Deep Dive Into Decentralised Finance: Valuing DeFi Blockchains

DeFi system allows financial products to appear on a public blockchain network which is not regulated by a central bank or intermediary. There are other elements to DeFi like basic metrics and valuing... https://ift.tt/3FUBjgW

A look at the challenges spies face with biometrics, smartphones, and surveillance cameras, and how AI sifting through data changes espionage (Warren P. Strobel/Wall Street Journal)

Warren P. Strobel / Wall Street Journal:
A look at the challenges spies face with biometrics, smartphones, and surveillance cameras, and how AI sifting through data changes espionage  —  U.S., rivals seek ways to adapt spycraft to a changing world; being on the grid can blow your cover, but so can staying off

UK-based Motorway, a second-hand car auction site used by 4K+ car dealers, raises a $190M Series C at a $1B+ valuation after raising a $67.7M Series B in June (Mike Butcher/TechCrunch)

Mike Butcher / TechCrunch:
UK-based Motorway, a second-hand car auction site used by 4K+ car dealers, raises a $190M Series C at a $1B+ valuation after raising a $67.7M Series B in June  —  It was only in June that Motorway - a U.K. platform on which professional car dealers can bid in an auction for privately owned cars for sale …

Sky Mavis says its crypto-based game Axie Infinity quadrupled DAUs in under 3 months to 2M in October, as some analysts question Axie's economic sustainability (Financial Times)

Financial Times:
Sky Mavis says its crypto-based game Axie Infinity quadrupled DAUs in under 3 months to 2M in October, as some analysts question Axie's economic sustainability  —  Video game analysts are questioning the economic sustainability of pay-to-play ‘Axie’  —  Eight months ago …

Slice, whose credit cards are used by 5M+ people in India and let users pay their bills interest-free over three months, raises a $220M Series B (Manish Singh/TechCrunch)

Manish Singh / TechCrunch:
Slice, whose credit cards are used by 5M+ people in India and let users pay their bills interest-free over three months, raises a $220M Series B  —  Rajan Bajaj, founder of fintech Slice, chimed in on a Twitter thread earlier this year and wondered aloud what he needs to do to turn his startup into a unicorn before he turns 30.

Vestager asks the EU Parliament and Council to approve the Digital Markets Act and the Digital Services Act as a matter of urgency, even if they are imperfect (Javier Espinoza/Financial Times)

Javier Espinoza / Financial Times:
Vestager asks the EU Parliament and Council to approve the Digital Markets Act and the Digital Services Act as a matter of urgency, even if they are imperfect  —  EU competition chief argues in favour of getting “80 per cent now than 100 per cent never”  —  Margrethe Vestager …