Month: December 2024

XRP Records Highest Ever ‘Whale’ Activity as 7-Day Price Gains Near 100%

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XRP prices have zoomed 430% in the past 30 days, reaching price levels last seen in 2018 and leaving scores of Crypto Twitter traders surprised with the strength. The rise started in early November after the Republican victory in the U.S. election reignited investor confidence in tokens linked to U.S. companies, including XRP’s associated Ripple … Read more

Ethena Partners With Onchain Derivatives Protocol Derive, Secures 5% OF DRV Token Supply for sENA Holders

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DeFi protocol Ethena announced Tuesday a new partnership with Derive.xyz, the world’s leading on-chain options and structured products platform, featuring a multi-million dollar investment to enhance liquidity and drive growth for both protocols. Under the partnership, Ethena will integrate Derive’s basis trading, options, futures and vaults, leveraging Ethena’s USDe stablecoin and staked USDE to boost … Read more

The TechBeat: No, You Don’t Need a Highly Specialized Team to Build Your SaaS Application (12/3/2024)

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How are you, hacker? 🪐Want to know what’s trending right now?: The Techbeat by HackerNoon has got you covered with fresh content from our trending stories of the day! Set email preference here. ## No, You Don’t Need a Highly Specialized Team to Build Your SaaS Application By @sapnilbhatnagar [ 9 Min read ] Just … Read more

Tokenized Securities Exchange 21X Wins Approval from Germany’s BaFin

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21X, a Frankfurt-based company building a blockchain-based exchange to list and trade tokenized securities, has received approval to go live from Germany’s financial supervisory authority, BaFin. The 21X exchange, which runs on the scalable Polygon chain, plans to launch its exchange for tokenized financial instruments from its Frankfurt headquarters in the first quarter of 2025, … Read more

Point72-Backed Exchange D2X Debuts in Europe With Regulated Crypto Derivatives

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Amsterdam-based D2X, a cryptocurrency derivatives exchange backed by hedge fund giant Steve Cohen’s Point72 Ventures, has gone live with institutional market participants Flow Traders, Basis Capital Markets and Algorithmic Trading Group. Licensed by Dutch Authority for the Financial Markets (AFM), D2X comes out the gate with 7-days-a-week trading in cash-settled BTC-EUR and ETH-EUR Calendar Futures, … Read more

The Fallacy of Onboarding the Next Billion Users

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What does mainstream adoption even mean? :::info This post is taking part in the Devconflict x Kiwi writing contest ::: At Devconflict, a side event of Devcon 2024, a global conference held by the Ethereum Foundation, there was a debate about the best way to scale blockchain-based products and services. The primary purpose of the … Read more

How AI will Transform Product Management

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Evolution of the Product Management Role Product Manager role has been existent for a long time but has become a mainstay in technology companies over the last 20-25 years and continuously evolved from the onset. A traditional product manager is responsible for overseeing the entire product lifecycle, from concept to market launch, by defining the … Read more

The EU in the middle of MiCA tunnel: any light?

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For the European Union 2024 is de facto the first year that MiCA regulations are implemented. This process is long, and it may be compared with a train driving inside the tunnel. And now he’s in the middle… On the one hand with the implementation of MiCA the European Union has the most sustainable regulatory … Read more

“We celebrate perfectionism & love building opinionated products with craft” says Chronicle Founder

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HackerNoon: What is your company in 2–5 words? Mayuresh Patole: Chronicle is a modern presentation tool. Why is now the time for your company to exist? Today, there is a shift happening in the workplace with gen-z and millenials entering offices. This new demographic has a different way of absorbing information, lower attention spans and … Read more