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Markets

K-Pop Stars to Mint Digital Collectibles on Polkadot

RBW's Japanese subsidiary will be selling its singers' digital products on the blockchain.

K-Pop fans during the 2019 KCon New York on July 06, 2019 in New York City.

Finance

Fireblocks Rolls Out Staking Rewards for Eth 2.0, Polkadot and Tezos

The institution-focused crypto custodian is bringing staking services to its 165-plus customers.

Left to right: Fireblocks co-founders Pavel Berengoltz, Michael Shaulov and Idan Ofrat.

Markets

Kraken Users Are Staking More Than $1B in Crypto

The value reflects the many long positions investors are trading in cryptocurrencies.

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Markets

Polkadot Surges After Binance Home Page Listing, $10M Endorsement

DOT's recent ascent began on Dec. 23 when Binance announced a $10 million fund to support projects built on Polkadot.

Polkadot founder Gavin Wood

Finance

Cere Network Raises $1.5M More to Bring Its 'Decentralized Salesforce' to Polkadot

Binance-backed Cere Network has raised another $1.5 million to become a decentralized version of Salesforce.

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Finance

Protocol Hosting Google reCAPTCHA Competitor Expands to Polkadot

Human Protocol, home of the anti-bot hCaptcha system, announced it is expanding beyond Ethereum to a future Polkadot parachain, Moonbeam.

Human-machine interaction in Osaka, Japan

Policy

China's State-Sanctioned Blockchain Project BSN Adds Polkadot, Oasis, Bityuan to Network

China’s state-sanctioned blockchain infrastructure provider BSN is adding cross-chain protocol Polkadot, decentralized cloud data startup Oasis and China-based project Bityuan to its network.

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Finance

IDEX Plants a Flag for a Multichain Future, Beginning With Binance Chain and Polkadot

Every holder of IDEX’s Ethereum tokens will get an equivalent number of exchange tokens for each of the new chains.

Alex Wearn, CEO of IDEX

Markets

First Mover: Bitcoin Tops $17K as Scaramucci Makes Entrée, Ethereum Meets Rival

Ethereum's success as dominant "smart contracts" blockchain attracts rivals, and some investors speculate Polkadot might have momentum.

Bitcoin prices crossed above $17,000 for the first time since January 2018.

Markets

As DeFi Grows, Investors Look to Polkadot to Be the Next Ethereum

In a cryptocurrency ecosystem where the programmable-money juggernaut has long been Ethereum, Polkadot, a project that has been quietly developing an alternative solution since 2016, is ready to take on the blockchain world.

Polkadot founder Gavin Wood