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Cloudflare Outage Sends Shockwaves Through Crypto, Renewing Push for DePIN

Some in the crypto world have called for DePIN to be more widely adopted to combat internet outage issues.

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Opinion

The AWS Outage Shows Why Crypto Can't Keep Relying On Centralized Infrastructure

For an industry that prides itself on decentralization and constantly lauds its benefits, crypto exchanges being so reliant on vulnerable centralized cloud platforms for their own infrastructure feels like hypocrisy, argues Dr. Max Li, founder and CEO of OORT.

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Opinion

AWS-Reliant Blockchains Won’t Bring Transparency to AI

Blockchain will play a vital role in the rollout of AI, if scalable and fully decentralized.

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Finance

Fireblocks Adds Support for Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud Platform and Alibaba Cloud

The crypto infrastructure provider has so far helped over 50 major financial institutions transition into the digital asset space.

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QuickNode Raises $60M in Series B at $800M Valuation

QuickNode, a development platform that helps Web3 builders create apps, has closed a $60 million Series B funding round at an $800 million valuation to become the "AWS of blockchain." QuickNode co-founder and CEO Alex Nabutovsky discusses raising funds in a crypto winter and the differences in working with Web2 and Web 3 companies in their customer base.

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Filecoin Foundation Chair on Future of Decentralized Storage

Filecoin Foundation Chair Marta Belcher discusses the application of a decentralized storage system in space, teaming up with Lockheed Martin, and why many DeFi projects are sticking with cloud computing services like Amazon Web Services (AWS). Plus, the significance of the crypto industry's presence at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, and a closer look at Filecoin's (FIL) recent price action.

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Finance

Amazon Web Services Taps Avalanche to Help Bring Blockchain Technology to Enterprises, Governments

Avalanche is the first blockchain to form a partnership with Amazon’s cloud-computing platform.

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Finance

Google Cloud Hiring Team of Blockchain Experts

The cloud giant is looking at services it can offer directly to blockchain developers.

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Finance

Amazon Web Services Looks to Drive Crypto Settlement and Custody to the Cloud

The right candidate will transform the way firms transact in crypto, stablecoins, CBDCs and NFTs, said an AWS job post.

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Amazon Offers Mining in the Cloud for New Chia Cryptocurrency

Users in China can set up on AWS to "farm" Chia's XCH cryptocurrency.

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