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Prominent developer Andre Cronje has quit the DeFi sector, according to an announcement today by his colleague Anton Nell, a senior solutions architect at the Fantom Foundation, who’s joining him in that decision without citing a reason. The price of YFI and other tokens where Cronje was involved plunged after reports of him leaving the…

We seem to have forgotten that cryptocurrencies were created and put into the public spotlight by the same people who had achieved such incredible progress in the IT industry. That is to say, crypto is really the product of IT, not the financial world – a point that many cryptocurrency market forecasters miss. 2022 met…

Solana’s ambitious design aims to solve the blockchain trilemma; however, it still suffers from various drawbacks such as its vulnerability to centralization. What is Solana? Solana is a highly functional open source project that implements a new, permissionless and high-speed layer-1 blockchain. Created in 2017 by Anatoly Yakovenko, a former executive at Qualcomm, Solana aims…

If BTC can flip $41,000 back to support, XRP, NEAR, XMR and WAVES could attract buyers. Bitcoin (BTC) plunged below $40,000 on March 4 and has been trading below the level throughout the weekend. Although the crypto price action has been volatile in the past few days, Glassnode data shows that institutional investors have been gradually…

NFT artist Olive Allen said by publicly burning her Russian passport, protesting the current government. Allen said she will use funds from the sale to donate to Save the Children, an organization aimed at helping children around the world. Olive Allen, a Russian national and artist who has lived in the USA for more than…

The global pandemic changed everything for creators: The stay-at-home orders accelerated the shift toward blockchain and Web3 advancement, writes Doug Petkanics, a co-founder at Livepeer, where the team is building a decentralized live video broadcast platform to enable the next generation of video streaming. After two years and many COVID-19 restrictions finally subsiding, the world…