Opinion
Fintechs’ reliance on legacy financial infrastructure keeps them slow, costly and inflexible. It’s time to flip the script with a DeFi mullet. This way, companies can deliver more transparent financial services.
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Latest News on Blockchain
Blockchains are the critical infrastructure underlying cryptocurrencies. The common feature of these distributed ledgers is the sequential updating of a cryptographically secure, verifiable transaction record among a network of peers all operating under a certain set of rules enforced through the software itself. This record is owned and operated in common by anyone anywhere.
While research in shared ledger technology goes back decades, the arrival of the Bitcoin blockchain introduced the first distributed ledger technology that was thoroughly decentralized and resistant to censorship, seizure and collusion.
Blockchain technology, in its various manifestations including the Ethereum blockchain and others, is ultimately a global consensus system — i.e., it allows people to coordinate and cooperate around a neutral source of information without trusting each other or a central administrator. The use cases are wide-ranging, from finance and energy trading to supply chain management.
At Cointelegraph, we are chronicling the evolving blockchain industry. Is it revolutionary or overhyped? Or both? Will it become the solution to securing trust in finance and global trade? What will be the rate of blockchain transactions in the coming years?
Stay tuned to find out.
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The Interplanetary File System (IPFS) reduces latency for data transmissions in space.
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A new Eric Trump token on Solana surged 6,200%, raising rug-pull concerns as blockchain sleuths trace insider wallet activity and repeated scam attempts.
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Chainlink recently inked deals with JP Morgan's Kinexys and Ondo Finance to develop payment rails for tokenized assets.
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