Bloomberg: Polygon to expand its staff despite the market downturn
08 Sep 2022
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Ethereum scaling solution Polygon plans to continue hiring despite the bear market and choppy macro conditions, as its HR exec told Bloomberg this week. She said the company aims to add 200 people to its team by the end of the year. Meanwhile, Polygon raised $450 million this year through a token sale. According to…

Binance launched zero-knowledge proof scaling technology for BNB Chain
08 Sep 2022
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BNB chain, a Layer-1 blockchain by Binance, has announced its own zero-knowledge (ZK) proof scaling technology, called zkBNB. Binance claims zkBNB will improve scalability metrics and transaction speed. Zero-knowledge (ZK) proofs are one of the viable long-term solutions for decentralized blockchain scalability, as Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin said in his ‘Endgame’ article. It is an…

Cornell Tech professor: NFTs can and will be so much more
08 Sep 2022
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Written off by some as a big bubble, non-fungible tokens represent a step change for forgery management, royalty payments, and identity, Ari Juels, professor at Cornell Tech says on CoinDesk. If you stop people on the street and ask what they think non-fungible tokens (NFT) are all about, what will you hear? Something about outlandish…