Category: Blockchain

Blockchain community breaks stereotypes at Davos

On the second day of the Global Blockchain Business Council’s (GBBC) Blockchain Central Davos 2022, Cointelegraph’s editor-in-chief Kristina Lucrezia Cornèr moderated a panel discussion focusing on the current direction of the financial industry.  Panelists included co-founder and CEO of Soramitsu Makoto Takemiya; Treasury executive at Oesterreichische Nationalbank Johannes Duong; and chief operating officer (COO) of theStellar Development Foundation Jason Chlipala. The panel tackled various issues such as educating the mainstream about blockchain, how blockchain companies are breaking stereotypes at the World Economic Forum (WEF) 2022 and current market issues surrounding…

Project SEED to Shape the Future of Blockchain Gaming

On May 18, 2022, at Permissionless Conference organised by Blockworks in Miami, CEO of Project SEED – Liko Subakti gave an insightful panel discussion on “Gaming: The Trojan Horse of the Metaverse”. Also joined by other GameFi and digital asset experts from BH Digital, Signum Capital, Cronos, and UniX Gaming, the session detailed how blockchain games can bring the whole metaverse to the next level. Project SEED, now a full-fledged GameFi ecosystem, is here to offer solutions to current problems in this path and how they can shape its future.…

Swiss Crypto Firm Launches Venture Fund, Supporting African Early-Stage Blockchain Startups

Crypto Valley Venture Capital (CV VC), a Switzerland-headquartered private venture capital company, announced on Monday that it has launched African Blockchain Early-Stage Fund that targets blockchain startups from across the continent. The venture capital firm also published its initial African Blockchain Report, paring with Standard Bank for the partnership which shows how Africa’s use of blockchain technology has become a norm. The report highlighted how Africa has self-accelerated blockchain as a transformative force for society and the economy and how pioneers continue reinforcing the need for more unified action on regulation and infrastructure.…

LongHash Ventures Partners With Protocol Labs to Launch the Third LongHashX Accelerator Filecoin Cohort – Blockchain News, Opinion, TV and Jobs

LongHash Ventures, Asia’s first Web3 Accelerator and one of Asia’s leading Web3 venture funds, is continuing its partnership with Protocol Labs, creator of Filecoin and IPFS, to launch the 3rd LongHashX Accelerator Filecoin Cohort. The program aims to accelerate early-stage teams building projects in the Filecoin ecosystem. Established in 2018, the LongHashX a Web3 investment fund and accelerator, has partnered with notable ecosystems such as Polkadot, Algorand, and Filecoin, among others. Past graduates from Filecoin Cohorts include Lit Protocol, a decentralized access control network; Huddle01, a decentralized secure video calling…

PayPal looks to embrace all possible crypto and blockchain services

Global payment giant PayPal is doing its best to bring all possible blockchain and cryptocurrency integrations to its services, according to a senior executive at the firm. PayPal is working hard on supporting all possible digital services, including digital currencies and central bank digital currencies (CBDC), vice president Richard Nash said in an exclusive statement to Cointelegraph at the World Economic Forum on May 23. After rolling out its buy, hold and sell service for Bitcoin (BTC) across the United States 2020, PayPal continues to expand its digital currency-related offering,…

Blockchain and digitization to take center stage at Davos

The annual meeting of the World Economic Forum (WEF) is scheduled to take place from May 22–26,  marking the first in-person WEF global leadership event since the pandemic began. The annual meeting was first scheduled for January but was later turned into a virtual event in light of growing COVID-19 infections during the winter. The Davos Agenda 2022 virtual event took place from January 17–21, 2022, which saw major world leaders appeal for cooperation in tackling major global socioeconomic issues. Discussions during the virtual event revolved around global economic recovery,…

Operated By Aave, Lens Protocol Finally Goes Live On Polygon Blockchain

Operated by DeFi lender Aave, its decentralised social media platform, Lens Protocol has gone live on the Polygon blockchain mainnet. Lens Protocol was first introduced in February 2022. Aave decided to introduce Lens Protocol as a decentralized competitor to Twitter and Facebook. Lens Protocol is a network which is used to build decentralized social media and has gone live on the Polygon blockchain. The social media platform is similar to Twitter however, Lens profiles are linked to Non-Fungible Tokens which can then be ported to decentralised applications. According to reports,…

Has Bitcoin Reached a “Generational Buying Opportunity”? – Blockchain News, Opinion, TV and Jobs

Marcus Sotiriou, Analyst at the UK based digital asset broker GlobalBlock Bitcoin is consolidating around $29,000 as the RSI indicator has now entered a period that has historically preceded outsized returns on investment for long-term investors. Rekt Capital shows that when the RSI has reached this level previously and reversed, including January 2015, December 2018, and March 2020, it has marked a macro bottom. Furthermore, Glassnode shows that Bitcoin is approaching a region that is below the average cost basis of all holders on-chain. Previously, when Bitcoin enters this region it has presented…