Raiffeisen Bank Bringing Blockchain Interoperability to Its Stablecoin Project
Raiffeisen's stablecoin project is becoming blockchain-agnostic, adding interoperability tech from Bitpanda and the Technical University of Vienna. Source
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BitGo Is Bringing DeFi-Friendly Wrapped Bitcoin to the Tron Blockchain
Tron, the blockchain launched in 2017 by former Ripple devotee Justin Sun, has entered a strategic alliance with custody specialists BitGo.The partnership will bring wrapped bitcoin (WBTC) and BitGo’s newly-minted Wrapped Ether into the Tron ecosystem as TRC-20 tokens. (Both are ERC-20 tokens backed 1:1 by bitcoin and ether, respectively,
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Checking In With Terra, the Korean Stablecoin Firm Bringing Online Shoppers to Crypto
You’re going to have to wait a little longer for the liquidity mining–powered savings account from Korean stablecoin maker Terra. The savings account’s returns will be based on various proof-of-stake currencies, plus additional yield over the first five years in the form of its growth token. The system is called Anchor
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Algorand Joins Blockchain Gaming Alliance After Bringing Chess to DLT
An American blockchain technology startup, Algorand, has joined a major blockchain gaming association, the Blockchain Game Alliance, or BGA.Algorand, known for providing technology to a number of national digital currency projects, is now officially a BGA member. They join more than 60 BGA companies, such as ConsenSys and MakerDAO, according
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The Dow’s Underperformance Is Bringing Value Investing Back
The Dow has vastly underperformed the NASDAQ and S&P 500. For investors who believe a “new normal” is coming, the Dow is antiquated. If you think the economy will return to normal, the Dow’s underperformance suggests it’s time to pick value stocks. Over the past few weeks, the stock
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Network Bringing Bitcoin to DeFi Taps Libra Member Bison Trails for Staking Services
Decentralized finance (DeFi) protocol Keep Network has tapped Bison Trails to provide non-custodial staking services for tBTC, an ERC-20 representation of bitcoin (BTC) deposits. Keep, a project from blockchain venture studio Thesis, operates tBTC in a trustless manner by breaking bitcoin deposits across smart contracts held by various Keep users.“Infrastructure is
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HTC Is Bringing Cryptocurrency Mining to Its Exodus Blockchain Phone
Taiwan-based tech giant HTC will allow users of its Exodus blockchain phone to mine cryptocurrency, but it isn't going to make them rich. As reported by Forbes on Friday, the firm has partnered with Mida Labs to use its DeMiner app on the Exodus 1S model. The app allows users
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Bitcoin Sign Guy Is Back, Bringing Sound Money to Urbit’s ‘Sound Computer’
If bitcoin is digital cash and ethereum is digital law, Urbit is digital land. The highly ambitious cloud computing project imagines nothing less than a rewiring of the internet, allowing users, not corporations, to own their online identities and data. While most blockchain projects rely on Amazon Web Services and other
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2020 Vision: 7 Trends Bringing Blockchain Into Focus in the Year Ahead
This post is part of CoinDesk's 2019 Year in Review, a collection of 100 op-eds, interviews and takes on the state of blockchain and the world. David L. Shrier is a futurist and globally recognized authority on financial innovation, with dual appointments at MIT and the University of Oxford's Saïd
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Meet the Decentralized Fashion House Bringing Overpriced T-Shirts to Ethereum
"The secrecy/mystery is what makes it cool,” Uniswap’s Ashleigh Schap said via direct message. “Normally you wouldn’t send $200 to random people who are promising to send you a T-shirt.”And yet people are doing just that for Saint Fame, a decentralized autonomous organization (DAO) that’s part fashion house, part ethereum
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