Build Your Own Token – With Student Coin Terminal

What is the Student Coin Terminal?  The STC Terminal is an ongoing project that will be released at the end of July. It is part of the Student Coin Ecosystem that caught the attention of no less than 500 Universities worldwide, including Harvard and Stanford.  As incredible as it seems, the project is built by students, bringing a fresh new perspective to the crypto world. No wonder why they were discovered by TEDxWarsaw – who seeks innovative business ideas.  The STC Terminal is meant to be a token generator that will make it possible for anyone to build:  DeFi tokens;  NFTs;  Personal tokens;  Business tokens;  Start-up tokens.  What are the advantages?  The main advantage is that you can build and launch your own token without needing tech knowledge. Simple, quick, ready for trade.  However, the usability of this blockchain instrument doesnt stop here. As we said before, Student Coin came with a new perspective on crypto, mainly focusing on students and entrepreneurs.  If you need to get money for student loans or funds to deploy your business idea, you can issue a crowdfunding proposal on the Student Coin platform.  What will you offer in return? Your fresh new token!  The funds will also be paid back cyclically, but just after you graduate and find

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Polygon announces scalable data availability infrastructure Avail

The Polygon team is set to launch a data availability solution for sidechains and layer-two protocols.  Ethereum (ETH) scalability infrastructure developer Polygon has announced the rollout of a general-purpose, scalable data availability solution called Avail.  According to a release issued on Monday, Polygon revealed that Avail will function as a data available tool for execution layers like sidechains, standalone networks, and layer-two protocols.  One of the major hurdles for effective blockchain scaling is the data availability problem. Malicious actors can broadcast blocks to the network with incomplete data and other participants will be none the wiser.  To tackle this problem, the Polygon team stated that Avail utilizes erasure coding and polynomial commitment to combat data encoding fraud proofs by creating a two-dimensional data availability layer.  Rather than creating their own data availability protocols, execution layers can offload the role to the Avail layer with the latter acting as a secure data hosting site.  For standalone chains, interfacing with Polygon‘s Avail will reportedly enable these networks to rely on the latter’s validator security protocols. Thus, these chains will be able to solve the data availability problem without needing to run their own validator set.  For layer-two protocols, the announcement revealed that scaling solutions like Validium can expand their

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​Collapse of These Projects: Are You Involved?

Transactions in cryptocurrencies have been shaken by the plummet in recent days. The situation has worsened because of the problematic projects springing up like mushrooms. All projects ending up with the failure recently are summarized herein by WikiBit. Hope you all can protect yourselves from a complete wipe-out!  1. Zan Li Sheng Huo  The platform was said to upgrade in May, but its trading-related functions have been unavailable since then. Blocking channels indirectly, this way indicates that the worth of Global Human Trust Token (GHT) held by investors is reduced to nothing, sending a clear signal for a crash!  2. BZZ token  Chat groups for BZZ mining have been inactive as it is a pyramid scheme!  3. Pin Pin  Pin Pin is an APP always opening up a Pandoras box, such as restraining withdrawals and banning accounts for no reason. A myriad of its VIPs get into a total panic, and many group leaders have withdrawn with their group members.  4. Buo Lan Gong Xiang  The platform is now named as “She Qun Gong Chuang” after changes in its names over four times, the reason for which is to whitewash its wrongdoing and deceive traders continuously.  5. DarkKnightCoin (DKC)  Any so-called public blockchain coins are traded on fake public blockchains

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Foreign CBDCs and stablecoins unlikely to threaten US dollar, says Fed vice chair

Randal Quarles, vice chair for supervision of the Federal Reserve Board of Governors, said he believed neither dollar-pegged stablecoins nor digital currencies issued by foreign central banks are likely major causes for concern for the U.S. dollar.  In a prepared statement for the Annual Utah Bankers Association Convention Monday, Quarles said that foreign currencies — whether fiat or digital — would be unlikely to challenge the U.S. dollars role in the global economy. He cited the size of the U.S. economy, trade relationships with other nations, and “credible U.S. monetary policy” as reasons he believed even a central bank digital currency, or CBDC, issued abroad would pose little risk.  “Its inevitable that, as the global economy and financial system continue to evolve, some foreign currencies (including some foreign CBDCs) will be used more in international transactions than they currently are,” said Quarles. “It seems unlikely, however, that the dollars status as a global reserve currency, or the dollars role as the dominant currency in international financial transactions, will be threatened by a foreign CBDC.”  Quarles comments on stablecoins pegged to the U.S. dollar were also seemingly lacking urgency. Though the Fed vice chair said there was a “legitimate and strong regulatory interest in

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Bitcoin Cannot and Should Not Replace Fiat Money, Says Greece’s Former Finance Minister

Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies cannot and should not replace fiat currencies, argued the former finance minister of Greece, Yanis Varoufakis. Additionally, he supported the popular narrative that counties should aim at adopting blockchain while averting from using BTC.  Bitcoin Cannot Replace Fiat  Speaking to the Greek Reporter, Varoufakis, who has never been a bitcoin fan, used the opportunity to bash the asset. He touched upon one of the most notable BTC merits – the limited supply – but actually said its the primary reason why the cryptocurrency cannot and should not serve as a currency.  “Suppose that with a magic wand Bitcoin replaces fiat money. This will be catastrophic. We would all be now in very dire straights. What will happen when we have a pandemic, and you need to increase the money supply? You cannot increase the supply of bitcoin because it is of fixed supply.”  It‘s worth noting that while Greece’s former minister sees the 21 million BTC ever to exist as a drawback, other prominent names from the financial world have opined otherwise. For instance, the US legacy investors Paul Tudor Jones III, Stan Druckenmiller, and Bill Miller all recently referred to this feature as the main reason why they have

