Ujunwa Juliet Ihiasota
I am a dedicated crypto and blockchain content writer who is vision-oriented, diligent, smart, and self-motivated. I have over a decade of self-writing experience and five years of experience as a professional writer. I hope to inspire other women into this ever-evolving field.
Articles by Ujunwa Juliet Ihiasota
2 years ago
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Charles Hoskinson, the founder of Cardano, took to Twitter to explain how the NFT community on Reddit is criticizing him and Cardano on the forum /r/CryptoCurrency, asking “at least make better memes.” While Hoskinson discusses the “Charles Derangement Syndrome” memes, cryptocurrency influencer Ben Armstrong responds with a similar experience he had years ago. “BitBoy Derangement Syndrome took its final form on r/cryptocurrency years ago,” Armstrong wrote, adding that he has previously been asked to do a roast on the platform and would like to perform an ask-me-anything session sometime. Hoskinson responded that once the job is over, he would like
2 years ago
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An anonymous wallet moved nearly half a trillion SHIB to another address. Over 3 trillion are being purchased. Details supplied by Etherscan suggest that approximately half a billion Shiba Inu were sent in a single transaction from one Binance wallet to another. This value is worth $4,186,887. Exchanges and whales have recently gotten active, trading big amounts of Shiba Inu. On October 18, a significant amount of SHIB was transferred to a blank wallet, which included 3,388,119,787,804 meme coins. As a result, the market may have seen the rise of a new SHIB whale. This many meme coins are worth
2 years ago
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The Cardano blockchain has seen a surge in network activity. According to Cardanoscan, network transactions reached 97,959 on October 19, the highest level since the beginning of October. On a monthly basis, this is a 75% gain. Cardano is now one of the top three NFT chains. According to openCNFT data, NFT volumes reached 3.0 million ADA and 2.8 million ADA on Oct. 17 and 18, putting Cardano in third place among NFT protocols. In the last 24 hours, Cardano ranked ahead of Immutable X, with $1.2 million traded in NFTs, trailing only Ethereum and Solana. On September 22, the
2 years ago
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Cardano’s native cryptocurrency, ADA, has established new bottoms during the current crypto bear market as a result of what appears to be a significant price suppression by crypto bears. The token has looked ready to reclaim the lost level ever since the price of ADA plunged below the critical support levels at $0.385. Unfortunately, the likelihood of a bullish turnaround is diminishing because of the deteriorating macroeconomic environment. The eighth-largest cryptocurrency by market value may continue to set fresh price bottoms if bears maintain their dominance, which would eventually cause it to tumble off the list of the top 10
2 years ago
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A blockchain-based tool developed by Egyptian engineer Mirna Mohammed was created to monitor the Oman value-added tax system. Consequently, Oman’s Ministry of Higher Education had approved Mirna’s Blockchain VAT accounting platform and will provide funding for its implementation. It is noteworthy that more Arab women from Oman and Saudi Arabia have recently joined the blockchain ecosystem and contributed to the advancement of society and the economy. Over the past few weeks, there have been more Arab women working on blockchain initiatives. Mirna claimed in an interview that her father’s insistence on creating a budget accounting system employing cutting-edge technology was
2 years ago
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The decentralized lending protocol Moola Market for the Celo network halted operations following an $8.4 million exploit. Igor Igamberdiev of The Block Research determined that the exploiter used 243,000 Binance-issued CELO tokens and lent 60,000 CELO to Moola in order to borrow 1.8 million MOO for use as collateral. The exploiter increased the price of MOO using the remaining CELO before using the borrowed MOO as collateral to borrow tokens through a number of additional DeFi lending mechanisms. The attacker earned 6.5 million CELO ($8.8 million), 700,000 cEUR ($765,000), 600,000 MOO ($1.8 million), and 600,000 cUSD ($644,000) for their efforts.
2 years ago
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ChainSafe, a provider of blockchain infrastructure, has raised $18.8 million in a Series A round that was oversubscribed and was headed by the Canadian venture capital firm Round13. According to a press statement from the startup, ConsenSys, HashKey Capital, NGC Ventures, and Digital Finance are among the additional investors in the round. At a Toronto Ethereum meetup in 2017, while the blockchain industry was still in its infancy and in need of stronger developer tools, Aidman Hyman and Hatcher Lipton co-founded ChainSafe. According to Hyman in an interview with The Block, “Bitcoin wasn’t necessarily the thing that excited us.” He
2 years ago
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Using his own information, the Texas State Securities Board enforcement director downloaded an FTX trading app (not an FTX US app) and was able to earn interest on it. In a supplemental declaration submitted on October 14 in the Voyager Digital case, the Texas State Securities Board, or SSB, and the Texas Department of Banking stated that the SSB is looking into FTX Trading, FTX US, and their principals, including co-founder and CEO Sam Bankman-Fried, for allegedly offering unregistered securities in the United States. This comes as FTX US prevailed in the auction for the last of the Voyager Digital
2 years ago
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Hoskinson claims that banks are actively promoting cryptocurrency after JP Morgan bank closed Ye (Kanye West) account. The statement was made by Charles Hoskinson, the founder of Cardano, in response to a photo of Kanye West sporting a cap bearing the name Satoshi Nakamoto after JPMorgan de-banked him. According to a tweet from Charles Hoskinson, the founder of Cardano, on October 17, “American banks have helped to advertise crypto better than the industry players.” In response to a photo of Kanye West sporting a cap bearing the name Satoshi Nakamoto after JPMorgan de-banked him, Hoskinson made the remark. According to
2 years ago
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Konami, a Japanese video game company, is seeking developers with expertise in web3 and metaverse. In addition, the company intends to introduce an NFT marketplace at a time when the majority of other gaming companies have abandoned them. On October 13, the Japanese entertainment conglomerate and video game developer Konami announced that it was hiring staff for Web3 and metaverse development. The company’s plans to introduce an NFT marketplace for trading digital in-game items is particularly intriguing. To create new experiences like Web3 and the metaverse, Konami is hiring people to work in system construction and service development roles. According
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The XEN token, a recently launched Ethereum project mintable by paying gas fees, is the latest tool hackers use to manufacture money out of thin air. A Chinese report claims that the FTX cryptocurrency exchange covers the gas costs while the attacker mints the XEN token for free. In order for the FTX’s hot wallet to continuously transfer Ethereum (ETH) tokens piecemeal to their address, the hacker planted a bug on a chain, according to the report. Due to the GAS theft vulnerability, the FTX exchange has already lost over 81 ETH. The hacker sent over 100 million XEN tokens to his/her
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An estimated $2.3 million worth of TempleDAO and its related project, STAX Finance, have been compromised. An update from STAX recognized the attack. It stated that on October 11, the attacker was successful in stealing 321,154 xLP altogether. The 1.3 million FRAX and 1.4 million TEMPLE were exchanged for those tokens. Then, the TEMPLE tokens were exchanged for the FRAX token. The attack cost more than $2.3 million based on the market value of those tokens. 1,831 ETH, or $2.34 million, according to PeckShield’s estimation, were taken during the incident. Since it has stopped the dApp to prevent accidental access,
