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Tech

The Graph Migrates its Settlement Layer to Arbitrum from Ethereum

The transition is aimed at reducing barriers of entry for The Graph’s users by decreasing gas costs and speeding up transactions.

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Videos

Why Disco's Swag Is 'Prohibitively Expensive'

Disco, a metaverse company focused on consent-based digital identity, is working to address the significance of users' online reputation and personal data. The firm is incentivizing customers to move personal data from company-owned platforms to user-owned digital wallets by making its swag free for users who do it — and prohibitively expensive for everyone else. "The Hash" panel shares their reactions to the marketing strategy.

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Finance

Microsoft Working With Space and Time to Add Real-Time Blockchain Data for Azure Cloud

The agreement comes seven months after the tech giant led a strategic funding round for the crypto firm.

Co-founders Scott Dykstra (left) and Nate Holiday (Space and Time)

Consensus Magazine

Much Ado About =Nil;

The mysterious company that calls itself nothing is helping zero-knowledge firms to scale blockchain quickly and cheaply. That’s something. And that’s why =nil; Foundation is one of CoinDesk’s Projects to Watch 2023

(Rachel Sun/CoinDesk)

Opinion

Anti-TikTok Politicking Shows Worst Tendencies of U.S. Pols

The RESTRICT Act and other attempts to ring fence foreign tech would disrupt the open internet at the same time crypto is under threat.

U.S. Senator Josh Hawley (Gage Skidmore/Wikimedia Commons, modified by CoinDesk)

Finance

AllianceBlock Strikes Deal With Crunchbase to Bring Traditional Business Data to DeFi

AllianceBlock Data Tunnel users will be able to import Crunchbase data alongside DeFi data.

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Policy

EU Parliament’s Smart Contract Plans Limit Standard-Setting Promise, EU Commissioner Says

Controversial lawmaker proposals on data use may no longer meet original objectives, Thierry Breton told reporters.

The EU Commission's Thierry Breton (Thierry Monasse/Getty Images)

Finance

Nansen Rolls Out Query Product Offering Historical Data to Curate Datasets

The product aims to help firms perform faster on-chain data analyses using unique data from Nansen’s expansive database.

A Nansen query (Nansen)

Markets

Klaytn Foundation Proposes Burning 5.28B KLAY Tokens, Cutting Token Supply by Nearly 50%

The proposal suggests an initial burning of 73% of the reserve supply, amounting to 5.28 billion KLAY tokens or approximately 48% of the total token supply.

Klaytn booth at Token 2049. (Shaurya Malwa/CoinDesk)