Blockchain

Blockchain is resistant to modification of the data. It is "an open, distributed ledger that can record transactions between two parties efficiently and in a verifiable and permanent way.

By design, a blockchain is resistant to modification of the data. It is "an open, distributed ledger that can record transactions between two parties efficiently and in a verifiable and permanent way".

Source: en.wikipedia.org

DeFi’s Self-Executing Payouts Enable Crop Insurance for Small Farmers in Africa
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March 23, 2022  |  Blockchain / Distributed Ledger

The vast majority of Africa’s 300 million subsistence farmers find crop insurance, a basic farming financial tool, impossible to get. But a new coalition of...

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March 23, 2022  |  Security & Fraud

SIM swaps, employment schemes, business email compromise, tech support fakes, auction fraud, romance scams — fraud comes in many forms, and 2021 was a banner...

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March 23, 2022  |  NFTs

Yuga Labs, which created the Bored Apes Yacht Club (BAYC) NFT collection, has raised $450 million in a funding round that values the company at...

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Today in the FinTech Ukraine Daily: Hospitality Network OYO Offers Ukrainian Refugees Free Accommodations
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March 22, 2022  |  International

OYO, the India-based hospitality technology platform, announced it would offer free accommodation to Ukraine refugees, The Economic Times reported. Get the Full Story Complete the...

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March 22, 2022  |  Technology

A Morgan Stanley report has said the growth in decentralized finance (DeFi) could be set to slow down soon, due to regulation and overcollateralization concerns,...

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March 22, 2022  |  CBDC

The Bank for International Settlements (BIS) and four central banks have completed trials of two blockchain-based platforms that a multinational central bank digital currency (CBDC)...

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March 22, 2022  |  Investments

Blockchain-based non-fungible token (NFT) protocol Upshot on closed a $22 million Series A2 fundraising round that it will use for additional research and development of...

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March 22, 2022  |  Cryptocurrency

When crypto folks talk about “tokenomics,” they tend to mean things specific to the design of a specific token that will affect its price. So,...

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March 21, 2022  |  Security & Fraud

The Li Finance swap aggregator experienced a smart contract attack which led to around $600,000 lost from 29 users’ wallets, a report said. Get the...

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