Tag: Launches

Binance launches anti-scam campaign after Hong Kong pilot run

Tom Blackstone

Binance, in cooperation with law enforcement agencies, is launching a campaign to prevent scams by issuing targeted alerts to potential victims, according to a March 3 blog post from the company. The project, called the “Joint Anti-Scam Campaign,” was rolled out first in Hong Kong, and the company now intends to expand it into other jurisdictions. Keeping our ecosystem and the #Binance community safe is at the core of what we do. Which is why we partnered with law enforcement agencies across the globe to launch the Joint Anti-Scam Campaign.…

Aave Launches Stablecoin GHO on Ethereum Goerli Testnet with Open Source Codebase and Audits – Altcoins Bitcoin News

Jamie Redman

Aave Companies, the firm behind the decentralized finance (defi) project Aave, has announced the launch of a stablecoin called GHO on the Ethereum testnet network Goerli. The codebase is available on Github and has undergone audits by Open Zeppelin, Sigmaprime and ABDK. Aave Invites Programmers to Test GHO Before Mainnet Deployment On Thursday, Aave Companies announced the launch of its native stablecoin GHO on the Ethereum Goerli testnet. The company also released the open-source codebase on Github. The developers of Aave are inviting programmers and prospective integrators to begin testing…

Expected to Play a Key Role in Making Web3 Compliance Seamless, Astra Protocol Launches Native Token – CryptoMode

Amaury Reynolds

Astra Protocol, a decentralized KYC platform for Web3, introducing the financial regulatory standards for more than 150 countries and over 300 sanctions to the crypto industry, launched its $ASTRA token on multiple significant exchanges on January 16th, 2023. A fixed supply utility token, with a total of 1 billion minted, the $ASTRA token will work as a unique SAAS (Software as a Service). Platforms will stake the token to access Astra’s KYC services. KuCoin and MEXC, two of the most well-known exchanges in the crypto world, are facilitating trades in…

Huobi and Solaris crypto-to-fiat debit card launches in the EU

Savannah Fortis

As the crypto space continues to expand into the mainstream, bridging the gap between digital currencies and fiat currency is a priority for many legacy financial institutions. Cryptocurrency exchange Huobi announced its partnership with Solaris, a European financial services provider, to launch a crypto-to-fiat debit card. The program, which Visa has approved, allows Huobi users to use their digital assets at the point of sale globally. Users residing in the European Economic Area (EEA) will have access to the card beginning in the second quarter of 2023. The EEA comprises…

Abu Dhabi-based Venom Foundation launches $1B fund for Web3 and blockchain

Gareth Jenkinson

Abu Dhabi-based blockchain platform Venom Foundation and investment manager Iceberg Capital announced they will allocate $1 billion of funding to Web3 and blockchain firms through a new partnership. The Venom Ventures Fund is set to invest in protocols and Web3 decentralized applications (DApps) focused on payments, asset management, decentralized finance (DeFi) and GameFi products and services. The fund is a partnership between layer-1 blockchain solution, Venom Foundation and Abu Dhabi Global Market (ADGM) investment management firm, Iceberg Capital. The latter will look to leverage its existing network to offer incubation…

NFT project Azuki launches Physical Backed Token

Jeffrey Albus

Anime-inspired nonfungible token (NFT) project Azuki has released a Physical Backed Token (PBT) — an open-source token standard that ties a physical item to a digital token on the Ethereum blockchain.   Azuki shared on its Twitter account that the first implementation of the PBT will use the BEAN Chip; a physical cryptographic chip that self-generates an asymmetric key pair. The combination of the PBT and the BEAN Chip introduces a feature, which the project is calling “scan to own”. Introducing the Physical Backed Token (PBT): an open source token…

Coinbase Cloud launches platform for web3 developers | by Coinbase | Sep, 2022

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Starting today, developers have free and instant blockchain API access with Node by Coinbase Cloud TL;DR: Coinbase Cloud enables web3 developers to build their web3 applications with instant and reliable read/write blockchain access using Node. By Luv Kothari, Group Product Manager, Coinbase Cloud; Sriram Raman, Product Manager, Coinbase Cloud Web3 development is complex. One needs to learn new programming languages, blockchain technologies, and on top of that, there are many protocols to support. Coinbase Cloud is committed to helping Web3 developers do what they do best… BUIDL. That’s why we’re…

Coinbase Cloud launches Solana Archival Nodes to empower the Solana developer community | by Coinbase | Sep, 2022

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by Coinbase Cloud team Sep 6 — We have updated this post to more accurately describe our product by clarifying that the Solana Archival product is a blockstore of historical transactions, not an archive of account state at every point in time. Tl;dr: Coinbase Cloud is expanding our dedicated Solana infrastructure offering to include Solana Archival Nodes. These Solana Archival Nodes can query information about every slot since genesis. These queries can be used to derive historical address balances, as well as build custom indexers and analytics products. Customers using…