DLT is among 20 “critical and emerging” technologies in the Trump Administration’s new strategy for preserving the U.S.’ technological edge. Source link
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Ledger suffered a data breach, crypto mining in India comes with questions and a new decentralized finance (DeFi) looks to offer lending and saving opportunities for PoS token holders. You’re reading Blockchain Bites, the daily roundup of the most pivotal stories in blockchain and crypto news, and why they’re significant. You can subscribe to this and all of CoinDesk’s newsletters here. Top shelf Anchor AweighLiquidity mining is coming to proof-of-stake (PoS) blockchains. Anchor, the new DeFi platform from Terra, Cosmos, Web3 Foundation and Solana, is designed to launch with a governance-token reward. Version 1 will go live in October, according to a Terra co-founder, offering […]
A solar energy trading trial run by blockchain startup Power Ledger has found the initiative to be “technically feasible” for real world use. The trial, which was partly funded by the Australia government, surveyed 48 households in Fremantle, Western Australia and found blockchain energy peer-to-peer energy (P2P) trading delivered lower costs “desired by consumers.” “Power Ledger has demonstrated how peer-to-peer energy trading can incentivise the right outcomes for the grid in a more cost-effective way,” Power Ledger chairman Jemma Green said in a press release. The trial ran between December 2018 and January 2020 as part of the RENeW Nexus Project […]