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Crypto investment firm HashKey Capital has partnered with London Stock Exchange subsidiary FTSE Russell to introduce three indices that track the performance of crypto assets. These are meant to guide investors seeking to gain exposure to cryptocurrency. The indices include the top 20 cryptocurrencies by market capitalization, infrastructure-focused tokens, and tokens for crypto apps.
Telefónica is partnering with Nova Labs to extend mobile coverage in Mexico City and Oaxaca using Helium Mobile Hotspots. The technology, based on the OpenWifi standard, allows select Movistar customers access to the Helium Mobile Network using their existing SIM cards. The solution is expected to reduce infrastructure costs and environmental impact while maintaining high-quality service and expanding coverage.
Solana has introduced a concept called token extensions, a development allowing for specialized functions at the token level. Created in partnership with regulated institutions, these plug-and-play tools are designed to reduce engineering efforts in tokenizing assets on Solana. Extensions already used by Paxos and GMO Trust include permanent delegation and metadata pointers for their stablecoin launches. Tools like these enable streamlined KYC verification, transferring hooks, transaction fees, and more, boosting Solana's appeal to developers and businesses alike.
Blockchain project Noble has joined forces with asset manager Hashnote to roll out a tokenized real-world asset product on Cosmos. The initiative's first product is the USYC token, a short-duration yield fund product from Hashnote that provides exposure to short-duration securities, including US Treasury bills. This marks Noble's move into the real-world asset niche on Cosmos.
This thread provides some tips for staying ahead in the crypto market. The tips include regularly checking crypto price charts to identify trends, journaling trade rationale and outcomes, understanding market trends and structures, tracking smart money, looking into pre-launch projects, monitoring relevant data changes, and staying up-to-date through trusted curators. The author also recommends going through governance proposals daily to keep up-to-speed with potential catalysts for coins.
This post explains how web3 offers an alternative to Big Tech data dominance, allowing users to own their data. Platforms like Zora let users mint digital artwork, paying a small fee to creators. The collector owns a copy of the work in their portfolio, which in a sense creates a dataset that they have full control over. This could open up the potential for those in the space to leverage AI/ML on top of these open datasets to monetize them further or allow for better discovery of art and artists.
This post breaks down what the most popular narratives were on Crypto Twitter last year. The dominant narrative of 2023 was AI, with almost a third of the ‘mindshare’ throughout the year. Ordinals, GameFi, and Layer 2s were all also notable themes last year, with mindshares in the high single digits. New narratives like ETFs and DePIN gained momentum in late 2023, while SocialFi had a short surge in August. As of this month, ETFs remain a focal point, with AI and DePIN also gaining momentum. On the other hand, GameFi and SocialFi have lost some mindshare.
The Bitwise Bitcoin ETF (BITB) is the first US ETF to publicly reveal its Bitcoin addresses, aiming to enhance transparency and align with Bitcoin's ethos.
This post explains how for most of crypto’s history, builders have been infrastructure-focused, but there's been a shift towards app development as of late, with value increasingly captured at this layer.
Brink's, a 164-year-old security and cash handling firm, has invested in BitGo, one of the largest cryptocurrency custody specialist firms in the space.
This post explains how parallel transaction processing, a type of transaction processing that has gained popularity with increased user adoption, enhances scalability and user experience, overcoming the limitations of sequential execution models.