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Kyle Heise

Born and raised in the East Bay of California. He has studied and worked on three continents and lived in eight countries. He holds bags mostly in ETH and stablecoins.

BSC News

BNB Chain December Monthly Stars

BNB Chain announced the eight December Monthly Stars. The list of eight features projects about metaverse, GameFi, and more.

The largest active blockchain in the world detailed the eight projects in a Dec. 14 blog post from Christopher Duggan and promised an in-depth article about each. The exposure in the final month of the year should help boost the exposure of each project heading into the new year.

Here is the list of eight December Stars:

Tap Fantasy

• Fantasy Metaverse GameFi

Where to find Top Fantasy:

Website | Twitter | Discord | Telegram | Medium |

Lifeform

• Hyper-realistic 3D NFTs of humans

Where to find Lifeform:

Website | Twitter | Discord | Medium | YouTube |

Hooked

• Web3 onboarding platform

Where to find Hooked Protocol:

Website | Twitter | Telegram |

Wyre

• Crypto to fiat API services

Where to find Wyre:

Website | Twitter | Medium | Discord |

NFTscan

• NFT database and infrastructure platform

Where to find NFTscan:

Website | Twitter | Discord | Medium | GitHub |

Yuliverse

• AR metaverse social game application

Where to find Yuliverse:

Website | Twitter | Discord |

Zebec Protocol

• Multi-sig DeFi payment platform

Where to find Zebec Protocol:

Website | Twitter | Discord | Telegram |

Superpower Squad

• PvP and PvE superhero blockchain game

Where to find Superhero Squad:

Website | Twitter | Discord | Telegram | YouTube |

BSC News

B Shuts the Door on Binance FUD

In an over 20-part thread, user B Da Viking gave a levelheaded review of the recent Binance FUD.

B Da Viking, a core contributor to Floki, took to Twitter on December 17 to tackle the growing misinformation surrounding Binance. Using simple facts and observation, B hit the nail on the head and wiped away the FUD with ease.

“As you can see from the facts in this thread, attempts to FUD Binance are misinformed, show a clear lack of understanding, or are intentionally aimed at stirring panic and hate of Binance based on unfounded claims,” the conclusion writes. “They are attacks against crypto, plain and simple!”

B’s thread tackles the multitude of dynamics at play amongst the FUD. The answers are not always simple, but simply connecting certain dots can help shine a light on different motivating factors on both sides of the argument.s

B’s thread delved into four topics:

• The FUD surrounding Mazar’s audit of Binance and other centralized exchanges
• Claims of a Binance bank run and potential insolvency
• Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao’s (CZ) recent statement about 2.1 billion FTT tokens on CNBC
• Recent withdrawals and uncertainty around the BUSD stablecoin

B’s thread caught so much attention it was liked nearly 4,000 times and was retweeted by both the accounts of CZ and Binance.

Read the full thread here:

What is Floki:

Floki began with a tweet from Elon Musk. When the billionaire announced he would name his Shiba Inu puppy Floki, it created a deluge of ‘Floki’ dogcoins. The most successful of these is Floki. Floki is currently the third most popular meme token on the market, behind Dogecoin and Shiba Inu. It is backed by a community of committed enthusiasts and a strong marketing campaign.

Where to find Floki:

Website | Twitter | Telegram | Discord

BSC News

Chainlink Partners With Major Brands

Dominant smart contract oracle network Chainlink was on the march this week, announcing partnerships with major brands in Web3 and traditional spaces.

In this week’s roundup:

• AOmetaverse integrates Verifiable Random Function (VRF).
• Chainlink-Coinbase Cloud NFT Floor Price Feeds go live on Ethereum mainnet.
• Chainlink Automation launches on Arbitrum One.
• T-Systems MMS supports Chainlink Staking.

Australian Open NFTs

AO Metaverse, the official metaverse of the Australian Open, is integrating Chainlink VRF to ensure fairness for its AO Artball Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs) contest. The Australian Open is one of the four Grand Slam tennis tournaments.

Each AO Artball NFT is linked to a plot on the Australian Open tennis court. If a winning shot lands on that plot, the NFT is updated with cool features. In addition to assigning plots randomly to the 9,230 existing AO Artball NFTs from 2022, artwork will be assigned randomly to the new batch of 2,454 NFTs for 2023.

“We love that anyone can confirm their ArtBalls and court plots were fairly distributed — this is important to the entire project and our ethos,” said Adam De Cata, Run it Wild Founder & NFT Tech CEO, in a Medium post.

NFT Price Feeds on Ethereum

Chainlink NFT Price Feeds are now live on Ethereum mainnet, initially supporting the following collections: Azuki Official, Bored Ape Yacht Club, CloneX, Cool Cats, CrypToadz, CryptoPunks, Doodles, Mutant Apes, Vee Friends and World of Women.

Chainlink NFT Floor Price Feeds were created in collaboration with Coinbase Cloud. They provide Web3 developers with a secure, reliable and accurate floor price feed for leading NFT collections, unlocking potential for new Decentralized Applications (dApps), Decentralized Finance (DeFi) protocols and tokens.

“We are excited about this collaboration between Coinbase and Chainlink. We’re bridging the gap between transparency and security in the NFT space by bringing reliable and timely on-chain NFT Floor Price Feeds for the top NFT collections to the Web3 world,” Coinbase VP Data Michael Li said on the Chainlink blog.

Chainlink on Arbitrum

Chainlink Automation has gone live on the Arbitrum layer-two blockchain, and is being integrated by dApps including COTI and Armadillo, Cask, and DeFiEdge.

