Solana's Total Value Locked Hits New High for 2023
Solana’s total value locked (TVL) reached $338.82 million this Monday, marking its highest since the start of the year, as per DefiLlama data. Over the last 24 hours, SOL's TVL saw an increase of roughly 4.15%, jumping from $324.64 million on Sunday to $338.82 million by Monday. According to market analyst The Tie, of this amount, as much as 22 million SOL tokens (roughly valued at $400 million) are unlocked and can be sold. This represents close to 4% of SOL's total supply. Another 40 million to 44 million tokens, or approximately $860 million, are currently staked and another $17 million worth of SOL tokens are expected to be unlocked every month for the next four years.
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October 02, 2023 15:33 UTC
Genetics of attraction: Mate choice in fruit flies
Source: phys.orgGenetic quality or genetic compatibility? What do female fruit flies prioritize when mating? Researchers at the University of Zurich show that both factors are important at different stages of the reproductive process and that females use targeted strategies to optimize the fitness of their offspring.
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October 02, 2023 15:25 UTC
Rejected by US courts, Onondaga Nation take centuries-old land rights case to international panel
The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights recently allowed the Onondagas to pursue claims their land was taken unjustly by New York state, providing a unique venue for a land rights case against the United States by a Native American nation. “We had to adapt to the coming of our white brother to our lands,” said Sid Hill, the Tadodaho, or chief, of the Onondaga Nation. The Onondaga's case centers on a roughly 40-mile-wide (65-kilometer-wide) strip of land running down the center of upstate New York from Canada to Pennsylvania. Heath said this was the first land rights case admitted by the commission from a Native American nation against the U.S., though it has heard other Indigenous cases against the United States. What will the U.S. do if the commission issues an opinion on merits favoring the Onondaga Nation?
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September 30, 2023 22:04 UTC
Robert Kiyosaki Teases Bitcoin (BTC) as Solution to Hyperinflation
Robert Kiyosaki, the renowned financial expert and writer of the bestseller, ‘Rich Dad Poor Dad’ is once again positive about the role of Bitcoin (BTC) among other assets that can help individuals combat the current menace of hyperinflation. The Robert Kiyosaki Acquisition According to the investment veteran, many people now get the true meaning ofThe post Robert Kiyosaki Teases Bitcoin (BTC) as Solution to Hyperinflation appeared first on CoinGape. Source: coingape.com
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September 30, 2023 22:03 UTC
10 Optical Illusions That Will Blow Your Brain
This optical illusion, the Hermann Grid, occurs because of how your eyes and brain work together. This optical illusion won’t give you a front-row seat to a reptilian tango. Also known as the Penrose Triangle or Tri-bar, this optical illusion presents a three-dimensional triangular figure. Filmmakers have used this optical illusion to create scenes where characters appear to change size. 1 The Spinning DancerLast but not least, we have the Spinning Dancer, a mesmerizing optical illusion that challenges your perception of motion.
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September 30, 2023 08:56 UTC
At the New York Film Festival, a sluggish fall movie season seeks a higher gear
The big trio of fall film festivals — Venice, Telluride, Toronto — came and went without the usual amount of buzz. When the 61st New York Film Festival opens Friday night, things may finally be stirring once again. At the same time, the New York Film Festival will play host to easily the best assemblage of movies this year. Part of the continuing pleasure of the New York Film Festival is how it tends to focus attention directly on the films. So it's an especially good place for films that, like “All of Us Strangers,” almost exist in some out-of-time realm.
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September 30, 2023 05:00 UTC
Ultrafast quantum simulation of large-scale quantum entanglement
Source: phys.orgA research group led by Professor Kenji Ohmori at the Institute for Molecular Science, National Institutes of Natural Sciences are using an artificial crystal of 30,000 atoms aligned in a cubic array with a spacing of 0.5 micron, cooled to near absolute zero temperature. By manipulating the atoms with a special laser light that blinks for 10 picoseconds, they succeeded in executing quantum simulation of a model of magnetic materials.
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September 29, 2023 19:10 UTC
5 new YouTube features coming soon to help creators
YouTube has unveiled a bunch of new tools set to be rolled out in the coming months. Speaking at its Made on YouTube event, the platform revealed five upcoming features designed to help creators make content more easily. Dream ScreenYouTube is launching an experimental new feature that enables content creators to easily add AI-generated video or image backgrounds to YouTube Shorts. YouTube CreateThe platform is launching a new mobile app called YouTube Create to help make video creation easier. Staying in the loop with the latest tools and features from YouTube can be a game-changer.
