Polkadot (DOT) price has increased by 200% in less than eight days and top crypto analysts believe the blockchain has a lot more to give. Spartan Black, a major cryptocurrency fund based in Asia, believes Polkadot (DOT) has more fuel left in the tank and could soar in the top-10 list of biggest cryptocurrencies by […]
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The Libra association member will enable secure Solana staking. Blockchain infrastructure provider Bison Trails has expanded its integration with Coinbase Custody to allow the staking of Solana tokens. In an Aug. 27 announcement, Bison Trails stated that Coinbase Custody users would be allowed to delegate Solana (SOL) tokens to Bison Trails’ enterprise-grade validators. Bison Trails […]
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Debate over increasing block size for blockchain scalability still goes on, but what are the main arguments from proponents and detractors? The debate is not settled. Despite much of the great work being done, there is no one clear solution for blockchain scaling, and it’s possible there never will be. All of the possibilities explored […]
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Defining the concept of offline staking, what benefits and risk it poses, and how it could transform the user experience. Are there any examples of projects offering offline staking? Unfortunately, it’s still the case that most staking, whether directly under a pure proof-of-stake model or indirectly using a delegated proof-of-stake consensus, is online. This usually […]
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The EOS-based DeFi project is using Polkadot technology to make it easier to recruit new users. Having set up shop on Polkadot just a week and a half ago, an EOS-based decentralized finance project called Equilibrium will bring its governance token NUT to the Polkadot ecosystem for sake of facilitating a promotional token swap. The […]
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Do major crypto exchanges act in their best interest rather than respecting community-based project guidelines? The billion-dollar cryptocurrency space is no stranger to hype, as it is considered a factor that increases crypto prices. While this may be, hype generated from major centralized crypto exchanges may actually be creating more harm than good for users […]
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This in turn could reduce the headaches involved when achieving consensus. Bison Trails, a Blockchain infrastructure-as-a-service provider, has created double-signing protection software, or DSP, which aims to address the slashing penalties associated with double signing messages. According to the company, many digital asset holders consider slashing penalties to be one of the “main risks” of […]
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Institutional adoption of blockchain can offer great benefits, as truly decentralized control often comes from the roots of centralization. The power of blockchain technology to decentralize control of our financial economy is well documented. It is one of the cornerstones of the origins of the technology, with the genesis block of Satoshi Nakamoto’s Bitcoin (BTC) […]
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Chainlink’s integration domination continues. Plasm, a smart contract protocol built on Polkadot’s Substrate framework, has integrated Chainlink’s (LINK) price feeds. Interestingly, the oracle project itself will likely soon become a Polkadot parachain. Polkadot has a modular design wherein various parachains serve particular use cases. Its mainnet does not have smart contracts, but Plasm hopes to […]
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Equilibrium is not quite ditching EOS, but Polkadot will be its new home. An EOS-based decentralized finance project, Equilibrium, has announced its plans to develop a new interoperable protocol on the Polkadot (DOT) blockchain. The project is set to develop an independent parachain connected with Polkadot, featuring an independent utility token called EQ. It acts […]
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