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Russians with crypto holdings above $1,300 must disclose their addresses, balances, and trading history to tax authorities lest they risk forced labor or up-to three years in jail. This is if the latest crypto draft rules by the Ministry of Finance (MoF) is adopted. New Draft Laws in Russia Classifies...
Admittedly, Ethereum has a fee problem. Because of its inability to scale, the average transaction costs fee remains prohibitive. As a result, leading DeFi protocols like Synthetix, Aave, and Uniswap--the largest decentralized exchange, plan to implement off-chain solutions to scale their service and vent the mainnet. The Synthetix Upgrade Today...
The Origin Protocol--a San Francisco-based company aiming to revolutionize eCommerce, is launching OUSD. It is an ERC-20 stablecoin whose reserves readjust depending on demand from the booming decentralized finance (DeFi) sub-sector as per a Medium post on Sep 23. With no staking, lock-ups, or account registration, the coin currently earns a 2.89 percent...
A proposal by Raul Romanutti to upgrade the Polkadot Runtime Environment (PRE), otherwise known as the state machine, to version 24, is currently up for vote. Activation will be by a simple majority. Upgrading the Polkadot Runtime Environment The PRE is the outer shell of the Polkadot protocol and serves...
Litecoin (LTC) transaction count has risen 15X following the launch of the LiteBringer--a decentralized, “idle” RPG PC-based fantasy game, on Sep 15. By Sep 22, there were over 139,000 transactions posted, up from 31k registered on Sep 13. Median Transfer Value Drops as Litecoin Draws Attention The LiteBringer is technically a shot in...
There is an ingenious way through which the multi-trillion dollar healthcare sector can positively tap the emerging DeFi market to directly benefit real doctors and patients according to Pradeep Goel, the CEO of Solve.Care—an Ethereum-based global healthcare platform. They now plan to launch a DeFi solution and launch a new...
RskSwap, an easy-to-use, intuitive automated market-making pool forked from Uniswap V2 and adapted to the RSK blockchain network has been recently announced. It was created by the developer ecosystem. In the spirit of openness, the swapping protocol is open-source licensed under GPL. It is meant to empower developers, incentivize heterogeneous...
Kava—a cross-chain DeFi lending platform for digital assets, has released a proposal for HARD, an open and trustless crypto-agnostic money market with its governance token, HARD. The Harvest testnet v1 was launched on September 15 when internal testing and external audits were completed. Introducing Harvest HARD utilizes Kava’s blockchain and...
In a blog post shared on Sep 17, IOST has confirmed that EverSystems — its node partner and certified developer in Japan, is working closely with the Japanese Medical Health Tech Venture “Pracs” – a Kinki University-launched healthcare technology support program, to develop a tamper-proof and secure blockchain-based system where patients...
Enjin--a blockchain-chain based video game community and development platform, and Digital Entertainment Asset (DEA)--a Singapore-based entertainment platform allowing users to build websites, forums, or dApps for gamers, are joining hands to establish the first of the kind NFT Awards to showcase curated "nifties" use case to the mainstream audience as...
A KISSPatent report on Sep 17 reveals that more blockchain patents were filed in H1 2020 than the whole of 2019 and Alibaba will soon eclipse the New York-based technology company, IBM, as a single largest holder of patents. In another twist, most blockchain patents were filed by traditional Fortune 500 companies and China...
Picking positive qualities of decentralized finance, or DeFi, and merging them in healthcare systems is a trillion-dollar opportunity according to Pradeep Goel, the CEO of Solve.Care, as per a blog post published on Sep 16. Solve.Care is now launching a framework that will then be turned over to the community for...
Carrefour Brazil is using My Care-- an assessment, compliance, and reassurance solution developed by DNV GL, as per a note sealed in the VeChain Thor public ledger on Aug 6. My Care Adopted by Carrefour Brazil A Grupo Carrefour Brasil summary states that it is one of Brazil’s biggest brand and a...
RskSwap, an easy-to-use, intuitive automated market-making pool forked from Uniswap V2 and adapted to the RSK blockchain network has been recently announced. In the spirit of openness, the swapping protocol is open-source licensed under GPL. It is meant to empower developers, incentivize heterogeneous liquidity providers to contribute tokens to a...
The latest iteration of the Lightning Network’s Faraday includes a new set of accounting tools to help businesses and node operators better run and keep track of their BTC in the Lightning Network Daemon (lnd) as per a report on Sep 15. New Accounting Feature Reduces Costs and Ease of Building ...
