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Opera Unveils Web 3 Focused Crypto Browser Project
The beta version of Opera’s new internet browser is available to its Windows, Mac, and Android users. The company will release the final product in months.
Opera, the Norwegian multinational technology company behind the popular namesake internet browser, has announced the beta version of its all-new – “Crypto Browser Project.”
The blog post revealed that the new initiative has built-in Web 3 features, with the end goal – to accelerate the evolution of the next generation of the Web. Opera’s Crypto Browser Project aims to provide additional functionality than the traditional browser and is intended to work with different types of decentralized apps (dApps).
The product provides access to the latest blockchain news, upcoming airdrops, events calendar, NFTs, crypto communities, educational content, podcasts, and videos. Additionally, users can also check crypto prices, gas fees, as well as general market sentiment.
Opera also said they could access crypto and sign in to dApps directly from the browser with the help of the new native non-custodial crypto wallet. There is no need to install any extensions, native ad-blocker and tracker blocker, or log browser VPN. Crypto Browser Project boasts a secure clipboard that enables users to copy and paste safely. Read More
DART Beyond Blockchain | Fastest Blockchain in the World
Dart blockchain will be the Fastest Blockchain Network in the World – Sri Vamsi Andukuri, CTO, Darts Blockchain
Dart Network is here to provide a private network-like performance and security over the public internet. A dart network uses sharding of data by splitting a blockchain network into separate shards reduced the latency or slowness of a network.
Interoperability enables blockchains to share and access their data and interoperate with one another. Dart comes with the Delegated Proof of Stake (DPoS) consensus Algorithm to meet the scale of the global audience. Dart prioritizes security with Protocol level anonymity which is suited for both unicast as well as multicast applications.
Dart is extensible due to its extremely customizable and upgradeable nature. It has a quick time-to-market, and community collaborations keep Dart modular. It can be fully integrated with other dApps. Dart networks have made it possible to create dapps with no restrictions said Sri Vamsi Andukuri, CTO – DartBlockChain
Dart is undoubtedly the next-gen solution to the future of dApps and Blockchain. Read More
Taproot Brings New Technology And Functionality To The Liquid Network And Bitcoin
With block 1,663,200, the Taproot soft fork went live on the Liquid Network, the world’s leading sidechain. The activation is significant as it marks the Liquid Network’s latest upgrade and brings new use cases, technology, and functionality to the ecosystem.
The latest upgrade was completed on Sunday, and the Liquid Network took to Twitter to announce the news.
“Liquid received its latest upgrade this past Sunday. Taproot and new opcodes were activated on the world’s leading sidechain, enabling all of the benefits of Taproot as well as new use cases made possible by the new opcodes.”
With Taproot now live on Liquid, significant improvements can be implemented to the sidechain.
Privacy improvement through unused script branch hiding
The use of scriptless scripts for moving BTC on or off Liquid through Swap Transactions
More efficiency when it comes to multisignature transactions
Blech32m encoding for confidential addresses Read More
Cardashift Is Building a Cardano-Powered Launchpad For Sustainable Impact
From tokenized factories to aquaculture, Cardashift will support projects in the digital and physical spheres.
Paris-based, crypto-powered launchpad Cardashift is building on its founders’ experience and the power of blockchain technologies to fund, champion, and guide projects toward transformative impact—in both the digital and physical spheres.
Cardashift co-founder Vincent Katchavenda told Decrypt how stakeholders will benefit from an entirely new approach to funding and nurturing these initiatives—one that produces results sooner rather than later.
A blockchain-powered launchpad - Cardashift combines elements of Kickstarter and Y Combinator in a launchpad powered by the cryptocurrency CLAP. CLAP, Cardashift's utility token, is used by the community to vote on which projects should win their support.
The launchpad was born out of the merger of three well-established startups: blockchain innovation company SmartChain, design studio Matters, and “radical innovation” consultancy Stim, which specializes in business models that are both profitable and sustainable. Read More
Markethive, the blockchain-driven ecosystem for entrepreneurs, has already successfully bypassed the centralized web services, like AWS and Microsoft, and operates on its own cloud system. The new login system Markethive has developed relinquished the need for 3rd party APIs that are potential vulnerabilities in Web 2 and threaten our freedoms.
Currently, Markethive is expanding its cloud system, called Mining Hives, worldwide. This means all data about Markethive and its users will not be stored on servers owned and controlled by a centralized entity.
