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23.11 / 10:37

Technology French PM Jean Castex tests positive for COVID-19

French Prime Minister Jean Castex tested positive for COVID-19 on Monday night, his office confirmed to AFP.

23.11 / 08:55

Technology News At least 45 people killed in bus crash in Bulgaria

At least 45 people have died in a bus crash in Bulgaria, officials said on Tuesday morning.

23.11 / 00:05

Technology Money Belarus' Lukashenko says EU should take in more migrants

Belarus' President Alexander Lukashenko called on Europe to take in more migrants, criticising the EU for not holding talks on the crisis.

22.11 / 18:55

Technology In Istanbul, a bitter leadership election exposes Interpol's fault lines

Sarka Havrankova was a case officer at Interpol’s national central bureau in Prague when the Czech police were asked to help in the investigation of Marc Dutroux, the Belgian serial killer and rapist who was wanted for the kidnap, torture and murder of young women and girls.

21.11 / 19:35

Blockchain Technology education Monero What is Mimblewimble and how does it work?

Mimblewimble is a privacy-oriented decentralized protocol that uses a novel way of structuring and storing transactions on the blockchain. It was designed and introduced by an anonymous developer who went by the name Tom Elvis Jedusor, who was a French counterpart for “Voldemort” in mid-2016.

21.11 / 15:29

Blockchain Technology Adoption United Nations UN’s COP26 climate change goals include emerging tech and carbon taxes

In her monthly Expert Take column, Selva Ozelli, an international tax attorney and CPA, covers the intersection between emerging technologies and sustainability, and provides the latest developments around taxes, AML/CFT regulations and legal issues affecting crypto and blockchain.

21.11 / 09:17

Technology Investments Bank Singapore's OCBC plans crypto bourse

crypto exchange as Southeast Asia’s second-largest lender seeks to respond to customer needs, Chief Executive Officer Helen Wong said. “We are looking at it and seriously there are some work being done in the bank,” Wong told Haslinda Amin in a Bloomberg Television interview Friday, when asked whether the bank would consider offering crypto services as some of its competitors are doing.

20.11 / 23:35

Blockchain Technology defi DEX Decentralized exchanges aren’t ready for derivatives

If the words “derivatives trading” conjures up images of men in suits with disheveled white sleeves rolled up to the elbows and exacerbated expressions on their faces — like something out of The Big Short — then the word decentralized exchanges (DEXs) must conjure up, well, nothing.

20.11 / 10:47

Blockchain Technology Ethereum security Multichain Building multichain is a new necessity for DeFi products

At present, your DeFi product needs to be multichain to be competitive — this is the hard (and exciting) truth of 2021. Whether you’re building a wallet, a lending service or a DeFi game, your target audience knows that there is more to the crypto space than Ethereum. And they expect you to provide the best of all worlds.

20.11 / 00:27

business Blockchain Technology Kraken end Customers Kraken to delist Monero for UK customers by the end of November

In an email quoted by Reddit users, Kraken, the world's eight largest cryptocurrency exchange by trading volume, announced it would be delisting privacy coin Monero (XMR) in compliance with regulations in the United Kingdom. The platform will cease all XMR trading activities, set XMR wallets to withdraw-only, and force-liquidate any existing XMR margin positions after the 26th of November.

19.11 / 23:49

Blockchain Technology Adoption Real Estate Bloktopia co-founder aspires to build a metaverse with ‘hundreds of the best crypto projects’

Bloktopia is a virtual skyscraper in the Metaverse comprised of 21 levels, designed to pay homage to the 21 million total maximum supply of Bitcoin (BTC). Owners of its BLOK tokens will be known as Bloktopians. Users will be able to buy and sell nonfungible tokens (NFTs), purchase digital ad venues, own real estate and more in the Bloktopia virtual reality. Meanwhile, Bloktopians can also earn revenue by selling or leasing virtual property in the skyscraper to interested buyers.