Chainlink Price Feeds first went live on Arbitrum in August 2021, according to a news release.

“We’re excited to support the Arbitrum ecosystem with the native integration of Chainlink Automation, enabling developers to build highly scalable and low-cost smart contract applications that are automated end to end,” said Niki Ariyasinghe, Head of Blockchain Partnerships at Chainlink Labs. “With the enhanced uptime and security guarantees provided by Chainlink Automation, Arbitrum developers can build the next generation of decentralized applications and help reliably scale the Web3 ecosystem.”

T-Systems MMS Supports $LINK Staking

IT service and consulting firm T-Systems MMS is participating in the new $LINK staking program.

A subsidiary of global telecom giant Deutsche Telekom, T-Systems MMS has been a Chainlink node operator since June 2020, according to a post on the company’s blog.

“The Chainlink Network has seen increasing adoption and growing momentum both across the blockchain ecosystem and across more traditional Web2 business sectors,” said Dirk Röder, Head of Blockchain Solutions Center at T-Systems MMS. “By participating in Chainlink Staking as a node operator, T-Systems MMS can further support the security of Chainlink oracle services while providing secure infrastructure for the growing smart contract economy.”

In addition to continuing as a node operator, T-Systems MMS will be staking LINK tokens during Chainlink Staking v0.1.

“We’re pleased that T-Systems MMS is participating in Chainlink Staking, which will help bring the Chainlink Network into the next stage of its sustainable growth through a further increase in cryptoeconomic security,” said Johann Eid, VP of Go-To-Market at Chainlink Labs. “Supporting the adoption of blockchain technology through Chainlink Staking enables T-Systems MMS to play an important role in helping realize the transformative power of smart contracts.”

Last four weekly Chainlink Roundups:

• Dec. 11: Staking, Hackathon, BBA, Catheon, WigoSwap
• Dec. 4: Staking, Nuon, LayerZero and DVerse
• Nov. 25: Huobi, StablR, and Bitcoin.com
• Nov. 19: ChainML, LandVault

What is Chainlink:

Chainlink is the industry standard for building, accessing, and selling oracle services needed to power hybrid smart contracts on any blockchain. Chainlink oracle networks provide smart contracts with a way to reliably connect to any external API and leverage secure off-chain computations for enabling feature-rich applications. Chainlink currently secures tens of billions of dollars across DeFi, insurance, gaming, and other major industries and offers global enterprises and leading data providers a universal gateway to all blockchains.

Where to find Chainlink:‍

Website | Twitter | Docs | Community

BSC News

BNB Staking Rises Despite Price Fall

BNB Chain’s validator staking has eclipsed 21 million once again, despite the recent fall in BNB price. The total price value of the staked BNB is roughly $5.2 billion.

The amount of staked BNB tokens first rose above 21 million in late November but fell in early December. The 21 million staked as of December 2022 is a 700% increase from last year. The more staked tokens there are, the more decentralization the chain’s consensus has, and thus more security.

As tweeted by notable personality V_bnbchain in a short thread on Dec. 17, the increase in validator staking gives builders more ability to focus on other priorities.

What is BNB Chain:

Previously known as the Binance Smart Chain (BSC), BNB Chain is a community-driven, decentralized, and censorship-resistant blockchain that is powered by Binance. It consists of BNB Beacon Chain and BNB Smart Chain, EVM compatible and facilitating a multi-chain ecosystem. Through the concept of MetaFI, BNB Chain aims to build the infrastructure to power the world’s parallel virtual ecosystem.

Find more about BNB Chain here:

Website | Twitter | Discord | Telegram | GitHub |

Blockchain News

Pi Network CoFounders Give Vision on Podcast

Pi Network has been growing organically to over 30 million users for over three years. Since December 2021, many users have expected to see the official mainnet arrival, but continual delays have users still waiting.

Following the enclosed mainnet launch in December 2021, a major blog post from the Pi Core team came in March 2022, updating the community and detailing the mainnet progress. This blog post predicted the open mainnet arrival in either March or June 2022.

Edycabas, an active Pi Network community member, also gives a pessimistic view of the project in the next half year.

Another reason many projects are getting anxious is the lack of fiat connection to the Pi Network. Many projects find it difficult to source funds, legitimize their projects, and build communities without access to funding.

“Because Pi has no value during the closure of the main network, and the exchange of legal currency is also prohibited. And the time of the opening of the main network is unknown, so all application development teams are facing a common problem, the problem of funds,” a Pi Chain Mall team member told BSC News.

Recent validator issues have also begun to give headaches to many veteran and passionate Pioneers.

To their credit, Pi Network Core Team has been in communication with the Pi Community at all times. There are even Core team members designated as contacts to major Pi projects. There has been transparency.

And through it all, many members are the Pi Community are sticking it out and persevering through the market conditions.

With millions of members and empty promises of real-world utilities, many projects and users are still strained by the continual postponements. Another major update from the Pi Network team could do well to assuage community concerns.

See below for the full interview with Pi Network Co-Founders Nicolas Kokkalis and Chengdiao Fan alongside Bryce Paul of the Crypto 101 Podcast.

What is Pi Network:

Pi Network is a mobile blockchain mining project on a mission to give everyone access to the cryptocurrency revolution. The project was founded by a team of Stanford University Ph.D. candidates who designed a mobile-friendly blockchain mining algorithm.

Pi Network has evolved over the years and has organized a hackathon, built a couple of working Pi blockchain apps, and is now in the final stages of transition to public mainnet.‍

Where to find Pi Network:

Website | Twitter | LinkedIn | Facebook | Instagram |