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Ripple announced on Monday that it has added four new European institutions to its University Blockchain and Research Initiative (UBRI). The partner universities will help promote blockchain research and education across the region. According to Ripple’s announcement, the new universities include Trinity College Dublin (Ireland), EPITA (France), IE Madrid (Spain), and the University of Trento (Italy). This brings Ripple’s total European partners up to 14. IE Madrid plans to...

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. – a presidential hopeful and known bitcoin fan – has serious qualms with how the Freedom Convoy was treated last year in Canada. Robert Kennedy on the Freedom Convoy Last Year The Freedom Convoy was comprised of truckers who were protesting the region’s sudden pro-COVID vaccine laws. The idea was that to work as a trucker, one now had to be injected with a vaccine that hadn’t been fully proven and was swirling with controversy. As a result,...

On the 29th of August, Jeremy Allaire – the CEO of Circle, the company that mints and holds governance over USDC – announced that the popular stablecoin would be coming to Base and Optimism within a week. The launch was part of Circle’s plan to improve the utility of USDC by bringing the stablecoin to more blockchains in a native token, eliminating the need for bridged Ethereum tokens. The decision came shortly after the announcement of a new super chain agreement with...

Typically, in order to interact with Ethereum, participants have to use the so-called Externally Owned Accounts (EOAs). Today, EOAs are the only way to initiate a transaction or execute a smart contract. Naturally, this puts certain limitations on the way users can interact with the network. A simple example would be that it makes it challenging to do batches of transactions. A way to tackle the above issue is through account abstraction. The term itself carries specific...

D3 Global, an emerging domain name company, closed a $5 million seed funding round led by Shima Capital. D3 aims to transform domain names into the foundational layer of the internet and bridge Web2 and Web3 with secure digital identities. On September 5th, the emerging domain name company D3 Global announced the successful closure of a $5 million seed funding round. This round was led by Shima Capital, along with several other financing companies and funds such as Maelstrom by Arthur...

Read about five under-the-radar protocols that are expected to change the onchain game. DeFi continues to defy expectations while refusing to be written off. In 2023 the decentralized finance sector has spawned new use cases while entering new ecosystems and chains. The sort of primitives that emerged in the early 2020s, for lending, borrowing, trading, and yield generation, have undergone a makeover. The “swap token A for token B through a single liquidity pool” model popularized by...

d-Matrix’s innovative chip designs have been gaining recognition, particularly for their effectiveness in powering generative AI applications like ChatGPT. d-Matrix, a rising star in the artificial intelligence (AI) chip industry, has successfully secured a significant $110 million in a series B funding round, with substantial support from heavyweight investors, including tech giant Microsoft Corp. This latest funding achievement comes at a time when many chip companies are grappling with...

Several residents of El Salvador are now completing a free-of-charge training program called Cubo+ designed to ensure they have all the bitcoin knowledge they need to handle future transactions and what will likely be the way their nation does payments and transactions from here on out. El Salvador Unveils Cubo+ BTC Program El Salvador is a revolutionary country in that it was the first to declare bitcoin legal tender in September of 2021. Up until that point,...

Inaugural Cohort of Seven Visionary Projects Embarks on a Journey of Growth and Innovation Dubai, United Arab Emirates, September 06, 2023 – The Web3 landscape is about to witness a wave of transformative innovation as Reef Labs proudly announces the commencement of its highly anticipated $10 Million Accelerator Program Cohort 1. The Accelerator Program, spearheaded by Reef Labs, is designed to empower and foster the growth of Middle Eastern Web3 projects on the...

Bitcoin mining company Marathon Digital Holdings announced producing 1,072 BTC in August, which represented a drop of 9% from the previous month due to extreme weather conditions in Texas. Despite the decrease in Bitcoin production, the figure is still five times more than in August of last year. Marathon’s Bitcoin Production: August Edition In its unaudited BTC production and miner installation updates for the month of August, Marathon Digital cited increased curtailment...