Category: Blockchain

Mainstream approval critical for blockchain games — Gaming execs

Web3 game developers have been battling to gain the attention of mainstream audiences for years, and according to three former gaming executives, that market is essential for the industry’s future.  Video games have become a favorite pastime for a lot of people all over the world and have even evolved into a sport. Overall, there are more than three billion Web2 gamers worldwide as of 2023, according to Exploding Topics. Most are considered casual gamers who play regularly but rarely invest significant time. Jennifer Poulson, who has worked in the…

Anatoly Yakovenko’s vision for a high-performance blockchain

“I literally had two coffees and a beer, and I had this eureka moment at four in the morning,” Solana co-founder Anatoly Yakovenko recalls as he leans back thoughtfully. Speaking to Cointelegraph at Solana’s annual Breakpoint conference in Amsterdam, the co-founder recounts a late-night brainwave of a “hyper-optimized, fast as possible” smart contract blockchain protocol. “The use case that I was going after was for central limit order books, like how to run something that’s like the Nasdaq, but on a public permissionless blockchain,” Yakovenko explains. “I thought that there was…

Measuring Blockchain Adoption, Utility, and Health with On-Chain Transaction Volume

Conversely, during bearish periods, trading volumes start to dwindle, with bursts of activity around periods of deleveraging. Uncertainty, negative news, regulatory crackdowns, or market corrections often lead to a decline in trading. Investors might adopt a wait-and-see approach, leading to decreased transaction volumes, and they might move their assets to cold storage or stablecoins, reducing the overall trading activity on exchanges. Source link

Former Coinbase exec posits blockchain-driven vision of future societies

The Dutch city of Amsterdam — no stranger to international conferences dedicated to cryptocurrencies, blockchain and decentralization — was recently host to the Network State Conference, which explored decentralization at an entirely different level.  Conference speakers and attendees gathered to discuss and debate whether a new form of decentralized country is possible. The conference kicked off with an energetic host directing the crowd to chant and shout the title before Balaji Srinivasan, an entrepreneur, investor and former chief technology officer of Coinbase, entered to make his opening speech. During his…

Belgium seeks to reboot the EU blockchain infrastructure project

Belgium plans to accelerate the development of a European blockchain infrastructure during its presidency of the EU Council in early 2024, according to the goveernm. The proposal aims to facilitate the secure storage of official documents like driving licenses and property titles.  The development of public blockchain for the pan-EU infrastructure is among the four priorities of Belgium’s upcoming presidency, the country’s secretary of state for digitization, Mathieu Michel, told the Science|Business media on Nov. 21. The remaining three initiatives will take on the matters of artificial intelligence (AI), online anonymity…

Bitcoin Consolidates as Profitability for Long-Term Holders Increases – Blockchain News, Opinion, TV and Jobs

Last week, Bitcoin (BTC) concluded at approximately $37,350, posting an increase of 0.8% compared to the preceding week’s closing value of $37,000. It commenced with notable volatility, witnessing BTC’s price dropping to as low as $34,800 on Tuesday, followed by a robust recovery, nearly reaching $38,000 on Wednesday. Subsequently, BTC dipped again to $36,000 on Thursday. The latter part of the week saw an uptick, and BTC closed the week at around $37,350. BTC dominance, which gauges Bitcoin’s market capitalization in relation to the entire digital asset market, rebounded after…

Can blockchain supply the guardrails to keep AI on course?

Artificial intelligence (AI) and blockchain are emerging digital technologies that have captured the public imagination but also raised serious concerns. So it bears asking: Can AI and blockchain be integrated in a way that benefits humanity? There are reasons to think so. As far back as 2016, Vitalik Buterin wrote that both the crypto economics and AI safety communities were “trying to tackle what is fundamentally the same problem” of how to regulate complex and smart systems with “unpredictable emergent properties.” Both rely for control on essentially “dumb” systems “whose…

Blockchain Association files support in suit to lift Tornado Cash sanctions

The Blockchain Association has thrown fresh support behind six plaintiffs suing the United States Treasury Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) over its sanctions on the crypto mixer Tornado Cash. In a Nov. 20 amicus curiae brief to a U.S. appellate court, the crypto advocacy group argued OFAC’s decision to sanction the privacy protocol was not only unlawful but exceeded its statutory authority and was both “arbitrary and capricious” — contrary to the U.S. Constitution. It’s the second amicus brief filed by the Blockchain Association supporting a group of Tornado…

PYTH Airdrop Shines Spotlight on Pyth Network, Blockchain Oracle to Rival Chainlink

Pyth, by contrast, sources data directly from first-party financial institutions – both traditional and crypto-centric – like Jane Street and Binance. While this institution-driven system carries whiffs of “centralization” – anathema to the disintermediating world of crypto – it brings drastic speed improvements, several orders of magnitude faster than competing services, supposedly in the name of serving the demands of modern finance. Source link

Event recap for North American Blockchain Summit

Once branded for a Texas-specific audience, the North American Blockchain Summit (NABS) shook things up in 2023 — changing its location and name as many United States lawmakers prepared for an election season. Hundreds of crypto and blockchain enthusiasts gathered in Fort Worth, Texas from Nov. 15-17 to network, discuss mining, and listen to politicians and industry leaders talk about developments in policy and regulation affecting the space. Among the headliners of the event were longshot Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy, Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. and current…