Smart Contracts

Cardano Partners With Chainlink for DeFi Smart Contracts Development

During a period of major corporate and institutional interest in the crypto industry, nearly 5,000 new tokens have emerged in the last 12 months, averaging over 10 new coins per day, new data shows. Cryptocurrency Boom of 2021 As can be observed on CoinMarketCap’s homepage, the number of existing cryptocurrencies has recently surpassed 12,000. This is well over the approximately 7,100 coins recorded by the site in September of last year, meaning that at least 4,900 new digital assets have been created in the last 12 months alone. This represents

Stratis Joins ‘APPG Blockchain’ to Help Guide UK Blockchain Policy

[PRESS RELEASE – London, United Kingdom, 20th September 2021] Stratis has joined the UK’s All Party Parliamentary Group on Blockchain (APPG Blockchain) to contribute its knowledge and experience of deploying blockchain for innovative use-cases. APPG Blockchain includes organisations like Capita, the IOTA Foundation, SAP and the British Standards Institute (BSI) who collaborate with an array of experts in public evidence-forums to provide tangible recommendations to policy-makers working on the UK’s approach to blockchain. As one of the UK’s most prominanent blockchain projects the Stratis team will contribute its knowledge and

Cardano DeFi Project Spores Raises $2.3 Million in Funding Round

It was a tough week price-wise in the cryptocurrency market. The total capitalization lost around $100 billion as every single coin from the top 20 is in the red. Some lost more than others, but we’ll get to that later. Kicking it off with Bitcoin. It had a relatively calm week, and even though it’s down about 3% over the period, it’s still not as bad as a lot of the altcoins. BTC was trading at around $34,000 last Friday, and apart from a brief positive spike on Monday, it

Ethereum Scaling Solution Polygon Partners Community Gaming to Support Instant Payments in E-Sports

Polygon has partnered with Community Gaming in order to enable scalable E-sports tournaments. Built for grassroots tournament organizers, Community Gaming’s platform has been designed to  make it easier to develop custom e-sports tournaments within minutes with preconfigured payments. As noted in a release shared with CI: “Without any background knowledge of how wallets or smart contracts work, tournament organizers on Community Gaming can now seamlessly deploy their esports tournaments onto the Polygon network, allowing for instant player payments.” The Polygon team has developed what they claim is the “premier” Ethereum

Virtue Poker Gets a Seat at the DeFi Yield Farming Table

It’s nice when things just fit together and the world around us makes sense.  It speaks to our basic need for answers–and our appreciation of tidiness.  The scientific community has been on an endless hunt for a theory that ties together the key forces around us.  If found, the Theory of Everything will change the way we see the universe.Compared to five years ago (even 18 months ago), the financial world has not only flipped on its head, but has done cartwheels, back flips, and has learned to briefly fly. 

Insights Into the World-Changing Potential of On-Chain Gaming

Blockchain technology and the decentralization movement are set to disrupt many industries, but perhaps none more than gambling. By bringing transparency to a once-opaque industry, on-chain gaming promises to shine a light onto a sector characterized by intransparency and a lack of fairness. What is Decentralized Gambling? Decentralized gambling takes control away from centralized organizations which typically operate gambling sites. This design model opens the doors to player-centric mechanisms, one of which provable fairness.  All payouts and bets are verifiable with all transactions recorded on-chain, thereby leaving platforms with no

A Beginner’s Guide to Non-Fungible Tokens (NFT)

If you’ve ever used the words “NFT” or “non-fungible token” and had no idea what they meant, you’re not alone.Until 2021, it was a relatively rare concept, but in recent months, it’s become more common to hear it mentioned in conjunction with digital artwork sold for millions of dollars.In the cryptocurrency world, NFTs are the latest craze.Are NFTs, however, worth all of the publicity and, well, money? They aren’t going to be around for too long, according to many experts. Many others, on the other hand, believe that NFTs are

A Comprehensive Guide to Enterprise Blockchain

If you want to learn everything related to enterprise Blockchain, you have landed on the right page. This article talks about what exactly enterprise Blockchain is, top platforms for enterprise, and some of the notable companies that are exploring enterprise Blockchains.  Table of Contents  What is Enterprise Blockchain? Top 5 Blockchain Platforms for Enterprises Notable Companies Exploring Enterprise Blockchains Concluding Lines  What is Enterprise Blockchain? It is a type of permissioned blockchain network that can be integrated and utilized for enterprise usages. Such blockchains are empowering enterprises and businesses with

NFTs and What They Could Mean for Games

Recently the topic of NFTs (Non-fungible tokens) has been big news for its potential to revolutionise commerce for artists working in all mediums. For those uninitiated, NFTs are a type of cryptocurrency token that refer to a non duplicatable digital asset. Meaning if you buy an art piece as an NFT you are the sole owner of that unique one-of-a-kind work of art. The rules do get a little muddy though, since it doesn’t stop anyone from being able to simply take a picture, video, or screenshot of the original