Month: September 2021

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Kava Swap Lists on AscendEX

Singapore, Aug. 31, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — AscendEX, a global digital asset trading platform with a comprehensive product suite, is thrilled to announce the listing of the Kava Swap token (SWP) under the pair USDT/SWP on September 1st at 1 p.m. UTC.

Kava is focused on democratizing financial services and making them openly accessible to anyone, anywhere in the world.  Kava Chain is a decentralized, permissionless, censorship-resistant blockchain built with the Cosmos SDK. This means it operates much like other Cosmos ecosystem blockchains, and is designed to be interoperable with other chains.

Kava.io is the first cross-chain Decentralized Finance (DeFi) hub providing applications and services to the world’s largest cryptocurrencies. Kava’s platform operates as a decentralized bank for digital assets connecting users with products like stablecoins, loans, and interest-bearing accounts so that they can do more and earn more with their digital assets. For example, sers can deposit their digital assets and use them as collateral to borrow Kava’s crypto-backed stablecoin, USDX. The native swap token (SWP), launching Monday Aug. 30, allows users to swap and engage with multiple assets across different chains.

Kava Swap is a cross-chain liquidity hub for all DeFi apps and financial services. Its purpose is to enable the aggregation of capital where it can then be deployed seamlessly across different blockchain ecosystems, DeFi apps, and financial services. At its core, Kava Swap is a cross-chain Autonomous Market Making (AMM) Protocol that leverages the Kava platform’s DeFi infrastructure, cross-chain bridges, and security. Kava Swap delivers users a seamless way to swap between assets of different blockchains and deploy their capital into market-making pools where they can earn handsome returns.

The Kava Protocol is the set of rules and behaviors built into the Kava Chain that enables advanced DeFi functionality like permissionless borrowing and lending. Like most Cosmos ecosystem blockchains, the automated transaction behaviors known as “Smart Contracts” are hardcoded into the protocol. They are referred to as “modules” in the Cosmos Ecosystem. The Kava App uses a special kind of module called a CDP. Hard Protocol is an application that runs on Kava Chain. It does not have its own blockchain. It builds upon the Kava Protocol and adds new functionality, expanding the Kava Ecosystem to include an autonomous money market protocol.

The HARD token is a unique token on the Kava Chain. It is given as a reward for supplying and borrowing on the Hard app. KAVA, the native token of the KAVA protocol, is used as a Proof of Stake (POS) staking asset, which ensures the finality and safety of loans on the protocol and also acts as the ‘lender of last resort’ in certain situations. The Kava Chain is secured by its native token KAVA and it is used across the full chain as a transport and a store of value. It is given as a reward for minting USDX on the Kava app. USDX is a stable coin loosely pegged to the US Dollar. It is minted when a Kava CDP is opened. KAVA, SWP, and HARD are all governance tokens, meaning holders can vote on the rules and proposed new features of the protocols.

About AscendEX 

AscendEX is a global cryptocurrency financial platform with a comprehensive product suite including spot, margin, and futures trading, wallet services, and staking support for over 150 blockchain projects such as bitcoin, ether, and ripple. Launched in 2018, AscendEX services over 1 million retail and institutional clients globally with a highly liquid trading platform and secure custody solutions. AscendEX has emerged as a leading platform by ROI on its “initial exchange offerings” by supporting some of the industry’s most innovative projects from the DeFi ecosystem such as Thorchain, xDai Stake, and Serum. AscendEX users receive exclusive access to token airdrops and the ability to purchase tokens at the earliest possible stage. To learn more about how AscendEX is leveraging best practices from both Wall Street and the cryptocurrency ecosystem to bring the best altcoins to its users, please visit www.AscendEX.com.

For more information and updates, please visit:

Website: https://ascendex.com

Twitter: https://twitter.com/AscendEX_Global

Telegram: https://t.me/AscendEXEnglish

Medium: https://medium.com/ascendex

About Kava Swap

Kava Labs is focused on democratizing financial services and making them openly accessible to anyone, anywhere in the world. Kava is the first cross-chain Decentralized Finance (DeFi) hub providing applications and services to the world’s largest cryptocurrencies. Kava’s platform operates as a decentralized bank for digital assets connecting users with products like stablecoins, loans, and interest-bearing accounts so that they can do more and earn more with their digital assets.

