DefiLlama Puts Internal Rift to Rest, Microsoft’s New Wallet?, Florida Governor Wants to Ban CDBC, ARB Airdrop, and many more
Blockchain This Week – Signature Fallout, Meta Insta NFTs, Bitcoin Climbs, Ark Invest
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Blockchain This Week – Silvergate Collapse, SVB Contagion, BIS’ New CBDC Report, Hedera, Getty NFTs
Silvergate Shuts Shop Silvergate Capital Corporation is winding down operations and voluntarily liquidating one of the leading crypto banks, the…
Blockchain This Week – World Bank Backs Carbon Fund, $300M Web3 Fund, Layoffs, Canceled Mergers, Regulatory Nods
Image Source: Photo by Monstera World Bank Backs Carbon Credits Fund The World Bank’s International Financial Corporation (IFC) is collaborating…
How Web 2 and 3 Technologies Together Benefit GRC?
This Post is Also Published on Medium Governance, Risk Management, and Compliance, or GRC, is a loaded word that is…
What Is an Automated Market Maker?
Liquidity is vital for the success of any trading platform. Does Automated Market Maker provide the necessary liquidity for a DeFi exchange?
Blockchain in the Carbon Credit Markets
Blockchain could help build the digital infrastructure underpinning the carbon credit markets, adding transparency, liquidity, and standards.
Blockchain IoT – Making Them Work Together
Blockchain has the potential to convert Internet of Things into Internet of Trusted Things. But some challenges need to be addressed for Blockchain IoT to work. This post explores these concerns.
DeFi and CeFi: What Is the Difference?
This latest post in the series explores the salient differences between much contemplated DeFi and CeFi ecosystems.
How Blockchain Adds Value to REC Market?
Renewable Energy Certificate(REC) enables measuring the amount of renewable energy generated. The article will focus on how the REC market could benefit from Blockchain.
Blockchain This Week – Growing Mainstream Adoption, Green Initiatives, Blockchain Education
Knocking on your doors a little early today. This week, the newsletter covers several significant initiatives that mainstream firms are taking to adopt crypto. Alongside, there are many green, eco-friendly projects that were in the news. All these and many more are in this week’s newsletter.
A Symbiotic Bitcoin Mining and Renewables Relationship?
Bitcoin mining is often regarded a vital contributor to carbon emissions. How to make mining greener and build mutually beneficial relation with renewables?
Blockchain This Week – Everyone Wants to Sell You NFTs, El Salvador Bitcoin Drama, Twitter’s Tip Jar
NFTs, NFTs, and more NFTs – NFTs dominated this week. But, there were other significant happenings as well. Several altcoins soar high. Many countries doubled down on CBDCs. Twitter might allow you to tip the content you like in Bitcoin. These and many more are in this week’s newsletter.
How Blockchain and Other Technologies End Poverty?
This post explores the causes of poverty and how technologies such as Blockchain can help achieve SDG Goal 1.
Blockchain This Week – CBDC Experiments, Binance Woes, Crypto Partnerships, NFT Auctions
Several countries are experimenting with CBDC. Many sports clubs are partnering with crypto firms. Meanwhile, films and sports moments are becoming NFTs. Farmers are earning more for their produce using Blockchain. These and many more in this week’s newsletter.
NFT – Taking a Balanced Approach
NFT or Non-Fungible Tokens are in the news almost every single day in the past couple of months. From 69 million dollars digital artwork to 2.5 million dollar tweets, everything under the sun seems to be ensnared by the lure of tokenization. Why is there such a sudden interest? What happens when the dust around NFT settles down? How to ensure our now expensive tokens remain priceless forever?
Blockchain This Week – NFT Craze, Green Blockchain, Continued Mainstream Adoption
This week’s newsletter covers a wide range of topics – increased interest in NFTs, growing investment in Blockchain for sustainable economy use cases, among others.
Creating Sustainable Carbon Economy With Blockchain
Global warming has become a dire threat to climate in past decade. This article explores how Blockchain helps with the decarbonization goal.
US Banks To Run Blockchain Network, Issue Stablecoins
The OCC has issued a letter that further pushes the US banks in the direction of crypto. What does the OCC letter means to Blockchain? What is the impact on stablecoins and the broader crypto space?
Ethereum 2.0 – What’s the Hype?
After years in the making, finally, the much anticipated Ethereum 2.0 is here. On Dec 1, 2020, at noon UTC,…
Building Sustainable Circular Economy With Blockchain
Today, several businesses and individuals are shifting to the circular economy. Blockchain technology can drive adoption of such sustainable practices.
Blockchain This Week – Bitcoin at 16K, An Unintended Ethereum Fork
This week’s newsletter is the 25th one in the weekly newsletter series. And what a week it has been. Bitcoin soars to US $16,000. Interest for staking in Ethereum 2.0 is gaining momentum. A mysterious fork in the Ethereum Blockchain raises alarms. These and many more in this week’s Blockchain This Week.
Can CBDC Drive Financial Inclusion?
There are still 1.7 billion unbanked in the world. What are the reasons behind such a significant number of unbanked? Can CBDC drive their financial inclusion?
Influencing Traditional Voting With Blockchain
This post illustrates how we can leverage Blockchain in every stage of the election process while upholding the election integrity.
How Blockchain Can Revolutionize Micropayments?
Micropayments, as the name suggests, are transactions involving small amounts of money usually done electronically. Micropayments are an integral part of today’s subscription services and in-app payments. However, many factors, technological and economical, have hindered its widespread adoption. But, the dawn of Blockchain technology and the growing adoption of crypto and digital currencies have solved many of the longstanding issues with micropayments, leading to its increased acceptance.
Blockchain This Week – Japanese Metaverse Zone, Solana Outage, Visa and Mastercard Crypto Plans, Shappella, Silvergate
Japanese Metaverse Economic Zone Fujitsu and Mitsubishi are working together to develop a blockchain based “Japanese Metaverse Economic Zone.” To…
Blockchain This Week – Crypto On Super Bowl, Wirex and Visa Expand Partnership, Siemens’ Digital Bond, Reuters Report
Crypto Takes Back Seat High profile crypto collapse and several macroeconomic factors led to the muted presence of crypto firms…
Blockchain This Week – Crypto Donations for Turkey and Syria, Dell Joins Hedera, FTX Wants Donations Back, Digital Pound
Crypto Donations Pour into Turkey Since the fateful Monday of this week, when a devastating earthquake disrupted the lives of…
Blockchain This Week – Amazon and Crypto, Cardano’s Djed, Binance Vs WazirX, A Week Full of Investments
Amazon and Web3 Amazon is reportedly exploring several web3 avenues of late. They vary from layer 1 blockchains, NFTs, and…
Blockchain This Week – Lawmakers and Crypto, AUDN, Crypto Layoffs and Exploits
CAR Forms Committee for Crypto The Central African Republic has set up a committee, which includes representatives from various government…
Blockchain This Week – Crypto’s House of Cards, Nat Geo NFTs, FTX Reboot?
Genesis Joins the Long List of Crypto Failures Genesis Global Holdco LLC, the parent company of crypto lender Genesis, and…
Blockchain This Week – AWS to Scale Blockchain, Crypto Layoffs, GoT NFTs, Shanghai Prep
AWS Partners With Avalanche Creator Amazon Web Services is partnering with Ava Labs, the company behind Avalanche blockchain, with the…