“The charts.” I pointed along the craggy, upward graphs as we flipped through each cryptocurrency. “They look like wavetables that I’d use in my synthesizers.” This immediately felt like cosmic foreshadowing [......]“Maybe I could make that my first NFT?”

ill-esha tells us her journey about how her art and crypto world connect in a unique cosmic ride.

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📊 #Defi Market Cap:
$26.28B (-12.5%)

⚡️ #ETH Market Cap:
$127.83B (-15.8%)

↔️ DEFI vs ETH Ratio:
20.6%

📈 Defi Trading Volume for 24h:
$10.17B (+18.6%)

💰Tot...al Value Locked (TVL):
$20.69B (-13.6%)

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https://cointelegraph.com/news/price-analysis-2-15-btc-eth-ada-xrp-dot-bnb-ltc-bch-link-xlm


"The Bitcoin bulls appear to have control despite the cooling-off from institutional investors. Is $50K ...still in sight?"


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Emerald Crypto | Feb 20

Bitcoin is the world’s leading cryptocurrency, Ethereum is the most widely used blockchain technology, and Binance is the world’s largest crypto exchange. An exchange is a marke...t that allows users to trade cryptocurrencies or to buy and sell digital assets with traditional fiat currencies.

Binance Coin (BNB), the house coin of the Binance platform (like Ether is to Ethereum), has made a huge splash this week by surpassing Tether as the world’s third largest cryptocurrerncy by market capitalization. As of this writing BNB has a market cap of over $43.7B.

The price of Binance Coin was $37.98 on January 1st and according to Coinbase the current price is $281.39 – a 640.89% increase for those keeping score at home.

Binance used the Ethereum blockchain until 2019 when it switched to its own technology called the Binance Smart Chain. According to Ivan on Tech,

“Binance Smart Chain is a blockchain built with the flexibility for smart contracts, decentralized applications, and cryptocurrencies.”

The technology makes it “super easy for developers to move their projects onto the blockchain.”

Binance is known for its large centralized exchange but the venture has more to offer than a blockchain, a coin and a marketplace. They also have a funding scheme, an Academy, a Trust Wallet, a charity and a decentralized exchange.

Which leads to what very well may be the cause of Binance Coin’s current surge.

The DeFi movement in a nutshell is a move towards decentralization. When something is centralized there is an entity and usually a person who can be identified as in charge or running things. 99Bitcoins summarizes the goal of decentralization nicely: to replace centralized financial services with autonomous organizations that allow everyone to participate.

This means the decentralization of everything – currency, financial services, infrastructure, and exchanges.

Uniswap (UNI) has been the leading decentralized exchange on the market for some time now. The protocol runs on Ethereum but recently has had trouble catering to increased demand caused by the DeFi fad. According to Bhushan Akolkar of CoinGape, the result of this rising demand has been an increasing transaction fee (gas fee), which has shot to over $20 per transaction on average.

On Thursday Binance’s decentralized exchange PancakeSwap (CAKE) overtook Uniswap in terms of daily trading volume. CAKE runs on the Binance Smart Chain.

This news is likely at least one of the causes of Binance Coin’s sharpt increase this week. Additonally, Binance has a buy back program where they buy up BNB every quarter and then 'burn it'. Thus the coin is essentially deflationary which bodes well for the future value of the asset.

Is Binance the new Ethereum? That’s probably a little premature but this is definitely a trend to keep one’s eye on.

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BTC broke the 30k mark. Sky is the limit guys.
Where do you see BTC by the end of 2021?

We launched a “Fireside Chat” series to share the journey of blockchain/crypto founders, & are back with another exciting session with Firdosh Sheikh, Co-Founder & CEO of Drife, a decentralized cab book...ing platform on 19th November.

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Drife is a decentralized ride-hailing platform which will connect drivers and riders through a mobile application. The platform deals with a whole new economic model that can incentivize all the value creators ...fairly and curb the existent intermediaries.

Ride-hailing platform works on a very broke business model of monetizing and prioritizing profit over its drivers, riders and people at large. Some major issues they face include sky-rocketing commissions that lead to unsustainable driver incomes, price manipulation and unjustified price surges, lack of loyalty and sustained incentivisation, and other centralization centric problems.

The nature of the problem we’re trying to solve requires the underlying blockchain infrastructure to be extremely scalable and fast. A ride-hailing platform is required to clock a high transaction throughput and bandwidth so as to ensure that the platform users are not faced with any latency while availing services. The platform also requires geo-location and geospatial distance data from the external world within the walled garden of a blockchain for the allocation of rides and computation of ride fare prices.

The Æternity blockchain is an Erlang-based scalable smart contract platform that has been redesigned at the protocol level to address some of the most fundamental challenges native to preceding blockchains.

The following are some major technical advantages provided by æternity that stand out for us at Drife as against the other blockchain protocols existing currently in the market.

- Oracles are fundamental to any fully functional decentralized platform that wants to fetch data from the external world. Æternity acknowledges this requirement and integrates oracle services as a part of æternity’s core blockchain protocol. Drife piggybacks on this oracle service integrated at layer 1 to save on efforts and cost of integrating a third-party oracle like Oraclize or ChainLink.

- Æternity runs on the super cool Bitcoin-NG Consensus Algorithm which is the evolved version of the Bitcoin protocol. It still uses Nakamoto consensus but separates leader election and block production by introducing two kinds of blocks called key and micro blocks. Splitting up leader election and block production allows a leader to produce micro blocks in rapid succession, increasing the transaction throughput significantly.

