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@RobinhoodApp and @arbitrum have a significant collaboration aimed at simplifying user access to Layer 2 networks and decentralized finance (#DeFi).
The partnership integrates Arbitrum's scaling solutions into the self-custodial Robinhood Wallet, allowing users to perform in-app swaps through decentralized exchanges.
This integration addresses the high gas fees typically associated with the Ethereum mainnet, offering Robinhood's user base the low transaction costs and fast processing speeds of Arbitrum, which is currently the leading Layer 2 chain by total value locked.
Furthermore, Robinhood and Arbitrum are planning to introduce cross-chain swaps and other campaigns to lower the barriers to web3 adoption for mainstream users.
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While the stock was losing nearly 90% of its value, Cisco's revenue simply took a ~15% breather in 2002 before steadily climbing right back up. The company remained massively profitable, cash-flow positive, and continued acquiring smaller competitors throughout the entire downturn.
The most perfect modern #crypto equivalent to the Cisco story is @solana in 2022.
Just like Cisco, if you only looked at the price chart, you would have assumed the network was going bankrupt. If you looked at the underlying engineering, you saw a system quietly transforming into essential infrastructure.
Is this exact same pattern playing out for a some projects?
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Did you know?
While the stock was losing nearly 90% of its value, Cisco's revenue simply took a ~15% breather in 2002 before steadily climbing right back up. The company remained massively profitable, cash-flow positive, and continued acquiring smaller competitors throughout the entire downturn.
The most perfect modern #crypto equivalent to the Cisco story is @solana in 2022.
Just like Cisco, if you only looked at the price chart, you would have assumed the network was going bankrupt. If you looked at the underlying engineering, you saw a system quietly transforming into essential infrastructure.
Is this exact same pattern playing out for a some projects?
cosmos:native avalanche-2:native ethereum:native
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The first cryptocurrency browser wallet was KryptoKit (contested by some sources). Launched as a Google Chrome extension in December 2013, it was designed exclusively for Bitcoin and pioneered the concept of managing crypto directly from a web browser.
KryptoKit was created by Anthony Di Iorio (who would later go on to co-found Ethereum) and Steven Dakh. Their goal was to make Bitcoin accessible to everyday internet users without requiring them to download the massive, multi-gigabyte Bitcoin blockchain or run a full node.
While KryptoKit laid the groundwork for browser-based wallets, it is no longer active today. The team eventually pivoted to building Jaxx, a multi-platform wallet that supported both Bitcoin and Ethereum.
JPMorgan Chase is universally recognised as the first major financial institution to build and successfully deploy its own enterprise blockchain.
Here is how the timeline played out:
The Blockchain (Quorum): In 2016, JPMorgan introduced Quorum, an enterprise-focused, permissioned blockchain. Built as a private variant of the Ethereum network, Quorum was designed specifically to handle the high-speed, highly secure, and privacy-heavy needs of the financial industry. (JPMorgan eventually sold Quorum to the blockchain firm ConsenSys in 2020, though they continued to use it).
The Currency (JPM Coin): In 2019, the bank made history again by launching JPM Coin, becoming the first major global bank to create its own digital token for real-world commercial use. The token is used to facilitate instant, cross-border payments and settlements between their institutional clients.
While JPMorgan was the first to successfully deploy a functioning blockchain for commercial use, it is worth noting that Citigroup was actually building and experimenting with the technology slightly earlier.
As early as 2015, Citi's innovation labs in Dublin had built three internal distributed ledgers and were testing a digital currency dubbed "CitiCoin." However, Ken Moore, the head of Citi Innovation Labs at the time, was clear that no real money was passing through the system and it was strictly a pre-production experiment. Citi ultimately abandoned the CitiCoin project to focus on other infrastructure improvements, leaving JPMorgan to cross the finish line first with a commercially viable product.
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