AI, tokenization to usher ‘new long-tail capital market’ in 2025: Bitwise

A group of German entrepreneurs have come up with a blockchain-based project that aims to help save trees in Paraguay, one of the countries most affected by deforestation.Every minute, our planet loses 27 soccer fields worth of forests. In a year, that makes up to more than 75,000 square kilometers, and in 2016, according to…

Trader Joe has risen to the top five decentralized exchanges by trading volume after the launch of its V2 platform on Arbitrum on Feb. 1, 2023. Top five DEX by 7-day trading volume. Source: DeFiLlamaThe project launched a liquidity incentive program to boost deposits for ARB, ETH and USDC trading which shared 300,000 JOE token rewards…

Centralized finance (CeFi) will continue to be an important avenue to drive the adoption of decentralized finance (DeFi) services in the future, but regulatory considerations remain a significant part of the process.This was a key theme that emerged during a panel titled ‘How to Do CeFi Right - the Balance Between TradFi & DeFi?’ at…

German funds and asset managers are expanding their horizons on crypto investments now that the nation has more favorable laws governing Spezialfonds. 970 Total views 19 Total shares Union Investment, a $500 billion asset manager, is planning to add Bitcoin (BTC) to several investment funds as part of a targeted pilot program for its institutional clients,…

The total crypto market capitalization was close to $270 billion on May 8 and currently, the metric stands at $275 billion. This suggests that the crypto markets have been largely stuck in a range for about a month. Daily cryptocurrency market performance. Source: Coin360As reported by Cointelegraph, Bitcoin (BTC) miners are holding on to their newly…

Privacy opt-ins are coming to Litecoin even as regulators continue to scrutinize anonymity-boosting protocols. 742 Total views 45 Total shares After two years of development, Litecoin (LTC) has finally launched its highly anticipated Mimblewimble upgrade, opening the door to more privacy-oriented transactions on the network. Mimblewimble’s integration into Litecoin came by way of the Mimblewimble Extension…

The Efinity Metaverse Fund will focus on seed equity investments for projects building Efinity. 304 Total views 3 Total shares Blockchain gaming platform Enjin is establishing a new fund to support the development of the metaverse ecosystem and make it more decentralized.Enjin, a startup behind the nonfungible token (NFT)-focused blockchain Efinity, has formed a $100-million…

Projects that raised millions in the ICO era have struggled to gain traction.