The community-driven blockchain ecosystem, BNB Chain, has shared that its plans for 2024 involve optimizing performance, introducing “opBNB Connect” for scalability and targeting specific decentralized applications (DApps) for mass adoption, such as decentralized finance (DeFi), gaming, artificial intelligence (AI) and increasing active validators. The community plans to evolve its Optimism OP Stack-based layer-2 scaling solution, opBNB, to opBNB…

Regardless of any short-term pullback, Bitcoin will spend this year further cementing its reputation as digital gold. Indeed, just as it did in March 2023 during a narrowly avoided banking crisis, BTC will likely hold up in ways many traditional assets — perhaps even gold — fail to. It is true that the grand institutional…