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Etherisc onboards 17K Kenyan farmers covered by blockchain-based crop insurance

An insurance collaboration between decentralized protocol Etherisc and microinsurance issuer ACRE Africa has allowed thousands of farmers in Kenya to receive coverage for weather-related risks.Etherisc and ACRE Africa said they had processed insurance payouts for some of the more than 17,000 smallholder farmers in Kenya covered under the collaboration. The

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Linux Foundation launches blockchain-based platform for insurance

The Linux Foundation, the nonprofit technology consortium that supports the Linux operating system, is backing a new blockchain-based project for the insurance industry.On Monday, the foundation announced the launch of the Open Insurance Data Link platform, a project that aims to reduce the cost of insurance reporting and create a standardized insurance

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BSC Top Insurance Project Soteria Launches Governance Function, Starting New Era of Co-governance

Since entering the market, Soteria has been committed to protecting the safety of BSC projects, while constantly stimulating the ecological construction of BSC.Soteria, an insurance project on Binance Smart Chain (BSC), officially launched its governance function on April 6. The project provides detailed rules for hundreds of subdivisions under 15

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Swap fees exceed impermanent loss insurance costs

Bancor has released a status report for its v2.1 decentralized exchange upgrade, covering the performance of its decentralized exchange over the last three months.According to the document, the total liquidity increased by almost 100%, resulting in the platform earning about $1.12 million in cumulative swap fees.Bancor’s report noted that the

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Ethereum-Based Nexus Mutual Expands Its Decentralized ‘Insurance’ to Centralized Exchanges

Nexus Mutual, a startup that provides a decentralized alternative to insurance, is extending its community-based offering to cover users of well-established cryptocurrency exchanges such as Coinbase, Binance, Kraken and Gemini.Until now Nexus, which uses digital tokens to revamp the traditional idea of mutual cover, was only focused on the world

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Chamath Palihapitiya sees Bitcoin as insurance against uncertainty

Bitcoin’s (BTC) price has risen dramatically over the past days and weeks, recently wheeling past $40,000. An asset largely untied to governmental authority, Bitcoin is a hedge against global uncertainty, according to venture capitalist and billionaire Chamath Palihapitiya.Citing a possible five or 10-year time horizon, Palihapitiya said he thinks Bitcoin

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