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First Strategy, now BlackRock, should we worry?

15 Jun 2025 1 minute read 0 comments LeftFooted

BlackRock is a global investment giant that manages over $10 trillion in assets. Good for them. BlackRock has been quietly buying Bitcoin, unlike Strategy that's been doing it very loudly, and has so far accumulated around 3 percent of the total BT...

Exploring Turbos, a decentralised exchange on Sui

13 Jun 2025 1 minute read 0 comments LeftFooted

Back at the first edition of Sui Basecamp, over a year ago, I learnt about a lot of interesting and potentially useful projects, one of which is Turbos. Turbos is a DEX, and a dApp, on Sui mainnet. It allows you trade crypto on the Sui blockchain....

Introducing Navi Protocol, a lending protocol on Sui

12 Jun 2025 1 minute read 0 comments LeftFooted

Navi is a liquidity protocol users can use to borrow or assets on Sui. Navi prides itself on being highly liquid, in that you can enter and exit positions quite rapidly, and cheaply. At the time of writing, over one million people people are using...

This launchpad for Web3 projects has a weird name

10 Jun 2025 1 minute read 1 comment LeftFooted

The other other day I happened upon something called ChainGPT Pad, which, despite the name, has zero connections with ChatGPT or OpenAI. But that's not a good start, frankly. Like calling your clothing company ADIBAS or REEBAK. But whatever, the po...

A closer look at Relend Network, a decentralized protocol for stablecoin liquidity across different chains

10 Jun 2025 1 minute read 0 comments LeftFooted

I've been doing some reading and some research and I found something called Relend Network. Relend Network was created because one of the things the crypto world doesn't have that the banking world does are fractional reserves. It gets a bit techni...

And still no one knows where Ross Ulbricht's BTC came from

9 Jun 2025 1 minute read 0 comments LeftFooted

Ross Ulbricht, the founder of Silk Road who was recently pardoned by US President Donald Trump, received a crypto donation of 300 BTC, worth around $31 million when he got it. No one knows why, but internet and crypto sleuths concluded the crypto wa...

Guess who's filing blockchain patents left and right

8 Jun 2025 1 minute read 1 comment LeftFooted

Visa, the world's most famous and used credit/debit card network along with MasterCard, has been filing blockchain-related patents like its life depended on it. Some sources claim 58 in total, others say more than 20. The truth is, there's one in p...

Uber wants to integrate stablecoins to lower costs

6 Jun 2025 1 minute read 0 comments LeftFooted

Uber is apparently considering using stablecoins to reduce costs. As it turns out, transferring money globally is a huge (and daily) part of the business, and it costs money (duh). This is interesting, because it once again highlights how huge busi...

Solana Seeker smartphone - here's my experience

5 Jun 2025 1 minute read 0 comments LeftFooted

I ordered a Solana Seeker smartphone back when it was still called Solana Saga Chapter Two, here's my experience. I placed the order in the spring of 2024, during the pre-early adopter phase (or whatever they call it) which, for reference, was the e...

Meta shareholders said no BTC, and it's not even close

5 Jun 2025 1 minute read 1 comment LeftFooted

Meta shareholders voted no to a proposal to add Bitcoin to the company's balance sheet, and it wasn't even close. The 'Bitcoin treasury assessment' proposal garnered five billion votes in total, and only 3.92 million votes were in favour, that's les...