For more information and updates, please visit:

Website: https://www.kava.io/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/Kava_Swap

Telegram: https://t.me/KavaSwap

Medium: https://medium.com/kava-labs


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VoltDB lance la réplication croisée de centres de données sans perte Active(N)

Une capacité brevetée permet à la plate-forme de données VoltDB de répliquer les données dans plus de trois centres de données à la fois tout en atténuant les conflits de données

BEDFORD, Massachussets, 31 août 2021/PRNewswire/ — En réponse directe aux besoins de ses principaux clients, travaillant avec certains des plus grands opérateurs télécoms du marché, VoltDB, la principale plate-forme de données de niveau entreprise construite pour permettre une prise de décision rapide en matière de données, a annoncé aujourd’hui l’introduction de sa réplication croisée de centres de données (XDCR) Active(N)tm Loseless. Active(N) Lossless XDCR donnera aux opérateurs de télécommunications et aux entreprises qui cherchent à mettre en place des cas d’utilisation de la 5G un avantage considérable en augmentant la résilience de leurs réseaux contre les pannes et les risques de sécurité, ainsi qu’en ajoutant une protection supplémentaire contre la perte de données.

Active(N) Lossless XDCR réplique les données en temps réel dans quatre centres de données ou plus à la fois, ce qui permet d’obtenir une disponibilité « cinq neuf » (c’est-à-dire 99,999 %), qui devient rapidement indispensable à l’ère de la 5G.

« Nous venons d’élever la barre en matière de cohérence, de résilience et d’évolutivité des données », déclare Dheeraj Remella, directeur des produits chez VoltDB. « Nous pouvons maintenant offrir un niveau de réplication de centre de données qu’aucune autre plate-forme de données ne peut offrir, et cela permet vraiment aux entreprises d’avoir une disponibilité et une résilience infaillibles intégrées à leur architecture afin qu’elles puissent augmenter considérablement leur succès dans la monétisation de la 5G. »

La promesse de latence ultra-faible de la 5G crée de nouveaux cas d’utilisation qui obligent les données à être à la fois immédiatement disponibles et cohérentes, quelle que soit la localisation de l’utilisateur. Ce nouveau paradigme conduit inévitablement à des conflits de données. La solution XDCR unique de VoltDB offrira aux opérateurs de télécommunications et aux entreprises la possibilité unique de résoudre les conflits à la fois au niveau de l’application et de la base de données, afin de maintenir la résilience et la cohérence des données, même à des latences inférieures à 10 millisecondes et quel que soit l’endroit où les données sont stockées, dans un seul ou plusieurs centres de données

« N’importe qui peut effectuer des transactions rapidement », a déclaré Remella. « Nous donnons à nos clients les moyens de les faire rapidement tout en observant puis en corrigeant les inévitables conflits qui surviennent lorsque le même enregistrement est modifié dans plusieurs centres de données en même temps. Cela place les opérateurs de télécommunications et les entreprises qui utilisent VoltDB dans une position unique pour fournir une protection sans précédent contre les défaillances des centres de données et les cyber-attaques, tout en fournissant un accès aux données incroyablement rapide pour leurs applications distribuées dans le monde entier, y compris les applications critiques. »

Avec Active(N) Lossless XDCR, VoltDB enrichit sa plate-forme de données de niveau entreprise avec une fonctionnalité sans précédent pour aider les clients à se différencier dans la feuille de route vers l’automatisation et la transformation numérique et à construire des réseaux robustes qui permettent un déploiement et une monétisation plus rapides des cas d’utilisation de la 5G.

Pour plus d’informations sur VoltDB, rendez-vous sur le site www.voltdb.com/why-voltdb/activen-xdcr/ .

À propos de VoltDB
VoltDB permet aux applications d’entreprise d’ingérer, de traiter et d’agir sur les données en quelques millisecondes pour exploiter de nouvelles sources de revenus et prévenir les pertes de revenus. Possédant d’importants clients dans les télécommunications, la finance, les jeux et bien d’autres secteurs verticaux, la plate-forme de données VoltDB est idéalement positionnée pour être la technologie de référence de toute entreprise cherchant à tirer pleinement parti de la 5G, de l’IoT et de tout ce qui suivra.

