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Explaining the choice of the Flow blockchain as the backbone of its project, Max Weber, the CEO of B-Side Games, praised the consumer and developer-centric nature of Flow.
Tether (USDT) staged an unprecedented run in the last 30 days to a 20% increase in volume to reach the cumulative transaction volume of the stated amount.
Stellar became the official blockchain for the USDC stablecoin, after Circle added the USDC support to the Algorand blockchain in June 2020.
Although the Bitcoin blockchain lacks the infrastructural model to enable interoperability and power a DeFi landscape like Ethereum, the asset is increasingly being used to provide liquidity in the DeFi market.
While decentralized exchanges are being heavily pushed in the cryptocurrency industry, it will take a while before they can really take over centralized exchanges.
Applications for the Algorand Europe Accelerator are currently open until December 18, 2020.
The Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin noted that the sharding implementation can take time. Meanwhile, he advised users to move to other layer-2 scaling solutions like rollups that offer 100x transaction throughput.
The Clover blockchain aims to bring cross-chain compatibilities to the DeFi market and will leverage Polkadot’s parachain infrastructure for transferring assets and value across different platforms.
About 47.6% of the Ripple community members who participated in the poll said that they are ‘Extremely Likely’ to recommend the XRP coin to their family and friends.
According to Schwartz, project founders are not bound to have complete faith in their abilities and ideas. He indicated that by not having complete faith, they can make better decisions.
The initiative taken by IBM Watson Health to develop the Digital Health Pass is one of the many innovations that is currently being explored by the company.
As a result of the partnership with MarketAcross, Chainwire customers will have a wide range of packages to access based on their budget.
The free digital yuan currency awarded in the lottery can be spent only in 3389 stores that are set up to handle electronic payments.
The progress made with the Ethereum 2.0 testnet Zinkel, Medalla as well as others, gives a renewed hope of the migration of the network before the end of this year.
The year 2020 has been full of blockchain game launches that widened the horizon for gamers and crypto users alike.