Meld made the announcement through its Twitter account with the milestone forming part of the DeFi protocol’s objective of offering services of staking cryptocurrency as collateral for fiat loans. According to Meld, it targets the global unbanked population while relying on Cardano to focus on countries with an existing high crypto population. Through Meld’s model, users will deposit cryptocurrency that is to be locked in the account before borrowing loans based on the locked collateral with backing from Cardano....

Indeed, Gregaard expressed excitement over the plans for Cardano in 2023, which he believes will “really move the needle, both short-term and long-term,” as well as expecting the ecosystem to mature outside its community, as he told Learn Cardano’s Peter Bui in an interview published on November 15. As he explained: Further listing the advantages of Cardano against the current mayhem, Gregaard said that the platform “keeps running, improving, implementing, and adding value in local communities, and we keep exploring new ways of building blockchain and implementing it around the world....

A press release by Cardano indicates that the solution enables brand owners to tap into Scantrust’s physical, secured QR codes for targeted data functionalities and traceability. The system offers speed and low-cost supply chain tracing powered by the Cardano blockchain while rooting out counterfeits. Notably, the new solution is already in use as a proof-of-concept application with Baia’s Wine, a Georgian artisan wine producer. Under the partnership, the Cardano-Scantrust application merges metadata from the Cardano blockchain with unique and traceable QR codes from Scantrust....

During this period, gold holdings by central banks have grown to almost 35,600 tonnes in early 2022, according to the International Monetary Fund (IMF). Meanwhile, Welt’s market analyst Holger Zschaepitz took to Twitter to share a graph from his Bloomberg terminal showing that gold reserves have steadily increased since the 2008 financial crisis to rival what the reserves banks held in the 80s and 90s. Numerous concerns Similarly, the World Gold Council (WGC) recently surveyed central banks and found that 74% reported higher gold holdings compared to 68% in the previous year....

As it happens, in the last seven days, the price of the Chiliz token has climbed by 46.59%, placing it at the very top of the 100 assets that have seen the biggest advances during the same period, according to CoinMarketCap data retrieved on August 18. At the same time, the token’s daily chart is showing an increase of 6.98%, currently trading at $0.2231 and placing Chiliz in second place in terms of daily advances, right after Celsius (CEL), which has grown 17....

In particular, the Asian economic giant ranks tenth in the 2022 global crypto adoption index with an overall score of 0.535, data published on September 14 by Chainalysis indicates. China has jumped up three slots from last year’s ranking of 13th, while Vietnam has retained the top spot for the second consecutive year with an index score of 1. The Philippines ranks second with a score of 0.753, followed by Ukraine at 0....

The growth rate of investment in real estate development has been falling steadily since January 2021, with national investments in real estate development from January to May of this year being at 5,213.4 billion yuan (~$778 billion). This recent slump equates to a 4% drop year-on-year (YoY), among which the residential investment dropped by 3%, or 3,952.1 billion yuan (~$591 billion), according to the National Bureau of Statistics of China....

Specifically, the media outlet Economic Daily, run by the Central Committee of the ruling Chinese Communist Party, published an article on June 22, warning investors about the risk of Bitcoin prices “heading to zero,” after the carnage of the crypto market, South China Morning Post reported. According to the article: At press time, Bitcoin was trading back above the $20,000 mark, at $20,566, which is a 4.47% drop on the day and a 3....

Introduction Over the last few years, cryptocurrency trading has seen a significant increase in popularity, prompting many people to give it a try for themselves. Since crypto and the market’s volatility are much more complicated than they seem on the surface, the demand for trading bots has also increased. Many individuals find the amount of information available to them overwhelming, and, thus, the prospect of learning everything on their own becomes intimidating....

In a blog post, Coinbase stated that the framework dubbed ‘Digital Asset Policy Proposal: Safeguarding America’s Financial Leadership (dApp)‘ aims to offer suggestions on how the country can manage the crypto sector. Coinbase’s proposals aim to develop a blockchain-driven and decentralized evolution of the internet. Additionally, the exchange also seeks to offer suggestions on the emergence of a distinctive asset class. In coming up with the proposal, Coinbase indicated that it held consultations with industry experts, crypto builders, opinion leaders, and policymakers across the U....

