{"id":603613,"date":"2023-02-01T19:49:25","date_gmt":"2023-02-02T01:49:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.sellorbuyhomefast.com\/index.php\/2023\/02\/01\/today-in-crypto-bnb-chain-unveils-3rd-blockchain-in-bnb-ecosystem-tether-never-borrowed-from-celsius-ripple-sold-226m-worth-of-xrp-in-q4\/"},"modified":"2023-02-01T19:49:25","modified_gmt":"2023-02-02T01:49:25","slug":"today-in-crypto-bnb-chain-unveils-3rd-blockchain-in-bnb-ecosystem-tether-never-borrowed-from-celsius-ripple-sold-226m-worth-of-xrp-in-q4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2023\/02\/01\/today-in-crypto-bnb-chain-unveils-3rd-blockchain-in-bnb-ecosystem-tether-never-borrowed-from-celsius-ripple-sold-226m-worth-of-xrp-in-q4\/","title":{"rendered":"Today in Crypto: BNB Chain Unveils 3rd Blockchain in BNB Ecosystem, Tether \u2018Never Borrowed from Celsius\u2019, Ripple Sold $226M Worth of XRP in Q4"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/v2.cimg.co\/news\/103452\/254485\/adobestock-akif-1.jpeg\"  width=\"1715\" alt><figcaption>Source: AdobeStock \/ akif<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><i>Get your daily, bite-sized digest of cryptoasset and blockchain-related news \u2013 investigating the stories flying under the radar of today\u2019s crypto news.<\/i><br \/>__________<\/p>\n<h2>Blockchain news<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/cryptonews.com\/tags\/binance\/\"><strong>BNB Chain<\/strong><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BNBCHAIN\/status\/1620755287224504320\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">unveiled<\/a> the whitepaper for a new blockchain-based <a href=\"https:\/\/cryptonews.com\/tags\/web3\/\">Web3<\/a> infrastructure, with a press release saying that its core team and a few community developer teams, including <strong>Amazon Web Services <\/strong>(AWS), <strong>NodeReal<\/strong>, and <strong>Blockdaemon<\/strong> have started working on <strong>BNB Greenfield<\/strong> already and aim to release a testnet in a few months. The whitepaper outlines the design of BNB Greenfield, a decentralized storage system with smart contract integrations for Web3 applications, which utilizes <a href=\"https:\/\/cryptonews.com\/coins\/binance-coin\/\">BNB<\/a> as its native token and will become the 3rd blockchain in the BNB ecosystem, it said, after BNB Beacon Chain which focuses on BNB governance and security, and BNB Smart Chain for smart contract computing.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Mars Hub<\/strong>, a lending protocol on the collapsed <a href=\"https:\/\/cryptonews.com\/tags\/terra\/\"><strong>Terra<\/strong><\/a> blockchain, has deployed its mainnet on <a href=\"https:\/\/cryptonews.com\/tags\/cosmos\/\"><strong>Cosmos<\/strong><\/a>, according to a blog post. \u201cThe network is expandable with the establishment of Red Bank Outposts on other chains, starting on <strong>Osmosis<\/strong> \u2013 Cosmos\u2019 leading [decentralized exchange] <a href=\"https:\/\/cryptonews.com\/tags\/dex\/\">DEX<\/a> with more than $180 million in total value locked (TVL),\u201d it said.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Investment news<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Paolo Ardoino, the chief technology officer at <a href=\"https:\/\/cryptonews.com\/tags\/tether\/\"><strong>Tether<\/strong><\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/cryptonews.com\/tags\/bitfinex\/\"><strong>Bitfinex<\/strong><\/a> crypto exchange, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/paoloardoino\/status\/1620445807949529088\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said<\/a> on Twitter that Tether has \u201cnever borrowed from <a href=\"https:\/\/cryptonews.com\/tags\/celsius-network\/\"><strong>Celsius<\/strong><\/a>.\u201d The tweet came in response to the Celsius bankruptcy examiner report, which allegedly mistakenly suggested that the <a href=\"https:\/\/cryptonews.com\/coins\/tether\/\">USDT<\/a> issuer was among Celsius Network\u2019s borrowers. \u201cThe doc mixes &#8220;from&#8221; and &#8220;to&#8221;. Either is a typo or a mis-characterization,\u201d Ardoino said.<\/li>\n<li>US-based startup <a href=\"https:\/\/cryptonews.com\/tags\/ripple\/\"><strong>Ripple<\/strong><\/a> sold $226 million worth of <a href=\"https:\/\/cryptonews.com\/coins\/ripple\/\">XRP<\/a> tokens in Q4, net of purchases, compared to $310.68 million in the previous quarter, <a href=\"https:\/\/ripple.com\/insights\/q4-2022-xrp-markets-report\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">according<\/a> to the quarterly markets report. The company also reported transactions of over 106.4 million on <strong>XRP Ledger<\/strong>, compared to 103 million in Q3, and the creation of 228,143 new user wallets, compared to 125,225 in Q3.<\/li>\n<li>Finance platform <strong>Intain Inc.<\/strong> has launched <strong>IntainMARKETS<\/strong>, a marketplace for tokenized asset-backed securities built as an <a href=\"https:\/\/cryptonews.com\/tags\/avalanche\/\"><strong>Avalanche<\/strong><\/a> Subnet. <a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/avalancheavax\/intain-launches-avalanche-subnet-to-usher-in-new-era-for-multi-trillion-dollar-securitized-877c7cc1031f\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Per<\/a> the announcement, IntainMARKETS automates and integrates functions of key stakeholders in structured finance, including the issuer, verification agent, underwriter, rating agency, servicer, trustee, and investor. Intain\u2019s first platform, <strong>IntainADMIN<\/strong>, now facilitates the administration of more than $5.5B in assets across more than 25 deals, it added.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Cronos Labs<\/strong>, a blockchain startup accelerator that focuses on decentralized finance (<a href=\"https:\/\/cryptonews.com\/tags\/silvergate\/\">DeFi<\/a>), blockchain <a href=\"https:\/\/cryptonews.com\/tags\/gaming\/\">games<\/a>, and the development of the <a href=\"https:\/\/cryptonews.com\/tags\/cronos\/\">Cronos<\/a> ecosystem, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.prnewswire.com\/news-releases\/cronos-labs-launches-second-cohort-of-accelerator-program-to-advance-web3-dapp-development-301734804.