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Solana creator Anatoly Yakovenko says the company has only sold a tenth of the Saga phones it needs to sell to decide whether or not it has a core user base. Speaking to Unchained, Yakovenko confirmed that the company has sold somewhere in the region of 2,500 phones but needs to shift between 25,000 and 50,000 before developers start to come on board and create applications for the handset. According to Yakovenko, there are internal discussions happening within the company to decide the best course of action but he hinted that the phone ’s future may be as a much cheaper secondary device for iPhone users looking for a smart wallet. Yakovenko himself says he uses an iPhone for work and his Saga phone as his “NFT phone .” The Solana chief also hinted that the changing tech landscape will have an influence on the phone ’s future — if it has one. “What’s also changed over the last year and a half is that mobile interfaces like progressive web apps and passkeys, have really s...

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The South Korean yield platform said it has filed a criminal complaint against B&S Holdings and plans to initiate civil proceedings as well. B&S Holdings, formerly known as Aventus, a consignment operator , has been alleged by South Korean yield platform Haru Invest of submitting fraudulent management reports containing “false information” and deceiving the company and its users. Notice to Investors (June 14, 2023): https://t.co/RN01gswTfq pic.twitter.com/IbYb9dA3oP — Haru Invest (@haruinvest) June 14, 2023 In a blog post, Haru Invest shared that it was planning to pursue legal action on top of criminal proceedings against B&S Holdings “to protect our users." Haru Invest said it is engaged in discussions with B&S Holdings regarding the matter. The company concluded its announcement with an apology, stating: “Once again, we apologize for causing concerns and inconveniences to our investors and customers. We will continue to work on the issue in a faithful mann...

The Solana Foundation has launched a real-time carbon emissions tracker to monitor the Solana blockchain. The Solana Foundation, in collaboration with Data platform Try carbon ara, announced the launch of a real-time tracking dashboard to measure carbon emissions on the Solana block chain .  1/ Today, the Solana Foundation is leading the charge in the climate fight by making Solana one of the first blockchains to have its emissions measured in real time, thanks to a new data portal created with TryCarbonara. Learn more: https://t.co/k4QsZmtjHn pic.twitter.com/gqPwpKtv3u — Solana (@solana) April 21, 2023 According to a blog post from the foundation, this represents the first “major smart-contract blockchain” to measure carbon emissions in real-time. The organization hopes this will spur a trend towards carbon emissions transparency in the blockchain ecosystem: “The Solana Foundation hopes to set a new standard for measuring emissions in blockchain by publishing this data.” The n...

Observers can learn a few things from the failed effort by IBM and Moller-Maersk to develop TradeLens, a blockchain-enabled global trading platform. Blockchain projects continue to experience failure rates in excess of 90%, and it seems that with every passing moment, more and more “successful” companies add their underperforming blockchain project to the graveyard. One of the most recent blockchain failure victims was Moller-Maersk, which recently announced the termination of its highly publicized TradeLens offering — a global trade platform built on IBM blockchain technology.  These failures, however, were totally predictable and, in many cases, would be avoidable if companies more closely observed certain lessons in innovation diffusion. Lesson 1: Innovation is not monolithic. One of the biggest mistakes companies make is to treat innovation as a monolithic concept. Innovation is anything but monolithic. Unfortunately, business associations, business press and business schools ...