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XMR Developer Announces Bitcoin to Monero Atomic Swap Capabilities
25.8.2021
For quite some time, trustless, cross-chain trades called atomic swaps have been a holy grail of sorts and a number of blockchain developers have worked on making them a reality. According to the developers from the Monero project, atomic swaps between bitcoin and monero are now accessible via...
Celsius becomes first CeFi or DeFi platform to cross $20B AUM
24.8.2021
In March, research from Alpha Sigma Capital suggested that the platform would reach $30 billion in assets under management by the end of 2025
Bitcoin bullish cross on weekly chart paints $225K BTC price target if history repeats
23.8.2021
Weekly MACD delivered six-month gains of 450% the last time it flipped into bullish territory
ScummVM Is Bringing CD-ROM Games Back
19.8.2021
ScummVM, the collection of recreated last-century game engines that allows replaying classic adventures from the likes of LucasArts and Revolution, has just added support for Macromedia Director. This opens the door for the return of previously unplayable ‘90s CD-ROM games, starting with...
The Emergence of Cross-Chain DeFi Platforms
13.8.2021
DeFi is the term to describe Decentralized Finance. It is a growing industry made up of money market protocols designed to allow lenders fair interest payments and let borrowers borrow against their crypto assets, which the banks do not yet offer. The top DeFi platforms are AAVE, Compound,...
Bitcoin ‘golden cross’ due in days as bears draw a line at $47K BTC price
10.8.2021
Vote day for the Senate infrastructure bill is here, while BTC price action continues to cement higher support
Cambodia explores cross-border transactions of CBDC-like Bakong
6.8.2021
Launched in late 2020, Cambodia’s digital money project Bakong reached 200,000 users in June, doubling from three months earlier
How to Build a Full-Stack Mobile Application With Flutter, Fauna, and GraphQL
5.8.2021
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Flutter is Google’s UI framework used to create flexible, expressive cross-platform mobile applications. It is one of the fastest-growing frameworks for mobile app development. On the other hand, Fauna is a transactional, developer-friendly serverless …
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Bitcoin eyes $36K support as chart hints at potential golden cross within weeks
4.8.2021
Optimism is still rampant despite intraday losses accelerating on BTC/USD, which is targeting giant buyer support at $36,000
How cross-chain liquidity aggregation can shape the future of DeFi
2.8.2021
What will ease the burden of DeFi users and remove some of the barriers to entry for newer market participants? This project sees the future of DeFi as multichain co-existence
ETH Compatible BCH Sidechain Smartbch Successfully Launches Three Nodes
31.7.2021
The day before the fourth Bitcoin Cash anniversary, the Smart Bitcoin Cash team (Smartbch), announced the project has launched three nodes as genesis validators. Smartbch disclosed that Btc.com, Viabtc, and Matrixport are participating and the project has officially started its voting period....
Avalanche & Intel SGX Integrate Cross-Chain Interoperability
30.7.2021
The inception of Avalanche Bridge (AB) marks significant progress in the development of cross-chain technology. It is an advancement from the erstwhile Avalanche-Ethereum Bridge (AEB), launched in February this year. The attractive features of this upgrade include an immensely better user-friendly...
Digital Yuan to Promote International Use of Chinese Currency, Experts Say
30.7.2021
The new digital yuan, currently undergoing trials, can help to increase the international usage of China’s national fiat, experts have stated. As the renminbi (RMB, CNY) is becoming one of the world’s most important currencies, the People’s Bank of China is planning to conduct...
Ghana Vice President Praises Central Bank’s CBDC Initiative, Says Digital Currencies Can Boost Intra-African Trade
30.7.2021
The Ghanaian Vice President, Mahamudu Bawumia, has implored African governments to start exploring digital currencies as such alternatives have the potential to enhance intra-African trade. In addition, such digital currencies allow African countries to carry out all cross-border payments smoothly...
EY aims to simplify cross-border withholding tax process with blockchain
29.7.2021
EY expects that its new blockchain-based withholding tax solution can lay a foundation for the European Commission’s withholding tax relief system
Solana based cross-chain exchange Saber raises $7.7M to expand team and tokens
29.7.2021
Saber has raised $7.7 million in a seeding fund round, and is rated as the second platform on Solana in terms of total locked value (TVL) with $185.77 million
Bankers Rush To Fix Cross-border Payments as Crypto Competition Hots up
28.7.2021
The banking industry looks set to go to war with crypto – and is attempting to beat coins and their proponents at their own game, with the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) following on the heels of the international payments network SWIFT in a fresh assault.
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Kenyan Farmers Pivot to Cryptocurrency as Popularity of Community Currencies Grows
28.7.2021
The growth and popularity of community inclusion cryptocurrencies in Kenya continues to soar with the country’s rural farmers being the latest group to embrace the financial technology. As one report reveals, some farmers in Kenya’s countryside are now accepting cryptocurrency...
CSS Logical Properties and Values
27.7.2021
Now that cross-browser support is at a tipping point, it’s a good time to take a look at logical properties and values. If you’re creating a website in multiple languages, logical properties and values are incredibly useful. Even if you’re …
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How I Built a Cross-Platform Desktop Application with Svelte, Redis, and Rust
26.7.2021
At Cloudflare, we have a great product called Workers KV which is a key-value storage layer that replicates globally. It can handle millions of keys, each of which is accessible from within a Worker script at exceptionally low latencies, …
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