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September 21, 2023 23:01 UTC
Citizens Insurance sends offers for policyholders to switch insurers
Customers must respond by the Oct. 10 deadline, or their policies will automatically default to the private insurance company, likely at a much higher premium. “The other company that would have taken me in is Slide Insurance Company, and they wanted like $6,700.”[EXCLUSIVE: Become a News 6 Insider (it’s FREE) | PINIT! “The goal of the government’s insurance company, Citizens Insurance Company, is to put themselves out of business,” said Miller. “I know that’s counterintuitive, but the government’s insurance company is in business because it’s supposed to be a place where people go when they cannot find private insurance coverage. Citizens is reaching out to agents and Citizens policyholders who received an offer but have yet to respond.
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September 21, 2023 03:33 UTC
Behind all the speechmaking at the UN lies a basic, unspoken question: Is the world governable?
UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres addresses the United Nations Sustainable Development Forum, Monday, Sept. 18, 2023. At the United Nations, “multilateralism” is always the goal. His answer — unsurprising, since he hammers it home every year — is a world that is “multipolar” and multilateral, the collaborative foundations upon which the United Nations was founded. Being multilateral means shared responsibility, shared ideas, shared paths forward. But the elusive goal — a shared vision, but multilateral — is always the United Nations' move elusive quarry.
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September 20, 2023 23:06 UTC
Prince William, billionaires Gates and Bloomberg say innovation provides climate hope
“There’s a lot of climate exaggeration,” said Gates, who founded Microsoft and is now a philanthropist. Some financial institutions could supplement emissions reduction measures with the voluntary purchase of carbon credits, according to a handout. She said the goal is to affirm “the importance of credible net-zero commitments and to encourage financial institutions that make them to take consistent approaches to implementation." Yellen also announced that a group of philanthropic organizations – including Bezos Earth Fund, Bloomberg Philanthropies and others – would pledge $340 million to help financial institutions “develop and execute robust, voluntary net-zero commitments,” she said. Afterward, Prince William greeted scores of people lined up behind metal barricades across the street.
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September 20, 2023 12:29 UTC
Balancer Frontend Hit By DNS Attack, Over $250K Stolen
The front-end websites of popular decentralized exchange (DEX) Balancer were hit by a Domain Name System (DNS) attack on September 19. The Balancer team first alerted users about interacting with the balancer UI yesterday at 7:49 pm EST. The hacker’s address has received multiple stolen assets from networks including Ethereum, Arbitrum, Optimism, Polygon, Base, and Avalanche. Protecting from DNS attacksWhile DNS attacks are uncommon within crypto circles, they’ve occurred before with Curve Finance in August 2022 and PancakeSwap in May 2021. BlockSec analysts told Decrypt that the DNS attack is “one attack surface, which can trick users.
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September 20, 2023 12:05 UTC
Glacier Loss Day indicates record breaking glacier melt
Source: phys.orgThe Hintereisferner, located at the back of the Tyrolean Ötztal, has been closely monitored for more than 100 years, and there have been continuous records of its mass balance since 1952. This makes it one of the best-studied glaciers in the Alps and has been key to glacier and climate research at the University of Innsbruck for decades.
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September 19, 2023 21:05 UTC
Brazil's Lula pitches his nation — and himself — as fresh leader for Global South
He has sought to boost Brazil's cred with each state visit and speech, one multilateral forum after another. Many thought Lula would need to stay home to focus exclusively on domestic issues and healing a riven society. PUSHING FOR GLOBAL GOVERNANCE — BRAZIL-STYLEDuring Lula’s travels, he has pushed for global governance that gives greater heft to the Global South and advocating diminishing the dollar’s dominance in trade. After the International Criminal Court issued a warrant for Russian President Vladimir Putin's arrest, Lula said he would review Brazil's membership in the court. Some in Washington had initially hoped Lula could be helpful in advancing a shared agenda in Venezuela, Winter said.
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September 19, 2023 05:04 UTC
Stock market today: Asian shares lower, Tokyo closed, as focus turns to Federal Reserve meeting
Shares fell Monday in Asia, with Hong Kong's benchmark pulled lower by property stocks following reports that police had detained staff at the wealth management business of troubled real estate developer China Evergrande. U.S. futures edged higher and oil prices advanced. On Friday, Wall Street benchmarks fell, with technology stocks posing the biggest drag on the market. The market had posted some gains last week following reports of several healthy economic indicators ahead of the Federal Reserve's two-day meeting, which ends Wednesday. Oil prices have been climbing over the summer after Saudi Arabia decided to maintain production cuts.
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September 18, 2023 04:56 UTC