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PortuguêsWith a forthcoming product that may entice more decentralized finance (DeFi) players to incorporate bitcoin-backed tokens, Thesis has closed a $7.7 million deal by selling its Keep tokens to some…
Continue ReadingOne of the first companies to host a token sale, Factom, has notified creditors it has entered receivership after an appeal for additional funding fell on deaf ears. “[FastForward] has…
Continue ReadingCoinbase is putting its digital dollars where the traction is. Announced Wednesday, Coinbase has deposited $1.1 million in USDC stablecoins into the pools powering two of the most popular decentralized…
Continue ReadingIt’s now easier than ever to use bitcoin to support regular businesses beyond the crypto bubble. Zap founder Jack Mallers, best known for Lightning-friendly bitcoin services, just launched a desktop…
Continue ReadingThe company behind derivatives exchange BitMEX is increasing the grant it pays to one of the developers responsible for keeping the Bitcoin Core protocol up and running. HDR Global Trading…
Continue ReadingAn icy mountain in Norway’s Svalbard – an all but inhabitable, Arctic archipelago covered in glaciers and inhabited by polar bears – is an unlikely safe haven for cryptocurrency code,…
Continue ReadingAs economists scramble to assess the devastating impact of the coronavirus, they’re homing in on an unexpected hero that’s mitigating the damage in the U.S.: remote working. With offices across…
Continue ReadingAnother blockchain project is heading to the Polkadot Network. Launched in 2019, Internet-of-Things (IoT) platform Nodle announced it is switching from the Stellar blockchain to Parity Technologies’ Substrate network, according…
Continue ReadingAlthough China remains, by far, the leading region for bitcoin mining, the coronavirus downturn is changing the picture in other geographies. According to Thomas Heller, business director of one of…
Continue ReadingA crypto derivatives exchange has received a clean bill of health from the same software tester that vets the trading and settlement systems used by the London Stock Exchange (LSE).…
Continue ReadingOpera’s Android browser – the “blockchain-ready” web surfing app – added support on Monday for Unstoppable Domains’ decentralized .crypto websites. The partnership grants Unstoppable Domains’ 200,000 registered .crypto domains an…
Continue ReadingLending platform Celsius Network has teamed up with an oracle provider to make the price feeds it uses to calculate crypto asset interest rates less centralized. Announced Monday, Celsius has…
Continue ReadingMicrosoft has proposed a system that can mine cryptocurrencies using data collected from humans as they exercise or read an advertisement. In a patent application filed with the World Intellectual…
Continue ReadingThe Breitling Top Time, pictured above, was a hand-wound chronograph from the 1960s popular with the Jet Set of the era. James Bond wore it in “Thunderball,” although his featured…
Continue ReadingIt’s been a week since the community that drove the Steem blockchain largely broke off to form Hive, and the market action so far has been on the side of…
Continue ReadingBig names including IBM, Oracle and the World Health Organization (WHO) are among the collaborators on an open-data hub that will use blockchain technology to check the veracity of data…
Continue ReadingCryptocurrency startups are reporting increased demand for estate-planning services as the coronavirus outbreak motivates users to make sure their coins are passed onto heirs when they die. Casa Hodl and…
Continue ReadingA U.S. court order may have barred Telegram from launching its blockchain, but that doesn’t mean others can’t. So says the TON Community Foundation, a group of more than two…
Continue ReadingSome crypto startups, like Solana and Dapper Labs, are eager to execute fundraising plans regardless of any coronavirus-induced downturn. Likewise, CasperLabs, the startup advised by Ethereum Foundation researcher Vlad Zamfir,…
Continue ReadingThis article is part of an ongoing series on the significance of Bitcoin‘s third halving, expected to take place around May 13, 2020. Further reading: “The halvening” sounds like a…
Continue ReadingAVA Labs, the first project building on the “Avalanche protocol” blockchain network, is looking to modernize financial infrastructure. As first envisioned in a 2018 white paper by the pseudonymous “Team…
Continue ReadingHow would a bitcoin economy react to coronavirus? For now, we don’t know. However, we can turn to a proxy for insight: gold. Bitcoin’s “digital gold” narrative has stuck well,…
Continue ReadingAs the coronavirus pandemic spreads across Asia, nations leveraged significant surveillance networks to trace the virus’s spread and forced governments around the world to weigh the trade-offs of public health…
Continue ReadingDeFi has an open security issue. A team of product designers for ZenGo, a noncustodial wallet company, found an exploit that can drain users’ funds from nearly all dapp wallets.…
Continue ReadingWhen choosing a name for your crypto project, it’s a really good idea to Google it first. The latest to have apparently fallen at that hurdle is a group of…
Continue ReadingThe Ethereum community now has a roadmap, albeit a confusing one. Dropped Wednesday, Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin’s state of the network map helps contextualize the next five to ten years…
Continue ReadingGamers who act soon could be among the first to own a very rare game asset in the Initialized Capital-backed Skyweaver – that is, if they play their digital cards…
Continue ReadingThe COVID-19 pandemic arrives as Americans’ trust in institutions is faltering. According to a January 2019 Pew Research Center survey, only 35 percent of adults have a great deal or…
Continue ReadingCoreWeave, the largest U.S. miner on the Ethereum blockchain, is redirecting the processing power of 6,000 specialized computer chips toward research to find a therapy for the coronavirus. These graphics…
Continue ReadingDecentralized storage provider Storj Labs says its blockchain-based cloud service is now available for businesses and individuals to securely store files and documents. With the formal launch announced Tuesday, users…
Continue ReadingMichael J. Casey is CoinDesk’s chief content officer. The views expressed here are his own. Due to a prior medical condition that puts me at higher risk, I made a…
Continue ReadingPayment giant PayPal is seeking a blockchain expert to help identify use cases for the tech in the prevention of financial crimes. According to a job opening posted late last…
Continue ReadingA FinCEN-registered crypto exchange has launched with its own debit card that allows holders to pay for goods and services with digital assets. Utah-based CoinZoom announced Wednesday it would begin…
Continue ReadingArgentina’s national gas regulator has given Gasnor, a natural gas distributor for two million residents, approval to pilot a smart contract-based certification platform. Gasnet, a permissioned blockchain platform from IOV…
Continue ReadingThe Chinese government is censoring criticism of its handling of the coronavirus, particularly any mention of Dr. Li Wenliang, the doctor who warned of the disease and later died of…
Continue ReadingThe blockchain for bloggers, Steem, is moving to Hive.io, CoinDesk has learned. The hostile hard fork is scheduled for Friday. “My own opinion, Justin Sun thought this was a voting…
Continue ReadingMakerDAO has added a third asset to its decentralized finance (DeFi) platform, USD Coin (USDC), in response to the system’s flagship stablecoin, dai, continuing to float above its dollar peg.…
Continue ReadingThousands of people in the United States have tested positive for COVID-19, and the death toll around the world has surpassed 6,000. Italy is under lockdown, and in New York…
Continue ReadingSo many people were trying to use the Ethereum blockchain during Thursday’s market meltdown that many applications simply stopped working as intended. The decentralized finance (DeFi) sector was hit particularly…
Continue ReadingMakerDAO’s emergency shutdown option – which was weighed by community members following the appearance of a $4 million debt bubble on the decentralized finance (DeFi) platform – will not pass…
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