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Markets

Bitcoin Climbs 3% to $26.6K; SOL, NEAR, ADA Lead Crypto Market Gains

Despite today’s market-wide advance, the outlook for risk assets is pointing to softer prices for the next few weeks, one observer noted.

BTC price chart (CoinDesk)

Opinion

3 Giga-Brained Ideas From Consensus Day 2

Crypto shows that ideas can be valuable, even if they’re not useful … yet.

Consensus 2023 Highlights

Consensus Magazine

Illia Polosukhin: Building Near's Blockchain, Embedding AI

The co-founder, a speaker at CoinDesk’s Consensus festival, said Near is taking on Ethereum and already boasts 25 million accounts and 446,000 daily transactions.

(Ian Suarez/CoinDesk)

Tech

Next Evolution of Blockchain Software Has Only Just Begun: Bank of America

Platforms like Near, Polkadot and Cardano are using new approaches to improve the trade-off between scalability, decentralization and security, a report from the bank said.

La plataforma Near necesita hacer algo más que solamente atraer nuevos usuarios, según Bank of America. (Zack Seward/CoinDesk)

Tech

Near Protocol Starts ‘Blockchain Operating System’ to Focus on User Experience

The platform is intended to act as a common layer for browsing and discovering Web 3 products.

Near co-founder Illia Polosukhin (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)

Markets

Near Foundation Urges Winding Down USN Stablecoin, Funds a $40M Backstop

The foundation is setting aside the funds for a "protection programme," which it says is equal to the amount of a "collateral gap" associated with the undercollateralization of the USN project.

Marieke Flament (Matt Hussey/NEAR)

Videos

GSR Markets Exec on Crypto Buying Opportunities

"It's becoming clear that there are more and more buying opportunities for [crypto protocols] which are revenue generating ... similar to the kind of TradFi opportunities that followed the great financial crisis in 2009," GSR Markets Global Head of Product Benoit Bosc says, naming Ethereum, Solana, Avalanche and NEAR.

Recent Videos

Policy

Near Protocol Forms Working Group to Promote DeFi Governance

The Near Digital Collective is a self-governance initiative aimed at further decentralizing the Near ecosystem’s decision-making by moving it to a blockchain.

Illia Polosukhin, Co-Founder, NEAR Protocol (Stephen Lovekin/Shutterstock/CoinDesk)

Finance

Near Blockchain Moves Ahead With Phase One of Sharding Upgrade

As a part of Near’s four-step plan to shard the network over the next year, the protocol will introduce 200 new validators.

Near co-founder Illia Polosukhin (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)

Finance

Blockchain Supporter NEAR Unveils $100M VC Fund Targeting Web3 Culture and Entertainment

The NEAR Foundation is collaborating with Caerus Ventures in the initiative, which will make seed round investments.

(Unsplash)

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