Back in June, we covered Decentral Games after the startup landed a $1 million MANA grant from Decentraland DAO to support ICE liquidity. The award, which followed a hard-fought battle, supported the Decentral Games’ $ICE token and the rollout of its […]
Today, open-source blockchain network Tezos welcomes the release of Yupana.Finance on its platform. Developed by a team of blockchain engineers at Madfish, Yupana.Finance is a decentralized and the first non-custodial lending protocol on Tezos. With this launch, Madfish is providing the […]
Energy powers the world. Today, nuclear power currently provides about 20 percent of US electricity— and 50 percent of its carbon-free electricity, according to data from the US Energy Information and Administration (EIA). However, what’s rarely discussed is the overall energy lifecycle […]
In the past two years, China began to crack down on tech companies, wiping billions of dollars of value from its most prominent companies including Alibaba. Then in May, the Chinese government showed signs of easing its crackdown on the country’s tech […]
Smart contracts have emerged as one of the most fundamental technologies in decentralized networks, forming the basis of today’s growing blockchain industry. It’s smart contracts that allow DeFi applications to process transactions, and NFTs and the metaverse to function in […]
With the rise of challenger banks and neobanks, community financial institutions in the United States continue to face existential threats from fintech companies, national banks, and accounting package vendors that are offering a competitive suite of payment solutions to SMBs. Now, […]
Dutch authorities announced on Friday they had arrested a 29-year-old man believed to be a developer for the cryptocurrency mixer Tornado Cash. The announcement comes just a few days after the US Treasury put the notorious crypto startup on its sanctions list. […]
Just two days after the launch of its ANKR token staking to allow Web3 users to earn rewards, Web3 infrastructure provider Ankr announced today it has received a strategic investment from Binance Labs to further improve the scalability of blockchain networks. The […]
Data breaches in the US hit a record high in 2021 affecting nearly 300 million victims. The cost of a data breach continues to skyrocket. According to a recent IBM study conducted by the Ponemon Institute, data breaches cost American companies on average […]
While some may disagree about the true cause of climate change, everyone agrees that global warming is bad because of its disastrous ecological consequences and potentially lead to a dramatic transformation of our planet as we know it. But there are also some […]
TikTok parent-company ByteDance’s healthcare unit in China, Xiaohe Health, has acquired a high-end private hospital chain called Amcare Healthcare in a deal worth $1.5 billion, according to a report from Bloomberg. A spokesperson for Xiaohe Health also confirmed the acquisition. The announcement is […]
Just 5 years ago, the world had 5 million social media creators. Today, that number is over 50 million. With this increase also comes the need to train and empower creators to adapt to changing technology and be equipped with […]
Quick Take • 70% of the tokens are distributed to the node — 49% going to individual stakers and 51% allocated to node providers • 30% of the tokens go to the Ankr Treasury (controlled by Ankr DAO) • Nodes […]
These days, leading grocers and retailers are constantly exploring smart cart technologies to meet the growing demand for frictionless shopping and cashier-less checkout. However, introducing purpose-built smart carts to a store is often operationally complicated and very costly. Enter Shopic, a […]
Softbank reports its biggest loss ever, posted a $23.4 billion in quarterly loss as the global market sell-off spread to tech stocks and shredded valuations at its Vision Fund unit. The announcement comes just two years after the Japanese giant posted a […]
Late last month, we wrote about VinFast after the new Vietnamese electric vehicle (EV) tech startup made its push into the US market. VinFast is a subsidiary of Vingroup, Vietnam’s largest conglomerate founded by Vietnam’s richest man Phạm Nhật Vượng. […]
Commission-free stock and trading app Robinhood is laying off 780 staff, about 23% of its total workforce. The layoffs followed a previous round of layoffs that the company announced in April, which saw 9% of its people (~342 people) out of jobs. […]
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has awarded a task order contract to the New York UAS Test Site (NYUASTS) for the next uncrewed aircraft systems (UAS or drone) integration project to help advance the reality of safe, high-volume drone operations, […]
Crypto exchange Coinbase has partnered with the world’s largest asset manager BlackRock to offer direct access to bitcoin to some institutional clients. The partnership further shows that the ongoing crypto bear market has done little to stop investors’ interest in […]
In the past three years, over 80% of producers recorded an unexpected downtime in manufacturing leading to an hourly cost of up to $260.000, according to a recent report from Aberdeen Research. The situation is even direr in the industrial sector. Now, […]
