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Galeon — Connecting Healthcare to Blockchain
Galeon, a French healthcare-based platform, is working toward connecting healthcare to blockchain.
Simultaneously, the platform wants to connect hospitals and healthcare industry stakeholders to share valuable medical information to help combat diseases and other health-related issues.
Galeon was created in 2016 by a doctor and IT and business experts. The startup aims to create the next generation of Electronic Health Records (EHR) as a medical healthcare cloud.
This essentially links nearby hospitals to one another, with the potential to connect an entire country’s hospital network.
Currently, the platform is positioned in the anesthesia and gyneco-obstetrics specialties but through the second round of its initial coin offering, Galeon will be able to expand and scale.
Through the collaborative help of hundreds of caregivers, as well as the founders, the platform was brought to life. Read More
ELECTRIC CAPITAL’S REPORT ON BEST BLOCKCHAIN ECOSYSTEMS AT PRESENT
Some of the best blockchain ecosystems based on one of the most valuable factors, developer engagements, have been revealed in a report published by Electric Capital, an early-stage venture firm that focuses on open-source repositories, fintech, cryptocurrencies, marketplaces, and blockchains. To create its developer report for 2021, the Electric Capital referred to original authors only, including non-original commits and blockchain ecosystems that generate code, keeping machine-generated code out and not counting the no-libraries. Read More
Do You Know How Much Your DeFi Exchange Is Really Charging You?
If you keep up with even a few emerging DeFi exchanges, you know that each touts itself as the next best thing, and many have interesting, enticing features that differentiate them. While it’s easy to get caught up in all the “reward tokens”, “affiliate bonuses”, and the thousands of ways you can earn yield through staking, it’s also important to remember that if we look past the crisp logos and fun names for loyalty programs, what we really care about is net growth.
I know it doesn’t have as much hype, but what really matters for any exchange is the sustainable profit you can make by investing and trading. There are a lot of variables to consider with token prices fluctuating constantly, leveraged trading strategies, and risk profiles. But at a summary level, there are two variables that matter: money in, and money out.
To give you the best chance of maximizing your net gains, we’ve studied a large sampling of exchanges and have found five steps in your trading process that can hit you with fees, and several could be mostly hidden unless you are paying close attention. Read More
PayPal Says It Is 'Exploring a Stablecoin' After Dev Discovers It in Code
PayPal started by enabling Bitcoin purchases. Now it's planning a stablecoin—an effort that got outed by a developer who caught it in the code.
For years, cryptocurrency has been hailed as a technology that would supplant centralized payment services because it could make transactions cheaper and cut out the financial intermediary.
But more and more, those legacy services are looking to incorporate crypto into their toolkits.
Today, PayPal confirmed that it is working on its own stablecoin after a developer discovered language about a "PayPal Coin" within its iPhone app. Bloomberg was the first to report the news.
PayPal told Bloomberg the code was part of a hackathon and wouldn't necessarily be representative of the final version.
"We are exploring a stablecoin," Senior VP of Crypto and Digital Currencies Jose Fernandez da Ponte told Bloomberg. "If and when we seek to move forward, we will of course, work closely with relevant regulators." Read More
IT Expert, Architect, Entrepreneur, Educator, with a Renegade Mindset
Elrond's Head Of Research, Felix Crisan, is another feather in the cap of the evolving Romania-based Blockchain company. He is an integral part of a specialized team of hard-core engineers, entrepreneurs, and researchers, who have successfully redesigned the Blockchain infrastructure.
Collectively, the team, including Co-founders, CIO, Lucian Mincu, and COO, Lucian Todea, has significant technical experience at Microsoft, Google, Intel, NTT DATA, 2 PhDs in CS & AI, multiple math, CS and AI, Olympiad champions, and blockchain backgrounds, with the CEO of Elrond, Beniamin Mincu previously involved with the NEM core team. In this article, Felix Crisan is center stage.
Elrond is setting new standards for performance in the Blockchain space with an innovative network scaling technology called Sharding, but with a difference. Sharding is a well-known concept for horizontal partitioning of databases which several companies are applying it to public Blockchains to increase their throughput capacity.
