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Discover five blockchain-based social media platforms that are reshaping online interactions. Social media networks built on the blockchain are revolutionizing the way we share, interact and communicate with people online. These systems offer improved transparency, data ownership and decentralized incentives by utilizing the power of blockchain technology.  This article will discuss five well-known blockchain-based social media sites: Steemit, Verasity, Binded, Audius and Sapien. Steemit Based on the Steem blockchain, Steemit is an innovative decentralized social media network. Users are paid for curating and creating content in this novel incentive approach. Users are motivated to create high-quality content and interact with the community since they can earn Steem (STEEM) tokens based on participation. By fostering a thriving ecosystem of content producers and paying them directly, Steemit’s strategy transforms the conventional social media model. Verasity Verasity is another block...

Coinbase assured users that their BUSD funds will remain accessible and that they will still be able to withdraw funds at any time. US-based cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase announced the suspension of trading for the Binance  USD (BUSD) stablecoin on March 13 via Twitter.  We have disabled trading for Binance USD (BUSD). Your BUSD funds will remain accessible to you, and you will continue to have the ability to withdraw your funds at any time. https://t.co/jfpCZX7UTC — Coinbase Assets (@CoinbaseAssets) March 13, 2023 On Feb 27, Coinbase cited “listing standards” as the reason behind its decision to disable trading for BUSD on March 13. The February announcement read;  We regularly monitor the assets on our exchange to ensure they meet our listing standards. Based on our most recent reviews, Coinbase will suspend trading for Binance USD (BUSD) on March 13, 2023, on or around 12pm ET. According to Coinbase’s Feb 27 Twitter thread, the decision to disable trading for BUSD will apply t...

“All factory-deployed vaults have no management fees and a flat 10% performance fee,” the DeFi project wrote. Decentralized yield protocol Yearn. finance said in a Jan. 9 tweet that all users can now create sophisticated Permissionless Vault Factories on its platform. The current version of Vault Factory works with stablecoin-swapping platform Curve Finance and its liquidity provider (LP) tokens and Features three premade yield strategies. “Our new Permissionless Vault Factory lets anyone deploy an auto-compounding yVault for any Curve pool with an active liquidity gauge. Yes, anyone. Factory-deployed vaults have no management fees and a flat 10% performance fee. Nice!” Cast your vote now! As told by Yearn. finance , the first, dubbed “Boosted Factory,” uses Yearn’s vote-escrowed CRV balance of 45.1 million to give users a maximum boost of 2.5x on CRV rewards. The second, “Convex Factory,” supplies additional CRV LP tokens beyond the maximum to the decentralized platform Convex Fi...

Blockchain technology may be a solution when it comes to anti-theft measures for retailers. The retail industry is one of the most important sectors of the United States economy. Unfortunately, the COVID-19 pandemic has left the trillion-dollar retail sector vulnerable to in-store theft.  Findings from the National Retail Federation’s 2022 Retail Security Survey show that retail losses from stolen goods increased to $94.5 billion in 2021, up from $90.8 billion in 2020. Some retail ers also have to lock away certain products to prevent theft , which may lead to decreased sales due to consumers’ inability to access goods. Retailers look toward blockchain to solve retail theft Given these extreme measures, many innovative retail ers have started looking toward Technology to combat retail theft . For example, Lowe’s, an American home improvement retail er, has recently implemented a proof-of-concept called Project Unlock, which uses radio frequency identification (RFID) chips, Interne...