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">announced<\/a> the opening of applications for the second cohort of the flagship $100M-backed Cronos Accelerator Program, set to commence on April 24. Selected projects will go through a 12-week acceleration program and receive upfront seed funding of $30,000, with a chance to secure up to $300,000 in further seed funding from Cronos Labs, among other benefits, it said.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>DeFi news<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Provider of cryptography services <strong>Threshold Network<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.prnewswire.com\/news-releases\/thresholds-tbtc-launches-minting-for-only-decentralized-permissionless-scalable-btc-bridge-to-defi-301735064.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">announced<\/a> the launch of <strong>tBTC<\/strong>, a decentralized, permissionless, and scalable <a href=\"https:\/\/cryptonews.com\/coins\/bitcoin\/\">Bitcoin<\/a>-to-<a href=\"https:\/\/cryptonews.com\/coins\/ethereum\/\">Ethereum<\/a> bridge. The launch will allow users to wrap their BTC in exchange for tBTC tokens that can be deployed in the Ethereum ecosystem, said the press release. tBTC\u2019s optimistic minting model is now live in partnership with <strong>Curve DAO<\/strong>, <strong>Yearn.Finance<\/strong>, <strong>Synthetix<\/strong>, <strong>Connext<\/strong>, <strong>Alchemix<\/strong>, <strong>Euler<\/strong>, and <strong>Aave<\/strong> as minters, with support from <strong>Catalog<\/strong>, <strong>BadgerDAO<\/strong>, <strong>StakeDAO<\/strong>, <strong>Entropy<\/strong>, and certain community members as guardians.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Twitter<\/strong> alternative <strong>Damus<\/strong> went live on the <strong>Apple App Store<\/strong> yesterday, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/damusapp\/status\/1620541333269286912\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">per<\/a> an announcement by the team. Based on the decentralized networking protocol <strong>Nostr<\/strong>, it promises a censorship-resistant <a href=\"https:\/\/cryptonews.com\/tags\/social-network\/\">social network<\/a> with end-to-end private messaging controlled by users.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Energy news<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/cryptonews.com\/tags\/iota\/\"><strong>IOTA<\/strong><\/a> announced the success of its <strong>EnergieKnip<\/strong> projects in <a href=\"https:\/\/cryptonews.com\/tags\/netherlands\/\">the Netherlands<\/a>, which uses decentralized ledger technology (DLT) to help citizens save <a href=\"https:\/\/cryptonews.com\/tags\/energy\/\">energy<\/a> and live more sustainably by allowing them to share their energy consumption data anonymously with local authorities. Also, an app offers local reward tokens to incentivize residents to reduce their carbon footprint. <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.iota.org\/using-data-to-cut-energy-use-while-boosting-local-economies\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Per<\/a> the announcement, \u201cin the first EnergieKnip project, 50,000 wallets were created for as many households (a total of about 106,000 citizens). This ultimately resulted in 300,000 euros distributed to 9,000 active wallets \u2013 and all this in a decentralized and anonymous way.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Mining news<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Luxor Technologies<\/strong>, a full-stack <a href=\"https:\/\/cryptonews.com\/coins\/bitcoin\/\">Bitcoin (BTC)<\/a> mining software and services company, launched a request-for-quote (RFQ) platform for buying and selling Bitcoin <a href=\"https:\/\/cryptonews.com\/tags\/mining\/\">mining<\/a> hardware. An RFQ marketplace allows users to create orders (requests) for specific items. Per the announcement, Luxor\u2019s RFQ will be double-sided, meaning both buyers and sellers can create requests for mining hardware. They can place requests and negotiate prices directly, \u201cimproving price discovery and increasing liquidity in the secondary ASIC market,\u201d it added.<\/li>\n<\/ul><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cryptonews.com\/news\/today-crypto-bnb-chain-unveils-3rd-blockchain-bnb-ecosystem-tether-never-borrowed-from-celsius-ripple-sold-226m-worth-of-xrp-q4.htm\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><br \/>\n Margarett Byron<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: AdobeStock \/ akifGet your daily, bite-sized digest of cryptoasset and blockchain-related news \u2013 investigating the stories flying under the radar of today\u2019s crypto news.__________Blockchain newsBNB Chain unveiled the whitepaper for a new blockchain-based Web3 infrastructure, with a press release saying that its core team and a few community developer teams, including Amazon Web Services<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":603614,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22791,695],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-603613","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-crypto","8":"category-today"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/603613","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=603613"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/603613\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/603614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=603613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=603613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=603613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}