Category: Blockchain

Ethereum Emerges as a Key Blockchain for Tokenized Real-World Assets

Ethereum’s flexible design and its multi-year plan for upgrades, including ones that will improve interoperability, have made it a popular platform for digital bond issuances. Large institutions such as the European Investment Bank have issued bonds on Ethereum, which was also the blockchain underlying a digital green bonds Moody’s rated in 2023, a €10 million senior unsecured digital green bond issued by Société Générale. Over time, in Moody’s view, public blockchain networks like Ethereum and traditional infrastructure will be more interlinked, which will enhance blockchains’ use cases, promoting industry growth.…

Bitcoin Struggles for Direction in Run Up to Christmas – Blockchain News, Opinion, TV and Jobs

Bitcoin (BTC) concluded the week at approximately $41,400, reflecting a 5.5% decline compared to the previous week’s closing value of around $43,800. The price experienced a notable dip on Monday, reaching a weekly low of about $40,225 before staging a strong recovery and surpassing the $43,000 threshold on Wednesday and Thursday. Over the weekend, negative price movements brought the closing price to around $41,400, with the downtrend persisting into Monday the 18th, as BTC broke below the $41,000 trading level. This past week marked the first instance of a weekly…

Fairshake Super PAC, Affiliates Raise $78M to Support Crypto, Blockchain Candidates in 2024 US Election

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Blockchain-based private loans hit $582M, doubling from last year

Blockchain-based lending is regaining momentum this year, with the value of active tokenized private credit now sitting at $582 million — a staggering 128% increase from a year ago. While still far off from its peak of $1.5 billion in June 2022, according to data from real-world asset loan tracker RWA.xyz, the resurgence could signal that loan-seekers are looking for blockchain-based alternatives to traditional financiers amid a recent rise in interest rates. The current average percentage rate is 9.64% for blockchain-based credit protocols, while financiers have been offering small business…

Goldman Sachs Predicts Booming Blockchain Asset Trading in Coming Years

Goldman Sachs, a leading global investment banking firm, has projected a substantial surge in trading volumes of blockchain-based assets in the next one or two years, with significant market growth anticipated in three to five years, according to an interview with Reuters. This forecast, as revealed in a recent Reuters interview with Mathew McDermott, the bank’s global head of digital assets, aligns with the growing interest in digital assets and blockchain technology observed across the financial sector. Goldman Sachs’ enthusiasm for blockchain extends beyond traditional cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin, which has…

le ultime novità tecnologiche su criptovalute e blockchain

14 dicembre: LayerZero Labs , uno sviluppatore di blockchain, ha lanciato il suo aggiornamento “V2” di LayerZero, un protocollo per inviare messaggi tra blockchain, su testnet, secondo un comunicato stampa: “V2 è un aggiornamento del protocollo che aumenta le capacità di personalizzazione per la sicurezza delle dApp e come vengono eseguite le transazioni, oltre a contribuire a rendere il protocollo più semplice da sviluppare nel complesso.” I miglioramenti includono “sicurezza modulare”, “applicazione pigra di nonce-order” per un throughput più elevato, un “esecutore” senza autorizzazione per sostituire il “relayer” V1 e…

Top five blockchain ETFs that returned over 100% in 2023: Data

As the cryptocurrency community has been focused on the potential approval of a spot Bitcoin (BTC) exchange-traded fund (ETF) in the United States, some crypto-linked ETFs have already been racking up significant gains in 2023. One such ETF is the VanEck Digital Transformation ETF (DAPP), which has surged nearly 207% year to date (YTD), according to data from TradingView. Launched in April 2021, DAPP tracks the price and performance of the MVIS Global Digital Assets Equity Index, which, in turn, is based on the performance of major companies involved in…

Blockchain media authentication app eyes news journalism as primary use-case

Decentralized infrastructure network provider Nodle has released the first version of its blockchain-based media authentication application called Click, which could prove useful in combatting artificially generated media and fake news.  As previously reported by Cointelegraph, Nodle has developed a software development kit (SDK) for its ContentSign solution, which cryptographically proves the integrity of data captured by mobile devices using blockchain technology. The Click application supports the Coalition for Content Provenance and Authenticity (C2PA) and is a member of the Content Authenticity Initiative (CAI). The latter is a project led by…