Tagged: blockchain interoperability

March 7, 2021 @ 5:09 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

IOST has teamed up with Polkadot for a cross-chain interoperability “breakthrough” and successfully completed the testnet for its cross-chain bridge. With the rise of cross-chain (communicating between different blockchains) technology leader Polkadot in 2021, side-chain and cross-chain technologies are now a “must-have” for public or… Read More

February 24, 2021 @ 8:16 am By Omar Faridi  |  

We recently connected with Markus Jun, the founder and CEO of ICON Hyperconnect Public Representative, a leading block validator for the ICON network with $20 million in total staked value, and Hyperconnector, an official accelerator partner of the ICON Foundation & ICX Station Seoul. Markus… Read More

December 12, 2020 @ 12:41 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Waves (WAVES), a blockchain-based platform for developing enterprise-grade applications, has teamed up with Bonded in order to help make the decentralized finance (DeFi) space more “inclusive” and accessible to users. The Waves team noted that they’ll be working with the developers of the Bonded platform,… Read More

November 27, 2020 @ 4:08 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The developers of the Waves protocol and MADANA are teaming up so that they can leverage the benefits of “confidential” computing when working with blockchain or distributed ledger technology (DLT)-based Oracles and while engaging in inter-chain communication. Through the partnership, Waves and MADANA have agreed… Read More

November 23, 2020 @ 7:15 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Reef Finance has reportedly integrated with Kava to provide “world-class” decentralized finance (DeFi) services to platform users. As noted in the announcement: “Kava [has] partnered with Reef Finance, the leading DeFi project in the Polkadot ecosystem. The cooperation will bring Kava’s collateralized loans, USDX stablecoins,… Read More

November 19, 2020 @ 5:07 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Cypherium, an enterprise-focused distributed ledger tech (DLT) platform that aims to facilitate interoperability between blockchains and central bank digital currencies (CBDCs), revealed on November 18, 2020, that it had finalized its public sale round and has now acquired $28 million in capital through the sale… Read More

November 10, 2020 @ 7:29 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Cypherium, an enterprise-focused distributed ledger tech (DLT) platform that aims to facilitate interoperability between blockchains and central bank digital currencies (CBDCs), has launched its mainnet. The Cypherium main network launch has come after the project raised $28 million in capital which includes $4 million from… Read More

November 5, 2020 @ 11:43 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The developers of IRISnet, which aims to serve as an interchain service hub for next-generation distributed applications, have confirmed in their monthly report that the IRITA Hub has been integrated with the Blockchain Service Network’s (BSN) Interchain Communications Hub. This marks “the first step towards… Read More

October 26, 2020 @ 11:56 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Blockchain platform Ontology (ONT) is building on Polkadot (DOT) so that it can accelerate the adoption of decentralized identity solutions. The Ontology team noted that they will be developing applications on Polkadot, which is a sharded blockchain that can seamlessly connect several different chains together… Read More

September 27, 2020 @ 10:03 am By Omar Faridi  |  

MANTRA DAO (distributed autonomous organization), a community-governed decentralized finance (DeFi) platform that aims to make staking, lending, and governance more accessible to traders and investors, has teamed up with Polkastarter, the decentralized or non-custodial exchange (DEX) that helps “decentralized” projects with raising and exchanging funds… Read More

September 2, 2020 @ 10:51 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

IRISnet, which aims to serve as an interchain service hub for next-generation distributed applications, has revealed that its decentralized finance (DeFi) and interchain Bifrost testnet are scheduled to go live on September 2, 2020. The platform’s new testing environment will check the “unique” DeFi features… Read More

August 25, 2020 @ 8:51 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

MANTRA DAO (distributed autonomous organization) describes itself as a community-governed decentralized finance (DeFi) platform that aims to make staking, lending, and governance more accessible to traders and investors. The MANTRA team notes: “MANTRA DAO leverages the wisdom of the crowd to create … a transparent,… Read More

August 20, 2020 @ 12:42 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Blockchain platforms Ontology, Neo, and Switcheo have announced the launch of Poly Network, a “heterogeneous” distributed ledger technology (DLT) interoperability protocol alliance. The Poly Network will enable cross-platform interoperability, which should significantly increase transparency and accessibility. As mentioned in a blog post by Ontology: “Enterprises… Read More

August 18, 2020 @ 10:55 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

IRISnet, which aims to serve as an interchain service hub for next-generation distributed applications, has teamed up with MYKEY, in order to bring MYKEY’s core technologies, including its Smart Wallet and digital identity, and also MYKEY’s ecosystem to IRISnet’s “internet of blockchains.” Through the partnership,… Read More

August 8, 2020 @ 7:01 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Equilibrium, which describes itself as an all-in-one, interoperable decentralized finance (DeFi) Hub that lets users stake (cryptocurrencies) and earn, lend and raise liquidity “all in one place,” has partnered with Polkadot, a leading blockchain protocol that has been founded by Gavin Wood, an Ethereum (ETH)… Read More

August 7, 2020 @ 7:33 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Polkadot (DOT), a “decentralized” Web 3.0 compatible, blockchain interoperability initiative, recently launched its test network (testnet), in order to assess its planned sharding implementation – which will be based on parachains. As explained by the Polkadot team,  a parachain is an “application-specific” data structure that’s… Read More

July 8, 2020 @ 11:17 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Bluzelle, a “decentralized” data network, has reportedly found an “important” bug in Tendermint, the consensus mechanism for the Cosmos ecosystem, which aims to facilitate blockchain interoperability (communication between independent or separate blockchain networks). As mentioned in a release shared with Crowdfund Insider: “The bug was… Read More

June 17, 2020 @ 1:09 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Quant, a platform that aims to connect the world’s networks to blockchain to distributed ledger technology (DLT) solutions with “just three lines of code,” has reportedly partnered with Oracle (NYSE: ORCL), a leading provider of database software. The Quant team confirmed that it would be… Read More

June 11, 2020 @ 7:34 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The Turkish stablecoin BiLira will reportedly be launching on AVA, an open-source platform for building and deploying decentralized finance (DeFi) apps and enterprise-grade blockchain solutions that can be run in “one interoperable, highly scalable ecosystem.” The AVA Labs team says that the new stablecoin should… Read More

June 6, 2020 @ 5:04 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

IRISnet and Kava Labs have teamed up in order to further support and promote decentralized finance (DeFi) application development on each other’s respective blockchain or distributed ledger technology (DLT) networks. The collaboration between Kava Labs and IRISnet will involve the whole interchain ecosystem that has… Read More