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Avalanche to power Alibaba Cloud’s infrastructure services in Asia

Alibaba Cloud, a.k.a Aliyun, a subset of Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba, announced an integration with Avalanche blockchain to power the company’s Node-as-a-Service initiatives. Avalanche’s partnership with Alibaba Cloud will see the development of tools that enable users to launch validator nodes on Avalanche's public blockchain platform in Asia. The integration will

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Telegram founder wants to build new decentralized tools to combat power abuse

Telegram is set to build a set of decentralized tools, including noncustodial wallets and decentralized exchanges, according to founder Pavel Durov via his Telegram channel on Nov. 30.The initiative is a response to the recent FTX collapse, said Durov, as the industry ended up being concentrated in the "hands of a

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Approving a spot crypto ETF is ‘all about political power’ — Perianne Boring

Perianne Boring, founder and CEO of blockchain advocacy group Chamber of Digital Commerce, placed the lack of approval of a Bitcoin exchange-traded fund in the United States squarely on Securities and Exchange Commission chair Gary Gensler, suggesting politics played more of a role than economics.Speaking to Cryptox at the Texas

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Hydro-Québec Looks to Suspend Power Distribution to Crypto Miners in Bid to Save Capacity – Mining Bitcoin News

According to a Hydro-Québec newsroom report, the company has asked the electricity transmission and distribution regulator, Régie de l’énergie, to cease offering services to crypto miners. The Hydro-Québec report stresses that “growth in electricity demand is expected to continue in Québec. Hydro-Québec Targets Blockchain Industry in Order to Stave off Electricity

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The Merge brings down Ethereum’s network power consumption by over 99.9%

The Merge, which is considered one of the most significant blockchain upgrades on Ethereum (ETH) to date, brought down the network’s energy consumption by 99.9% immediately.On Sept. 15, the Ethereum blockchain migrated from proof-of-work (PoW) to a proof-of-stake (PoS) consensus mechanism in an effort to transition into a green blockchain.

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