declarative Shadow DOMs, A11Y and Placeholders
16.4.2021
There’s a whole lot of accessibility in this week’s news, from the nuances of using :focus-visible and input placeholders, to accessible typefaces and a Safari bug with :display: contents. Plus, a snippet for a bare-bones web component that supports …
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Collective #656
8.4.2021
Swipey image grids * Kaboom!!! * Web Browser Engineering * An accessible toggle
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Platform News: Rounded Outlines, GPU-Accelerated SVG Animations, How CSS Variables Are Resolved
2.4.2021
In the news this week, Firefox gets rounded outlines, SVG animations are now GPU-accelerated in Chrome, there are no physical units in CSS, The New York Times crossword is accessible, and CSS variables are resolved before the value is inherited.…
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Where the World Wide Web Shines
1.4.2021
Here’s a fabulous post by Vitaly Friedman that looks at how to make accessible front-end components and what problems there are today when it comes to building them.
There’s so much great info packed into this one post that I’m …
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Stratis’ InterFlux Protocol Adds Support for Ethereum, Hyperledger, DEXs & DeFi
26.3.2021
PRESS RELEASE. Blockchain as a Service (BaaS) platform Stratis’ support to private and public blockchain solutions, Ethereum and Hyperledger, opens the ecosystem to mainstream adoption by businesses. London, United Kingdom – Stratis is developed to help make blockchain services...
NEXT.Chain, the Next DeFi Powerhouse to Host Its Liquidity Sale Event From the 24th of February
19.2.2021
PRESS RELEASE. While Ethereum has given way to a brave new world of decentralized financial applications that are completely permissionless, accessible and groundbreaking in many ways. However, it has done so on an experimental basis and with great costs. Ethereum provides a foundation on which...
Elrond Network Now Accessible Through DeFi 2.0 Module
18.2.2021
The Elrond Network, a leading blockchain provider with its native token EGLD, will now be accessible to the masses through DeFi 2.0. The Founder and CEO, Beniamin Mincu, stated that Elrond is set to transform the future of Finance by reducing the complexities around Decentralized Finance (DeFi)....
New Microsoft Program Could Help Devs Make Games More Accessible
17.2.2021
Microsoft is starting a new program that will allow developers to send in Xbox and PC games to be evaluated by a team of accessibility experts, the company announced today.Read more
Colombia’s Financial Superintendent Approves Nine Crypto Platforms to Work With National Banks
13.2.2021
In Colombia, the entity managed by the Ministry of Finance and Public Credit, the Financial Superintendence of Colombia (Superfinanciera) has revealed the authorization of alliances between Colombian banks and digital currency exchanges. So far, Colombia’s financial department has approved...
Responsible Web Applications
12.2.2021
Joy Heron bought a cool domain name and published an article there:
Luckily, with modern HTML and CSS, we can create responsive and accessible web apps with relative ease. In my years of doing software development, I have learned some
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Circle Launches USD Coin on the Stellar Network
4.2.2021
Circle and the Stellar Development Foundation (SDF) announced that the second-biggest stablecoin is now available within their network. USD Coin (USDC) is accessible through five integrated wallets, and it can be tradeable on their ecosystem, said the USDC issuer. Stellar Has Been the Official...
Ditto Promotes Accessible Finance for Streaming Artists with the Launch of Defi Platform
2.2.2021
Global music distribution service Ditto has unveiled the latest addition to its service lineup for musicians with a blockchain-based financing platform named Opulous. Opulous Peer-to-Peer Lending Platform Serves as a Loan Pool Designed to Help Artists Ditto continues its efforts to improve...
Pirate’s Treasure: How the World’s Leading Torrent Site Pirate Bay Amassed $4.5 Million in Bitcoin
30.1.2021
The Pirate Bay has been the world’s most popular torrent web portal for the last eighteen years. Despite a few hiccups during that time, the site remains accessible via mirrors and proxy websites. In addition to remaining online, Pirate Bay has been accepting bitcoin for donations since 2013...
Data Shows 78% of the Circulating Bitcoin Supply Is Illiquid, Only 4.2M BTC in Constant Circulation
2.1.2021
Onchain statistics show 78% of the circulating bitcoin supply is illiquid and barely accessible according to Glassnode research. Data indicates that the analysts have classified 14.5 million bitcoin as illiquid and only 4.2 million bitcoin in constant circulation. One of the most treasured parts...
Accessible SVG Icons
28.12.2020
The answer to “What is the most accessible HTML for an SVG icon?” isn’t one-size-fits all, because what an icon needs to do on a website varies. I’m partial to Heather Migliorisi’s research on all this, but I can summarize.…
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Three Ways to Distinguish a Site From the Norm
16.12.2020
In an age where so much web design is already neat, clean, and simple, I can think of three ways to distinguish your site from the norm:
Stunning visuals that cannot be created in UI vector editors, like Figma and Sketch
Beautifully-animated interactions that cannot be dreamt in the language...