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🔴 A Major Bitcoin Upgrade Activated | This Week in Crypto – Nov 15, 2021

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Time Stamp: November 15, 2021 1:00 AM - Modified On: November 15, 2021 - Published By:
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 Apple’s CEO reveals he owns crypto, Twitter establishes a crypto department and bitcoin gets a major upgrade. These stories and more this week in crypto. The value of the total crypto market topped above $3 trillion this week with Bitcoin reaching $69000 and Ethereum going over the $4800 mark. Prices rose after the US Bureau of Labor Statistics released its October inflation figures which reflected the steepest monthly rise in 30 years, and investors are looking to cryptocurrencies as a hedge against inflation. Tim Cook—the CEO of Apple—revealed that

What if Bitcoin Taproot follows SegWit’s path of adoption

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Time Stamp: November 14, 2021 6:30 PM - Modified On: November 14, 2021 - Published By:
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Bitcoin Taproot is finally live, a network upgrade that has been four years in the making. It was first put forward by Greg Maxwell, cryptographer and developer, in 2018 after SegWit was implemented on 24 August 2017. SegWit was the first major BTC soft fork update, which wasn’t taken all too well by the community. Now, four years later, the ecosystem has another update in store to improve the privacy, scalability, and security of the network. In this article, we will try to draw a possible adoption roadmap for Taproot

ADA Finance Announces Haskell Academy Program with BitDegree

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Time Stamp: November 11, 2021 9:15 AM - Modified On: November 11, 2021 - Published By:
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Press Release: Cross-Dual-Chain DeFi Ecosystem ADA Finance has announced an MOU with BitDegree to structure a Haskell Academy program, and is nominated for the ‘Best DeFi Project of the Year’ award at the AIBC Summit.   11th November 2021, Mahe, Victoria, Seychelles — The ADA Finance platform has just announced the Haskell Academy program, with BitDegree, to educate Haskell developers and motivate building on the Cardano blockchain. The ADAFi ecosystem is powered by both the Cardano blockchain, utilizing the rapidly emerging Haskell programming language, and Avalanche blockchain, utilizing solidity. ADA Finance

Libre DeFi AMA Session With BeInCrypto

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Time Stamp: November 5, 2021 12:45 AM - Modified On: November 5, 2021 - Published By:
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BeInCrypto recently held an ask-me-anything (AMA) session with Libre DeFi, a platform that promises to simplify the entry into the DeFi space via its user-based and frictionless onboarding experience.Sponsored Sponsored BeInCrypto: Hi Everyone! Welcome to another BeInCrypto AMA Session! Today we welcome both Julian (@libredefijulian) and Josh (@LibreJosh). They are CEO and COO at Libre Defi, respectively. Here is how things will work. I’ll have 10 questions for them. After these questions, they will pick up 5 out of all the questions asked by the BeInCrypto community. Good luck to you

SpinADA to list on PancakeSwap on 3rd November

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Time Stamp: November 2, 2021 9:16 AM - Modified On: November 2, 2021 - Published By:
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SpinADA , which is Cardence’s first IDO project, will list on Pancakeswap on 3rd Nov at 1700 UTC. It is the first decentralized private transaction protocol for Cardano network. Massive gains are expected for early entrants at the time of listing as there is a lot of hype around this project after Steve Wozniak made a call for it. SpinADA.Cash is fully incubated by Cardence and its IDO finished in 6 mins on the Cardence platform. Its IDO was also featured in the Coinmarketcap ICO calendar.  SpinADA.cash came to prominence

DeFi Deep Dive — Covalent, Blockchain Data Unifier

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Time Stamp: October 17, 2021 9:00 AM - Modified On: October 17, 2021 - Published By:
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One of the problems facing Web 3.0 is the unification of scattered decentralized networks. Covalent is addressing this issue. It gives developers access to smart contract data to survey the entire blockchain ecosystem.Sponsored Sponsored Covalent makes it easier for investors to glean insights and performance of digital assets. This is done through its unified API (application programming interface) that indexes blockchains. These range from NFTs to DeFi protocols. A brief history Ganesh Swami and Levi Aul started Covalent, expanding to a 35-person team. Across all personnel, they have extensive cumulative

Solana’s growth has been more than organic, but here’s a word of caution

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Time Stamp: October 9, 2021 3:30 AM - Modified On: October 9, 2021 - Published By:
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The third quarter of the year was both exciting and nerve-wracking for most in the crypto-community. And, while both Bitcoin and Ethereum saw positive quarters, the big winners were actually newer protocols. In fact, a significant surge in smart contract platforms outpacing the larger market was noticeable with the rise of projects such as Solana, Avalanche, and Terra. All of the aforementioned gained by at least 300% on the charts.  Even though the Ethereum network had a burst of new user adoption, mostly due to the rapid rise of NFTs,

Gelato Network raises $11 million in Series A funding led by Dragonfly Capital

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Time Stamp: September 30, 2021 9:00 AM - Modified On: September 30, 2021 - Published By:
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Gelato Network, a protocol that helps automate smart contract execution on Ethereum and other blockchains, has raised $11 million in a Series A funding round.Dragonfly Capital led the round, with ParaFi Capital, Nascent, IDEO CoLab Ventures, and Stani Kulechov, founder and CEO of Aave, also participating. This was a token sale round and the fresh capital will help support more blockchains, Gelato co-founder Hilmar Orth told The Block. Gelato Network currently supports Ethereum, Polygon, and Fantom blockchains and it is looking to add support for Arbitrum, Optimism, Binance Smart Chain,

Visa develops interoperability concept for central bank digital currency payments

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Time Stamp: September 30, 2021 7:00 AM - Modified On: September 30, 2021 - Published By:
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Payments giant Visa has taken a step toward achieving its vision for central bank digital currencies (CBDCs). It has developed a concept that shows how various CBDCs can be interoperable with each other to make payments.The concept, called "Universal Payments Channel" (UPC), outlines how various blockchain networks can be interconnected to allow the transfer of CBDCs. It shows how Visa can help exchange various CBDCs built on different blockchains in the future. "This is a much longer-term future thinking concept around a way that Visa could potentially help become a

Wormhole NFT bridge allows users to transfer assets on different blockchains

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Time Stamp: September 26, 2021 3:51 AM - Modified On: September 26, 2021 - Published By:
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A new service called Wormhole NFT Bridge connects Ethereum and Solana to let users transfer assets between these competing blockchains.  This service, in technical terms, is called a “bi-directional bridge” that can send assets and make them compatible with other blockchain platforms.  This is how it works: When someone wants to transfer a Solana NFT to Ethereum to sell it on OpenSea, the service would first lock the original NFT within the Wormhole smart contract.  A smart contract is a technology that runs behind decentralized apps, DeFi protocols, and NFTs