Blockchain

The number of full nodes in the Utopia P2P ecosystem has passed the 30,000 mark.This means that more than 30,000 nodes are working for the security and resilience of the network. Stability The number of full nodes within the Utopia decentralized ecosystem has reached 30,000 and is moving forward. This number is an indicator of the stability of internal processes and a guarantor of reliability. Nodes in the blockchain have one of the most important roles – they are...

The global gambling industry is in the midst of being completely reinvented thanks to the recent adoption of cryptocurrencies, and the now flourishing DeFi (Decentralized Finance) sector. This growth has been further propelled by the explosion of NFTs (Non-fungible tokens) and the emergence of esports in the wake of the Coronavirus pandemic. The development of decentralized smart contracts & oracles have empowered sportsbooks to aggregate real life events onto the...

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The team behind Solana yesterday gave a detailed report on how its validators from all over the world rescued the network from an outage that lasted nearly 18 hours. IDO Bots Responsible for Solana’s Downtime According to the report, the network outage was a result of Grape Protocol’s IDO, which launched on the Raydium exchange in the early hours of September 14th. While trying to manipulate the rules of the IDO, several traders used bots to generate limitless transactions,...

NFT trading card game “Splinterlands” has recently become the most widely played blockchain game on the market by daily user count. Splinterlands’ Exponential Growth Data from DappRadar confirms that Splinterlands has surpassed 260 thousand daily active users. This is greater than the number of players in the Alien Worlds metaverse, which is just shy of 250 thousand users at the time of writing. Splinterlands cards. Source: SplintertalkGoing by the numbers, Splinterlands...

Gary Gensler and the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) are really feeling the heat when it comes to developing new regulations surrounding the bitcoin and blockchain spaces. The agency is now working “overtime” as CNBC puts it to establish a new set of crypto-related rules designed to pause volatility and potentially keep traders (and their money) safe. Gary Gensler Is Now Under the Gun Gensler has commented in a recent statement that while he wants the space to...

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Square – a payment firm run by the head of Twitter Jack Dorsey – is joining a non-aggression pact against cryptocurrencies. The pact is designed to reduce patent lawsuits against crypto and blockchain companies and push the world of digital currency more toward mainstream territory. Square Wants Crypto Companies to Work Together The pact is known as the Open Invention Network, in which members like Square can pledge royalty-free access to certain patents, data, and...

The Hedera Governing Council recently announced that it had allocated 10.7 billion HBAR, Hedera Hashgraph’s native token, to fund the development and expansion of the ecosystem. The official announcement revealed that the amount worth approximately $4.5 billion at the current market price ($0.42) represents 20% of the token’s total supply. Interestingly, the value of the 10.7 billion HBAR has more than doubled since the Governing Council approved the allocation at a July 14...

Coinbase and the U.S. Homeland Security have struck a million-dollar deal to allow the U.S. government to use the exchange’s services to analyze American citizens’ data. According to official documents, The Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) – a branch of the U.S. Homeland Security Dept. dedicated to cross-border crime and illegal immigration – paid Coinbase $1.36 million in licensing fees for Coinbase Analytics software. Pay to Trace, Pay to Tell This would be the...