Coinbase-Backed Vega Gets Into Prediction-Market Race, Chasing Polymarket coindesk.com 08 August 2024 13:20, UTC Prediction markets are having a moment. After Joe Biden’s halting debate performance last month led to speculation that he might drop out of the race, the blockchain prediction market Polymarket – where users had already been betting on the incumbent’s…
Investment advisor Path taps Gemini as custodian for new automated crypto portfolio app theblock.co 08 August 2024 13:29, UTC theblock.co
The Future of Money: Bitcoin Came as a Disrupter, but CBDCs Took Over financemagnates.com 08 August 2024 12:02, UTC “A purely peer-to-peer version of electronic cash”: that’s how Satoshi Nakamoto defined Bitcoin in the original whitepaper. Electronic cash or not, Bitcoin has now attracted the attention of everyone: tech enthusiasts, consumers, traders, investors, bakers,…
Qatar exploring tokenization despite digital currency ban coingeek.com 08 August 2024 08:50, UTC After banning digital assets in 2018, Qatar is softening its stance and has recently announced a new initiative focused on asset tokenization. Digital assets, DLT, and tokenization are part of the Middle Eastern nation’s Digital Agenda 2030, says Yousuf Mohamed Al-Jaida,…
HTX Ventures Targets Infrastructure, DeFi, and AI in Latest Investment Round financemagnates.com 07 August 2024 21:28, UTC HTX Ventures, the investment arm of the global crypto exchange HTX, has outlined its key investment directions for the first half of 2024. According to the company, the first half of 2024 has been a period of…
Binance Labs Invests in Solayer to Drive the Solana Restaking Ecosystem Forward binance.com + 4 more 07 August 2024 21:30, UTC Main Takeaways: Binance Labs has invested in Solayer, a leading restaking network on Solana. Solayer aims to secure on-chain decentralized applications (dApps) with improved network bandwidth while securing the L1 at the same…
DePIN early-stage fundraising has grown 296% YoY: Messari crypto.news 07 August 2024 21:35, UTC The decentralized physical infrastructure network market continues to see significant growth, with funding for earliest-stage projects increasing 296% year-over-year. According to details shared by crypto market intelligence platform Messari on X, early-stage DePIN projects had raised more than $246 million…
