The announcement coincides with increased scrutiny by U.S. regulators and lawmakers about the role of cryptocurrencies in the world’s biggest economy – a campaign that’s affected Gemini. In January, the company and Genesis (which, like CoinDesk, is owned by Digital Currency Group) were accused by the Securities and Exchange Commission of selling unregistered securities. Source
On April 20, the American toy manufacturing company Mattel announced an update to its virtual collectibles platform, which will go live on April 27. The peer-to-peer platform, called Mattel Creations Virtual Collectibles, will coincide with the Hot Wheels NFT Garage Series 5, featuring some of Hot Wheels’ most popular car designs. Mattel Creations Virtual Collectibles Platform to Launch Peer-to-Peer Market Feature The toy manufacturer Mattel, Inc. (Nasdaq: MAT) is continuing to expand into the non-fungible token (NFT) realm with the latest update to its Mattel Creations Virtual Collectibles platform. The…
Berachain’s “proof-of-liquidity” consensus system will allow users to simultaneously stake assets on Berachain while using those assets to trade, borrow, or lend on-chain. On Thursday, April 20, DeFi-focused Layer 1 platform Berachain announced that it had raised a total of $42 million in Series A funding at a valuation of $420 million. Polychain Capital led the fundraising, already finalized in December 2022, along with other investors such as da05, Hack VC, Tribe Capital, CitizenX, Shimla Capital, and Robot Ventures. Along with it, several undisclosed centralized exchanges also chose to participate.…
Decentralized finance (DeFi) protocol 1inch has deployed its aggregation and limit order protocols on Ethereum layer-2 scaling solution zkSync Era to tap into faster and cheaper transactions. 1inch Network is the latest of a host of Ethereum-based platforms and services to deploy on the zero-knowledge proof (zk-proof) based scaling platform. Uniswap, SushiSwap, Maker and Curve Finance have also launched on the zk-proof roll-up zkSync Era. 1inch Network co-founder Sergej Kunz highlighted the promise of the layer-2 solution as his platform joins a handful of first-movers to integrate with the zk-proof…
The platform allows users to create a single concentrated liquidity position that buys and sells in specific price ranges. Source
“A large number of commentators are predicting a season of “LSDeFi” — products and services built around staked ETH yield,” said Nansen content lead Andrew Thurman. “Agility appears to be one of the first successful examples, and the speed with which it has grown could be a sign there’s more to come.” Source
Rocket Pool’s recent upgrade gives node operators immediate access to their staking rewards and lowers the barrier of entry to spin up an Ethereum validator, or “minipool,” in the protocol’s parlance. Instead of providing 16 ether (ETH), node operators can supply just eight plus some RPL – Rocket Pool’s governance token – to form a minipool, decreasing the amount of capital required to participate in Ethereum’s staking process. Source
press release PRESS RELEASE. Cheelee, the GameFi short video platform well-known for rewarding users for viewing their feeds, has announced the most monumental Community Drop of 2023. Starting from April 17th, every vertical video lover now gets the chance to get on board one of the most promising projects ever launched and take home a share of a $5,000,000-worth pool of CHEEL tokens. The community drop will be run on Zealy platform, so everyone is warmly welcomed to grab a share of the loot. To succeed in Cheelee Community Drop,…
Starbucks mailed to Odyssey beta testers with the subject line “We’re Getting Closer” suggesting that a public rollout will happen soon. Following its NFT drop that sold out in a matter of minutes, Starbucks is now all set to inaugurate another collection this week and claims that a public launch for its Odyssey Web3 rewards programs is being awaited. On Wednesday, April 19th, Starbucks will introduce its First Store Collection which consists of more than 50,000 NFT stamp collectibles minted on the Ethereum scaling network Polygon. The NFTs are also…
According to an Apr. 18 post by Fox News, Elon Musk told the media outlet’s anchor Tucker Carlson that he’s developing a ChatGPT rival in the form of “TruthGPT,” a large language model (LLM) that Musk says will be trained to explore the mysteries of the universe. “I’m going to start something which I call TruthGPT, or a maximum truth-seeking AI that tries to understand the nature of the universe,” said Musk. This truth-seeking AI, as per Musk, will also push back against what he perceives as “left wing” bias…