Month: December 2024
Build Your Own Exciting NFT Marketplace With This Code
The rise of NFTs (Non-Fungible Tokens) created a new paradigm in the digital economy, revolutionizing how assets such as art, music, and collectibles are bought and sold. Building an NFT marketplace is foundational for developers looking to facilitate these transactions. Linea—a zkEVM rollup by Consensys—offers a robust and scalable environment to bring these projects to … Read more
Today is your last chance to shop these Cyber Monday deals
Image: Elen Winata for The Verge It’s actually Tuesday, but that doesn’t mean all the deals have suddenly vanished. We’re rounding up the best of the rest that you can still shop. We hope you had a chance between holiday festivities to get some shopping done, but if not, you may not be out of … Read more
Streamr And JDI Announce Strategic Partnership With Terminal Multi-Miner For Home Mining
ZUG, Switzerland, December 3rd, 2024/Chainwire/–Streamr, the decentralized real-time data network, and JDI, a manufacturing leader and venture capital in decentralized physical infrastructure networks (DePIN), are teaming up to transform home-based mining through the launch of the Terminal Multi-Miner. This new mining device combines multi-token mining capabilities with decentralized protocol participation, providing a new way for … Read more
Hypelist wants to break lists out of silos and put recommendations first
There are plenty of services that let you build lists to track and discover new books, movies, and songs, but often, these lists end up getting siloed. Former Squarespace employee Alfonso Cobo wanted to bring all kinds of lists together, and he’s trying to do that with Hypelist. Cobo said the ethos behind creating Hypelist … Read more
How Portal-to-Bitcoin is unlocking Bitcoin’s potential in cross-chain DeFi
Unlike many cross-chain bridges, Portal-to-Bitcoin uses a combination of threshold signatures and atomic swaps.
ECB ‘Makes Progress’ on Offline Digital Euro Payments for Mobile
The ability to conduct transactions offline could be a crucial feature in ensuring the privacy of cash-like CBDC payments.
Bad Prompts, Bad Results: Why Every LLM Failure Is Your Fault
Using Cursor Can Feel Like Magic—Until It Doesn’t AI-generated code can feel revolutionary—until it fails you. Why does this happen? Often, the issue isn’t with the AI itself, but with the inputs we provide. AI thrives on precise and comprehensive instructions. If your prompts are unclear or lack essential context, the fault lies not with … Read more
China limits US export of chipmaking materials following sanctions
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge China has imposed new limits on the sale of chip-making materials to the US, a move that comes just one day after the Biden Administration announced sanctions that will make it harder for Chinese companies to produce advanced semiconductors, as reported earlier by CNN. On Tuesday, the Chinese … Read more
A Programmer’s History of Golang
Imagine waiting 45 minutes for a program to compile, only to think there must be a better way. That frustration, along with the vision of legendary minds like Ken Thompson, Rob Pike, and Robert Griesemer, led to the creation of Golang (or simply, Go) in 2007. Designed at Google to address the unique challenges of … Read more
A gadget lover’s guide to the great outdoors
Image: Alex Parkin / The Verge If you could guarantee you’d have plenty of power and super-fast Wi-Fi, where would you work? You might pick the backyard instead of the office. Or you might throw your laptop and some clothes in the car, and take your Zoom calls in the middle of absolutely nowhere. Just … Read more
Chainlink 'god candle' appears as LINK price soars 27% in 24 hours
LINK gained 27% in a single day after announcing the integration of an EU-based tokenized asset service, which resulted in a massive surge in user activity.
Bitcoin, XRP Briefly Wick Down 30% on South Korean Exchanges as Martial Law Declared
Major crypto tokens quickly plunged as much as 30% against the Korean won on South Korean exchanges as the government declared emergency martial law late on Tuesday. South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol declared “emergency martial law,” accusing opposition parties of undermining the government, sympathizing with North Korea, and paralyzing the nation’s legislative process. Negative … Read more
Google’s video generator comes to more customers
Google’s video generator is coming to a few more customers — Google Cloud customers, to be precise. On Tuesday, Google announced that Veo, its AI model that can generate short video clips from images and prompts, will be available in private preview for customers using Vertex AI, Google Cloud’s AI development platform. Google says that … Read more
The Sandbox, Decentraland, and Gala Gaming Tokens Surge After Long Lull
“People hold gaming tokens because they believe in the potential of Web3 to redefine gaming,” Yield Guild Games co-founder Gabby Dizon told Decrypt.
BlackRock’s Bitcoin ETF tops 500K BTC holdings worth $48B
BlackRock’s IBIT now holds 2.38% of all Bitcoin, with its latest filing showing it has 500,380 BTC on its books.
CoinDesk 20 Performance Update: XRP Falls 9.9%, Leading Index Lower from Monday
CoinDesk Indices presents its daily market update, highlighting the performance of leaders and laggards in the CoinDesk 20 Index. The CoinDesk 20 is currently trading at 3764.72, down 2.6% (-100.09) since 4 pm ET on Monday. Nine of 13 assets are trading higher. Leaders: HBAR (+11.0%) and POL (+9.8%). Laggards: XRP (-9.9%) and LTC (-6.1%). … Read more
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Tokenized Uranium Goes Live on the Tezos Blockchain with Archax, Cameco Involved
Nuclear energy is back in fashion, and a new blockchain-based marketplace aims to hop on the trend bringing investment access in the yellow ore to retail investors in a tokenized form. London-based Tezos ecosystem development firm Trilitech launched Uranium.io on Tuesday to offer tokens backed by physical uranium oxide U3O8, also known as “yellowcake.”The app … Read more
Sovrun Rebrands from BreederDAO, Paving a New Era for Onchain Gaming & Autonomous Worlds
Manila, Philippines, 3rd December 2024, GamingWire
Bitcoin Gets a Decentralized Exchange as Cosmos Native Osmosis Activates Bridge
Osmosis, a decentralized exchange (DEX) built for the Cosmos blockchain ecosystem, has opened a bridge to the Bitcoin network, as part of a pivot toward the world’s largest cryptocurrency. The decentralized autonomous organization (DAO) that governs Osmosis voted in favor of adopting Bitcoin bridge Nomic in June. The integration went live on Tuesday. Nomic’s bridge … Read more
Blockchain for IoT Minima to Develop Ledger-Embedded Microchips With ARM
Minima, a blockchain designed to manage transactions across the internet of things (IoT) comprising mobile phones, cars and other devices is working with semiconductor giant ARM to develop a microchip with a decentralized ledger embedded in it. Under the agreement, announced Tuesday, Minima will work with ARM’s Flexible Access Program, which gives 70 or so … Read more
Yurts raises $40 million to be the DoD’s AI Chatbot
Yurts has raised a $40 million Series B led by XYZ Venture Capital to provide the DoD with gen AI. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
FireDome launches projectiles filled with fire retardants to stop wildfires
Inspired by Israel’s Iron Dome, the startup’s automated system hopes to protect everything from neighborhoods to vineyards in coming fire seasons. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Apple Music’s 2024 Replay rolls out to all users
As users around the world await their Spotify Wrapped stats, Apple Music’s answer to the popular feature is now available to everyone. The Spotify Wrapped-like feature, called Apple Music Replay, gives users a look back at their year in music by highlighting their top songs, artists, and albums they streamed. This year’s Replay includes additional … Read more
Franklin Templeton tokenized funds get verification system on Jiritsu
Jiritsu launched a verification system for Franklin Templeton’s EZBC and FOBXX funds, which will allow retail tokens backed by these funds to be developed.