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ForkLog 7 23.08.2023

Governance, Security—and a Dozen Other Unresolved Blockchain Issues

A chapter from Artyom Genkin and Aleksey Mikheev's book 'Blockchain for Everyone. How Cryptocurrencies, BaaS, NFT, DeFi and Other New Financial Technologies Work' devoted to the main obstacles on the path to mass adoption.

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ForkLog 5 23.06.2023

Governments Will Resist: What Is Holding DAOs Back Today

In which cases should DAO tools be used and what stands in the way of their widespread adoption.

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ForkLog 15 22.06.2023

PirateCash founder: decentralisation is a necessity, not a whim of crypto anarchists

PirateCash CEO Dmitry Korniychuk spoke to ForkLog about scenarios of total cryptocurrency regulation, conditions for broad Web3 adoption, and methods of moderating decentralized content.

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ForkLog 26 30.03.2023

(De)centralisation in TON: who controls the majority of mined tokens?

The Open Network, Pavel Durov's decentralised legacy, is developing actively. However, one of the project's main risks remains centralisation due to excessive concentration of utility tokens among a small number of ecosystem participants affiliated with the TON Foundation.

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ForkLog 4 27.03.2023

Franklin Templeton sees Web3 as a source of a new wave of IT innovations

Decentralisation will spark the fourth wave of technology-enabled innovations. The conclusion appears in a report by Franklin Templeton, the $1.5 trillion asset manager, CoinDesk reports.

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ForkLog 8 23.03.2023

Opinion: Blockchain developers struggle to achieve true decentralisation

Gnosis is pursuing a truly decentralised network, though this is difficult and requires compromises. In an interview with Decrypt, the project's co-founder Friederike Ernst said.

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ForkLog 12 10.03.2023

Meta to develop a decentralized competitor to Twitter

Meta is developing a decentralized social network for sharing text messages.

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ForkLog 7 21.02.2023

Microsoft and Ankr to unveil joint infrastructure for blockchain nodes

Microsoft partnered with Ankr, the Web3-infrastructure provider, to offer corporate clients a node service for access to blockchain data.

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ForkLog 8 23.01.2023

Cardano network outage hits about half of the nodes

On 22 January, a fault between blocks 8,300,569 and 8,300,570 triggered the outage and restart of about 50% of Cardano's nodes, according to Input Output Global (IOG).

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ForkLog 7 20.01.2023

Castle Island founders and a16z back Escape Velocity with $25 million

Former Goldman Sachs bankers Mahesh Ramakrishnan and Salvador Gala raised $25 million for Escape Velocity, a venture fund focused on investing in crypto startups. The Block reports.

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ForkLog 7 30.11.2022

Jack Dorsey’s company abandons plan to register Web5 trademark

On 30 November, Jack Dorsey’s Block subsidiary — TBD — announced its intention to register the Web5 trademark to prevent confusion over the term’s meaning. However, a few hours later it abandoned the initiative under community pressure.

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ForkLog 54 03.11.2022

Hetzner blocks access to Solana node servers.

The major German hosting provider Hetzner blocked access to Solana node servers. Validators said they received letters demanding the removal of the relevant software to continue operating.

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