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Tech

Helium Proposes Shifting its Entire Network to Solana Blockchain Months After $200M Raise

Developers cited faster transactions and “higher uptimes” among several reasons behind the proposed move.

Solana Hacker House en Miami, abril del 2022. (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)

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Betting Platform BetDEX Labs Likes the Odds for Its Decentralized Sports Exchange

Chairman Nigel Eccles wants to cut out the middleman, and thinks a Solana protocol is the way to go, he told CoinDesk TV’s “First Mover.”

Nigel Eccles, in a photo from 2015 (Clodagh Kilcoyne/Getty Images)

Videos

The Problem With Betting Exchanges and How BetDEX Aims to Solve it

BetDEX, a decentralized sports betting exchange built on Solana, aims to disrupt the legacy gambling industry. BetDEX Labs Chairman and co-founder Nigel Eccles explains the centralization problem with traditional betting exchanges and how his protocol differs.

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BetDEX Labs Chairman on Future of Decentralized Sports Betting

Nigel Eccles, Chairman and co-founder of global sports betting exchange BetDEX Labs, breaks down how decentralized sports wagering works, the benefits of building on the Monaco protocol on Solana and similarities to prediction markets.

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Finance

Solana-Based Automation Network Clockwork Raises $4M in Seed Funding

The decentralized network utilizes the Solana validator to facilitate tasks such as automated payments.

Clockwork has raised $4M in seed funding (quan long/Getty Images)

Finance

Slow Ventures Raises Stakes on Crypto Governance with ‘Timber sDAO’

The venture capital firm's first "legally compliant DAO" bought land, and the second so-called sDAO is buying more. But this time, land with trees.

Solana developers on a hike (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)

Finance

Solana-Based DeFi Protocol OptiFi Loses $661K in Programming Blunder

The platform said it will reimburse all users' funds.

DeFi protocol OptiFi lost $661,000 in user funds after an update error. (Pixabay)

Finance

Crypto Custody Technology Firm Fireblocks Adds Support for Solana Blockchain’s DeFi, NFT, Gaming Apps

The integration also pushes support for the WalletConnect2 protocol across the Solana ecosystem, said Fireblocks CEO Michael Shaulov.

CEO and co-founder Michael Shaulov (Fireblocks)

Finance

‘Obvious Nonsense’: Prominent Blockchain’s Founder Dismisses Smear Campaign Allegation

Avalanche founder Emin Gün Sirer said the allegations – which drove the AVAX token down about 11% – are “categorically false.”

The Avalanche booth at HBC 2022 (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)

Finance

Solana-based Projects Team Up to Make Cross-Chain Messaging Standard

Notifi Network, Bonfida and Only1 are leading a 19-member effort known as the "Open Chat Alliance."

The alliance is trying to build a messaging standard for crypto projects. (Domingo Alvarez/Unsplash)