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Finance

From SIM-Swaps to Home-Invasion Threats, Ledger Leak Has Cascading Consequences

The incident shows the variety of ways data can be used to hurt people, and raises questions about how and if certain data should be retained at all.

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Tech

IBM Launches Test Service Using 'Holy Grail' of Data Privacy Technology

The privacy technology, called fully homomorphic encryption, keeps data hidden even when being processed.

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Markets

World Economic Forum Wants to Standardize Ethical Data Collection

The World Economic Forum wants to create guidelines for data storage and distribution, in hopes of making it easier for researchers and governments to make informed decisions.

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Tech

Duality Technologies Launches Platform for Analyzing Big Data While Keeping It Private

The platform is a step forward in practical uses for Homomorphic Encryption, letting multiple actors conduct analysis while keeping the data encrypted.

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Markets

West African Program Will Store Weather Data on Telos Blockchain

Telokanda, a collaboration between Telos and open-source weather tech company Kanda in West Africa hopes to engage local communities in collecting and sharing weather data on the Telos public blockchain.

Telokanda weather balloons will record a variety of data and store the information on the Telos blockchain.

Finance

Ocean v3 Brings Wave of Data Monetization Tools to Ethereum

A third version of Ocean Protocol has been released, fleshing out its vision for “datatokens” and decentralized data marketplaces.

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Markets

Data Management Startup Fluree Unlocks $1.5M Air Force Contract With Latest VC Raise

The Air Force demanded Fluree raise at least $1.5 million before beginning its blockchain project's second phase.

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Finance

Ocean Protocol and Balancer Want to Do for Data What Uniswap Did for Coins

Ocean Protocol is teaming up with Balancer Labs to create the first automated market maker (AMM) for data.

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Markets

Data Site DeFi Pulse Fixes Bug, Says Value Locked Actually Hit $13B Last Week

Popular data analytics site DeFi Pulse has claimed a "previously undetected issue" saw TVL under-reported by more than $4 billion on Sept. 18.

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Finance

Why DeFi Pulse's Key Metric Is So Simple It's Confusing

DeFi Pulse invented "Total Value Locked." Yet, TVL's mechanics have been somewhat confusing to those in the space. Here's how the leading DeFi metric works.

DeFi Pulse does the complex work of counting how much is committed to each DeFi platform. (Crissy Jarvis/Unsplash)