Chainlink’s Price Feeds Now Go on Harmony
Recently, Harmony and Chainlink announced the Price Feeds are to be integrated into Harmony’s testnet. Chainlink’s Price Feeds are the bond between the network’s smart contracts and the ‘real’ prices of the world’s assets.
As Harmony grows its DeFi ecosystem, based on cross-chain Ethereum applications, the entire system will have access to Chainlink’s oracle solution. Oracles are the intermediaries between real world data and the system’s smart contracts. Thus, they can translate the data to the blockchain and back again.
Microsoft, Alibaba, and Carnegie Mellon University to Create Blockchain Anti-Piracy System
The United States and China’s researchers have joined forces to fight online piracy. U.S. software giant Microsoft and China’s internet giant Alibaba are set to develop an anti-piracy system named Argus on the Ethereum network.
Transparency and credibility of collected data have long been the biggest issue in anti-piracy initiatives, as such data is gathered from open anonymous sources.
Blockchain-based Argus will allow content tracking to the original source. Both Microsoft and Alibaba expect it will be more transparent and effective than current anti-piracy initiatives.
LGBTQ and Black Americans Turn to Crypto to Escape Financial Discrimination
Black and LBGTQ Americans are more than twice as likely to invest in crypto than white Americans, according to a survey provided by Harris Poll.
Marginalized communities reportedly feel like they can finally build wealth outside of the institutions that often excluded or exploited them.
23% of Black Americans, and 17% of Hispanic Americans are currently invested in digital assets, while only 11% of white Americans have invested. The general public had 13% participation, and LGBTQ respondents hit the highest percentage at 25%.
The poll also found that minority groups, Black Americans, Hispanic Americans, and Asian Americans, tend to have higher cryptocurrency awareness.
It can be gleaned from this that the increasing popularity of crypto amongst minority groups is due to the fact that 43% of Black Americans and 39% of LGBTQ persons believe they have not been treated fairly by the banking and loans industries, hence their embrace of the alternative option to explore decentralized assets.
Spanish Regulator Warns 12 Financial Entities, with Huobi and Bybit Among Them
The National Securities Market Commission of Spain has released an official document, issuing warnings to 12 financial entities, including Huobi and Bybit, which stand out as the two most interesting to us. Among the others are crypto exchanges, trading platforms, and even a crypto token issuer.
The regulator declared that the companies are not authorized to provide investment services within Spain. They cannot officially ban the entities, only proceed further to the court in the case of disobedience.
Crypto Maxies Speculate that Bitcoin Could Save Afghanistan’s People. Could It Really?
The 20 year long war in Afghanistan is over. The Taliban took control of Kabul after Afghanistan’s governmental army surrendered without a fight on Sunday. Millions of Afghans flooded the local banks, trying to withdraw funds, only to find them closed, and their funds locked.
Bitcoin maxies took to social media, speculating that Bitcoin could have saved local people.
Source: DailyCoin
