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A widely-anticipated upgrade to Ethereum, which is the second largest cryptocurrency in the market, was recently initiated on August 4. Called the London Hard Fork, the upgrade represents a series of improvements to the underlying technolog
The South China Morning Posthttps://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3145232/alibabas-new-blockchain-auction-platform-selling-star-wars-art-ledger?utmsource=Twitter&utmmedium=sharewidget&utmcampaign=3145232 reported Tuesday August 17 that
OpenSea, the world's largest NFT marketplace, has recently reached a major milestone -- surpassing $1 billion in NFT transaction volume. More impressively, the milestone was achieved this year alone, and we are only at mid August, with a li
Blockchain powered music streaming service Audius has announced a partnership with TikTok that allows users to directly share tracks to the popular short-form video app. Audius said it had partnered with TikTok in the creation of a new feat
Supercycles are defined as a sustained period of growth and expansion, driven by robust growth in demand for products and services. During supercycles, prices can rally for years, as producers struggle to match the growth in demand. Histori
US retail giant Walmart is looking to hire an expert in cryptocurrencies and digital payments. The new Digital Currency and Cryptocurrency Product Lead will "drive the vision for the product and capabilities roadmap", according to the compa
Argentina President Alberto Fernandez has indicated support for digital assets. In an interview on August 12, Fernandez asserted that there is no reason to push back against the emerging asset class. https://twitter.com/Blockworks\/status/1
The total value of all cryptocurrencies in circulation reached $2 trillion on Wednesday August 12 for the first time since May. According to data provided by Coingeckohttps://www.coingecko.com/en/globalcharts, digital asset values peaked at
Cryptocurrency is billed as the currency of the future. This is thanks to the robust network security that it offers as part of its decentralized nature backed by blockchain technology. A decentralized blockchain is constantly updated with
Most crypto protocols have built in revenue models to incentivise users to keep coming back. Protocols are basic sets of rules that allow data to be shared between computers. For cryptocurrencies, they establish the structure of the blockch
Compound: DeFi's Money Market Lending Protocol
According to datahttps://cryptoslam.io from CryptoSlam!, Ethereum-based NFT game Axie Infinity has crossed US$1 billion in sales. At the time of writing, $1,103,093,428 worth of tokens from the game have been traded via 2,558,421 transactio
