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YOU HAVE to hand it to Mark Zuckerberg. When the founder of Facebook announced in October that he was changing the name of the social-media network’s parent company to Meta Platforms in order to help create an alternative digital reality known as the metaverse, he was mercilessly mocked. To some, he was generating a smokescreen …
HOW MUCH have you spent on the cloud today? It takes Robert Hodges only a few clicks to find out. He pulls up a dashboard on a computer in his home office in Berkeley, California, which shows cloud spending at his database firm, Altinity, in real time. The cloud represents half of Altinity’s total costs. …
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FATHER CHRISTMAS and the global container-shipping industry have similar objectives, though the timescales differ. Santa’s world-spanning logistics operation aims to deliver presents all in one night. Shipping firms step theirs up around September to ensure that gifts and other seasonal goods join a vast global supply chain. But a system that usually operates unnoticed (and …
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ASKED WHAT labour wanted, Samuel Gompers, founding president of the American Federation of Labour in the late 1800s, is often quoted as responding: “more”. His actual answer was surprisingly lyrical. “More schoolhouses and less jails…more learning and less vice…more leisure and less greed…more of the opportunities to cultivate our better natures.” His ability to tie …
Convex Finance was forced to unlock its vote locked CVX tokens after getting to know of a bug in the smart contract. According to the team, this was a non-critical bug that didn’t affect users’ funds in any way. The bug in question made it possible for “expired locks to relock directly to a new …
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You are here: Home / News / DeFi / Cardano-powered multi-protocol DEX makes its debut March 5, 2022 by Lipika Deka Cardano-based Decentralized Finance or DeFi projects have been growing at a blistering pace after the launch of its most successful DEX- SundaeSwap. The latest to join the club is Bashoswap which announced its debut …
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The crypto-economy has been sliding in value during the last 48 hours as the current market valuation for all 13,000+ crypto assets is $1.83 trillion. Furthermore, the total value locked (TVL) in decentralized finance (defi) protocols has slipped below the $200 billion mark to $196.02 billion on Sunday morning (EST). Meanwhile, Ethereum’s dominance is 55.54% …
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Yearn Finance (YFI) has plunged rapidly following the surprise exit of its key players. The cryptocurrency which had been following the market trend had broken off the step with the rest of the space as the news sent ripples through the community. The plunge which occurred on Sunday came as a direct result of uncertainty …
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Russia · Ukraine › Banking Have SWIFT, PayPal, Mastercard and Visa finally exposed the vulnerabilities of centralised finance? Crypto may soon be the only transaction method left in Russia. Cover art/illustration via CryptoSlate Mastercard and Visa have announced that they will no longer operate inside Russia. With Russia already cut off from the SWIFT network …
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