Legal cannabis sales in the United States surpassed $17.5 billion in 2020, growing 45 percent over 2019’s total. Market research firm BDSA expects revenues to grow another 38 percent in […]
Advocates of a decentralized future of money based on distributed ledger technology are chasing an illusion, according to Bank of International Settlements General Manager Agustin Carstens. Their vision, which is to “democratize finance” by cutting out big banks and other middlemen, is “not what decentralized finance applications are delivering,” he said on Tuesday addressing an […]
2021 was the year that decentralized finance (DeFi) truly took the cryptocurrency industry by storm, as several new protocols and trading platforms emerged on Ethereum-like Layer 1s. Another trend that could be seen emerging within the smart contract platforms upon which these applications are built was the integration with the decentralized oracle network, Chainlink. The […]
Cross-site scripting and broken access controls continued to be the top classes of vulnerabilities researchers discovered, according to Bugcrowd's annual vulnerability report.
Basing a psychedelic mushroom’s potency on a single prodrug and its hallucinogen is marred for various reasons. Labs have a lot more work to do beyond psilocybin and psilocin as they explore vast amounts of chemical, therapeutic, and toxicological data after testing mushrooms. A previous story documented other psychedelics related to psilocin, and don’t forget […]
Sportradar (NASDAQ:SRAD) is faltering mightily today after Morgan Stanley downgraded the sports betting data provider, citing ongoing weakness for many domestic gaming equities. In a note to clients, Morgan Stanley analyst Thomas Allen downgrades Sportradar to “equal weight” from “overweight,” with a $19 price target. That implies upside of about 29 percent from the Jan. […]