Roland Guirdonan
Roland is a Public Relations & Communications guru with an immense passion for the blockchain and crypto industry. A fusion of his expertise and passion led to the dawn of Optimisus in 2020.
Articles by Roland Guirdonan
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A recent unlocking of tokens from the vesting schedule of 1inch, a decentralized exchange aggregator, has resulted in tokens that are currently valued at $111 million being released. On December 1, nearly 227.2 million 1inch tokens, or roughly 15% of the 1.5 billion tokens in circulation overall, were unlocked. In December 2020, the DEX aggregator launched its native token. Only 6% of the total supply was then made available, and the remaining tokens were locked in a vesting schedule that would not end until December 2024. As with other DeFi projects, tokens were initially distributed to various groups, including the
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Sonar, a mobile social gaming app that supports NFT-based avatars, was acquired by Aave Companies in an effort to expand the Lens Protocol for identity across Web3 consumer products. Ben South Lee, co-founder of Sonar, joins Aave as senior vice president of product and design. Sonar co-founder Randolph Lee will join Aave as a principal engineer. The two will lead a team focused on developing mobile-facing applications that integrate Aave’s Lens protocol, a decentralized identity platform for web3 services. Thousands of active users of Sonar, an app available on iOS, can communicate with each other through personalized avatars which can
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The court stated that NFTs, which are digital assets that are unique and non-interchangeable, belong to the category of virtual property that should be protected by Chinese law. A court located in Hangzhou, China has declared that non-interchangeable tokens (NFTs) are seen as virtual possessions that should be safeguarded under Chinese law. An article posted on November 29 by the Hangzhou Internet Court and shared by the crypto blogger Wu Blockchain on December 5 showed that after China’s crackdown on cryptocurrencies in 2021, NFTs are in a legal grey area, but the language used by the court is fairly positive.
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Michael Saylor, the founder and executive chairman of MicroStrategy, stated on Twitter that Bitcoin is a glimmering city in cyberspace. Saylor, a BTC supporter, has previously expressed optimism about BTC and its capacity to regain its lost value, so this is not the first time. Notably, Saylor previously asserted that if Bitcoin was on a bull run, nothing on earth could stop it from increasing in value and price. In addition, Saylor shared a statistics report from Hootsuite, a social media management platform. The report included internet users aged 16 to 64 who used any type of cryptocurrency. Meanwhile, BTC
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As the crypto winter deepens, centralized crypto exchange Bybit, has become the latest to lay off employees. The layoffs are in addition to those made by the company earlier this year, in June. Bybit, based in Singapore, has announced plans to reduce its workforce. Furthermore, the move is part of the company’s ongoing reorganization. It is the latest cryptocurrency company to refocus its efforts as the bear market intensifies. Bybit co-founder and CEO Ben Zhou made the announcement on December 4th, adding that the planned downsizing would be across the board. He apologized to those who would be affected by
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After a two-year legal battle, the most well-known crypto case involving Ripple and the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is nearing its conclusion. The SEC and Ripple each submitted a redacted reply to the other’s opposition to a motion for summary judgment on December 2. In its motion document, Ripple argued that the SEC had failed to establish that its 2013–2020 XRP offering constituted an offer or sale of an “investment contract,” making it a security under federal securities laws. On December 3, Ripple’s general counsel, Stuart Alderoty, tweeted that this was the company’s “final submission” asking the judge
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On Saturday, about 255,000 Reddit digital collectibles were produced, breaking the previous record of more than 200,000 mints set on August 30 and August 31. According to data from Polygon analytics on Dune, it brings the overall number of digital collectibles — the term Reddit uses for its Polygon-based NFTs — in use to about 4.4 million. The polygon-based digital collectibles, which are used as avatars on Reddit’s social networking platform, have been hailed as a successful introduction of NFTs to mainstream consumers. Reddit announced its intentions to create collectible digital avatars in July after introducing tokenized community points earlier
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The biggest bank in Russia, Sber, has said that Ethereum and MetaMask will be supported on its own blockchain. The statement was made at the first ever global gathering of corporate blockchain industry participants, which was hosted by Sber Blockchain Laboratory. The updated features enable smart contracts and decentralized finance (DeFi) on Sber bank’s open-source blockchain. Smart contracts can be freely transferred between the two blockchains thanks to the platform. According to the announcement, “Sber’s blockchain platform lets participants issue tokens and create smart contracts. And integration with the bank’s information systems makes it possible for payments in smart contracts
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Coinbase Wallet stated that it was forced to block NFT transfers on iOS because Apple required 30% of the NFT transfer gas fees. Apple is making negative headlines in the cryptocurrency industry once again for its fee demand. On December 1, Coinbase tweeted that NFT transfers on Coinbase Wallet were blocked on iOS devices. According to the explanation, “the gas fees required to send NFTs must be paid through their In-App Purchase system.” If Coinbase did this, it would be paying Apple’s infamous “Apple tax” as well as 30% of Ethereum gas fees. This was categorically impossible, according to Coinbase,
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The decentralized-finance protocol announced that it is working with exchanges to stop trading of its BNB staking rewards token, aBNBc, immediately. Ankr, a decentralized finance (DeFi) protocol based on BNB Chain, has acknowledged being affected by a multi-million dollar exploit on December 1. On December 2, on-chain security analyst PeckShield appears to have become aware of the attack for the first time. Ankr tweeted an hour after the attack to confirm that the aBNB token had been exploited and that they were working with exchanges to stop trading the compromised token right away. Ankr Reward Bearing Staked BNB (aBNBc), a
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According to Telegram founder Pavel Durov, the company has sold more than $50 million in usernames. Telegram founder and CEO Pavel Durov claimed that in less than a month, the company sold $50 million in usernames on The Open Network, a blockchain developed by the company. In October, Telegram enabled users to purchase usernames for its app through a blockchain-based platform called Fragment. The platform allows interested parties to purchase available usernames and secure ownership on its “The Open Network” (TON) blockchain. When purchasing a domain name, users pay with the TON cryptocurrency, the network’s native asset. Fragment sales have
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At a ministerial meeting on November 28, South Korea’s Ministry of Science and ICT issued a guideline of core ethical principles for metaverse application participants, which includes users and developers. According to the science ministry, its metaverse guidelines are based on three core values: genuine identity, safe experience, and long-term prosperity. To support its core values, the guidelines identify eight principles: authenticity, autonomy, reciprocity, respect for privacy, fairness, data protection, inclusiveness, and future responsibility. Although the guidelines are not legally binding, the science ministry encouraged metaverse participants to consult them. According to the science ministry, various issues have arisen in
