California’s Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) has awarded Nuro the state’s first commercial permit for self-driving cars. The permit allows Nuro to operate its autonomous vehicles commercially on the roads of two counties near the company’s Bay Area headquarters. Nuro says it will soon announce its first commercial deployment with an “established” partner. The company’s… […]
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How will the crypto industry fare in the new year? Another year has come and gone. The rollercoaster that was 2020 requires little (if any) preamble. It must be said, however, that the blockchain segment experienced something of a return to form during these otherwise painful latter days. Indeed, we closed the year with prices […]
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Enterprise blockchain matured throughout 2020 and will continue to do so moving forward, here’s how it may become mainstream. The year 2020 has been monumental for the blockchain sector, especially in regards to financial markets. Yet, while the price of Bitcoin (BTC) reached new all-time highs this year, the enterprise blockchain space also welcomed in […]
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DeFi, like crypto as a whole, features brilliant and questionable projects in equal measure. As 2020 comes to a close, it’s a good time to reflect on the biggest crypto developments and the wild ride the sector took investors on. At the beginning of the year, Bitcoin (BTC) was hovering just above $7,000, and the […]
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With more than 400 validators and DAOs, Free TON is now considered in mainnet status. The Free TON project, a community-led software fork of Telegram’s ultimately ill-fated attempt at launching a blockchain, announced on Tuesday the launch of the project’s effective mainnet. The network had originally launched in May 2020, building on Telegram’s code base […]
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“A DAO is merely a formalizing of very deep and instinctive human bonds that I think have been suppressed.” One morning in July of 2019, Kain Warwick awoke at 6:30 to a grim phone call from his co-founder and CTO, Justin Moses. We have a problem, said Moses. Synthetix, the synthetic asset protocol that Warwick, […]
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Fixed Swap Pools will maintain the token price throughout the sale until the initial supply is bought. Polkastarter, a decentralized exchange on the Polkadot platform, is launching a mechanism for crowdfunding, with several projects lined up to offer token sales through the platform. Through a so-called “Fixed Swap Pool”, projects can list their tokens and […]
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United States SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce wants to focus on new guidance for DeFi and future Ethereum projects. Hester Peirce, commissioner for the United States Securities and Exchange Commission, explained during an exclusive interview with Cointelegraph that decentralized finance, also known as DeFi, has created new challenges for the SEC. Peirce, nicknamed “Crypto Mom” for […]
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dHEDGE has announced that $1.1 million will be injected into its fund managers’ pools by six of the platform’s investors and the dHEDGE DAO. Some of the biggest names in DeFi, including Framework Ventures and Alameda Research, are backing the expansion of decentralized asset management protocol dHEDGE. The investors and the protocol’s decentralized autonomous organization […]
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Gnosis shaped its DAO based on the concept of futarchy. Gnosis, an Ethereum-based platform that facilitates betting on events and other metrics, revealed plans for its own Decentralized Autonomous Organization, or DAO, called GnosisDAO. “This will have the effect of progressively decentralizing Gnosis as a project using a native governance framework powered by their token […]
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