Drift Protocol is conducting an airdrop of 100 million tokens and spinning up a token-based governance structure. A surprise winner of the highly anticipated announcement is MetaDAO. Its futarchy tech is being partly implemented in Drift. Solana-based decentralized exchange (DEX) Drift protocol plans to launch a DRIFT governance token and airdrop the asset to its […]
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Binance.US added Martin Grant, a one-time Federal Reserve Bank of New York official who spent 17 years as its chief compliance and ethics officer, to its board of directors, the exchange announced Tuesday. Grant, the Read More
PV01 completed its proof-of-concept issuance of a tokenized bond, a U.S. treasury bill, with market makers B2C2, BlockTower Capital and Keyrock investing. Tokenization of real-world assets like bonds have become a booming sector Read More
Homium, a real-estate equity mortgage lender and securitization platform, has gone live with its first home equity loans on Avalanche. The offering comes as real-world asset (RWA) tokenization continues to become more popular with some Read More
There are plenty of reasons to be bullish on gold, but the evergreen bear case on the precious metal is that it’s never really consumed. Every ounce of gold that’s been mined since Read More
Amid a rekindling of Bitcoin development fervor, layer-2 network Stacks is looking to reinvent itself. As early as April 16, the major player in the Bitcoin L2 sector will kick off the release of its so-called Read More
The evolution of computing has been marked by a series of paradigm shifts, from mainframes to personal computers, and now to the cloud. Currently, the common path to deploying web infrastructure is to be a Read More
On or around April 19, the fourth Bitcoin halving will take place, cutting in half the rewards miners receive for solving a block on the Bitcoin blockchain. The halving event is programmed into Bitcoin’s protocol Read More
Venture capitalists have pumped billions into the DePIN sector already, with some dedicating entire funds to DePIN protocols. Although DePIN projects currently have a combined market capitalization of tens of billions of dollars, the industry Read More
