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Orbs expanded its network through the addition of the Harmony Network.
The partnership brings another link in the web of Ethereum L2 chains.
Harmony gathered a $300M fund to help promote building across its network.
Orbs is scaling fast. It seems almost weekly that this evolving ecosystem has forged a new partnership in the pursuit of cross-chain harmony. And true to that, they have now integrated with a protocol called Harmony, an open platform for assets, collectibles, identity and governance.

In fact, Harmony, which is a rather unique protocol, already offers cross-chain asset transfers across the leading Layer 1 chains, like Ethereum and Binance. The partnership with Orbs brings another link in the web of Ethereum Layer 2 chains, which supports its ecosystem.

In addition to this, Orbs is already live across the leading Layer 1 chains, including Ethereum BSC, Polygon, Solana, with Avalanche and an integration of Orbs into a host of other protocols, such ...

Trading app Robinhood (NASDAQ:HOOD) has announced that its users will be able to gift friends and family crypto over the holiday season.

In a Thursday announcement, Robinhood said its users — with the exception of those in Hawaii and Nevada — could send as little as $1 in Bitcoin (BTC) or six other cryptocurrencies with a personalized digital card starting on Dec. 22. To ensure the crypto is not lost by a recipient unwilling or unable to use it, the trading app has set up a 14-day window to accept the gift, at which point the user will not be charged.

Gifting crypto through Robinhood. Source: Robinhood

Wallets that take out some of the steps in exchanging assets can help investors act on market opportunities quickly.

Freewallet offers a family of mobile-first cryptocurrency wallets with built-in functionality for buying and exchanging cryptocurrency assets. Freewallet launched its first offering back in 2016 at the beginning of the cryptocurrency boom. Following this period of growth, the platform has now reported over 3 million users