Tag: DeFi
DeFi is short for decentralized finance that includes digital assets, protocols, smart contracts, and dApps built on blockchain.
According to a Mastercard poll, 51% of Latin American customers have already transacted with cryptocurrency as a result of the digital payments revolution that started during the epidemic.
According to Mastercard’s New Payments Index 2022, a poll of over 35,000 individuals globally performed between March and April and published on Wednesday, more than a third stated they have completed a stablecoin purchase.
Eighty-two percent of...
Web3 Delight Lagos – Breaking barriers to pave the way for the digital future
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Lagos, Nigeria – SwiftMotion Media, a fully capitalized micro-VC, an investment arm of the UAE-based management consultancy Agile Dynamics, presents Web3 Delight Lagos. This in-person and online event takes place on July 29th, 2022, featuring speakers from Ecuador and Mexico, the US and Russia to Serbia, and the United Arab Emirates to South Korea.
SwiftMotion Media is proud to bring Web3 Delight Lagos to Glover hall, Marina, Lagos State....
Avalanche Bridge adds native support for Bitcoin; AVAX goes up 7.4%
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The Avalanche bridge has been updated to include native support for Bitcoin (BTC), with the cross-chain smart contracts platform seeing a 7.4% increase in its native token AVX as a result, despite DeFi activity is going down.
The news comes after the company announced that it would be adding BTC support to its platform back in October. The update is part of a wider effort by Avalanche to expand its ability to interact with other blockchains.
AVAX,...
Floki Celebrates One Year Birthday by Launching Token Into Space
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Floki just turned a year old and is sending a strong message by sending a 3D Floki token into the stratosphere.
Widely known as the people’s cryptocurrency, Floki disrupted the crypto industry in its first year with its aggressive marketing campaigns that made the cryptocurrency a household name.
A Disruptive Marketing Campaign That Put Floki in Front of Billions
These aggressive marketing moves include partnerships with major international...
Lido proposes ‘dual-governance’ to prevent Ethereum centralization
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Lido project members are concerned about “cartelization” and have lobbied for changes to the protocol’s governance, which would prevent validators from gaining undue authority and give holders of Lido’s staked ETH token (stETH) veto power over protocol changes. Lido owns 32% of Ethereum’s Beacon chain ETH.
Ethereum’s security will be dependent on users staking their Ether to the network, allowing them to...