Solana-based market maker integrates Stripe for fiat-crypto transactions
As the Solana ecosystem comes back from the aftershocks of the FTX liquidity earthquake, one of its leading automated market makers (AMM), Orca, announced a new integration. The AMM revealed a new Stripe integration which will power its fiat-to-crypto onramp, to make decentralized finance (DeFi) more accessible to users both in and out of the […]
Crypto Twitter shares security concerns regarding Meta’s recent NFT integration news
On Aug 29, Facebook and Instagram’s parent company Meta announced that its users will now be able to post digital collectibles and Non-Fungible Tokens, or NFTs, across both platforms by simply connecting their digital wallets to either site. We’re introducing the ability to post digital collectibles across @facebook and @instagram. You can now connect your […]
Ankr partners with Optimism to provide a fast and reliable RPC service for users
Ankr, a company that provides one-click node deployment and Web3 infrastructure, has announced that it will become a remote procedure call provider for Optimism. Optimism is an open-source Layer 2 scaling solution for Ethereum that focuses on speed and efficient transactions across the network. It has caught the eyes of many in recent months, including […]
Alchemy announces support for Solana Web3 applications the day after blockchain halted
In an announcement published by Alchemy just one day after the Solana network temporarily halted on June 1, the Web3 development platform and infrastructure provider announced its support for the controversial blockchain. Caused by a bug that made it impossible to reach network consensus, the Solana blockchain was halted for approximately four hours on Wednesday. […]
Etherscan, CoinGecko warn against ongoing MetaMask phishing attacks
Popular crypto analytics platforms Etherscan and CoinGecko have parallelly issued an alert against an ongoing phishing attack on their platforms. The firms began investigating the attack after numerous users reported unusual MetaMask pop-ups prompting users to connect their crypto wallets to the website. Based on the information disclosed by the analytics firms, the latest phishing […]
Chainlink set to power Latin American real estate platform
The tokenization of global property markets has been an ambitious goal of the blockchain space and decentralized finance (DeFi) could offer a novel solution for the sector to pick up pace. Decentralized oracle network Chainlink (LINK) is set to power a tokenized real estate platform serving the Latin American property market. LaProp will allow investors […]
‘There are already digital means of payment:’ EU Commission gets 11,000 public comments on CBDC project
In less than two weeks that passed since the European Commission opened its “Digital euro for the EU” initiative up to public consultation, more than 11,000 individuals and organizations left their feedback on the website. The feedback section will be open until June 14. Besides the open-ended comments section on the website, there is a […]