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UNDRR welcomes WMO Atlas of Mortality and Economic Losses

STATEMENT BY MAMI MIZUTORI, SECRETARY-GENERAL SPECIAL REPRESENTATIVE FOR DISASTER RISK REDUCTION AT LAUNCH OF WMO ATLAS OF MORTALITY AND ECONOMIC LOSSES FROM WEATHER, CLIMATE AND WATER EXTREMES

I would like to applaud my WMO colleagues under the leadership of Secretary-General Professor Petteri Taalas for producing this timely review of mortality linked to extreme weather events over the last 50 years.

More lives are being saved thanks to early warning systems. We see evidence of this right across the world from the Gulf of Mexico to the Bay of Bengal. Thanks to advances in meteorology, satellite imagery and stronger risk governance, disasters that in the past, would have taken thousands of lives no longer do so.

However, it is also true that the numbers of people affected by disasters is increasing due to population growth in hazard-exposed areas and the growing intensity and frequency of extreme weather events.

July was the hottest month since records began. There are more greenhouse gases in the atmosphere than ever before. The climate emergency is manifesting itself in many unprecedented events around the globe which threaten human health and safety and erode our quality of life.

Last year 31 million people were displaced by disasters. Pre-COVID an estimated 26 million people were pushed into poverty every year by disasters. The pandemic combined with extreme weather events including drought is having devastating effects on global hunger and poverty. 2.3 billion people lacked adequate year-round access to food in 2020.

The overlap of the COVID-19 pandemic with extreme weather events during the last 18 months, demonstrates the need for greater investment in disaster risk reduction and a multi-hazard approach to disaster risk management.

In recent days, we have had a vivid example of the benefits of investing in disaster risk reduction.

On the anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, the city of New Orleans and much of Louisiana faced its greatest challenge when Category 4, Hurricane Ida, made landfall.

The difference this time was that over the last 16 years the city embarked on one of the largest public-works projects in the world.

After Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans in 2005, the city designed a new Hurricane and Storm Damage Risk Reduction System which required an investment of $14.5 billion in gates, flood walls and levees that would protect it against another once-in-a-century storm.

One dreads to think of the loss of life and destruction of critical infrastructure that would have ensued in recent days if this system had not been completed three years ago.

Of course, great economic loss and damage to public utilities has resulted from this hurricane but the essential lesson is that the investment in disaster resilient infrastructure has mean that major loss of life has been averted and the extent of economic losses has been mitigated considerably.

I have no doubt that New Orleans and the State of Louisiana will process the learning from this latest disaster and build back better to be even more resilient in the face of the next major hurricane.

Developing countries are not so fortunate when it comes to the resources available to them for investment in disaster resilient infrastructure and multi-hazard warning systems which, together, can both save lives and reduce disruption to everyday life including access to work, schools and health services.

As the Atlas highlights only half of the 193 WMO members have multi-hazard early warning systems and there are severe gaps in weather and hydrological observing networks in Africa, parts of Latin America and in Pacific and Caribbean island states.

Disasters impact developing countries disproportionately resulting in higher loss of life, and greater numbers of people injured, and left displaced and homeless. Their economic losses are also higher as a percentage of GDP.

Many of them struggle to find the resources to implement their national strategies for disaster risk reduction which are a key element of the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction, the global plan to reduce disaster losses agreed by UN Member States,

There is no vaccine against poverty. International cooperation to developing countries is essential if many of them are to survive the climate emergency and adapt to the challenges of a warming world which they have done little to create.

The G20 countries must step up to the plate, not only to deliver on their promises to reduce greenhouse gas emissions but to provide financial, technological and capacity building support to developing countries that are struggling to cope with rising sea levels, warming seas, erratic rainfall and the constant threat of extreme weather events.

