Blockchain


Opinion

How AI, Web3 and Humans Can Work Together to Solve Complex, Global Problems

Fear abounds about AI, but the technology combined with blockchain can serve as an excellent complement to human ingenuity.

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Videos

Author Outlines the Need for CBDCs in a 'Multi-Money Universe'

Koray Caliskan, author of "Data Money: Inside Cryptocurrencies, Their Communities, Markets, and Blockchains," argues that nothing could be more wrong than avoiding a central bank digital currency, emphasizing that “the public needs to have" CBDCs to follow the movement and discuss the nature of uses of a multi-money universe in our new economies.

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Tech

Shibarium Blockchain's Ethereum Bridge Goes Live for Testing as SHIB Tries to Shed Meme Coin Tag

The Shiba Inu-based layer 2 blockchain is expected to start operations next month.

A Shiba Inu, the breed which inspired Dogecoin. (Payless)

Consensus Magazine

Tokenization News Roundup: Avalanche Invests $50M in RWA

Competition among blockchains and regions like Asia to grab some of the RWA market, new lending pool that supports Colombian farmers, the first-ever tokenization under Spain’s new laws, how the U.K’s regulations may lead to the country becoming a tokenization hub, and more for the week ending July 27, 2023.

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Policy

U.K. Move to Digitize Trade Documents Could Rely on Blockchain, Government Says

The Electronic Trade Documents Act, set to take effect later this year, could make use of blockchain tech to improve security and reduce costs.

Trade (Ian Taylor/Unsplash)

Markets

Bitcoin Long-Term Holders Control 75% of Circulating Supply: Glassnode

The balance kept in addresses that hold coins for at least 155 days has increased by $1.87 billion this month.

Bitcoin long-term holder supply (Glassnode)

Markets

Large Crypto Token Unlocks Drive Prices Lower Within Two Weeks, Research Suggests

Unlocks are staggered releases of cryptocurrencies that had been frozen to prevent early investors or project team members from selling in large numbers.

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Tech

StarkWare’s ‘Starknet Stacks’ Could Add to Growing Field of Blockchain-in-a-Box Offerings

The announcement is part of a growing trend in Ethereum’s layer-2 ecosystem, where developers can create application-specific chains using the blockchain’s native software stack.

StarkWare co-founders CEO Uri Kolodny and President Eli Ben-Sasson (Natalie Schor/StarkWare)

Markets

1Inch Token Balance on Centralized Exchanges Surges to $65M

The balance held in wallets tied to centralized exchange has surged by 50% in three days, per Glassnode data.

The chart shows the number of 1INCH held in wallets tied to centralized exchanges has surged to record highs.

Markets

Stride Blockchain Will Move to ATOM-Powered Security Model

Stride's native token STRD trades 0.7% higher as the transition is expected to beef up the liquid staking protocol's security by several thousand percent.

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