Five Social Networks Defending Against Blockchain Disruption

Getty Images, Illustration by Forbes Social networks are really the ultimate middlemen. We yearn for communication; they orchestrate it, reaping hefty profits—a situation ripe for disruption by blockc...

The Hottest Cryptocurrency Trading Platform Launched

The popularity of bitcoin is constantly increasing due to the growing interest in cryptocurrencies. As the value of bitcoin keeps increasing, many people are embracing cryptocurrency trading. Traders ...

DeFi Project Aave Launches Decentralized Social Media Platform on Polygon

Decentralized finance (DeFi) platform Aave has announced the launch of Lens Protocol, a decentralized social media platform built on the Polygon blockchain. Named after lens culinaris, a plant that ha...

Bit Hotel is refining gaming and real estate through blockchain

With a nostalgic 8-bit design and tradeable in-game NFTs such as characters, rooms and furniture, a metaverse game by the name of Bit Hotel is looking to become a heavy hitter in the space. Playing a ...

Aave’s Launch Of The Lens Protocol Signals The Dawn Of Decentralized Social Media

Aave has made the leap from Decentralized Finance (DeFi) to social media when it officially debuted “Lens.” Lens was launched after months of teasing by the DeFi giant, with Aave finally unveiling the...

Blockchain Investments in 2021 Surpasses Past 3 Years’ Total Capital Raised: KPMG

The blockchain ecosystem might still be relatively tagged as new. However, when it comes to funding and recognition by Venture Capital (VC) Firms, they are arguably fast attaining maturity.  According...

Long-Time Blockchain Advocate Congressman Tom Emmer Takes Aim at CBDC Bill

HodlX Guest Post  Submit Your Post   Minnesota Congressman Tom Emmer, former co-chair of the bipartisan Congressional Blockchain Caucus, made rumblings this past month over the Fed’s role of issuing a...

Saudi Digital Academy Partners With BSV Association to Establish New Blockchain Academy

The Saudi Arabian Digital Academy has partnered with the Bitcoin Satoshi Vision (BSV) Association to establish a new blockchain academy in the country.  Billed as the first Blockchain Academy in the e...

New release of Quant’s blockchain gateway introduces smart contract creation » CryptoNinjas

Quant, a provider of enterprise-grade interoperability for the secure exchange of information and digital assets across any network, platform, or protocol, announced newly announced a new release for ...

Nigerian Blockchain Advocacy Group Calls Crypto “Legit”; Insists On Regulation

The Nigerian Government had imposed a ban on crypto exactly a year ago in February 2021. The ban did nothing in terms of putting a lid on cryptocurrency trading; crypto adoption started to look promis...

Q4′ 21 & January blockchain private funding recap

February 7, 2022, 3:24PM EST • 9 min read Quick Take For a fourth consecutive quarter, the blockchain/crypto sector saw historic levels of capital allocation by private investors NFTs/Gaming accounted...

Aave officially debuts protocol for decentralized social media, dubbed Lens

advertisement Aave’s long-in-the-making protocol for a decentralized social media ecosystem was unveiled on Monday. Dubbed Lens Protocol, the project is described as “[a] permissionless, c...

Aleo Blockchain Obtains $200M for Privacy-Minded DeFi

TL;DR Breakdown SoftBank, Tiger, and other investors contribute $200 million to Aleo, a blockchain firm with a focus on privacy. Aloe will use the money to assist developers in creating apps on its pr...

Hackers steal 4.4 million from blockchain infrastructure firm Meter

California based blockchain infrastructure company Meter is the latest victim of a cyber attack, losing $4.4 million on Saturday in eth and btc.  According to blockchain analytics firm PeckShield, Met...

Blockchain project Aleo raises $200M from SoftBank, Tiger, and others

Aleo, a blockchain project focused on privacy through zero-knowledge-proof technology, has raised $200 million in a Series B funding round. SoftBank Vision Fund 2 and Kora Management co-led the round,...

FED Experiments New Digital Currency But Its “Not A Blockchain”; Here’s Why

Boston FED and MIT collaborated on a digital dollar experiment that resulted in a functional and fault-tolerant central bank digital currency (CBDC) architecture capable of handling 1.7 million transa...

