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Tech

Protocol Village: Fidelity Acknowledges Risk of Bug in Bitcoin's Code

The latest in blockchain tech upgrades, funding announcements and deals. For the period of Nov. 2-8, with live updates throughout.

Scene from Protocol Village at Consensus 2023 in Austin, Texas.

Tech

Lukso Blockchain Releases Universal Profiles on Mainnet

The feature went live on main network blockchain two months after it was released on testnet.

Fabian Vogelsteller and Marjorie Hernandez, co-founders of Lukso. (Lukso)

Markets

Bitcoin Addresses With Over $1K of BTC Hits Record 8M, Data Shows

The number could grow exponentially, representing a tremendous amount of purchasing power, one observer said.

BTC's price, addresses with at least $1,000 worth of BTC. (Blockware Solutions, Glassnode)

Finance

Celestia's TIA Airdrop Hype Wanes as Blockchain Struggles to Gain Users

More than 410,000 eligible airdrop participants did not claim their TIA tokens worth almost $1 million.

According to the Celestia Foundation, this photo was taken shortly after Celestia CEO Mustafa Al-Bassam (then a Ph.D. student) published the "LazyLedger" research paper in 2019. Al-Bassam is on the right, with Celestia executives Ismail Khoffi (left) and John Adler (center). (Celestia Foundation)

Tech

Protocol Village: Neon EVM (on Solana) Announces Integration With DeBridge's

The latest in blockchain tech upgrades, funding announcements and deals. For the period of Oct. 26-Nov. 1, with live updates throughout.

Scene from Protocol Village at Consensus 2023 in Austin, Texas.

Tech

How a Ph.D. Student's Research Paper Turned Celestia Into $345M Blockchain Project Overnight

This week's launch of the new "data availability" network Celestia came with an airdrop of the project's TIA tokens, one of the most anticipated giveaways in the crypto industry of the past year.

According to the Celestia Foundation, this photo was taken shortly after Celestia CEO Mustafa Al-Bassam (then a Ph.D. student) published the "LazyLedger" research paper in 2019. Al-Bassam is on the right, with Celestia executives Ismail Khoffi (left) and John Adler (center). (Celestia Foundation)

Finance

Celestia Airdrops TIA Token as Network Goes Live, Claims Start of 'Modular Era'

Celestia has released its mainnet beta after issuing tokens to 580,000 users.

Arbitrum airdrop goes live. (Pexel/Pixabay)

Finance

Celestia's TIA Token Trades at $3.15 on Futures Market Ahead of Airdrop

The token is set to be listed on Oct. 31 by Binance, Bybit and Kucoin.

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