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The latest in blockchain tech upgrades, funding announcements and deals. For the period of Oct. 16-25, with live updates throughout.
The latest in blockchain tech upgrades and announcements.

Discover seven real-world IoT applications transforming industries with innovative examples and their impact on efficiency and convenience.

Learn about the crucial differences between compilers and interpreters and how they affect code execution and development.

Developers in Nigeria and across Africa can build and test their decentralized applications on the Optimism forked Mara Chain.

Developers have proposed an “Ecosystem Council” to push smart contract upgrades, as well as changes to how community-based funding works.

The effort will accelerate the deployment of zero-knowledge proofs, one of the hottest trends in blockchain technology, they said.

Gho has been available on the Ethereum blockchain’s Goerli testnet since February, where it has functioned without encountering any major bugs.

‘Nairobi’ is the blockchain’s fourteenth upgrade.

The upgrade 8.1.1 also contains software patches for minor issues from a previous node version.
- 07:19A certain whale transferred 32.52 million NEIRO from CEX, becoming the third largest whale in terms of on-chain holdingsAccording to a report by Jinse Finance, monitored by Spotonchain, in the past hour, the whale "0x22b7" transferred 32.52 million NEIRO from CEX, equivalent to approximately $3.01 million, accounting for 3.25% of the total supply, becoming the third largest whale in terms of on-chain holdings.
- 07:16Strategy Launches AI Data Management Solution Strategy MosaicStrategy (formerly MicroStrategy) has released an AI data management solution called Strategy Mosaic. It is reported that Mosaic will build a universal intelligence layer and launch AI Agents, without exposing sensitive data to the underlying large language model (LLM).
- 07:16Investment Firm Pearl Fund Launches $500 Million Bitcoin Fund Pearl Bitcoin FundUS investment firm Pearl Fund has announced the Pearl Bitcoin Fund, a $500 million Bitcoin fund. It is reported that the Pearl Bitcoin Fund will be the first investment fund in the US that can exempt Bitcoin investment from capital gains tax. Its solution allows investors to obtain tax-free Bitcoin appreciation after a 10-year holding period, a feature currently unavailable in Bitcoin ETFs.