“You don’t have to be Dr Evil to scam someone via cryptocurrency. You can be a Mini Me.” The high-profile Twitter hack which saw malicious actors take over 130 verified accounts including Bill Gates and Elon Musk managed to be both technically brilliant and incomprehensibly stupid at the same time. It was a multi-person attack, […]
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Grayscale’s exponential growth demonstrates institutional demand for Bitcoin and other digital assets. Grayscale Investments, the largest digital asset management firm in the world, has been showing exponential increases in investment to its cryptocurrency products. The total sum of assets under management grew by $1 billion in less than two weeks in July, as a Twitter […]
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Is Ethereum’s architecture to blame for the growth of decentralized finance hacks, and will the network upgrade make the sector more secure? The decentralized finance sector continues to gain unprecedented popularity as the total value of assets locked in DeFi products doubled to over $4 billion in July and is now approaching the $5 billion […]
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Blockchain is transforming industries left, right and center — but how could this technology benefit the art world? The art world has had a tough time lately. The coronavirus pandemic has forced many galleries and museums to close, with sales of premium pieces also affected. But there could be a solution that helps the industry […]
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With Nifty Gateway recently auctioning a digital artwork and NFT for a record $55,555.55, the art world is on alert. Nifty Gateway, a leading marketplace for nonfungible tokens with the backing of the Winklevoss brothers, recorded its largest-valued auction to-date on July 23 when the digital artwork and NFT “Picasso’s Bull” sold for $55,555.55. The […]
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Zhejiang province issued its first blackout insurance policy backed by a blockchain platform. A branch of China’s state-backed grid released its first blockchain-powered blackout insurance policy issued to the chairman of a local company that needed to compensate for a power outage loss suffered recently. According to Shupeidian, Zhejiang Ningbo Power Supply Company, in partnership […]
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The VeChain Foundation announced a blockchain-based food safety solution based on its Blockchain-as-a-Service platform, ToolChain. VeChain’s newly released tool offers a suite of whitelabel services that will allow the food sector to implement on-chain safety management services. These services include traceability templates which track things like origin traceability, cross-border traceability, full-process traceability, and more. They […]
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ShareRing has launched an anonymous e-passport app with contact tracing in an effort to revive the $9 trillion global tourism industry. Enterprise-focused blockchain company ShareRing has launched a blockchain based contact tracing solution it will offer to 2.6 million hotel and activity providers that currently use one of the company’s services. The anonymous e-passport app […]
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Chainlink quietly unveils a grant program with the stated goal of making smart contracts “the dominant form of digital agreement”. Chainlink (LINK) introduced a new community grant program focused on making smart contracts “the dominant form of digital agreement”. Chainlink’s positive feedback loops. Source: Chainlink. Dominating digital agreements The grants will be awarded to projects […]
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Bitcoin is an aspirational store of value according to Fidelity Digital Assets. Fidelity Digital Assets, subsidiary of multi-trillion dollar investment firm Fidelity Investments, views Bitcoin (BTC) as an “aspirational store of value” and an “insurance policy” against a troubled financial system according to a new report. Fidelity holds over $8 trillion in assets and its […]
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