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Justin Sun Unleashes War On Ethereum, Reckons EIP-1559 Is A Tron Duplicate

Justin Sun, the founder of the Tron network, may be preparing to go head-to-head with the Ethereum Network as he retweeted a tweet claiming Ethereums EIP-1559 upgrade is copying the Tron network. The action has indicated that he is in agreement with the sentiments expressed in the Twitter post, which reads: “What Ethereum does with EIP1559 is exactly to copy Tron blockchain, so who is copying now?”.  The action indicates his agreement with the sentiment expressed by the post.  EIP-1559 is an upgrade to the Ethereum network proposed by Vitalik Buterin in 2019. The description of the functions of the upgrade state that it will solve several problems in the Ethereum network, most notable of which is the current high transaction fees of the network especially at times of network congestion.  The Ethereum network currently uses an auction system to decide which transactions will be included in a block, but with EIP-1559, that system will be replaced by one that automatically prices fees, and allows people to add a tip if they want their transaction to be prioritized.  Additionally, the upgrade will make the base fee the network chooses for transactions to be burnt instead of going to miners, thereby acting as an “Ether

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Ethereum Surpasses Bitcoin in Address Activity for the First Time

Ethereum has outstripped Bitcoin in terms of address activity for the first time, according to data provided by cryptocurrency analytics platform Santiment.  Image by @santimentfeed  Earlier today, Ether hit a one-week high of $2,135 on the Bitstamp exchange.  The second-largest blockchain is seeing an uptick in activity in the run-up to the much-anticipated the EIP-1559 upgrade that is expected to be implemented in the coming weeks.  In the meantime, Bitcoins active addresses are sitting at the lowest level since February.  The cryptocurrency is struggling to regain momentum after bulls failed to smash through resistance at $35,000.  The ETH/BTC pair is now in the middle of an apparent trend reversal, soaring by nearly 7 percent over the past 24 hours.  Jim Cramer turns to Ether  After getting out of Bitcoin and announcing that he would only buy it at $10,000, CNBC host Jim Cramer said that he would continue to buy Ethereum.  The superstar stock picker likes Ethereum more because people use it “much more” for buying things:  I went back into Ethereum because Bitcoin held $30K. I like Ethereum because people actually use it much more to be able to buy things.

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Coinbase Approved to Offer Crypto Custody in Germany

Coinbase has become the first company to receive a crypto custody license to operate in Germany.  Coinbase Embraces German Regulation  Coinbase has been approved for a crypto custody license in Germany, according to a press release from the German financial supervisory body BaFin.  Legislation passed in the German parliament in 2019 required companies offering crypto custody services to apply for new licenses or cease operating in the country. The new legislation came into effect on Jan. 1, 2020, including precise guidelines for companies offering crypto-related services. While Coinbase is the first company to receive a license, German media outlet Handelsblatt hopes the legal clarity of the new bill will encourage more banks in Germany to offer services around crypto-assets.  Coinbases efforts to comply with government regulations are not limited to Germany. Last week, the company completed registration with the Japanese Financial Services Agency. Once registered, Coinbase can offer crypto trading of assets like Bitcoin and Ethereum to customers in Japan.  After going public via a direct listing in April, Coinbase reported Q1 profits of $771 million, tripling its earnings from the previous quarter. As Coinbase expands into new markets, having a firm foundation with regulatory backing continues to be a top priority.  In contrast to Coinbase,

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Open Banking and DeFi: The Next Big Thing in Finance

From the grain loans of ancient cities like Assyria and Babylonia to the lenders of the ancient Greek and the Roman empires, the evolution of banking services has been intricate and gradual. Like the demands of business operations, financial services have also become more sophisticated with time.  The 18th and 19th centuries marked the birth of free-market capitalism. During this time, competitive banking found fertile soil, and was especially beneficial to less ethical ventures due to painfully loose regulation. Fast forward to the 21st century, and a lot has improved. From digital banking to foolproof regulatory frameworks, finance is in good hands – but not in everyones hands.  Financial services are far from perfect. The industry is riddled with archaic issues that stem from its inherent centralized nature, corrupting individuals and organizations in their thirst for more money. Centralized systems have intrinsic flaws, such as how they act as a single point of failure, which could cause the entire system to crumble from even small collapses at the center.  As entities with their own best interests in mind, they are fundamentally opaque and offer as little control to the user as feasible. Centralized banking is also expensive, with its substantial overheads making the

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Port Network, dApp for Cloud and Volunteer Computing

With an ever-increasing demand for computing power, Port Network launches the first dApp to merge both Cloud and Volunteer computing on the blockchain.  The demand for increased computing power is growing at an exponential rate. Industries such as IoT, pharmaceutical, AI, 3D image processing, and deep learning all require huge bandwidth in a non-restrictive and cost-efficient approach.  This is where Port Network seeks to break new ground. Port Network is the first decentralized P2P application that unites both cloud and volunteer computing on the blockchain.  Unused computational power from individuals and businesses can be sold for the native token, port. Private and corporate companies can then purchase this unused resource to increase their bandwidth and computing power.  In short, port not only incentivizes sustainable resource sharing but allows enterprises to focus their energies on the building.  This allows corporations, often in scientific fields, the extra computing power needed to perform intricate calculations at high speed in a fraction of the time compared to in-house computers. The Port Network offers a scalable solution and consumers can purchase as little or as much power as required.  The opportunities and savings this creates are enormous with the benefits being tangible across all industries and sectors.  “Sustainable energy is the future.”

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