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Tech

Ex-Head of China's Digital Yuan Effort Says CBDCs Could Operate on Ethereum

Central bank digital currencies will one day be more "smart," and not merely digital versions of cash, Yao Qian said.

Yao Qian, director of the Science and Technology Supervision Bureau of the China Securities Regulatory Commission

Markets

DocuSign to Acquire 'Smart Agreement' Firm Clause

DocuSign will use Clause's technology in its Agreement Cloud platform.

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Videos

Uniswap Founder Says V3 Could Make Liquidity Mining More Efficient

Speaking at Consensus 2021, Uniswap founder Hayden Adams discussed a timeline for v3 and how it’ll lower the barrier of entry to participating in market making “to the point where basically anyone can do it.”

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Videos

Polkadot’s Wood Acknowledges Legacy EVM Design’s Role But Ties Future to Upgrades

Speaking at Consensus 2021, Parity Technologies founder Gavin Wood discussed changes to Polkadot, using WebAssembly as a smart contract and how legacy blockchains are not fit for modern day use, though he acknowledged the Ethereum Virtual Machine’s (EVM) pole position in blockchain development today.

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Tech

Dfinity Launches Uber-Ambitious 'The Internet Computer' After 5 Years of Development

The promise of this new system could not be greater.

Dfinity founder Dominic Williams

Markets

Coinbase Listing Brought Attention to Crypto, Says Tezos's Kathleen Breitman

Coinbase's direct listing is bringing attention to crypto, but there's some "hopium" going on in DeFi, says Breitman.

Tezos co-founder Kathleen Breitman

Tech

Stacks Launches $4M Accelerator to Fund Tech Teams Building Apps on Bitcoin

The program will invest in early stage startups building within the Stacks ecosystem.

Stacks founder Muneeb Ali

Markets

Chainlink Integration Connects Filecoin to Smart Contract-Enabled Blockchains

The integration will enable connection between Filecoin and Ethereum and other smart contract-enabled blockchains.

Juan Benet of Filecoin

Tech

Bitcoin’s Taproot Activation Gains Momentum From New ‘Speedy Trial’ Proposal

Taproot is the largest upgrade Bitcoin has seen in years, and many are proposing projects on top of it.

Could "Speedy Trial" be the solution that gets Taproot across the finish line?

Policy

Iowa Introduces Bill to Level Playing Field for Blockchain and Smart Contracts

The bill was introduced to bring blockchain tech on par with traditional contracts and recordkeeping.

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