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Mario Mosböck Partners CoinPoker to Build Online Poker Site, With PoR on the Blockchainin
Willemstad, Curacao, August 9th, 2024, Chainwire Online poker site CoinPoker has released a proof of reserves (PoR) report showing that user deposits are covered 1:1 in cold wallets, visible on the blockchain, alongside additional reserves in hot wallets to process instant withdrawals. Praising the move by the crypto-based poker site to increase transparency, former Austrian footballer and poker professional Mario Mosböck has partnered with the site as a new official ambassador, alongside British pro Patrick Leonard. In an X post, Mario Mosböck stated the pair’s ‘mission is to guide the new leadership group to build the world’s best online poker...
NEAR Protocol Surges After Launching Chain Signatures for DeFi and Bitcoin
NEAR Protocol’s new Chain Signatures technology allows smart contracts to sign transactions across blockchains like Bitcoin and Ethereum. This feature eliminates the need for multiple wallets and manual bridging, simplifies DeFi access and reduces dependency on separate gas fees. Co-founder Illia Polosukhin heralds this as a major step toward expanding and diversifying the Web3 user base, aiming for a user-owned internet. NEAR Protocol has just announced its “Chain Signatures Mainnet Launch”. This new technology ditches cross-chain bridges and lets users utilise smart contracts to “sign transactions on any blockchain”, Near Protocol said on X. So, while they say “any blockchain”,...
PYUSD market cap rises 150% following Solana launch
PayPal USD (PYUSD) market cap leaped by 150% since its expansion to Solana on May 29, with the stablecoin’s total value now sitting at $684 million, based on DefiLlama data . Notably, the usage of PYUSD is practically evenly distributed between Solana and Ethereum, as both blockchains show 48.32% and 51.68% dominance, respectively. This significant movement by PYUSD within Solana’s DeFi ecosystem could be tied to the incentives campaign among its applications, such as Kamino. PayPal’s stablecoin has the highest annual percentage yield (APY) to be supplied as collateral on the Solana-based money market and the smallest borrow rate. However,...