19.11 / 00:53

business Blockchain Technology defi Financial ‘We want to build Minterest as a fairer financial system,’ says CEO Josh Rogers

Decentralized finance (DeFi) protocols have gained significant traction in the cryptocurrency sector, with a total value locked surpassing $271 billion, based on data from DefiLlama. One exceptionally popular category of DeFi services is that of decentralized borrowing and lending, where users can pledge their crypto as collateral and take out stablecoin loans (or vice versa) to pay for everyday expenses while their investment continues to grow.

18.11 / 23:01

business Blockchain Technology Adoption Acala wins first Polkadot parachain auction with over 32M DOT staked

On Thursday morning, Acala, a decentralized finance (DeFi) protocol operating on the Polkadot (DOT) network, announced it had won the first-ever Polkadot parachain auction.

18.11 / 21:15

business Technology $500M blockchain gaming proposal Game7 to come online with backing from industry veterans

As outlined in a prepared statement obtained by Cointelegraph, Game7 is an upcoming $500 million blockchain ecosystem acceleration decentralized autonomous organization, or DAO, with the goal of onboarding gamers worldwide to the blockchain ecosystem. Entities backing the proposal include BitDAO, Forte, Alameda Research, Mirana Ventures, Warner Music Group, Aleo, Avalanche, Interchain Foundation, Offchain Labs, OP Games, Polygon Studios, and Solana Ventures.

18.11 / 18:29

Technology Art Protest restrictions Babiš calls unvaccinated 'selfish' amid protests over new restrictions

Thousands of protesters marched through Prague to protest against new COVID restrictions.

18.11 / 15:43

Technology NFT Trading Tokens Cointelegraph Consulting: Is OpenSea an undervalued NFT marketplace?

Without a doubt, 2021 has been a momentous year for nonfungible tokens (NFT). The nascent market has seen unprecedented growth as sales volume from January to date nears $10 billion — a 14,500% surge from 2020. The NFT marketplace OpenSea is responsible for processing a great chunk of that.

18.11 / 15:04

business Blockchain Technology Adoption Boson Protocol seeks to blend physical and digital marketplaces in the Metaverse

Boson Protocol is a decentralized commerce protocol that seeks to enable the sale of physical goods, services and experiences in the Metaverse as nonfungible tokens (NFTs), and hopes to provide an infrastructure layer for exchanging assets of non-monetary value. For example, an NFT of a pair of sneakers bought using the Boson Protocol in the Metaverse would then be redeemable for that physical pair of sneakers in the real world, and vice versa.

17.11 / 21:19

Blockchain Technology Ethereum Adoption Starkware Ethereum Layer-two developer StarkWare valued at $2B following $50M raise

Israel-based StarkWare announced on Nov 16 via Twitter that it had raised $50 million in a Series C funding round, and that the firm’s valuation is now at $2 billion. Sequoia Capital was the lead investor, among other contributors. Seven months ago, StarkWare raised $75 million in a Series B funding led by Paradigm.

17.11 / 13:07

business Blockchain Technology Adoption KuCoin Labs Launches $100 Million Venture Capital Fund To Empower Early-Stage Metaverse Projects

KuCoin Labs, the company behind the world's sixth-largest cryptocurrency exchange by trading volume with more than 500 crypto assets listed, announced on Wednesday that it would be launching a $100 million metaverse fund for early-stage projects. The money is also available for entities that develop blockchain-based games, nonfungible tokens, and decentralized applications.

17.11 / 02:47

Blockchain Technology privacy applications zk Polygon launches a zk-STARK scaling solution for DApp deployment

Polygon, a layer two scaling solution for Ethereum compatible blockchains, stated in a press release provided to Cointelegraph that it has launched its zk-STARK powered Miden Virtual Machine for the development of decentralized applications, also known as DApps.

16.11 / 20:57

Blockchain Technology security censorship network open Support Decentralized network develops solution in support of a free and open internet

As new technology becomes available to more and more end-users, our world is only becoming more interconnected. However, as the spread of such technology progresses, so does the reach of big tech.

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