Polkadot (DOT), which ranks among the most energy-efficient cryptocurrency projects, has recorded sluggish price movement in recent weeks amid the ongoing bear market. However, investors in the asset are looking forward to a resurgence in value based on factors like continued network development. In particular, the CoinMarketCap crypto community predicts that DOT will trade at an average price of $11.81 by the end of September 2022. The figure represents a growth of about 69% from the DOT’s price at the time of publishing with the projection based on votes by 1,231 community members using the ‘price estimate’ feature....

Data provided by cryptocurrency data platform CryptoCompare indicates that the monthly spot trading volume plunged 31.5% in July despite the sector recording a short-term rally. The volume stood at $1.9 trillion, recording the lowest value for 2021. Similarly, the drop also reflected on leading crypto exchanges globally to stand at $1.7 trillion or 30.7%. Elsewhere, in lower-tier exchanges, the spot volumes dropped 37.8%. On Binance, the volume was $455 billion, followed by OKEx’s $96....

In particular, data from a survey published in November and acquired by Finbold indicates that Brazilian respondents at 33% intend to purchase cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin (BTC) within the next 12 months. Cryptocurrency ranks top, followed by real estate with a share of 26%, while stocks are in the third spot at 22%. Credit cards are also among the top investment products, in fourth place with a share of 21%, while saving accounts are fifth at 15%....

Inflation in Denmark hasn’t peaked yet and it can presumably get worse as per the senior analyst at Danske Bank A/S, Bjorn Tangaa Sillemann’s note to clients. The country is still experiencing wage growth and there is demand abroad for Danish products, for the time being. Noteworthy is that although inflation has been steadily rising since 2021, it has accelerated in recent months as a result of the conflict in Ukraine, which has led to a knock-on effect on commodity and food prices....

However, despite investors taking profits from Bitcoin (BTC), causing the asset to drop 6.56% in the last 24 hours, it is still trading in the green on the seven-day chart, up 1.07% during the previous seven days. The flagship digital asset is currently trading at $45,002 with a market cap of $846.5 billion, according to CoinMarketCap.com. At the time of writing, Bitcoin prices were still above $45,000, and more analysts expect a significant rise for it in the remaining months of 2021....

In particular, a record 48.25% of all Bitcoin has not been moved or transacted in over two years, according to data from crypto analysis firm Glassnode as shared by Documenting Bitcoin. It’s worth noting that the amount of unmoved Bitcoin is determined by how much BTC has remained illiquid from wallets over a given period in comparison with its total supply. However, the latest record high is moving contrary to the cryptocurrency’s price trajectory....

What is a double top pattern? It is formed when the price of an asset reaches a peak two consecutive times with a moderate decline between the two. It is confirmed once the price falls below a support level equivalent to the low between the two previous peaks. A double top pattern is a bearish price reversal that signals the end of a bullish market. A double top pattern is the opposite of a double bottom pattern, which suggests a bearish-to-bullish trend reversal and typically occurs at the end of a downward trending or declining market....

According to Professor of Applied Economics at Johns Hopkins University Steve Hanke, the planned Bitcoin City in El Salvador is not fit for purpose, and it is only an attempt by the country’s President, Nayib Bukele, to garner attention via a publicity stunt. He made the following statement: The President of El Salvador Bukele responded on Twitter to the economist’s criticism of the proposed city and his remark that the volcano is “inactive,” slamming Hanke, an “idiot....

By default, TCP/IP forwarding is turned off (disabled) in Windows Server 200x (2000/2003/2003 R2/2008/2008 R2 at the time of this writing). This article describes how to enable TCP/IP forwarding on a Windows Server 200x-based computer. Here is an example that you can reference: Step 1: Define the IP scheme for the two segmentsSegment 1 – 192.168.0.0/24Segment 2 – 192.168.1.0/24*** /24 is an alternate notation when representing the subnet mask of 255....

The exchange wallet balances have increased rather dramatically since the beginning of 2020. As at the end of January, the balance total was 3.71 million but has increased by over 2 million to reach the current level. This is unprecedented as the highest the total exchange balance has reached since 29 May 2017 is 13.79. Increased trading of ETH ahead of Ethereum 2.0 The sudden surge in the total number of ETH on crypto exchanges may suggest a growing interest in the coin as the price is also on the rise....