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- Avalanche and Amazon Ink Partnership to Boost Subnet Deployment
- Gitcoin To Test Decentralized Funding Protocol
- Binance Admits Lapse In Maintaining Stablecoin Reserves
- Consensys Opens zkEVM Testnet to Whitelisted Users
- Ripple Holders Receive Flare Airdrop Two Years After Snapshot
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DeFi + TradFi
Avalanche and Amazon Ink Partnership to Boost Subnet Deployment
AWS to Distribute Credits to Avalanche Projects
Cloud computing giant Amazon Web Services has partnered with Ava Labs to encourage development on the Avalanche blockchain, the companies announced Wednesday.
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DeFi Grants
Gitcoin To Test Decentralized Funding Protocol
Round Will Run From Jan. 17 Through Jan. 31
By Samuel Haig
Gitcoin, a crowdfunding platform for the Ethereum and crypto ecosystems, plans to retire its centralized grants platform and transition to a decentralized protocol.
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CEXs
Binance Admits Lapse In Maintaining Stablecoin Reserves
Binance-peg BUSD Was Insufficiently Backed From 2020 To 2021
Binance, the leading crypto exchange by trading volume, has admitted that its Binance-peg BUSD stablecoin did not have sufficient collateral backing it in the past.
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Whitelisting
Consensys Opens zkEVM Testnet to Whitelisted Users
Early Testnet Users Could Qualify For a Potential Airdrop
By Samuel Haig
Consensys, the blockchain software company, is readying to launch an EVM-compatible rollup powered by zero-knowledge proofs, according to the firm.
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Airdrops
Ripple Holders Receive Flare Airdrop Two Years After Snapshot
FLR Trades At $500M Market Cap
By Owen Fernau
Holders of Ripple (XRP), a digital asset designed to serve to facilitate cross-border payments, have begun to receive a long-anticipated windfall.
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Opinion
Crypto Needs to Up Its Game on Privacy
Spirit of CypherPunks Lives on in Maturing Industry
By Sam Harrison
It’s no surprise that the crypto industry has a growing privacy problem. There needs to be an industry-wide wake-up call to re-orient privacy as the top priority for developers and consumers alike.
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