China’s wave of ChatGPT rivals, Alibaba goes multichain: Asia Express

Jack McDonald will remain CEO of Standard Custody while also serving in his new role as senior vice president of stablecoins at Ripple.

Modular blockchains might lead to a poor user experience, but — unlike Solana — they remain functional even during periods of high demand.

See what the Cointelegraph crew thinks are the most important trends of 2021 in our latest video. 563 Total views 8 Total shares Bitcoin bubbles, Big Brother, decentralized finance, nonfungible tokens and Ethereum: These are some of the key 2021 trends that the Cointelegraph crew pointed out back at the beginning of January. To assemble…

The NFT marketplace plans to integrate Ripple’s XRP Ledger blockchain. An oversubscribed funding round has netted the Mintable nonfungible token (NFT) minting platform and marketplace a cool $13 million.The Series A funding round for the Singapore-based startup included some big name participants including Ripple, mobile and blockchain gaming developer Animoca Brands, and Metapurse, the world’s…

Bitcoin (BTC) has been witnessing volatile moves in the past three days. The pick-up in volatility shows that the buyers and sellers are vying for supremacy. Bitcoin recovered sharply on April 18 but gave back all the gains on April 19. The latest sell-off may have been triggered by the high inflation figures in the United…

The biggest events in DeFi this week all involved Yearn.finance, the yield farming optimization protocol. I covered the first, Pickle Finance, in my last installment.Since then, we’ve seen integrations with Cream Finance, a lending protocol similar to Compound; Cover Protocol, an insurance provider that recently paid out users for the Pickle hack; Akropolis, another protocol…

The Stellar Development Foundation added two member to its board of directors, bolstering the experience held on its roster. 718 Total views 22 Total shares The Stellar Development Foundation recently added two new members to its board of directors.   In an April 21 statement provided to Cointelegraph, Dropbox chief communications officer, Lin-Hua Wu, as well…

The FOMC minutes on Wednesday revealed that policymakers intend to step up their fight against inflation in 2022. 1150 Total views 36 Total shares The Federal Reserve’s signaling for tighter monetary policy in 2022 could provide short-term headwinds for risk assets such as stocks and cryptocurrency, but there’s a good chance that Bitcoin (BTC) still…