Incogni, a digital privacy firm, conducted a study on American and Chinese platforms harvesting sensitive data from Europeans. Despite alleged digital protection laws, these apps can circumvent them. Blockchain technology could fix these problems, but the internet’s dominant forces are going in the opposite direction. It’ll be a hard fight. Digital Privacy Violations In Europe
VersaBank, a Canadian digital bank with a focus on business clients, has started testing a tokenized deposit that the bank says provide a safer and more compliant alternative to stablecoins. The pilot, run through the bank’s U.S. subsidiary VersaBank USA, will trial a U.S. dollar version of the bank’s blockchain-based Digital Deposit Receipts (DDRs) tech.
As user interactions continue to increase in the cryptocurrency market, the list of projects with the most active users on a weekly basis has been published. This data represents the number of unique addresses performing revenue-generating transactions on a project’s app or blockchain. The metrics are calculated using a 7-day moving average. Here are the
Research-driven crypto firm Delphi Digital and institutional staking platform Chorus One have teamed up to launch a new institutional-grade validator on Solana. Summary Delphi Digital and Chorus One have joined the Solana validator list. The platforms have partnered to launch an institutional-grade validator to support Solana security and decentralization. Validators earn rewards from protocol rewards,
Alphabet recently unveiled a new blockchain called the Google Cloud Universal Ledger (GCUL), some features of which appear to put it in direct competition with Ripple Labs’ XRP Ledger (XRPL). The $2.5 trillion internet giant stamped its own brand on it and name-dropped other heavyweights on its debut, including the world’s largest options and futures
Tokenization platform Securitize has predicted that Ethereum will be the future hub for real-world asset (RWA) markets, pointing to the blockchain’s dominance in institutional adoption and its potential to capture a multi-trillion-dollar opportunity. In a guest thread posted on Ethereum’s X account, Carlos Domingo, CEO and founder of Securitize, pointed out the tokenization market’s growth
This is a segment from The Drop newsletter. To read full editions, subscribe. Camp wants to prove that an IP-focused chain can work long-term. The Camp mainnet has been officially deployed as of this morning, along with its native CAMP token. The team worked with crypto infra firm Gelato and is using the Abundance rollup
In a dramatic — and slightly odd — pronouncement, US Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick declared on national television that “the Department of Commerce is going to start issuing its statistics on the blockchain. He added, “We’re going to put GDP on the blockchain so people can use the blockchain for data, distribution, and then
Lumia, the oracle layer of Web3, which also acts as the liquidity layer, has announced a strategic partnership with Alchemy, a top-level blockchain development platform. This partnership aims at upgrading the existing core infrastructure of Lumia by using Alchemy’s Remote Procedure Call (RPC) nodes. This upgrade will greatly enhance the speed and credibility of Lumia
Oasys Blockchain, a popular tokenized asset gateway, has partnered with Babylon, a prominent Web3 and blockchain infrastructure firm. The partnership aims to redefine the Oasys Blockchain ecosystem into a Bitcoin Supercharged Network (BSN), permitting $BTC stakers to take part within the chain. As the platform revealed in its official social media announcement, this move denotes