Injective said Monday it would use oracle technology to provide decentralized price data for its new market and historical price data from outside traditional market hours, allowing trading around the clock.
Users can leverage the Injective Solstice V2 network to trade stocks with the tether USDT$0.9990 stablecoin "in a completely decentralized manner with zero gas fees,” Injective said.
The stock offerings initially include Airbnb, Amazon and Google, with more companies to be introduced in the future.
“Investing in stocks still remains inaccessible for billions of people worldwide while the existing platforms act as gatekeepers and suffer from technical challenges,” said Eric Chen, CEO of Injective Protocol.
Edit (10:25 UTC, Dec. 22, 2020): Removed Tesla as a tokenized stock option after information in a press release was corrected.
Pudgy Penguins is building a multi-vertical consumer IP platform — combining phygital products, games, NFTs and PENGU to monetize culture at scale.
What to know:
Pudgy Penguins is emerging as one of the strongest NFT-native brands of this cycle, shifting from speculative “digital luxury goods” into a multi-vertical consumer IP platform. Its strategy is to acquire users through mainstream channels first; toys, retail partnerships and viral media, then onboard them into Web3 through games, NFTs and the PENGU token.
The ecosystem now spans phygital products (> $13M retail sales and >1M units sold), games and experiences (Pudgy Party surpassed 500k downloads in two weeks), and a widely distributed token (airdropped to 6M+ wallets). While the market is currently pricing Pudgy at a premium relative to traditional IP peers, sustained success depends on execution across retail expansion, gaming adoption and deeper token utility.
Anthropic is set to raise $20 billion in its latest funding round, double the amount it initially targeted, according to the FT.
What to know:
Anthropic, the maker of the Claude chatbot, is set to raise about $20 billion in new funding at a valuation of $350 billion, according to the Financial Times.
That's double the amount the company initially sought to raise.
The news is boosting spirits in the AI sector, with bitcoin miners turned AI infrastructure providers like IREN, TeraWulf, Cipher Mining and Hut 8 surging higher.