Obol Collective, an industry group founded last year to advance distributed verification technology, plans to airdrop new OBOL tokens to thousands of network participants. Its snapshot was completed on January 13 and the first distribution will take place on Tuesday.
On January 21st, distributed ledger technology provider Hashgraph announced a strategic partnership with Swiss digital asset platform Taurus. The two parties will jointly provide digital asset custody, staking and tokenization solutions. Through this partnership, Hashgraph will use the Taurus-PROTECT and Taurus-CAPITAL platforms to support enterprises and their use of blockchain technology, providing institutional investors with more secure and efficient digital asset services.
Next Monday's meeting of the Eurogroup, an informal body of economic and financial ministers that meets to discuss issues related to the euro, will discuss tokenization, distributed ledger (DLT) technology and central bank funding for wholesale settlements, as well as the state of retail digital euros. Hyun Song Shin, economic advisor and head of the Monetary and Economic Department at the Bank for International Settlements (BIS), will participate in the discussion. He is involved in the Agora p...
Next Monday's meeting of the Eurogroup, an informal body of economic and financial ministers that meets to discuss issues related to the euro, will discuss tokenization, distributed ledger technology and central bank funding for wholesale settlements, as well as the state of retail digital euros. Hyun Song Shin, economic advisor and head of the Monetary and Economic Department at the Bank for International Settlements (BIS), will participate in the discussion. He is involved in Project Agorá, a...
Distributed cloud computing platform Aethir and decentralized blockchain platform SuperNet have reached a cooperation, and the two sides will jointly promote the deep integration of artificial intelligence and digital transformation. Through a unique AI operating system, SuperNet will provide innovative solutions for the management and governance of agents, and support the creation and deployment of customized AI agents through AI Agent Studio. In addition, the two sides plan to carry out more s...
Distributed GPU cloud computing company Aethir announced that the modular data layer CARV will be airdropped to Aethir node holders and game pool pledgers, and users will have 30 days to receive the CARV airdrop.
On October 9th, distributed GPU cloud computing company Aethir announced the launch of a new business focused on enterprise social media and AI powered by the Aethir Edge computing network. At the same time, the Aethir Foundation announced that it will increase the ATH reward, from November 1, 2024 to June 2025, users can earn an average of 100 ATH tokens per day (based on uptime and bandwidth) for each eligible Aethir Edge device connected to the network. The initiative aims to incentivize more...
Several French government websites have been taken offline in a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack suspected of being linked to a Russian hacking group. Among the sites affected were those of the Paris Administrative Court, the French health ministry and the French Supreme Court. The attack is believed to be a response to the arrest in France of Telegram founder Pavel Durov. On August 24, Durov was detained by French authorities on charges of conspiracy with illegal activities, among ot...
Radix, a distributed ledger project built around native assets, has announced plans to create an endowment of 1.50 billion XRD worth $37 million. According to the team: "The fund is designed to support the long-term development of the ecosystem while ensuring financial support for entities involved in the development and growth of the Radix platform and ecosystem. The process of selecting an institution to manage the fund is ongoing - a requirement is that the institution has more than $1 billio...
The Bank of Italy is planning a lot of research on distributed ledger technology (DLT). In a report published today, the Bank of Italy shares a new permissioned consensus protocol that has been adapted to accommodate Bitcoin and is being open sourced. This is not the first time a permissioned version has been created for Bitcoin, but it adds a new detail that provides the confidentiality of the validator's identity. Its work aims to create a central bank's DLT system.
The Bank of England has said it plans to conduct a series of experiments with distributed ledger technology (DLT) and wholesale central bank digital currencies (wCBDCs) to keep pace with changes in the payments landscape and assess the opportunities and risks presented by fintech developments. The bank said it will work with the Treasury, the Payment Systems Regulator and the Financial Conduct Authority to ensure that the unity of money is maintained even when it comes to stablecoins. That is, e...
Dash disclosed at X that it is about to release the Evolution platform, a distributed application platform. Evolution is a platform that executes data contracts. This data writes data to indexed and queryable decentralized storage. Sidechains run by the same nodes as the main chain handle data transactions, while the network's decentralized API allows anyone to access this data on demand.
Saga posted on X that the distribution of Vault 3 Saga tokens has been completed. The distribution to Partners is based on a rolling basis and is mostly completed.
Degen tweeted that it has allocated Uniswap v3 LP fees for the past 6 months, with 8% donated to Gentlemen Labs for Degen development, 50% reinvested into the LP pool, and the remainder going to the Degen Foundation.
Distributed cloud computing company Prodia raised $15 million in seed funding led by Dragonfly Capital, with additional backing from HashKey Capital, Web3.com, Index Ventures, Symbolic Capital, OKX Ventures, EV3, Artichoke, TRGC, Folius, Tangent Capital, Southern Equity, Balaji Srinivasan, Polygon founder Sandeep Nailwal, and others.