Matic wants its incubator fund to incentivize promising DeFi projects to build on its scalable sidechain, rather than directly onto Ethereum itself. Source link
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The Bank of China says the country should prepare for potential US sanctions by increasing use of its own financial messaging network for cross-border transactions on the mainland, Hong Kong and Macau. According to the report, greater use of the Cross-Border Interbank Payment System (CIPS) instead of the Belgium-based SWIFT […]
The A&E TV network has seen its viewership dive bomb after dropping its popular cop-based reality show ‘Live PD.’ Though the woke move decimated its prime time audience, the channel insists the decline is only “temporary.” Some six weeks after A&E shelved the show – which followed on-duty police officers […]
The U.S. Army has reported that Army Futures Command (AFC) is using rapid prototyping to integrate tactical network systems, which will enhance functionality of the Soldier-worn Integrated Visual Augmentation System, onto combat and tactical vehicles. The details were given in a 23 July media release, to announce that Integrated Visual […]
Despite multiple employee deaths from the coronavirus and dozens of positive test results, telecom giant Dish Network Corporation, and one of its prominent subsidiaries Sling TV, have charged ahead with office reopenings with no potential end to the pandemic in sight. As a result, employees are terrified and disillusioned. “If […]
Switzerland’s licensed crypto-first bank SEBA and Corda-based Digital Asset Shared Ledger (DASL) announced a new partnership on Wednesday letting the bank offer asset securitization services on Corda’s public network. Disclosure The leader in blockchain news, CoinDesk is a media outlet that strives for the highest journalistic standards and abides by […]
The British government has announced that starting next year, telecommunications companies would be banned from buying Huawei equipment for the U.K.’s 5G network. Existing Huawei equipment will need to be removed by 2027. Leon Neal/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Leon Neal/Getty Images Months after approving some limited involvement by […]
14 Jul, 2020 11:48 Follow RT on British telecoms companies will be banned from buying Huawei 5G components starting from the end of this year, the UK media secretary said. The firms also must get rid of all of their Huawei gear by 2027. Follow RT on Source link
CNN has become the absolute worst cable news network. Anyone who remembers what it was like just ten years ago knows it is barely recognizable today. Former staffers and producers appear to agree. FOX News reports: TRENDING: WOW! NBC Guest Doctor Who Was Suffering from Coronavirus in Hospital in TV […]
NIH launches clinical trials network to test COVID-19 vaccines and other prevention tools NIH News Release The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the National Institutes of Health, has established a new clinical trials network that aims to enroll thousands of volunteers in large-scale clinical trials […]
Kyber, a decentralized exchange (DEX), is preparing to share trading fees with KNC token holders. Launched Tuesday, KyberDAO will let users stake KNC and earn yields in more KNC, proportional to their stake. Yields won’t actually kick in for about two more weeks, but participants will need to participate in […]
Lithuania has followed its neighbor Latvia’s lead to ban five RT channels based on “recommendations” from the country’s Foreign Ministry, but offered the same bogus and bizarre excuse for the decision. Indeed, officials in Vilnius were no more creative with their reasoning for the ban than those in Riga last […]
Sixteen Twitter accounts tied to a network of fake accounts designed to spread false information about Middle Eastern countries were suspended Monday after The Daily Beast sent Twitter the results of an investigation into the network. Twitter said the accounts were suspended for violating their platform manipulation policy. The network used […]
Savvy attackers might be able to “loot” bitcoin from others by way of the Lightning Network if users aren’t careful, a new cybersecurity report warns. The Hebrew University of Jerusalem computer scientists Jona Harris and Aviv Zohar have taken a closer look at a “systemic” Lightning Network attack that could […]
In late February, the British government announced that it would give Huawei a limited role in building the UK’s 5G infrastructure, despite previous US warnings that the move could potentially compromise US-British intelligence sharing. UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson is set to start excluding the use of Huawei technology in […]
Now that President Donald Trump has finally said that he’s “all for masks” amid a massive surge in coronavirus cases, Fox & Friends co-host Steve Doocy on Thursday wondered why wearing a mask to slow the spread of COVID-19 ever became politicized. “For some reason, over the last couple of […]
The latest venture from CNET founder Halsey Minor looks a lot like an attempt to recreate the legacy monetary system on a blockchain. Disclosure The leader in blockchain news, CoinDesk is a media outlet that strives for the highest journalistic standards and abides by a strict set of editorial policies. […]
Hundreds of Facebook profiles said to be part of a “violent anti-government network” linked to the loose-knit “boogaloo” movement have been permanently deleted, the latest in a wave of mass bans targeting the political right. Some 220 accounts, 106 groups and 28 pages were scrubbed from Facebook on Tuesday, the […]
Iran’s first and largest mobile operator, the Mobile Telecommunication Company (MCI), is expected to initially provide the service in parts of the capital. Mohammad-Javad Azari Jahromi, Iran’s telecoms minister, has announced that he asked the national mobile operator MCI to roll out a 5G broadband connection in the country’s capital, […]
Matic Network announced Sunday that the first iteration of its staking solution was now live. Launched in stages, direct staking will initially be restricted to the Matic Foundation, the non-profit behind the Ethereum-based scaling solution, which will stake tokens on users’ behalf, the company said in a press release. The […]
Bitcoins stored on the Liquid Network were temporarily able to be seized by network moderators Thursday night. The potential vulnerability in the Bitcoin sidechain’s security parameters was discovered by Summa founder James Prestwich. Liquid – a network developed and overseen by Blockstream and meant to move bitcoins around more quickly […]
UnionBank of the Philippines has built out a network it says will make it easier for people without access to financial services to receive money from abroad. The bank – the country’s tenth largest by assets – announced on Tuesday that it’s launching 11,000 cash-out remittance counters across the archipelago, […]
ParaFi Capital, a San Francisco-based investment firm focused on blockchain and decentralized finance, has invested in Kyber Network ahead of its planned Katalyst upgrade. Announced Friday, the two entities have also formed a new partnership that will see them work to prepare for the launch of KyberDAO with the intention […]
Prosecutors in St. Petersburg are looking for two defendants in the ‘Network’ case to be given up to nine years behind bars. Yuly Boyarshinov, 28, and Viktor Filinkov, 25, are accused of being part of a terrorist organization. According to investigators, Kazakhstani national Filinkov and Russian citizen Boyarshinov have been […]