Tag: Blockchain

more firms exploring blockchain despite FTX setback

A recent Citi report provides an in-depth analysis of the growth, challenges, and regional variations in the adoption of digital assets and distributed ledger technology (DLT) over the past year. On Aug. 23, Citi presented a comprehensive analysis of the developments and challenges faced by the digital assets and distributed ledger technology (DLT) sector. Despite the setbacks of 2022, particularly for some crypto firms like FTX, the research offers an optimistic perspective on the evolution of DLT and digital assets. The report points out that a larger number of companies…

Coinbase’s Viral Blockchain App, Friend.tech, Keeps Focus on Underlying OP Stack Technology

PRICE OF POPULARITY: Coinbase, the big U.S. crypto exchange, is getting a fast education, as one of the first big publicly traded companies to run its own blockchain. Its new Base project, a layer-2 network atop Ethereum, just launched this month, and already one of its new applications, Friend.tech, has gone viral, quickly attracting more than 100,000 users and generating more than $25 million in fees. Friend.tech, which allows users to purchase shares of X (Twitter) influencers, saw a rapid spike in activity (see chart above) after announcing on Aug. 18…

Blockchain takes the stage at Longevity+DeSci summit in New York

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Those seeking to slow the progress of time spent a few days immersed in that possibility from Aug. 10–11 at the Capitale conference hall in downtown New York City.  There, the sixth-annual Longevity+DeSci summit convened for its third in-person event — sequestered to online sessions amid the COVID-19 pandemic — following successful editions at the Cooper Union. This year also marked the first time that the event’s organizer, Lifespan.io, included decentralized science (DeSci) in the title, despite the growing phenomenon’s close ties to the field of longevity. DeSci on the…

Crypto Nightmare: SIM Swap Attack Robs Blockchain Capital Founder Of $6.3 Million

Bart Stephens, the co-founder of Blockchain Capital, a prominent venture fund specializing in cryptocurrency investments, has reportedly fallen victim to an alleged SIM swap hack that cost him a staggering loss of $6.3 million worth of digital assets.  This incident sheds light on the growing menace of SIM swap attacks, which the Federal Bureau of Investigation warned about in 2022. These attacks target individuals with substantial cryptocurrency holdings and have surged in frequency, with the FBI estimating a loss of $72 million to this tactic last year, marking a rise…

Crypto miner Hive Digital CEO sees AI working in unison with blockchain

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Crypto mining firm Hive Blockchain sent a signal to the tech industry when it dropped “blockchain” from its namesake in July, opting to call itself Hive Digital Technologies and reflect its artificial intelligence foray. The decision is part of a wider movement from crypto miners to pivot outside of digital currency mining, amid depressed crypto prices. January saw crypto mining firm Riot Blockchain rebrand to Riot Platforms while June saw crypto miner Applied Digital announce a $460 million deal to host AI cloud computing in its data center. Since ETH mining ended…

Why the choice of the blockchain matters for NFT collections

One of the fundamentals of launching an NFT collection is choosing where you’ll mint it to reach the moon. If everyone is choosing the Ethereum and Solana blockchain to mint their collection, does it mean it’s good for your collection too? Sometimes, less saturated blockchains like Ripple, Tezos and Polygon can turn out to be a blue ocean for your collections.  I’ve sold a client’s collection on Ripple. There are many other examples of brands that made their grand foray into less saturated chains. For example, McLaren did two successful…

Convergence of AI and blockchain: Unlocking new possibilities

Let’s do a simple exercise, shall we? Try to imagine a world where innovations in banking, finance, power, medical services and social media are the best they have ever been. One where these industries and several others are powered entirely by unbreakable, difficult-to-hack-or-crack streams of data.  A world where this kind of superpowered data is run by powerful algorithms, and is capable of learning, updating and improving itself. Do you think such a world is possible? It might be closer than you think. Over the last decade, AI and blockchain have…

OpenSea Will No Longer Support NFTs Minted On This Blockchain

In November last year, NFT marketplace Opensea announced that the Binance Smart Chain Chain (BSC) was one of the several blockchains it was adding support for. However, that collaboration seems to be ending less than a year after. OpenSea To End Support For BSC NFTs In an announcement on the X (formerly Twitter) platform on August 17, the NFT marketplace stated that users would no longer be able to list or buy NFTs minted on the BSC chain. However, users “will still be able to view, discover, and transfer BSC…

IBM blockchain and AI expert says ChatGPT poses several ‘key risks’ for enterprise use

IBM vice president and chief technology officer of IBM Automation, Jerry Cuomo, recently published a blog post laying out what he claims are several risks associated with using ChatGPT for enterprise.  There are several key risk areas, according to the blog post, that businesses should consider before operating ChatGPT. Ultimately, however, Cuomo concludes that only non-sensitive data is safe with ChatGPT: “Once your data enters ChatGPT,” writes Cuomo, “you have no control or knowledge of how it is being used.” Per the post, this type of unintentional data leakage could…