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PortuguêsSince gaining prominence in recent times, Decentralized Finance (DeFi) has been marauded with some sort of technical problem especially as it utilizes Ethereum blockchain that only does about 25-40 transactions…
Continue ReadingThe Polkadot team released on Wednesday a major milestone for its Substrate blockchain framework, which now provides a way for blockchain applications to interface with the outside world without relying…
Continue ReadingJust recently a new project called Polkadot joined the top ten crypto coin list almost immediately after the project officially launched. Today, the Polkadot network is the sixth-largest blockchain in…
Continue ReadingAccording to survey data from crypto asset insurance firm, Evertas, institutional investors believe that clearer regulations and better infrastructure in terms of trading, reporting, and custodial services will increase their…
Continue ReadingParity Technologies has released the second version of its blockchain building kit, Substrate 2.0, according to a blog post shared Wednesday with CoinDesk. The new release gives developers additional tools…
Continue ReadingDigital asset development company RockX has launched a $20 million investment program to support the Polkadot (DOT) ecosystem over the next five years. The funding, capped at a maximum of…
Continue ReadingLegacy and crypto crypto markets saw a strong correction today as traders fear that the second round of economic stimulus might be delayed as the White House, Senate and Congress…
Continue ReadingThe U.S. Federal Reserve recently hinted that it could keep interest rates near zero at least through 2023. The Bank of England went a step ahead and said that it…
Continue ReadingPolkadot has been hitting the crypto headlines lately, after a long-awaited main net launch that’s been several years in the making. Recently, the project has quickly climbed up the cryptocurrency…
Continue ReadingBlockchain platform Polkadot (DOT) is the latest to invest back into its developer community with the launch of the Polkadot treasury. Run by community-elected council members, the pool will fund…
Continue ReadingThis week MicroStrategy, a Nasdaq-listed company, announced that it had added 16,796 Bitcoin (BTC) to its existing holding of 21,454 Bitcoin. This means in less than a year the firm…
Continue ReadingA token minting system is coming to the Polkadot blockchain ecosystem, promising to be a leaner, meaner version of Ethereum’s ERC-20 standard, the mechanism that launched a thousand token sales.…
Continue ReadingMarket capitalization and ‘flippenings’ happen to be important reflections of value for many crypto pundits and investors. Anyone who’s been in the game since 2017 will recall the heated discussions…
Continue ReadingDistributed storage project Bluzelle will be collaborating with the Web3 Foundation to bring its oracle system for use in the Polkadot decentralized finance ecosystem. The project formally announced on Sept.…
Continue ReadingMost retail traders find it difficult to go against the herd and buy when the market is down. They generally wait for the price to recover and for improvements in…
Continue ReadingThe President of the European Central Bank (ECB) Christine Lagarde said that the coronavirus pandemic has acted as a catalyst in boosting the adoption of digital payments in the European…
Continue ReadingPolkadot (DOT) validator Web3Italy has been “slashed” and “chilled” after going offline for 14 hours on Aug. 10 and 11. This means that the validator has lost their staked tokens…
Continue ReadingSwisscom Blockchain, a distributed ledger technology startup owned by telco giant Swisscom, has been awarded a grant from the Web3 Foundation to build a cloud-based protection layer for stakers on…
Continue ReadingThe short-term gyrations in crypto and stock prices are usually based on sentiment and technicals, while the long-term trends generally follow stronger underlying fundamentals. Therefore, if the fundamentals do not…
Continue ReadingRioDeFi, the DeFi ecosystem building on Polkadot, has reported that its impending crowdsale is oversubscribed. Interest in the project and its native RFUEL token appears to have taken the project…
Continue ReadingCorrections are healthy for the strength of an uptrend because they shake out the excess exuberance and provide an opportunity to the traders who missed the bus earlier to make…
Continue ReadingThe Nasdaq, S&P500 and Dow all corrected sharply on Sep. 3 and opened today with additional downside, suggesting that traders are rushing to the exit. Bitcoin (BTC) and several other…
Continue ReadingThe cryptocurrency economy slid significantly on Thursday afternoon (ET), as the aggregate market cap of all the crypto coins shaved more than 10% during yesterday’s trading sessions. More than 12…
Continue ReadingThe race for blockchain interoperability was very much a trending topic during the bull market of 2017. Back then, we witnessed the birth of very promising projects like Fusion and…
Continue ReadingThe Polkadot token, which recently underwent a redenomination, has seen its value more than double in less than seven days. Now with a reported (but unverified) circulating supply of 897,657,920…
Continue ReadingDecentralized finance (DeFi) continues to expand beyond Ethereum with the help of top-tier investors. Acala, a DeFi startup building on the Polkadot blockchain, has closed a $7 million simple agreement…
Continue Reading“Protocol of protocols” Polkadot network is weeks away from the release of the first viable bridge to the Ethereum blockchain, according to today’s announcement from developer house Snowfork. The bridge…
Continue ReadingA new project building on Polkadot wants to create a comprehensive bridge with Ethereum that would eventually relay direct smart contract instructions. The bridge is being developed by Snowfork, a…
Continue ReadingSpartan Black, a major cryptocurrency fund based in Asia, believes Polkadot (DOT) has more fuel left in the tank and could soar into the top-3 list of biggest cryptocurrencies by…
Continue ReadingFaith in Polkadot hasn’t been tarnished by the ham-fisted actions of Binance and Kraken, after the cryptocurrency exchanges commenced trading for DOT two days before the token was due to…
Continue ReadingPrice point Bitcoin was up slightly at about $11,776 early Monday, rising along with European equities, stock futures, gold, copper and oil amid optimism over a coronavirus vaccine and treatments. The…
Continue ReadingHaving set up shop on Polkadot just a week and a half ago, an EOS-based decentralized finance project called Equilibrium is launching a new governance token called EQ. EQ is…
Continue ReadingThe billion-dollar cryptocurrency space is no stranger to hype, as it is considered a factor that increases crypto prices. While this may be, hype generated from major centralized crypto exchanges…
Continue ReadingAs the price of bitcoin rises, token sales have become trendy once more. “Ava, Dot,” tweeted ZenGo wallet CEO Ouriel Ohayon, “2017 is back. For better or worse.” Ava Labs,…
Continue ReadingBlockchain interoperability platform, Polkadot has released details of its upcoming Denomination Day, when native DOT tokens will undergo a redenomination. On August 21, at block number 1,248,328, new DOT tokens…
Continue ReadingAn EOS-based decentralized finance project, Equilibrium, has announced its plans to develop a new interoperable protocol on the Polkadot (DOT) blockchain. The project is set to develop an independent parachain…
Continue ReadingParity Technologies’ Polkadot has launched a testnet, Rococo, of the protocol’s first parachain specification, according to a blog Thursday. Parachains underlie Parity Tech’s vision of a “protocol for protocols.” Disclosure…
Continue ReadingThe Polkadot (DOT) project launched a testnet to evaluate its planned sharding implementation based on parachains. The key component that separates shards from being just many independent blockchains is communication.…
Continue ReadingLiquidity mining is coming to proof-of-stake (PoS) blockchains. Anchor, the new decentralized finance (DeFi) platform from Terra, Cosmos, Web3 Foundation and Solana, is being designed to launch with a governance-token…
Continue ReadingA second private sale of the Polkadot token (DOT) netted the Web3 Foundation and Parity Technologies some 3,982.07 bitcoin (BTC) worth an estimated $43.3 million at press time, according to…
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