Don’t wait around for recovery, keep on building, says Web3 exec

Ripple's expansion plans haven't been halted by an ongoing XRP securities lawsuit, as it appoints a new managing director for the Southeast Asia region. 2923 Total views 18 Total shares Ripple has appointed a former Uber executive to lead its expansion into the Southeast Asia region, the firm announced on March 18. Brooks Entwistle joins Ripple…

Tim Robustelli is a Program Associate with the Future of Property Rights Program at New America, a think tank based in Washington, D.C.The flurry of activity related to blockchain-for-land over the past few years is impressive, with a number of firms working with land registries worldwide.Yet, skepticism is growing around the technology’s potential for land…

At least one scammer is reportedly gaming other users on the blockchain-powered event betting platform Augur by creating deliberately invalid markets, according to a Reddit thread published on March 20.Created by the non-profit Forecast Foundation, Augur is an Ethereum (ETH) mainnet-based predictions platform, which launched in July 2018. The platform allows users to stake tokens…

Four banks in the Islamic Republic of Iran have developed a gold-backed cryptocurrency called PayMon, financial news website Financial Tribune reported on Jan. 30.According to the article, the crypto asset has been developed in cooperation with the Parsian Bank, the Bank Pasargad, Bank Melli Iran and Bank Mellat. Iran Fara Bourse, an over-the-counter (OTC) cryptocurrency…

Diving into the Aggregate Layer with Brendan Farmer to determine the implications it will have upon latency, liquidity fragmentation, and more.

S&P Dow Jones Indices introduces three crypto indices to bring transparency to the emerging cryptocurrency market. 1377 Total views 17 Total shares S&P Dow Jones Indices, a major global resource for index-based data and research, has introduced its first cryptocurrency indices amid a renewed surge on crypto markets.The company announced Monday that it launched three crypto…

CoinGecko announced that it is launching its own cryptocurrency derivatives section.In a press release shared with Cointelegraph on Oct. 29, the data aggregator said that its new derivatives section will offer additional stats so users can track more than 100 derivatives products offered by over 20 derivatives exchanges.CoinGecko’s offering is the first of its kindAccording…

Celo CEO Marek Olszewski said that blockchains can provide transparency and real-time verification on the state of carbon credits. 131 Total views 2 Total shares While moving to proof-of-stake (PoS) contributes to changing the narrative of blockchains being harmful to the environment, there are still many things that the Web3 ecosystem can do to tackle

The total crypto market capitalization has bounced from just below $200 billion on April 22 to over $214 billion at press time. This is a positive sign as it shows that the sentiment is to buy the dips. If the market capitalization rises above $217 billion, it would open the gates for a rally to…