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Ethereum-based project Status has started an incentivization program for node operators around its decentralized peer-to-peer messaging protocol, Waku.In an announcement today, Status said it would be rolling out the first phase of a program to encourage people to set up and run nodes used by Waku, a private messenger based
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Another day, another Chainlink (LINK) node operator enters the foray. Swisscom to Become Chainlink Node Operator Swiss telecommunications giant Swisscom today announced it will join Chainlink’s decentralized oracle network in the capacity of a node operator. In the announcement made today, Swisscom made its intentions clear of entering the rapidly expanding decentralized finance
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Blockchain infrastructure firm BisonTrails has launched support for the Cosmos ecosystem, allowing its clients to stake and run nodes for blockchain ecosystem Cosmos.BIson Trails offers services to simplify the process of participating in blockchains, such as staking and running full nodes. The firm’s customers include custodians, exchanges, and funds, with
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As part of a wider exodus, the highest-profile Ethereum-native decentralized finance (DeFi) project yet has announced an expansion to Binance Smart Chain. In a press release today, the 1inch team revealed that they’ve ported 10 million 1INCH tokens (currently worth over $40 million dollars) to BSC. The tokens will be used
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Bison Trails, a leading blockchain infrastructure company, has launched a new protocol that allows customers to scale their node operations without the lag times that normally accompany such functions.Beginning Tuesday, Global Blockchain Synch, or GBS, will allow Bison Trails customers to address the lag times associated with launching a new
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The Lightning Network has grown 75% in size over the past year, hitting a record high 8,900 nodes for the first time on Feb. 8, according to LN monitors at Bitcoin Visuals. A significant proportion of the increase occurred more recently, suggesting that some Bitcoiners are gravitating toward the layer-two solution,
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Kraken's connection to the Chainlink network allows the exchange to broadcast its price data for use in blockchain-based apps. Source
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“Are you running the numbers?”This is what Bitcoin Core developer Andrew Chow is trying to find out in a new survey. Sponsored by a grant from MIT’s Digital Currency Initiative, Chow crafted the survey “to get answers from people who are not current users” about why they don’t run a Bitcoin
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Last week, Congresswoman and “Squad” member Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) sent Crypto Twitter into a tizzy with the following proposal:The bill’s academic/think tank proponents followed up with posts such as this:There’s a lot to unpack here and a lot of crossed wires, mostly due to (I suspect) the fact that the
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Ethereum 2.0 genesis stakers have pushed the total number of Ethereum nodes past the number of Bitcoin nodes for the second time this year.According to Ethernodes.org, 11,259 Ethereum nodes are currently active, giving it a roughly 1% lead over Bitcoin’s 11,136. Ethereum’s node count last surpassed Bitcoin’s in early September.The
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