Sequoia leads $450 million investment in Polygon blockchain

The logo of cryptocurrency network Polygon. Jakub Porzycki | NurPhoto via Getty Images Sequoia Capital is playing catchup with arch-rival Andreessen Horowitz in the race to invest in what could be the...

Shiba Inu Leads Market Comeback With Massive 22% Leap As Launch Of Its Layer-2 Blockchain Nears ⋆ ZyCrypto

Advertisement &nbsp &nbsp After a very rocky start to the year, crypto assets started showing signs of major price recovery. Bitcoin and ethereum have reclaimed the $42,000 an...

Google eyeing Web3 and blockchain tech

TL;DR Breakdown Alphabet’s CEO, Sundar Pichai, revealed Google wants to contribute to Web3 Google will notably invest in Augmented Reality  (AR) The company’s cloud division looking to hire blockchain...

Nigerian Blockchain Advocacy Group Says ‘Crypto Is Legit’ — Calls for Regulation of Industry – Regulation Bitcoin News

The Nigerian blockchain advocacy group, the Stakeholders in Blockchain Technology Association of Nigeria (SIBAN), has said crypto is legit and must be regulated. The group adds that any such regulatio...

Manchester United Set to Showcase Tezos Blockchain Shirt Sponsorship

Tezos is not unfamiliar with the sports industry as the blockchain has already established multiple deals with professional teams. Now, the network has taken the initiative to allegedly strike a deal ...

Florida Home to Be Sold as an NFT, Decentralized Organization Seeks Bel Air Megamansion – Blockchain Bitcoin News

According to a California-based real estate technology company called Propy, a four-bedroom home in Gulfport, Florida, will be tokenized leveraging non-fungible token (NFT) technology and sold for $65...

Argo Blockchain’s BTC Mining Revenue Drops to £5.26M in January

Argo Blockchain (LSE: ARB; NASDAQ: ARBK), a cryptocurrency mining company listed in London and New York, released an operational update on Monday, revealing that it has mined 172 Bitcoin or ‘Bitcoin E...

RSS3 aims to be the decentralized information processor of Web3

Really Simple Syndication (RSS), the first information distribution protocol that saw massive adoption across the internet is all set to take on Web3 with a decentralized information processing protoc...

Charge DeFi: Creating stability with algorithms in a decentralized way

The cryptocurrency market grew 600% year-to-date, with its value now standing at a staggering $2.8 trillion according to data from cryptocurrency market analytics company, Footprint Analytics. This ha...

Charge DeFi: How Algorithms Create Stability in a Decentralized Way

The cryptocurrency market grew 600% year-to-date, with its value now standing at a staggering $2.8 trillion according to data from cryptocurrency market analytics company, Footprint Analytics. This ha...

MetaShooter Launches The First Decentralized Blockchain-Based Hunting Metaverse on Cardano

The MetaShooter team launches the very first Decentralized Blockchain-Based Hunting Metaverse on Cardano. According to the team, hunting lovers who prefers to be part of the community can have the fol...

Solana blockchain’s shine has turned into doubts

Solana is one of the potential blockchain projects in the crypto ecosystem. Following the services offered by the blockchain, many deemed it as an Ethereum Killer. The project promised to deliver the ...

Google Exploring Blockchain Products — CEO Shares Web3 Strategies – Featured Bitcoin News

Google has shared some details of its web3 and blockchain strategies. “As a company, we are looking at how we might contribute to the ecosystem and add value,” said Sundar Pichai, the CEO of Google an...

What is Harmony (ONE) blockchain and why it is getting so much traction?

Harmony is getting a lot of traction because it addresses core blockchain concerns, is energy-efficient, has cross-chain capabilities, offers lower gas fees and has a huge potential for nonfungible to...

BSV Association Partners With Saudi Digital Academy To Launch BSV Blockchain Academy In Saudi Arabia

The BSV blockchain’s Switzerland-based industry association and the Saudi Digital Academy (SDA) have signed a memorandum of understanding to launch a BSV Blockchain Academy in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.  T...

England’s Manchester United Set to Unveil Tezos Blockchain Shirt Sponsorship, Report – Blockchain Bitcoin News

Tezos blockchain has reportedly agreed to a training kit sponsorship with Manchester United in a deal that will see the latter receive over $27 million per year. This deal adds to Tezos’ growing list ...