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Audius: Meet The Platform Looking To Shake Up The Crypto Music World
Audius, a “new kid on the blockchain”, is looking to shape an entirely new way of music distribution between artists and fans. AudioCoin breaks down the barriers of traditional music financing, directly connecting artists and fans through a transparent, distributed ledger.
For those who are familiar with audio platform Soundcloud, you will understand Audius has gained similar comparisons because of its ‘artist-first’ mentality. This approach allowed Soundcloud to birth many successful artists, such as Chance The Rapper, because of the platform’s ability to drive music to fans with minimal label interference. How does this tie into Audius, as well as cryptocurrency more broadly? The platform is using the blockchain to connect sellers and consumers within music in a similar vein as Soundcloud. Read More
Flow Blockchain Now ‘Controlled by Community,’ Says Dapper Labs
The network behind NBA Top Shot has gradually decentralized, with Dapper now running less than one-third of the total nodes.
Dapper Labs’ Flow blockchain is one of the most prominent networks in the rising NFT market, powering NBA Top Shot to more than $750 million of secondary market trading volume to date. As the firm expands into new NFT projects and other directions, it has also been working to further decentralize the Flow network.
Now, a Dapper representative tells Decrypt that the Flow is “fully open and controlled by the community,” with the firm running less than one-third of the active consensus nodes that maintain the proof-of-stake network. The company claims that 68% of nodes are now operated by external Flow validators. Read More
Binance USD (BUSD): A Case Study for Stablecoin Compliance and Security
Binance USD (BUSD) has become one of the fastest-growing cryptocurrencies in the world, with a variety of use cases and growing demand amid the continued growth of the crypto markets. A key component to BUSD’s success is its unwavering compliance to the world’s most stringent regulatory standards, ensuring safety and security for all of the stablecoin’s users. Read More
Polkadot and Ethereum 2.0 — A Look at the Solutions Building the Scalability of Tomorrow
Both Ethereum 2.0 and Polkadot are promising sharding-based protocols overcoming the scalability challenges facing legacy blockchains. Although slightly different, together, the Relay Chain and Beacon Chain represent another significant leap forward, especially for interoperability.
Scalability has been a hotly debated topic after networks bumped up against the limits over the last year. Yet, long before it entered the mainstream conversation, developers postulated several angles of attack. Despite the triumphant launch of layer 2 approaches in 2021, layer 1 sharding solutions have long been in the pipeline.
When it comes to partitioned blockchain protocols, Polkadot and Ethereum 2.0 represent the most prominent names pursuing this scalability avenue. These partitions, or shards, are a means of executing transactions in separate shards along with a protocol to send messages between shards. Through sharding, both networks deliver an excellent solution to significantly increase network performance and capacity without increasing node hardware requirements or reducing the degree of decentralization. Read More
A Divine Vision
Markethive owns and operates on its independent servers and is underpinned by Blockchain with its Hivecoin (HVC). Due to Markethive’s infrastructure, the Markethive Consumer Coin will be one of the few cryptocurrencies that will remain strong, gathering momentum in this time of transition to a digital economy.
Markethive is a divine vision that will thrive in these end times, driven by the community, with the velocity effect required to maximize the economy. Supply and demand within the Markethive ecosystem will result in financial sovereignty, autonomy, privacy, and peace.
As we move forward with a digital economy, Bitcoin and purposeful altcoins will become the foundation of business. Markethive is a decentralized social media, marketing, and broadcasting network, with the imminent release of its exchange and wallet. That makes it an all-encompassing platform that is essential in these dark times of division and derision and critical for humanity’s financial health and well-being. Read More
McLaren And Tezos To Launch NFT Collectibles On Sweet Marketplace
The NFT collection, called McLaren Racing Collective, will be launched in collaboration with Tezos blockchain on the Sweet marketplace to engage with millions of Formula 1 fans worldwide.
NFTs For Formula 1 Fans - The news of the NFT collection was announced via a press release on the official McLaren website. The collection will provide fans and NFT enthusiasts the opportunity to own a piece of digital memorabilia from the McLaren Racing Collective. The collectible launch is a part of McLaren’s initiative to reach out to its massive global fanbase and community and engage with them through an innovative digital platform. Read More
Epic Games is “open” to blockchain games according to CEO
Video game publisher Epic Games has said it is “open” to games that feature blockchain technology or support cryptocurrency payments.
The company’s position follows Steam, its main competitor, announcing it would not be allowing games that use cryptocurrency or NFTs on its platform.
Whilst Epic’s CEO Tim Sweeney has said the company will not be supporting or publishing NFT-based games, it has differentiated itself from Steam in showing support for blockchain-based technology. Read More
Associated Press plans to launch Chainlink node to publish data
The news agency added it would be open to shifting its approach based on the response from developers as it kept "a finger on the pulse of the blockchain economy."
The Associated Press news agency announced it would be launching its own Chainlink oracle node to ensure any data from its U.S. newspaper and broadcaster members would be cryptographically verified.
In an Oct. 21 announcement, the Associated Press, or AP, said smart contract developers would have access to the agency’s “economic, sports, and race call data” once the node was operational. According to the AP, it will be publishing data on-chain for developers to access and reference in any relevant applications, in addition to providing information on upcoming elections and serving artists working with nonfungible tokens. Read More
Breaking Google’s monopoly: Internxt pushes decentralized cloud as privacy concerns grow
Data monopolists like Google have abused their position, according to Internxt's Fran Villalba Segarra. Decentralized architecture offers a solution.
Privacy-focused blockchain file storage service Internxt has a lofty vision: leverage decentralized technology to break Big Tech’s monopoly over user data. Its first product, Internxt Drive, aims to compete as an alternative to Google Drive and Dropbox — without compromising personal privacy and data ownership.
In an exclusive interview with Cointelegraph, Internxt CEO Fran Villalba Segarra described the core technology behind his product and explained why privacy should be considered a fundamental human right. He also explained the perils of centralized architecture, why Big Tech constantly violates user privacy, and what’s in store for internet users in the era of Web 3. Read More
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