Blockchain interoperability will accelerate institutional success

Thursday, Aug. 8 — Top cryptocurrencies Bitcoin (BTC), Ether (ETH) and XRP are all seeing minor losses at press time. Market visualization. Source: Coin360Bitcoin is trading a little over $11,700 with a 0.2% loss on the day. The top cryptocurrency shot up over the weekend to break $11,000, and seemed to have some momentum moving into…

Lido has around 40% of all the staked ETH on the Beacon Chain. 338 Total views 7 Total shares

Bitcoin hit new heights on a variety of metrics today, despite some characterising the cryptocurrency as ‘boring’. 2419 Total views 23 Total shares After weeks of uninspired price action, Bitcoin hit new heights today on a variety of metrics: new addresses, active addresses, hourly transaction count and hourly spent outputs.Glassnode CTO Rafael Schultze-Kraft posted on…

The Efinity Metaverse Fund will focus on seed equity investments for projects building Efinity. 304 Total views 3 Total shares Blockchain gaming platform Enjin is establishing a new fund to support the development of the metaverse ecosystem and make it more decentralized.Enjin, a startup behind the nonfungible token (NFT)-focused blockchain Efinity, has formed a $100-million…

eToro has ambitions to join Coinbase as a public company as the social trading platform looks to a 2021 IPO. 1854 Total views 14 Total shares Trading platform eToro reportedly could go public in 2021. Sources told Cointelegraph that eToro has been working with the London Stock Exchange's "Elite" program to prepare for an initial public…

Bitcoin billionaire Palihapitiya will use earnings from the sale to fund other “future-shaping technologies” for his venture firm. 847 Total views 13 Total shares Billionaire Chamath Palihapitiya has sold 15% of his position in the crypto and stock trading platform and finance company SoFi. The company went public earlier this year through a merger with…

South Korea's Finance Ministry is considering taxation on cryptocurrencies and Initial Coin Offerings (ICOs), daily English-language newspaper The Korea Times reports Monday, Dec. 3.Hong Nam-ki, South Korea’s new Minister of Economy and Finance as well as new Deputy Prime Minister, revealed that а crypto taxation plan will be finalized according to global taxation trends in…

Former Republican congressman and presidential candidate Ron Paul says he is in favor of cryptocurrencies and blockchain technology because he likes competing currencies. Ron Paul delivered his remarks in a “Squawk Alley” interview on CNBC on July 15.According to Paul, cryptocurrencies are a great idea, and governments should only step in to regulate the space…

The team at Anthropic AI found that five “state-of-the-art” language models exhibit sycophancy, indicating the problem could be ubiquitous. 201 Total views 2 Total shares Artificial intelligence (AI) large language models (LLMs) built on one of the most common learning paradigms have a tendency to tell people what they want to hear instead of generating