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In what could turn out to be an incredible adoption potential, Mastercard Asia/Pacific (APAC) on Aug 20 received a patent from the European Patent Office describing a “method and system for device micropayment aggregation based on the Tangle network” that was initially filed in February 2019. The Tangle, Not IOTA, Emphasized While...
In the 19th issue of the Global Public Chain Technology Evaluation Index announced by the China Electronics and Information Industry Development Institute (CCID Research Institute) on Aug 26, IOST is up one spot to third, edging out Tron but trailing EOS and Ethereum. This is a huge milestone, highlighting how the project...
RAMP DEFI, a cross-chain liquidity ramp designed specifically to unlock funds from staked assets, is now part of IOST’s Noah Oracle Fund as per a press release on Aug 26. The $1 million fund is meant to bootstrap growth of DeFi oracle projects in the enterprise-grade, scale, and secure IOST...
In a press release on Aug 25, the Singapore-based Aegis DeFi and IOST — an enterprise-grade, secure, and high throughput platform, announced their strategic partnership to improve scalability and to further protect user data. The deal now sees the two pooling resources in “co-building a DeFi ecosystem in terms of community...
Syncing with one of the hottest trends of the year and building on previous researches, the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston is said to be evaluating over 30 blockchains to determine whether they would support a digital dollar reports CoinDesk on Aug 24. The regional bank is one of the 12...
Acala — a decentralized finance (DeFi) consortium and a cross-chain hub planning to bring stability, interoperability, and liquidity to the mainstream, has launched the first shard — or Parachain, on the Rococo Testnet as per an update on Aug 21. The test network is the first on Polkadot — an...
At the tail end of 2020, the European Union (EU) Commission should complete its work on digital finance and the results will be clearly defined crypto laws helping the sector flourish. Crypto is Here to Stay This is according to a report published by IFCReview on Aug 20, citing previous comments by...
The Bitcoin price might have pulled back from $12,473 of Aug 18 to below $12,000 but parallel news indicates that there are more holders that it was a few weeks ago. Seeking to capitalize on the current bull run — which is so far intact, the number of BTC held...
Less than two months after the Office of the Inspector General of Colombia, World Economic Forum (WEF), and the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) partnered up to develop a blockchain-based Proof-of-Concept solution to tackle corruption in government’s procurement processes, the Colombian Ministry of Information Technology and Communications (MinTIC) has published a...
The IOTA development team has completed the Chrysalis Phase 1 update as per a tweet posted on Aug 19. Because of changes made to the Coordinator's main address, users are now urged to restart the desktop version of the Trinity Wallet and the Hornet 0.5.0 using the --overwriteCooAddress command. Chrysalis 1.5 Upgrade...
In a show of dominance, the total transaction fees generated by Uniswap — a leading Ethereum-based decentralized exchange (DEX), is approximately 50 percent of Bitcoin’s. The Rise and Rise of Uniswap In a tweet posted on Aug 19 to highlight and contrast between the developments of Ethereum and Bitcoin, the metric...
As part of the OMFIF Digital Monetary Institute debate on how blockchain and distributed ledger technology (DLT) benefit central banks’ plans of rolling out digital currencies, a virtual discussion will be held on August 19, bringing together board members and specialists of several central banks according to a notification on Aug...
The bitcoin price, on Aug 17, soared above $12,000 to new 2020 highs coinciding with similar gains posted by the US equities following a depressing Q2 pinned to the slowing effects of COVID-19. Bitcoin Prices Rally at The Back of Supportive Technical Indicators A Bloomberg report shows that at yesterday’s peak, the...
An academic team from the Department of Computer Engineering, Kyung Hee University, Yongin, is developing an IOTA-based system to improve the supply chain of medical equipment with support from the Institute of Information & Communications Technology Planning & Evaluation (IITP) grant which is directly funded by the South Korean government. ...
Reflective of its dominance both on the partnership and price action fronts, Chainlink hot streak continues as developers continue to submit commits on GitHub, enhancing the platform’s features. Chainlink’s Developer Activity According to CryptoMiso on Aug 17, the number of Chainlink’s GitHub commits stood at 4,189 from 51 contributors, nearly doubling Bitcoin’s...