Since the release of the Bitcoin white paper exactly 13 years ago, blockchain technology has revolutionized several industries with multiple use cases, including facilitating money transfers, automated legal contracts, and providing traceability to the supply chain. And a blockchain project advised by the co-inventor of blockchain technology, Dr. Scott Stornetta, has decided to launch their mainnet on this very day. Jax.Network positions itself as an extension of the Bitcoin (BTC) network, fixing the scalability problem of the latter. Through many years of research, the Jax.Network team believes they have found a solution to the Blockchain Scalability Trilemma. Jax.Network brings this …

Tim Draper of Draper Associates and Draper Fisher Jurvetson: Tim is a pioneer of business ventures in the United States and a co-founder of Draper Fisher Jurvetson, a leading investment firm in early-stage tech startups. “I am fearless long-term. Bitcoin is coming. Short-term, it is spooky that some people are willing to give up this gift of freedom and trust in favor of government controls. Government controls have destroyed a lot of people’s lives and freedoms.” These quotes have been edited and condensed. The views, thoughts and opinions expressed here are the authors’ alone and do not necessarily reflect or …

Annual percentage yields, or APY, on crypto borrowing and lending platform Aave have surged to record levels after capital withdrawals sent the decentralized finance, or DeFi, protocol into a liquidity crunch. At the time of writing, variable APY on borrowing stablecoin Dai via Aave has surged to 24.88%, compared to approximately 6.50% the day prior. According to cryptocurrency researcher Igor Igamberdiev, blockchain personality Justin Sun was responsible for at least billions of dollars in withdrawals in the past few hours. Aave's total value locked, or TVL, fell to $14.7 billion from $17.89 billion the day prior, based on data from …

Welcome to the latest edition of Cointelegraph’s decentralized finance (DeFi) newsletter. The DeFi space was full of fundraising this week. Read on to discover where the venture capital firm led by Reddit’s co-founder is making notable investments. What you’re about to read is the smaller version of this newsletter. For the full breakdown of DeFi’s developments over the last week, subscribe to our newsletter below. Near Protocol offers $800M fund to advance ecosystem Smart contracts platform Near Protocol has announced the allocation of an $800-million global funding initiative aimed at fostering the development of its DeFi ecosystem, as well as …

Facebook's decision this Thursday to rebrand itself to Meta—to indicate its plans to build an avatar-filled metaverse—helped spark a speculative rally across cryptocurrencies that belong to similar virtual world projects. Decentraland, a virtual place with its own economy, currency (MANA), and social events, accessible to anyone with a web browser, saw its market valuation exploding from $1.44 billion to $2.08 billion in the previous 24 hours. That happened as its native token MANA jumped circa 45% to $1.14 in the same period. At its intraday best, the Decentraland cryptocurrency was changing hands for $1.227 Friday, its highest level since May …

Decentralized finance, or DeFi, continues driving more interest from regulators, becoming a part of major international rules designed for virtual asset service providers, or VASPs. On Oct. 28, the Financial Action Task Force, or FATF, issued a new update for its 2019 guidance for a risk-based approach for virtual assets and VASPs, paying particular attention to the DeFi industry. The new guidance addresses issues identified in the FATF’s 12-month review of the revised FATF standards on virtual assets and VASPs requiring further clarification, also reflecting input from a public consultation in March and April 2021. The authority has provided significant …

Dogecoin (DOGE) soared on Oct. 28 amid massive capital rotations out of its top meme coin rival Shiba Inu's (SHIB) market. Notably, the DOGE price rallied by a little over 44% to reach its intraday high of $0.3449. Its gains appeared in contrast to SHIB's losses in the same period. On the other hand, the so-called Dogecoin Killer dropped almost 28% to log an intraday low at around $0.00005700—in the same hour DOGE printed its daily top. The sudden price rally also pushed Dogecoin's market cap over $40 billion, a mettle Shiba Inu achieved hours before, with the two cryptocurrencies …

The ultimate goal of any cryptocurrency project is to achieve widespread adoption by offering a use case that offers real-world value that can be applied across the globe and in every home. One project that just revealed a significant stride towards greater adoption thanks to its user-run wireless network is Helium, a 5G Internet-of-Things-focused project, which revealed a new partnership with Dish Network on Oct. 26. Today we take another huge step for @Helium 5G with the announcement of a new partnership between @DISH and Helium Inc! DISH is the first major carrier to join #ThePeoplesNetwork, expanding coverage with customers …

Fragments Inc, the team responsible for the development of the Ampleforth Protocol, has announced that the protocol will be integrated into popular blockchain Avalanche to facilitate the introduction of unit-of-account denomination model AMPL. AMPL is an algorithmic computer programming language that holds promise as a decentralized method of denominating stable contracts for core functionalities in the DeFi space such as lending, borrowing and the deployment of on-chain derivatives. Ampleforth's rebasing mechanism of daily adjusted supply levels enables the metric measurement of price value for user's token accumulation, as opposed to the traditional method of price-tracked volatility. These systemic rules are …

DeFi security platform Immunefi has announced a $5.5 million funding from a panoply of eleven institutional investors including Blueprint Forest, Electric Capital, Framework Ventures and Bitscale Capital, in addition to a series of private individuals. Immunefi will utilize the funds to advance its services in DeFi security, providing asset protection to smart contract protocols, as well as implementing financial incentives to benevolent hackers. The service is reportedly responsible for protecting more than $50 billion in protocol assets from projects such as Synthetix, Chainlink, SushiSwap and PancakeSwap. It has paid out $7.5 million in bug bounties throughout its history. According to …

The price of Solana’s native SOL coin edged up on Oct. 25 in the wake of a marketwide rally led by Bitcoin (BTC), with the total value locked (TVL) on Solana hitting record highs and SOL’s price seeing a promising technical setup. Bitcoin triggers marketwide rally SOL climbed by more than 6% to hit an intraday high of around $214. The price of SOL is now up a little over 35% over the past week, pushing it closer to its record high of about $222 set in early September. Bitcoin’s run-up to its new record high of $67,000 last week …

Bitcoin (BTC) was the first cryptocurrency, originating back in 2009. By offering a set-in-stone monetary policy combined with "permissionless-ness" and radical openness, Bitcoin presented an alternative opt-in financial system -- one where economic freedom reigns. The crypto space has since expanded far beyond Bitcoin. Largely driven by smart contract platforms like Ethereum (ETH), users now have access to an entire decentralized finance (DeFi) ecosystem, on-chain programmable art (in the form of nonfungible tokens, also known as NFTs), crypto-based games, and much much more. Given that less than 5% of people globally own Bitcoin, we can consider the cryptocurrency to still …