Instead, it is a distributed database on the Markethive Blockchain with no single point of failure and no internet disruption or censoring by dictatorial authorities who may decide to shut off the internet.
Web 3 gives us a better chance at building a more inclusive internet that respects all who use it. Decentralized networks can win the third era of the internet for the same reason they won the first era: by winning the hearts and minds of entrepreneurs and developers.
Web 3 is an opportunity to distribute the wealth amongst the rest of us generally paid only to shareholders. Markethive stands tall and is dedicated to delivering the emerging environment of Web 3 to its community; one of self and financial sovereignty. Read More
Cardano (ADA) Metaverse Launches With Thousands Investing in Its Digital Real Estate
Play-to-earn gaming and non-fungible token (NFT) project Pavia is premiering on the Cardano (ADA) network months after the fifth-largest blockchain by market cap rolled out smart contract features.
In a press release, Pavia says that it is the “first Cardano metaverse,” a virtual reality space that allows real-world activities and forms to be replicated digitally.
While the Cardano network is named after the Italian mathematician Gerolamo Cardano, the Pavia metaverse project is named in honor of the mathematician’s birthplace – Pavia, Northern Italy.
The metaverse project says that it has approximately 100,000 NFT land parcels and 60% have already sold out. Pavia says that 29,000 land parcels were sold during the first phase and 31,000 land parcels during the second phase of the virtual land sales. Read More
Privacy-Focused Blockchain Secret Network Announces $400M in Funding
The project includes a $225 million ecosystem fund and $175 million accelerator pool.
Data privacy-focused blockchain Secret Network has announced a new $225 million ecosystem fund and a $175 million accelerator pool, building on the recently revealed initiative called Shockwave that's aimed at making the network a key part of Web 3.
The Secret ecosystem fund will provide long-term financial and strategic support to developers and founders building on the network, SCRT Labs, the core development team behind the network, said in a blog post on Wednesday.
A long list of investment partners, including Alameda Research, Arrington Capital, CoinFund, and DeFiance Capital, chipped in.
“The primary goal of the ecosystem fund is to ensure that every individual, team, and organization building on Secret has a clear path to self-sustainability and support in bringing their products to market,” the Secret Network team wrote.
The accelerator pool is funded in SCRT, the network’s native token, and is primarily managed by SCRT Labs. The pool will support decentralized finance (DeFi), non-fungible tokens (NFTs), gaming, metaverse, and other kinds of applications on the network. Read More
Why 2022 Will Be A Pivotal Year For The TON Blockchain
Telegram co-founder and CEO Pavel Durov believes the TON blockchain he helped to create is not only alive and kicking, but "evolving fast" and more than capable of living up to its promise of mass adoption.
After months of quietly working in the background, TON's new development team announced this month that it's finally "on the cusp of something great" and that its goal this year is to effectively surpass all other blockchains.
The project began life as the official blockchain of Telegram, one of the most popular social media channels in the crypto industry, before being open-sourced in 2019. It has now been under development for four long years, but 2022 is poised to be a transformational year.
It is aiming to create a single, decentralized network with super-fast transactions and low fees that's able to connect to every other blockchain, in effect uniting them all into just one, super-massive chain. It's a network that its creators say will serve as the foundation for web3. Read More
How HR Departments Can Leverage Blockchain to Streamline Processes, Trends to Look Out For in 2022
Thanks to its many advantages, including full transparency, immutability, decentralization, and automation, blockchain is considered to be one of the key future technologies for human resource management. One of the broadest areas of application is in the remuneration process, which can be automated using the blockchain and the digital currencies it supports.
Blockchain’s potential as an employee management tool can be demonstrated by reference to the latest trends of 2022. Statistics indicate that one of the main drivers of employee turnover is the search for higher salaries, followed by the desire for professional advancement and personal reasons. This last category is best understood in the light of other trends in the industry that help explain the underlying reasons for employee migration.
Over 80% of companies consider their internal processes to be excessively complex, which directly impacts employee morale and engagement rates. Flexible hours and partially remote teams have become important factors in employers’ selection of their workforces. With over 50% of employees believing that balancing their work-home life routines has become impossible, it is not surprising that the pandemic has prompted a rise in the number of freelancers. Over 64% of full-time employees are willing to go freelance, making this one of the key trends of 2022. Read More
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