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Ontology (ONT) is Taking on DeFi With a Decentralized Identity Solution

September 9, 2020 by Shaurya Malwa at DeFi

High performance, open-source blockchain Ontology announced a new product suite as it looks to make its mark on the decentralized finance (DeFi) space, according to a press release. Ontology Goes the DeFi Way Specializing in digital identity and data, Ontology launched a new decentralized identity solution earlier this month, making...

Decentralized Cryptocurrency Exchange (DEX) Appetite Grows as Volume Continues to Increase Dramatically

November 26, 2019 by Edoardo Vecchio at Bitcoin

According to the latest data released by Dune Analytics, a website where you can analyze, visualize, and share blockchain data, the trading volume of decentralized exchanges increased drastically in the last seven days. The site reports more than $75 million traded in the last week. Centralized vs. Decentralized Cryptocurrencies like...

DeversiFi Begins Transition into DAO Structure, Building Away from Tokenomic Framework

September 26, 2019 by Ashwath Balakrishnan at Altcoins

DeversiFi, previously known as EthFinex, is preparing to convert its formal governance structure from centralized to decentralized using a Decentralized Autonomous Organization (DAO). According to Finder, DeversiFi is developing a tokenomic framework in order to incentivize users to become liquidity providers, September 25, 2019. Decentralization in Corporate Structure After the DAO...

Telegram Cryptocurrency ‘Gram’ Available by October

August 28, 2019 by Ogwu Osaemezu Emmanuel at Altcoins

Telegram has hinted that the first batches of its Gram cryptocurrency will be available to a select group of investors by October 2019 and the Pavel Durov-led firm also plans to make the Gram wallet available to the nearly 300 million users of Telegram shortly, reports The New York Times...

Cost of Centralization? 2.09 Million EOS Tokens

March 1, 2019 by Priyeshu Garg at Blockchain, Crime, Exchange, News

An unidentified hacker on February 22, 2019, made away with 2.09 million EOS worth about $7.7 million after a new active EOS Block Producer failed to update the mainnet account blacklist - typically, a decentralized platform should not be vulnerable to a single point of failure - but EOS seems...

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Binance Decentralized Cryptocurrency Exchange Now Live in Testnet

February 21, 2019 by Ogwu Osaemezu Emmanuel at Blockchain, Exchange, News

The world’s number one cryptoassets exchange by 24-hour trading volume, Binance, has successfully launched its highly anticipated decentralized cryptocurrency exchange, Binance DEX in testnet, in a bid to transform the peer-to-peer cryptocurrency trading industry, according to a press release from Binance on February 20, 2019. Testnet for Binance DEX Successfully...

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AdEX Announces Protocol Built on Substrate

December 30, 2018 by Nigel Dollentas at Altcoins, Blockchain, Business, Finance, News, Platform, Tech

AdEx, a decentralized advertisement protocol, announced the migration of its protocol to Substrate on December 27, 2018, to enable the creation of decentralized applications (dApps). AdEx: Digital Advertising Of The Future Online marketing is a global trend that will reach to heights of $335.5 billion by 2020. With consumers becoming...

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Nebula: New Protocol Built on top of EOS Blockchain to Allow Enhanced Support for Developers

November 21, 2018 by Nuno Menezes at Altcoins, Blockchain, Ethereum, Finance, News, Platform, Tech

EOS, the second most used blockchain for smart contracts recently announced the release of a new protocol built on top of its blockchain that improves support for developers on, as per a post on November 19, 2018. EOS, the second most used blockchain for Smart Contracts recently announced the release...

Swiss Regulator Instructs Banks to Assign 800 Percent Market Value Risk Weighting to Cryptoassets

November 6, 2018 by Priyeshu Garg at Bitcoin, Finance, Investment, News, Platform, Regulation, Tech

The Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority (FINMA) has instructed banks in the country who handle cryptocurrency to weight cryptoassets at eight times their market value when calculating loss-absorbing capital. According to a secret letter quoted by swissinfo.ch in a story published on November 5, 2018, the regulator has imposed the...

The Blockchain Race Towards a Sustainable World

October 26, 2018 by Guest Post at Press Releases

Recently, the United Nations released its findings from a landmark climate change study that concluded that disaster is much closer than many people expected. The much-publicized story brought global climate change back into the headlines, and it returned focus to possible solutions for the crisis. Among the most lauded solutions...

New “Lightweight” Cryptocurrency Coda Will Allow Users to Run Nodes in Their Browsers

October 11, 2018 by Alex Lielacher at Altcoins, Blockchain, News, Platform, Tech

A new project called Coda is developing a cryptocurrency that will be able to remain decentralized at scale by compressing its blockchain so that users can run nodes in their browsers. Should Coda become a success, this could usher in a new area of decentralization and scalability for future cryptocurrency...

Ugandan Authorities to Develop Blockchain-Based Renewable Energy Economy

October 4, 2018 by Ogwu Osaemezu Emmanuel at News

After helping Ugandans to become their banks and seamlessly carry out daily financial transactions like purchasing mobile airtime, paying electricity bills and more, without having to pay exorbitant banking fees, the creators of DALA, an Ethereum-based ERC-20 token, are now partnering with the Ugandan government and other local firms to...

Democracy on the Blockchain: Incentivizing Voter Participation through Cryptoeconomics

Blockchain Technology Could Make True Democracy Feasible Again

October 1, 2018 by Nigel Dollentas at Blockchain, Finance, News, Platform, Tech

With the Midterm elections on any everyone's mind as people begin to register, a Medium article published September 27, 2018, talked about the benefits that implementing blockchain technology could bring to democracy as a whole. Manipulation of Voting in the Past With evidence recently coming out that Russia may have played...

Dmunity: A Rewarding Social Media Platform Built with Blockchain

September 20, 2018 by Rahul Nambiampurath at Altcoins, Blockchain, Investment, News, Platform, Tech

The rise of blockchain in the past few years has led to the introduction of some rather novel use cases. In that vein, Dmunity is a decentralized social media website that is built on top of the Ethereum blockchain. The development team categorizes it as a social curation market, which...

Qravity ICO Presale Goes Live: Blockchain-Based Entertainment Production and Distribution Platform Offers 30 Percent Bonus to Early Participants

August 31, 2018 by Guest Post at Altcoins, Blockchain, Finance, Investment, News

Qravity, a media production and distribution platform that offers decentralized creative teams royalties for making movies, video games, music, and other forms of premium digital entertainment, is pleased to announce the launch of its token presale. This stage of the Qravity ICO will take place from August 18 to 31,...

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