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Simplifying and Elevating GraphQL to New Heights: Grafbase’s Strategic Leap in Enterprise Adoption

~ Grafbase is leading the GraphQL revolution by providing a modern developer experience for building and deploying high-performance APIs. ~ With the advent of Federated Graphs, Grafbase allows composing multiple, independently deployed GraphQL APIs into a single endpoint. ~ The platform sets new standards in the GraphQL ecosystem with TypeScript SDK, Edge Caching, advanced security, real-time analytics, and more. March 2024: According to a report by Gartner, the adoption of GraphQL has been on an increasing trend, from less than 10% in 2021 to over 50% by 2025. Demand for

JCB, IDEMIA and Soft Space launch “JCBDC” Phase 2 pilot to trial CBDC offline P2P payments

Tokyo, Paris, Kuala Lumpur, Dec 13, 2023 - (JCN Newswire) - Japan's only international payment brand JCB Co., Ltd. ("JCB") has launched the “JCBDC” (JCB Digital Currency) Phase 2 pilot project with IDEMIA, a global leader in identity technologies, and the world’s leading fintech company Soft Space Sdn Bhd. ("Soft Space"). In Phase 1 of the JCBDC project, JCB, IDEMIA, and Soft Space developed a CBDC (Central Bank Digital Currency) payment solution, enabling merchants to accept CBDC without the need to modify their POS (point of sale) terminals and payment

From Dominance to Compliance

Last Tuesday saw Binance settle its long-running legal disputes with several U.S. government agencies, including the Department of Justice (DoJ), the Department of the Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN), the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC), and the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC). However, they failed to reach an agreement with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) regarding their pending charges. As part of the settlement, Binance has agreed to pay an eye-popping fine of $4.3 billion. Furthermore, Changpeng Zhao (CZ), the CEO of Binance, will step down

Bridging Real and Virtual Economies

In an era where decentralized finance (DeFi) promises revolutionary, permissionless, and credit-check-free access to financial services, the limitations to its application lie in the narrow range of digital assets it encompasses. But industry pioneers are working to widen its scope by introducing real-world assets (RWAs) to the digital realm. For instance, in collaboration with the Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA), Ripple is embarking on a research project to try and tokenize real estate. This venture was made public about seven weeks ago as part of a broader initiative, the digital

Coinweb Completes Integration of 4 New Blockchains Delivering Along its Roadmap for Cross-Chain Interoperability

BNB, Polygon, MultiversX and Kujira are the latest addition to Coinweb’s underlying blockchain ecosystems (Hong Kong, 18th April) Coinweb, a layer-2 protocol unifying blockchain’s interoperability, announced the success of integrating four more chains into its expandable blockchain infrastructure. Prior to BNB, Polygon, MultiversX (formerly known as Elrond) and Kujira; Bitcoin, Bitcoin Cash, Litecoin and Ethereum were already part of Coinweb’s underlying networks. To date, Coinweb has executed over 4 million transactions since December 2020, and is responsible for an average of 0.3% of all daily transactions being broadcast to the

Mushe (XMU) Will Create Stiff Competition for Decentraland (MANA) and The Sandbox (SAND)

Mushe (XMU) is currently planning its launch and will bring forth some stiff competition for Decentraland (MANA) and Sandbox (SAND). The futuristic token will be interoperable while offering compatibility with multiple metaverses to provide investors with an exciting and diverse experience. However, the competition is failing to keep up. Failure to keep up with Mushe's offerings could lead to a significant loss in value for MANA and SAND as XMU hits the crypto scene. Sandbox and Decentraland have both experienced rocky starts to 2022 with massive drops in the value

How To Choose a Crypto Wallet

By Susan Doktor If you had a million dollars—or even a thousand Euros—chances are, you wouldn’t keep them under the proverbial mattress in your home. There are burglars out there, after all. There’s the risk of fire. And if you wanted to spend your money to pay your electric bill, you’d have to transfer your money to a bank account anyway, unless you wanted to pay your bill in person. And who wants to take the time to do that. You’re much more likely to stash your cash in a

The New Benchmark for P2E NFT Games — NFTcraft.game

NFTcraft is a new platform for digitizing video games on the blockchain and the first play-to-earn metaverse with NFT elements.Sponsored Sponsored The future of dwarf civilization is in your hands. It depends on you whether it will be light and abundant, or gloomy and poor. Choose a dwarf, an island, and go in search of Radiant (RAD game token). Free web-version of the game on the Polygon blockchain is available now. The project team is planning a full release of the 3D version of the game on the Unity engine

Will ‘moon-magic’ power Ethereum’s flight past $4.5k in the days to come

Less than two weeks back, the global crypto market had crossed the $3 trillion mark in capitalization. Owing to the recent ruckus, the aforementioned level, however, couldn’t sustain for long. After noting a 6% dip in just the past 24-hours, the market cap reflected a value of $2.47 trillion, at the time of this analysis. The highlighted downtrend has been led by large cap cryptos. Over the last seven days, all the top 10 coins have shed value in the 14%-20% bracket, with Ethereum being no exception. Financial astrology During

Bitrefill Lets El Salvadorans Pay All Accounts with BITCOIN

Bitrefill is a well-known business among the Bitcoiners allowing them access to over four thousand gift cards by paying through BTC. Earlier this year, they partnered with Salvadoran startup Hugo App to enable Bitcoin exchange for Hugo’s wide range of goods and services. The ability to pay with bitcoin is on the rise as Bitrefill announced a new service that allows Salvadorans to pay their bills in BTC.  Bitcoin became proper legal tender in El Salvador starting this year on September 7, persuading all companies to accept BTC as a form