‘I expect to see no mention of Bitcoin’ — MARA CEO on Harris’ platform

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Welcome to the latest edition of Cointelegraph’s decentralized finance newsletter.As the calendar year comes to an end, Cardano’s personable leader Charles Hoskinson shares a message of optimism, unity and collaboration for the future of crypto.As a gesture of goodwill for the holiday season, this week our long-form DeFi newsletter will be published in full here…

From July 3 the four-week window for application developers and exchanges to test the upcoming Cardano upgrade begins before it's launched onto the mainnet. 489 Total views 25 Total shares Cardano (ADA) blockchain developer Input Output Hong Kong (IOHK) has submitted an update proposal to hard fork the Cardano testnet, kicking off the countdown for…

Retail giant Overstock’s blockchain subsidiary company, tZERO, plans to allow the public to trade its security tokens in four days.Saum Noursalehi, CEO of tZERO, shared the announcement with CoinDesk, per a report published on Aug. 8. According to the announcement, Aug. 12 marks the end of a one year lock period following the company’s 2018…

Hester Peirce, commissioner for the United States Securities and Exchange Commission, explained during an exclusive interview with Cointelegraph that decentralized finance, also known as DeFi, has created new challenges for the SEC. Peirce, nicknamed “Crypto Mom” for her interest in digital-asset innovation, mentioned that the quickly rising DeFi sector has resulted in a number of unresolved…

Sony Block Solutions Labs, a year-old joint venture between the Sony Group and Startale Labs, has introduced an Ethereum layer-2 blockchain to lure app developers across various sectors.

Coinbase and SoftBank have participated in a $26 million funding round for Latin America’s largest crypto asset management firm. 690 Total views 3 Total shares Hashdex, the Rio de Janeiro-based crypto asset manager with over 4 billion Brazilian real ($765 million) in assets under management, has raised $26 million in new funding round from investors.According…

As the world of finance continues adapting to contemporary innovations, it almost cannot help but drag other industries along for the ride — willingly or otherwise. Film is one such sector currently undergoing a quiet revolt, concocting a radical subversion to traditional models of financing. This is partly due to the emergence of distributed technologies…

World-renowned futurist Ray Kurzweil says the singularity is coming sooner than expected.