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Decentralized applications could tap into improved privacy features as blockchain firm Oasis launches its confidential EVM-compatible blockchain Sapphire.

Bitcoin Cash (BCH) has seen a brief comeback in recent weeks following more than a year of rock-bottom price action, but a struggling chart structure could see BCH heading for zero in the near future.

The Web3 ecosystem is built on the principles of decentralization; however, most aspects of the ecosystem are still relatively centralized. Be it metaverse servers or nonfungible tokens (NFTs), several blockchain ecosystems are entirely based on centralized servers from the likes of Amazon Web Services (AWS). 

Bitcoin Ordinal inscriptions volume has recorded a significant rise in July, with the month so far seeing nearly 3.6 million of them, pushing the total number to nearly 18 million.

In this story, we explore three top alternatives to Bitcoin: Zilliqa (ZIL), Chainlink (LINK), and Tradecurve (TCRV). These coins have captured attention with their unique features, strong fundamentals, and growth potential. Let's dive into the critical aspects of each coin and why they present exciting investment opportunities in the coming year.

The price of Solana (SOL) has dropped by 6% in the past 24 hours, with its fall to $25.61 coming as the cryptocurrency market as a whole dips by 1% in the same period.

Brickken CEO and co-founder Edwin Mata shared his views on the future of tokenization, the company's plans and inner workings during Cointelegraph's recent AMA session.

An environment of healthy competition is being fostered between the Ethereum (ETH) ecosystem’s top development firms building zkEVMs to scale the network, according to one of Polygon’s co-founders.

The release of Apple’s new mixed-reality headset, Vision Pro, could cause a seismic shift in how users will experience the metaverse, with developers potentially moving away from the absolute isolation of virtual reality.

The development firm behind the Chainlink protocol and its native LINK token has gone live with its cross-chain protocol, aimed at providing interoperability between traditional financial firms and both public and private blockchains.

Market volatility is one of the foremost reasons why institutional Web2 clients stay away from the crypto space. These clients believe that cryptocurrencies are too ‘unstable’ to venture into. Furthermore, those intending to integrate their Web2 operations into Web3 are always skeptical about such a move due to the issue of blockchain interoperability.

At the nexus of GameFi, Web3, and financial literacy lies PiP World – an immersive gaming platform set to revolutionize how we understand and interact with finance. Leveraging the power of blockchain technology, this NFT game provides an engaging medium to explore the financial world.

The crypto market has had a good year, recovering some losses suffered in 2022 during the latest crypto winter. While Bitcoin (BTC) broke above $31,000 on June 23 to update the year-to-date (YTD) high, the largest cryptocurrency by market cap still has a long way to go before it breaks above its record-high established at the end of 2021.

The long-awaited recession and resulting resumption of the 2022 bear market that many have been expecting has failed to materialize so far in 2023. In fact, most assets have caught a bid, with the NASDAQ hitting a 52-week high on July 12.

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Blockchain network Gnosis has unveiled two products that allow users to spend their digital assets directly from wallets using Visa's payment system.

Despite growing interest in private markets and other alternative investments, US venture capital (VC) funding activity saw a significant slump in the first half of 2023 according to new stats.

Bitcoin (BTC) has posted an impressive summer season so far this year, following a stunning +25% pump in mid-June - which has has left price action high in consolidation above $30,000.

In March 2020, Simon Harman and the team at Oxen (formerly known as LOKI) found themselves in a tight spot. It was the start of the global pandemic, and they were running out of funding, having worked to build products for three years during a bear market. To top it all off, Bitcoin’s value had just dropped to a historic low of $3,000. “We were staring down the barrel of death, basically,” Harman recalls. It was clear that to survive the team needed to develop new products—ideally, ones that operated in a different market than the privacy space. Oxen’s encrypted messaging app, Session, had just been released; that platform would ultimately gain a great deal of popularity, boasting some 700,000 monthly users. However, in early 2020, Session had not yet become profitable, and Oxen was finding the privacy space particularly difficult to operate in. They needed something new, and fast.

While private or mnemonic keys offer many advantages for security, they also present practical challenges, according to Mudit Gupta, the chief information security officer of layer-2 scaling solution Polygon.

Venture capital firms are continuing to invest less money in the crypto sector, after five consecutive quarters of declines, according to a new report from crypto financial services firm Galaxy Digital.