International cooperation for developing countries will be the theme of this year’s International Day for Disaster Risk Reduction on 13 October. It will be an opportunity to turn the spotlight on the need to strengthen disaster risk governance in developing countries and increase the availability of multi-hazard early warning systems and public access to disaster risk information. For more information on the WMO Atlas visit https://bit.ly/3BsCH8c

Source: UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction

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IOM COVID-19 Impact On Points Of Entry Bi-Weekly Analysis (1 September 2021)

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

The current COVID-19 pandemic has affected global mobility both in terms of international mobility restrictions and restrictive measures on internal movement. To better understand how COVID-19 affects global mobility, IOM has developed a global mobility database to gather, map and track data on these restrictive measures impacting movement. The information in this report relies on a compilation of inputs from multiple sources, including from IOM staff in the field, DTM reports on flow monitoring and mobility tracking.

Points of Entry (PoEs):

• As of 26 August 2021, a total of 4,427 PoEs were assessed in 183 C/T/As: 1,103 (25%) airports, 2,596 (59%) land border crossing points and 728 (16%) blue border crossing points.

• Overall, 12 per cent of the assessed PoEs were fully closed (a 2 p.p. decrease compared to the previous reporting period), 29 per cent partially operational (a 3 p.p. increase compared to the previous report) and 52 per cent fully operational (no change compared to the previous reporting period), however the operational status of PoEs varied across IOM Regions and PoE types:

• The IOM Region with the highest share of fully closed PoEs was West and Central Africa (21%, i.e. a 18 p.p. decrease compared to the previous reporting period), followed by South-Eastern Europe, Eastern Europe and Central Asia (18%, i.e. no change compared to the previous reporting period);

• The European Economic Area remained the IOM Region with the highest percentage of fully operational PoEs (84%, no change compared to the previous reporting period), followed by East and Horn of Africa (71%, no change compared to the previous reporting period), Middle East and North Africa (62%; i.e. a 5 p.p. increase compared to the previous report), and South-Eastern Europe, Eastern Europe and Central Asia (54%, a 4 p.p. decrease on a fortnightly basis);

• About 14 per cent of the assessed land border crossing points, globally, were fully closed. For airports and blue border crossing points this was reported as 10 and 5 per cent, respectively, with consistent decreases recorded for land and blue border crossing points compared to the previous reporting period;

• The share of fully operational locations decreased for airports (67%, a 5 p.p. decrease compared to the previous reporting period), while it increased for land border crossings points (45%, i.e. a 2 p.p. increase compared to the previous reporting period) and remained stable for blue border crossing points (54%, i.e. no change compared to the previous reporting period).

Source: International Organization for Migration

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UN Study: Weather Disasters Increased Fivefold in Last 50 Years

A new report released Wednesday by the United Nations indicates extreme weather events have increased fivefold over the past 50 years, while the number of fatalities related to those events has dropped.

Officials from the U.N.’s weather and climate agency, the World Meteorological Organization, introduced the report during a briefing from the agency’s headquarters in Geneva. The report shows weather-related disasters have occurred on average at a rate of one per day over the past five decades, killing 115 people and causing $202 million in losses daily.

Mami Mizutori, U.N. special representative for disaster risk reduction, told reporters she found the report “quite alarming.” She noted that this past July was the hottest July on record, marked by heat waves and floods around the world. The study shows that more people are suffering due to this increased frequency and intensity of weather events.

Mizutori said 31 million people were displaced by natural disasters last year, almost surpassing the number displaced by conflicts. She said on average, 26 million people per year are pushed into poverty by extreme weather events. Now, the COVID-19 pandemic is compounding the problem.

The U.N. disaster risk specialist said, “We live in this, what we call, the multihazard world, and it demonstrates that we really need to invest more in disaster risk reduction and prevention.”

WMO Secretary-General Petteri Taalas said the good news in the report is that during that same period, fatalities related to these disasters dropped by nearly three times, due to early warning systems and improved disaster management.

But the study also shows that more than 91% of the deaths that do occur happen in developing or low-income countries, as many do not have the same warning and management systems in place.

The WMO officials said the economic losses associated with these disasters will worsen without serious climate change mitigation. Taalas said if the right measures are put in place, the trend could be stopped in the next 40 years. WMO called on the G-20 group of world economic powers to keep their promise to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

Source: Voice of America