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MLB Team Washington Nationals Partners With Terra Blockchain Community, Ballpark Plans to Accept UST

On February 9, the American professional baseball team based in Washington, D.C., the Washington Nationals, announced the team has partnered with Terra, the open-source blockchain platform and decentralized autonomous organization (DAO). The Washington Nationals detail that the team is a “leading innovator” and is “consistently introducing new technologies to enhance the fan experience.” Washington Nationals Ink Long-Term Deal With Terra Major League Baseball (MLB) team the Washington Nationals has partnered with the blockchain platform and DAO Terra, according to an announcement published by the team on Wednesday. The deal with Terra follows a slew of sports-related deals with crypto firms, but the MLB team will be the first to partner with an open-source blockchain project. In addition to the partnership, the algorithmic stablecoin UST that’s issued on the Terra blockchain will be “accepted as a payment method at Nationals Park as early as next season.” “The Nationals continue t...
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New fund aims to put hundreds of millions toward Algorand DeFi growth

Different decentralized finance solutions building on the Algorand blockchain could receive a chunk of a new $300 million fund.

Decentralized finance, or DeFi, has developed significantly over the past two years. The Algorand Foundation has unveiled a new fund positioned to allocate money toward certain DeFi projects looking to build on its native blockchain. 

The pool of capital is called the Viridis DeFi fund, headed up by the Algorand Foundation — a group that responsible for the Algorand blockchain and its ecosystem development. “This fund will provide 150 Million Algo to fuel the significant early growth of the DeFi ecosystem on Algorand,” said a Friday announcement post on the Algorand Foundation’s website.

“The fund will fuel the growth of decentralized exchanges, money markets, options markets, synthetic asset applications, and NFT platforms, all running on the best blockchain network for the future of finance,” a public statement from Algorand said on Friday.

At time of publication, Algorand’s native coin (ALGO) trades at $1.96, based on CoinMarketCap data. This currently puts the value of the fund at $294 million, given the mentioned 150 million ALGO.

As the Ethereum blockchain has struggled to scale and meet DeFi usage demand, as evident in the network's high fees, other blockchains have increasingly gained traction.

Kicking off the fund, the Algorand Foundation revealed the first two Algorand DeFi building categories positioned to receive capital from the fund. Calling them “SupaGrants,” each grant holds $5 million. “We are excited to share the first two SupaGrants' which have been designed to support the creation of critical DeFi infrastructure,” the announcement post detailed. “Introducing the $5 Million Price Oracle SupaGrant and the $5 Million Bridge SupaGrant.”

Oracles in the crypto space are essentially ways to route information data to certain blockchains from sources outside those networks. Bridges help connect siloed blockchains so they can interact with each other, adding potential to possibly limited single networks. The oracle grant is open to interested applicants, while the bridge grant is still in the works.

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