First Blockchain Backed Index comes online
In a first-of-its-kind, new partnership records market-data on the Blockchain. By securing any market feed onto the bitcoin blockchain, Brave New Coin and Smartbit hope to revolutionize markets in several important ways. Today Brave New Coin (BNC) and Smartbit http://www.smartbit.com.au officially announce their partnership and the securing of the world’s first Price-Index on the Blockchain. The ability to offer ‘provable market data’ has previously been impossible or extremely difficult. The partnership will be the first to engage in ‘Market-Chaining,’ the process where financial data....
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Reddit’s Polygon-Backed Digital Avatars Will Soon Be Available to the General Public
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