- Unlimited scaling is possible with lightweight and trustless off-chain state channels that are built into æternity’s first layer itself. The state-channels provide support for smart contracts and enable inexpensive private transactions through them.

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https://medium.com/@drife_official/drife-on-%C3%A6ternity-aa26ed2aaf13Show more >

On August 15 2020, Drife conducted very first driver meetup with about 50 drivers. For it to be safe for everyone and close to a real event, we organized it as a Virtual meet-up. We have tackled critical points... such as what sets Drife apart from its competitors. Needless to say, the Drivers were very excited to be a part of a complete, transparent system that’s also among the Starfleet India winners!

Together with them, Drife will emerge to transform the ride-hailing industry. Our cofounder- Firdosh Sheikh (CEO) was present to personally thank everyone who contributed to make this happen. Our Driver Acquisition Team discussed major advantages of Drife platform that is both advanced, and compliant to industry standards. The Drife team also discussed the roadmap in detail.

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After the success of the last 3 volumes of æternity Starfleet, AE Venture brought Starfleet 4 to India.

From the 170+ early-stage startups that applied for the program, 13 startups were selected for a ...one-week-long, super-intense boot camp called Genesis Week.

Only 7 teams were shortlisted for phase two - a four-week mentoring session with the superstar mentor team of AE Ventures.

This aftermovie provides a glimpse of the atmosphere during the accelerator and the Demo day.

Special guest:

Shradha Sharma - Founder, and CEO of Your Story
Wei Zhou - Chief Financial Officer, Binance
Neeraj Khandelwal - Co-founder at CoinDCX
Prashanth Balasubramanian - CEO of Lastbit
Vivek Prakash - Leading Product at BrowserStack and Co-Founder of HackerEarth
Kartik Mandaville - CEO of Springworks
Jason Eisen - Founder & CEO at UTU Technologies
Sriram V Iyer - Vice President and App Engineering at Flipkart
Rama Devi Lanka - Director | Emerging Technologies, The Government of Telangana
Prashanth Swaminathan - Founder, Tandem
Rajesh Dhuddu - Business Head - Cybersecurity & Blockchain at Tech Mahindra


The Starfleet India Accelerator, part of the Aeternity Starfleet program, has picked up three Indian blockchain startups:

Drife
Pontis
Hypermine

and we are providing seed funding for these projects from AE Ventures, CV Labs, and Woodstock funds.

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May 8, 2:00PM to 6:30PM CEST

Virtual Conference & Demo Day of Seven Blockchain Startups Pitching LIVE for an investment
About this Event

AE Ventures, in cooperation with IBC Media, has... the pleasure to invite you to the culmination of the æternity Starfleet Acceleration Program
This edition of the Demo Day will be held as a virtual conference and in addition to the startup pitch decks, you will have the opportunity to watch keynote speeches, panel discussions, and interact with our speakers and ask them questions.
The silver lining of the conference is related to the opportunities born in the current situation of lockdown and COVID-19, exploring the concept of anti-fragile and how to thrive in chaos and disorder.

Join us on the 8th of May at 14:00 CEST from the comfort of your home and witness our 7 innovative startups showcasing their projects followed by the fantastic speaker lineup we have in store for you!

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https://twitter.com/IBCMedia_/status/1256272140904460288

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As Genesis Week, the 7-day long boot camp under the initiative of AE Ventures comes to an end, we are so overwhelmed to announce that we have made it to the Top 7 list of STARFLEET — Vol 4. The accelerator prog...ram conducted by the prestigious AE Ventures joining hands with IBC Media is being held in Bangalore this year.

Strenuous, yet super exciting, the acceleration program facilitated an exhaustive learning experience for blockchain start-ups across the country. The program received an application from 170+ startups who have played a role in introducing blockchain technology to the Indian market and implementing them in a variety of industries.

The Selection Process
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The projects submitted by our teams were scrutinized from all angles. Our value propositions, product development, and presentations were judged to get a hold of the company in detail. In the first stage, they were to choose from a pool of 170+ applications, the top 13 promising start-ups. The majority of the applicants were from fintech, healthcare and agritech backgrounds. Although ride-hailing start-ups on blockchain platforms were relatively rare, our team was able to substantiate how blockchain will disrupt the industry.

Keeping up with the fluctuating market trends in India, DRIFE leverages the full potential of the blockchain technology to set a new paradigm for the ride-hailing industry. Our competitors were budding enterprises with extremely talented teams of professionals, but we were positive that our team stood a huge chance at entering the top 13.

We aim to empower all parties involved in the ride-hailing process from drivers and riders to community developers. This value proposition went well with the judges, who cited this element while selecting us amongst the 13 startups that would participate in the boot camp.

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https://medium.com/@drife_official/starfleet-4-drife-secures-spot-among-the-top-7-b20187b47279Show more >

We are happy to announce our newest partnership for our Driver Onboarding Process. It is YOTI- a new way to prove your identity.

DRIFE will utilize Yoti automated KYC application for making the driver ...onboarding smooth and paperless, We recognize that we have a responsibility for ensuring the integrity of our platform and safeguarding it from bad actors, so we take additional steps to ensure that the platform remains safe, trustworthy, and compliant.

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Video de $100 doletas: https://youtu.be/15M2yjB7Iv4
Airdrop: https://bit.ly/2XowkAC
Link Twitter: https://twitter.com/alex_dreyfus
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Can Ethereum 2.0 usher in a new era for the second largest cryptocurrency? Or will other scalable smart contract platforms like Tezos and Algorand take the lead?

Can Ethereum 2.0 usher in a new era for the second largest cryptocurrency? Or will other scalable smart contract platforms like Tezos and Algorand take the lead?