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What to Know About Ethereum’s 'Shapella' Upgrade

Runa Digital Assets Chief Operating Officer Max Williams breaks down Ethereum's upcoming hard fork and key upgrade "Shapella," which will allow investors to withdraw their ether staked on the Ethereum blockchain. 

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How Decentralization Cultivates Community

Culture & Entertainment has some of the most exciting and popular applications in the realms of art, media, and gaming whereby digital assets are becoming an integral component of the rapidly expanding Metaverse.

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Opening the World of Transactions

Currency sector refers to any digital asset acting primarily as a medium of exchange and unit of account running on a blockchain network with the ability to complete cross-border transactions without restriction. Digital assets in the Currency sector do not necessarily act as a store of value.

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Diving Into DeFi to Navigate the New Wave of Finance

Decentralized Finance, also known as DeFi, effectively lets people be their own bank by replacing traditional institutions with trustless, transparent, and immutable code in the form of smart contracts.

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Adding Value to Real World Documents with Authentication

Digitization is the sector that enables real world documents to be digitized as the blockchain technology makes proof of ownership, identity and authenticity possible.

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Tech

Inventor of Ethereum’s ERC-20 Token Standard Plans New Blockchain ‘LUKSO’ for Creative Types

Fabian Vogelsteller is launching his new project, a layer 1 blockchain “LUKSO,” and validators will be able to join the network through the Genesis Validator Smart Contract Deposit.

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What is So Smart About the Smart Contract Platform Sector?

The Digital Assets ecosystem continues its march toward greater adoption and institutionalization. Today, the Smart Contract Platform (SCP) sector represents over a third of the digital asset market capitalization. The SCP sector has captured industry-wide interest as it has enabled software developers to build a range of applications over Ethereum.

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Citi's Future of Finance Global Head Addresses Future of CBDCs

A recent report from Citi speaks to the promised potential of blockchain and central bank digital currencies (CBDCs), and how it will be measured in "billions of users and trillions of dollars." Citi Future of Finance Global Head Ronit Ghose discusses the future of CBDCs and digital finance, explaining why CBDCs are "going to be a Trojan horse."

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Finance

Modular Blockchain Astria Raises $5.5M for Shared Sequencer Network

Astria's aim is to enable anyone to deploy their own censorship-resistant rollup without having to rely on a centralized sequencer.

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Ethereum Bot Targeted in Attack for $20M as Validator Strikes Back

One of the major Ethereum MEV bots has been targeted in an attack, apparently by one of the blockchain's validators, resulting in the loss of almost $20 million. The incident raises questions about whether validators can be trusted, one former Ethereum Foundation member said. "The Hash" panel discusses the latest developments.

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