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Not just NFTs: Colnago to use blockchain technology for bike authentication
Colnago to use digital technology behind cryptocurrencies for verified frame ownership in an attempt to prevent stop theft and counterfeiting
After raising eyebrows by auctioning a C64 NFT back in May, iconic brand Colnago has announced another blockchain-backed project, this time using the technology to validate and verify its new frames from 2022.
The outfit has partnered with fellow Italian brand MyLime, which will connect each new Colnago frame to the Automotive Blockchain, a digital service that will store and protect the unique manufacturing, transport, and sales records. Read More
Gluwa and Aella Announce Over 1 Million Transactions across Africa on Blockchain
Gluwa first partnered with Aella, which was then a lending platform for unbanked and underbanked individuals in emerging markets, four years ago, but only carried out the integration of their respective wallets in June.
Borderless financial platform Gluwa, after its recent integration of the Gluwa wallet into Aella’s consumer credit app, has recorded over a million transactions on its blockchain across Africa since June. The Aella app serves almost two million customers across Africa and has all transactions on the wallet recorded on the Luniverse Sidechain.
These transactions, including payments, remittances, investments, and other activities that currently occur in the wallet are also transparently added to Gluwa’s custom Luniverse sidechain, which according to the financial platform, has facilitated over a million transactions with over 28 million blocks produced to date. Read More
SX Network, the First Public Blockchain for Prediction Markets
SX Network becomes the first public blockchain designed for prediction markets.
SX Network published the news on its Medium blog.
SX Network becomes the first public blockchain designed for prediction markets. The platform links smart contracts with an on-chain community treasury and a prediction market protocol. Read More
VelasPad Launch Spurs Blockchain Growth and Development
As the blockchain industry grows, the market is becoming more competitive. Users opt for faster, more efficient, and more affordable services as they try to avoid the volatile and high fees on the popular Ethereum network. This is one of the issues that VelasPad provides a solution for. The launchpad recently took off with the goal of empowering projects to build on the Velas blockchain — a leading blockchain with high transactions-per-second (TPS) and rock-bottom costs.
The benefits of having a native launchpad are astronomical. This not only helps projects gather funds, but also provides a platform to issue tokens transparently and fairly. Read More
An innovation that is set to change the way we work and interact online.
The Markethive Social Market Broadcasting Network becomes more prominent daily as the blockchain-driven ecosystem for entrepreneurs with a non-adversarial, bi-partisan free speech ethic and the collaborative culture we rarely see on social media platforms today. Even the newer acclaimed free speech platforms are partisan to the left or right and deal with de-platforming and boycotts from payment providers.
It’s widely notorious that the actions of the tech giants have divided nations and are the source of countless societal harms, including rampant censorship, promoting violent extremism, spreading false information, and unfairly stamping out its competition.
Instead of improving the user experience to one that users would welcome, legacy big tech is somewhat distracted by its self-induced problems. It’s now under scrutiny by government policymakers with the overall consensus that something should be done to reign in the centralized power or structurally break up the technocracy. Read More
DeFi gaming: A catalyst to mainstream adoption of decentralized finance
Gaming is on track to boost the adoption of DeFi platforms. Here is a look at the latest developments that are pushing the play-to-earn business model.
The past few months have seen decentralized finance (DeFi) platforms gain a cult-like following on the backdrop of a bullish cryptocurrency market. That revolution of digital money is now moving into the gaming industry, creating an intersection between DeFi and the gaming experience that experts now predict will play a huge role in the next generation of games.
DeFi-focused tokens such as Polkadot (DOT), Solana (SOL), and Chainlink (INK), to mention a few, have had euphoric moments in the markets, gaining major traction as major developments continue.
Investors and speculators should expect even more going forward, given the bold move made by the likes of Solana Foundation and Houbi Ventures to invest in early-stage blockchain-based gaming platforms that incorporate DeFi into their system. Read More
DeFi: Who, what, and how to regulate in a borderless, code-governed world?
The decentralized, disintermediated, and borderless blockchain networks challenge regulators, but DeFi is the future of finance.
Hold onto your hats, boys, and girls! It’s a new world — a financial system without intermediaries, that anyone can access 24 hours a day with only a mobile phone and a wallet! As Julien Bouteloup said to me:
“In DeFi, what we are building is fully decentralized technology, fully transparent, run by mathematics. No one can beat that.”
He continued: “We are building on research papers, 40 years of research, fundamental research, discrete mathematics being built and put on-chain that no one can beat. You cannot beat that. GitHub didn't exist in the ‘90s. First, the fact that we're going at the speed of light, is because everything is open source, and everyone can participate.” Read More
Charles Hoskinson Outlines Future for Cardano at Virtual Conference
Cardano has partnered with a major US telco company.
At Cardano Summit 2021, about a hundred bobbing avatars representing ADA fans from across the world huddle together and watch Charles Hoskinson explain the future of Cardano. We’re riding a giant flying turtle. Stingrays soar up above.
Hoskinson says that Input Output, the software company that creates Cardano, is like Apple, the subtext being that we’re watching the next Steve Jobs. But the difference is that Hoskinson will soon cease to play a leading part in his thriving ecosystem, and we, the bobbles, who by now are throbbing with excitement, we will be the next Steve Jobs. Read More
Polkadot’s Gavin Wood Talks Up Decentralization And Hints At Parachains Launch
On September 14, the Solana network witnessed an outage that took it offline for 17 hours. It was a major setback for the high-speed blockchain that has seen rapid growth in recent months, catapulting Solana into the top ten crypto projects by market cap. However, no funds were lost and the network returned to full functionality in under 24 hours.
Following the outage, Polkadot co-founder Gavin Wood took to Twitter to stress the importance of the decentralization and security models deployed in crypto networks, saying: “Events of today in crypto just go to show that genuine decentralization and well-designed security make a far more valuable proposition than some big tps numbers coming from an exclusive and closed set of servers. If you can't run a full-node yourself then it's just another bank.” Read More
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