Blockchain

DeFi Land, a multi-chain agriculture simulation web game created to gamify decentralized finance, has just completed its Series A funding round, acquiring about $4.1 million from industry investors. The project said in an official press release seen by CryptoPotato that it intends to use the fresh capital to scale its platform and services on the Solana blockchain. The team is working towards bringing DeFi to a mainstream audience by building a solution that aggregates across...

Dans un communiqué publié aujourd’hui, Mastercard annonce l’acquisition de CipherTrace, une société spécialisée dans l’analyse de blockchain (le traçage de transactions) : « La plateforme innovante de CipherTrace aide les clients à améliorer leurs activités de sécurité et de surveillance de la fraude pour les programmes liés aux cryptomonnaies. Elle fournit des solutions aux banques, bourses et...

Moonbeam – a Polkadot parachain smart contract platform with Ethereum compatibility, has partnered with Lido, a liquid staking derivatives protocol currently live on the Ethereum and Terra blockchains, to bring liquid staking to the Polkadot DeFi ecosystem. The press release shared with CryptoPotato informed that the integration would enable Lido to provide liquid staking to Moonbeam and its Kusama-powered sister network, Moonriver. It will also allow Polkadot (DOT) users to...

[PRESS RELEASE – London, United Kingdom, 9th September 2021] Verasity, a leading company in blockchain-powered ad-tech, received a notice of allowance for the second patent of its blockchain Proof of View (PoV) system and method from the United States Patent and Trademark Office. Once the protocol and product layer platform for esports and video entertainment pays the issuing fee, the patent will automatically be granted to the company within a few weeks. The patent can be...

zkTube Labs (or “zkTube”) has a Layer 2 protocol that has adopted ZK-Rollups to potentially solve major Ethereum blockchain scaling solutions. It was launched in 2020 and has made rapid progress by achieving several key milestones. Low gas price, high transaction throughput, secure and swift cross-border payments through its PayTube wallet, eco-friendly mining, support for NFTs and GameFi industries, robust community and more, are some of the significant achievements of...

Blockstream, the blockchain-focused company spearheaded by Adam Back, will develop and manage zero-emission Bitcoin mining facilities with the first to be built in North America. The firm’s initiative will come to life through a partnership with an Australian multinational independent investment bank – Macquarie Group. The Canada-based blockchain company continues with its effort to minimize the environmental damage caused by Bitcoin mining. The latest initiative comes...

The non-profit IOTA Foundation is among the seven projects chosen by the European Commission to partake in the first design phase of the European blockchain initiative. A Milestone for IOTA IOTA made the announcement in a blog post published on Tuesday (September 7, 2021). According to the blockchain project, IOTA would be involved in the initial stage of the pre-commercial procurement (PCP) process for the European Blockchain Services Infrastructure (EBSI). The EBSI is a...

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KILT Protocol is the winner of the 6th edition of the Parachain Slot Auction organized by Polkadot’s canary network, Kusama. KILT Goes Live According to a press release shared with CryptoPotato on Wednesday, the KILT Protocol mainnet is now live following the announcement of the milestone. The project describes itself as an open-source blockchain identity protocol for issuing claim-based verifiable, revocable, and anonymous credentials on Web 3.0. In the PR, KILT gave a...