Cryptocurrency exchange KuCoin has raised $10 million in strategic investment from U.S. trading company Susquehanna International Group (SIG). KuCoin is using the raised funds to prepare for the bull market by upgrading the platform infrastructure, expanding the product line, and continuing to hire employees. The company currently has 300 open vacancies. The crypto exchange plans to introduce new services...
The Optimism team has developed Drippie, a programmable Ethereum transaction automation system that executes transactions in response to certain conditions. Drippie is essentially an Ethereum-native version of If This Then That (IFTTT), a programmable Web2 service that can combine different triggers with actions. According to the developers, the mechanism can perform most of the typical necessary transactions for Optimism...
The main thing Hedera Hashgraph is a public network based on distributed ledger technology ( DLT ) designed for businesses and companies as a platform for decentralized services and applications. Hedera positions itself as a third-generation public network - the next stage in the development of bitcoin and Ethereum. The project's strengths include high scalability, security, smart...
Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt compared artificial intelligence to nuclear weapons and urged the global community to prevent AI-Hiroshima. Vice writes about it. Speaking at a security forum in Aspen, Schmidt allowed for the consolidation of an agreement between the United States and China to limit artificial intelligence technologies. “In the 50s and 60s, we ended up creating...
The modern version of the Internet has a lot of shortcomings: centralized data storage makes it possible to steal confidential information, restricts access to services, and network failures due to problems on the side of providers. Together with KuCoin, we talk about the next generation of the Internet and its role in the platform ecosystem. What are Web1, Web2, and Web3 The Internet is...
The head of the cryptocurrency exchange Binance, Changpeng Zhao, filed a lawsuit against Bloomberg Businessweek, accusing him of defamation. Watcher Guru initially reported this, and Zhao confirmed the information. The lawsuit has been filed with a Hong Kong court. Zhao claims that the 250th edition of Bloomberg Businessweek China contains material defaming and damaging to the image...
The Lido Finance platform community has voted against a proposal to sell 10 million LDO tokens to venture capital firm Dragonfly Capital. “The DAO seeks to create a position in the DAI stablecoin in exchange for 1% of the LDO supply (10 million tokens) at a price of $1.452153, with a total value of $14,521,530 $DAI,” the description of the...
Profit from the sale of digital assets of the manufacturer of electric cars Tesla from the beginning of the year to June 30 amounted to $64 million. This follows from reporting to the SEC. The company did not disclose the selling price of digital gold in the second quarter. Negative revaluation of the remaining bitcoins on the...
The Optimism layer 2 Ethereum community has been asked to vote on a grant of 1 million OP tokens (~$775 million) to the Curve Finance DeFi protocol . At the time of writing, the value of Curve's locked assets on Optimism is $17.3M (up from $6.13B across all networks). Weekly trading volume - $3.4 million. According to the proposal, 1...
Palmare Security and SafeProof have teamed up to solve the problem of identification. Through the new partnership, clients can perform blockchain project owner identity verification and smart contract audits in the world of cryptocurrencies. The organizations said that due to the increased crime in this financial sector, it is necessary to fight against them to protect the...