Elrond has gone one better by developing a cutting-edge form of state sharding named Adaptive State Sharding. It enables the network to rival centralized cloud networks without sacrificing blockchains' security and decentralization advantages. This, along with their Secure Proof of Stake consensus, makes Elrond a leader in the next generation of high-throughput Smart Contract platforms flourishing in the Blockchain ecosystem. Read More
Is Norton 360 Mining Ethereum In Your Computer? If It Is, They’ll Take a 15% Cut
The most popular antivirus, Norton 360, made a miner out of everyone. Even though this has been going on for a while, the Internet recently found out about it. And traditional Norton customers are livid. One of the most controversial parts of the story is the 15% cut that the company takes. This is a commercial program that you have to pay for, so it’s only logical that people are not ok with that.
Of course, Norton’s Ethereum mining program is nothing new. Seven months ago, when they were testing it out, our sister site Bitcoinist reported on it and said:
“A select number of Norton 360 customers, who joined the early adopter program, received their invites to mine Ethereum today. The program is expected to expand to include all 13 million Norton customers in the coming months.
In explaining the odd pairing, the firm said cryptocurrency mining is fraught with risk and often involves disabling security and allowing “unvetted code”. This leaves miners vulnerable to skimmed earnings and ransomware. Norton claims to address these issues by enabling users to safely and easily mine cryptocurrency through the user-friendly Norton 360 platform.”
Ok, so it’s for your own good. How could you doubt the fine folks at Norton? Read More
Binance.US to Establish Office in Portals, the Metaverse Platform on the Solana Blockchain
The US branch of the world-leading Binance exchange, Binance.US, is opening an office in Portals, the Metaverse platform on the Solana blockchain.
Portals is a web-based metaverse platform that allows users to explore buildings and interactive rooms. A cityscape is presented on this platform.
Binance exchange is not the only exchange with Portals building space. Chris Lund, Head of Community and Partnerships at Portals, said FTX.US, an offshoot of U.S.-based cryptocurrency exchange FTX, will also establish its own office at Portals.
Lund said that:
“Binance.US is getting a space in Portals Downtown with a focus on delivering the latest news, charts, and events virtually.” Read More
How Decentralization Is Fundamentally Transforming Our Use Of Technology
While centralization has been at the core of our technological evolution, it has also curbed the actual benefits of technology to a large extent. For instance, most of the existing internet infrastructure, also known as Web 2.0, is dominated by a handful of big tech companies. They exert full control over your online data and behavior, which has led to several problems like identity theft, unsolicited advertising, and other unwanted practices.
Other problems with centralization include (but aren’t limited to) uptime, censorship, data security, and privacy, and the ability to participate in the future development of the technology. On the other hand, decentralization ensures no single source or point of failure for the network. That means that even if one node goes down, the network stays up and running, substantially increasing the difficulty for an attack to take down an entire network.
Decentralization also means that you own your data and can control how it's shared with other people or entities on the internet without needing anyone’s permission (not even Google’s, Facebook’s, or Amazon’s). In this digital age, people are getting more and more privacy-concerned. Accordingly, the coming migration from Web 2.0 to Web 3.0 is inevitable.
Blockchain-based projects are playing a key role in this movement. Read More
Polygon Co-Founder Weighs In On Solana Vs Polygon Debate
Sandeep Nailwal, the co-founder of Polygon, believes that heavyweight marketing plays a significant role in the decentralized crypto-system, pointing out that Solana is getting significantly more traction due to heavy institutional marketing.
Studying The Data: Spencer Noon, one of the most popular crypto analysts, put out a tweet on the Solana vs. Polygon debate. He stated that most Web3 enthusiasts consider Solana the second most popular and used smart contract platform. However, a look under the hood, more specifically at the "daily active users," reveals a different story.
Noon stated that data does not support the claim that Solana is the #2 smart contract platform, with Solana having an average of 180,000 active users and Polygon having an average of 270,000 active users.
Sandeep Nailwal Responds: Polygon co-founder Sandeep Nailwal responded to Spencer Noon, stating,
"I feel that the thought Solana has more traction than @0xPolygon is more common amongst newer Web3 entrants as they are influenced by awesome US institutional marketing." Read More
Disclaimer: These articles are provided for informational purposes only. They are not offered or intended to be used as legal, tax, investment, financial, or any other advice.
