Tag: BlockchainBased

Is it Time for a Blockchain-Based Stock Exchange?

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In recent news, South Korea has implemented a complete ban on short selling, a move that has sparked debates about its implications and motivations. The head of the Financial Supervisory Service (FSS), Lee Bok-hyun, defends the decision, citing rampant illegal short selling in the stock market. While the ban is portrayed as a necessary step to combat financial misconduct, it raises questions about its impact and whether other countries should follow suit. Dedicated Forex cloud solutions with stable and fast cross-border connections capable of high-demand scenarios. Alibaba Cloud helps Forex…

Neon Machine raises $20M Series A for blockchain-based Call of Duty competitor ‘Shrapnel’

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Web3 gaming developer Neon Machine raised $20 million in series A funding toward the development of its highly-anticipated extraction shooter “Shrapnel.”  This round follows a $10.5 million seed round completed in June of 2021. It was led by Polychain Capital and included funding from Griffin Gaming Partners, Brevan Howard Digital, Franklin Templeton, IOSG Ventures, and Tess Ventures. Shrapnel is an ambitious gaming project touted by Neon Machine as a “AAA game” — a non-standard designation used to indicate a video game with top-tier production value, budgeting, and marketing. According to…

Reddit to Discontinue Blockchain-Based Community Points Program

In a bid to prioritize scalable reward programs, Reddit is terminating its blockchain-based Community Points program, a decision that has garnered significant attention in recent days, according to Techcrunch. The system, conceived to incentivize positive engagement among users, will cease operation by early November 2021. Program Overview Launched in 2020, Community Points were awarded to users who actively contributed to certain subreddits, thereby encouraging enriched content and dialogue. The points, essentially Ethereum tokens, were stored in Reddit’s Vault, a designated cryptocurrency wallet. Once rewarded, these points were immutable, neither Reddit…

Reddit to Shut Down Its Blockchain-Based Community Points System

Starting from early November, Community Points will no longer be available. It means that beta participants will no longer see their points in their Vaults, and will no longer earn points in their communities. American social news aggregation, content rating, and discussion platform Reddit has announced its decision to discontinue Community Points – a blockchain-based reward system. The company explained its decision by scalability challenges and regulatory concerns. Starting from early November, Community Points will no longer be available. It means that beta participants will no longer see their points in…

Reddit to wind down blockchain-based rewards service ‘Community Points’

Reddit has said it will soon shutter its long-running, blockchain-based rewards service “Community Points,” citing scalability concerns.  In an official Oct. 17 announcement in the r/cryptocurrency subreddit, a Reddit team member said while the platform saw “some future opportunities for Community Points, there was no path to scale it broadly across the platform.” The Community Points service, including the special memberships feature, will be wound down on Nov. 8. “At that point, you’ll also no longer see Points in your Reddit Vault nor earn any more Points in your communities,”…

Reddit shuts down blockchain-based Community Points service

Reddit has decided to discontinue its blockchain-based Community Points reward system, citing scalability challenges and regulatory concerns. Reddit recently announced its decision to discontinue its blockchain-based rewards system, Community Points. In an official statement first published on TechCrunch, Reddit cited the challenging regulatory landscape and issues with scalability as primary reasons for the move. Launched in 2020, the Community Points program was developed as a mechanism to incentivize and recognize user participation in specific subreddits. Users could earn these rewards for activities such as garnering significant upvotes on comments or…

How Blockchain-Based Digital Wallets Transform Finance and More

Today, individuals, many small and medium enterprises as well as institutions operate across a fragmented set of financial accounts that each require separate types of paper-based documentation (often stored in electronic form). For individuals, this includes checking and savings accounts that deal with the entity’s cash; brokerage and investment accounts that deal with retirement, education, healthcare and more; liability accounts that deal with mortgages, loans, lines of credit or credit cards; and a significant number of accounts that relate to the individual’s assets, valuables and collectibles including special documents such…

JPMorgan Goes Live With First Blockchain-Based Collateral Settlement

Caroline Ellison, former CEO of Alameda Research, testified that she committed fraud at the direction of her ex-boyfriend and former colleague, FTX exchange founder Sam Bankman-Fried. Ellison, 28, is the government’s highly anticipated star witness in the six-week trial of Bankman-Fried. She was the CEO of Alameda Research, the hedge fund prosecutors say stole billions of dollars from customers of its sister company, the cryptocurrency exchange FTX. (Read the government’s indictment here.) Prosecutors began their questioning of Ellison by asking her if she committed crimes and if so, who she…

JPMorgan Goes Live with Its Blockchain-Based Collateral Settlement

The move signals a major stride on the part of JPMorgan as it intensifies its efforts towards boosting the commercial applications of blockchain technology. United States’ largest bank by assets, JPMorgan Chase & Co may have started using its blockchain-based collateral settlement for customers. This follows after a recent transaction between BlackRock Inc and Barclays Plc saw the duo use JPMorgan’s Tokenized Collateral Network (TCN) to effect the trade. According to Tyrone Lobban, head of Onyx Digital Assets at JPMorgan, BlackRock had used TCN to turn some shares into digital…