Earlier this week, we posted a story on the Boogie Shack Music Group and their adoption of cryptocurrencies in order to add value to their artists. It is very cool to see a music label embracing technology and be a catalyst for innovation in the industry. In another story, the NHS group in central England is recording temperature information about vaccine doses on Hedera's Hashgraph network. It appears Soulja Boy is a fan of Dogecoin! He is seen in a video telling people to buy Dogecoin. The video is from Cameo, a service that lets people pay celebrities to read messages. Soulja Boy is also tweeting about crypto, however, and previously released a song called "Bitcoin." Leading decentralized exchange, or DEX, platform Uniswap continues to lead the sector as it nears an average of $1 billion a day trading volume for the month of January. Only two-thirds of the way into the month and the platform has already surpassed the previous monthly trade volume record of $15.3 billion set in September during the DeFi boom. The InterPlanetary File System (IPFS), a decentralized peer-to-peer protocol designed to make the web less centralized and to avoid censorship, has been integrated into the desktop web browser Brave, making it the first browser to have a native IPFS integration. All of these and other stories below:
Newsletter #144
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