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Direct grants of up to 2 million MATIC ($1.55 million) will be offered to later stage projects, Polygon Labs said in an emailed announcement on Thursday. Early stage projects can apply for so-called quadratic funding grants, whereby community members make donations that act as votes on where they are allocated. Source
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A panel at the PlanB conference in Lugano on Oct. 20 focused on efforts to drive Bitcoin (BTC) adoption in the city. The panel included Mayor of Lugano Michele Foletti, CEO of Tetragon Pavel Matveev and other leaders involved in PlanB — an initiative launched in September 2021 to make Lugano
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Arbitrum projects will receive token grants that may help attract new money to the popular blockchain. Source
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The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has submitted a filing urging the court to grant its motion to appeal a ruling from the Ripple Labs lawsuit that deemed that XRP was not a security when sold to retail investors. The agency argued that there are “knotty legal problems” surrounding the
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Non-fungible token project y00ts is again switching blockchain networks, only four months after bridging the majority of its NFTs from Solana to Polygon. DeLabs, the NFT firm behind y00ts, announced via its X (Twitter) account on Aug. 9 it will soon be migrating to Ethereum in line with its DeGods NFT collection.1.
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"But ultimately, we believe it makes the most sense for y00ts to be on the same chain as DeGods," said Vora. "We feel really lucky to have collaborated with so many great, hard-working people at Polygon Labs, and we can’t thank them enough. It's an exciting chapter for all of
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On June 20, Tether Operations Limited, the firm behind United States dollar stablecoin Tether (USDT), along with cryptocurrency exchange Bitfinex announced the allocation of a 100,000 USDT grant to support open-source privacy operating system Qubes OS. Paolo Ardoino, chief technology officer of Tether and Bitfinex, commented: “We recognize the paramount importance of
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OpenAI, the parent company of the artificial intelligence chatbot ChatGPT, has launched an initiative to bring more democratic input to AI development. In the official announcement on May 25, the company said it is preparing to award 10 grants worth $100,000 each toward experiments in setting up a “proof-of-concept,” democratic process
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Mintlayer, a Bitcoin sidechain, recently launched an open-source development grant program with $4m worth of ML tokens available for developers. Mintlayer funding innovation in Bitcoin’s ecosystem The grants initiative by Mintlayer is specifically designed for projects that would be valuable for the Mintlayer protocol but may not necessarily be profitable. Projects that
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Thailand’s government has said companies that issue digital tokens will receive a waiver that exempts them from paying corporate and value-added tax. According to a report, the Thai government anticipates losing just over $1 billion in tax revenue as a result of the waiver. Relaxation of Tax Rules for Investments
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