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PortuguêsArtificial intelligence and data service Ocean Protocol has suspended its old contract on the Ethereum blockchain and hard-forked its project, following the $150 million KuCoin hack. On Sunday at 22:00…
Continue ReadingWhy is the marriage of non-fungible tokens (NFTs) and decentralized finance (DeFi) happening now? It’s debatable but you can make an argument that it comes back to DeFi’s favorite robo-advisor…
Continue ReadingOn this Speaking of Bitcoin episode, join hosts Adam B. Levine, Andreas M. Antonopoulos, Stephanie Murphy & Jonathan Mohan for an in-depth discussion about what’s really at risk when blockchains suffer the…
Continue ReadingWith final preparations for the launch of Ethereum 2.0 soon to be underway, CoinDesk’s Christine Kim spoke with developers Raul Jordan and Eduardo Antuña Díez about what’s left to do…
Continue ReadingThe Bahamas confirmed it will cross the central bank digital currency (CBDC) finish line next month. “The intended outcome of Project Sand Dollar is that all residents in The Bahamas…
Continue ReadingBASED has a new method for aligning decentralized finance (DeFi) projects with each other. At its core is a smart contract called Moonbase, CoinDesk has learned. Based.Money is a project…
Continue ReadingThe first time he was SIM-swapped in 2018, Haseeb Awan took it on the chin and hoped it wouldn’t happen again. Then came the second incident. Then the third. Then…
Continue ReadingPrivacy tech company Aleo has launched a data privacy-oriented blockchain and developer kit to make writing zero-knowledge proofs in web applications easy and scalable. The startup is releasing its first…
Continue ReadingMedia on the incumbent web is in crisis. It turns out that paying publishers for clicks, endless loops of “content” and ads, all served on platforms far beyond their maximum-viable…
Continue ReadingOn Thursday, ConsenSys-incubated startup Liquality released a new wallet that lets you atomically swap digital assets directly from your browser. The Liquality Atomic Swap Wallet can act as a trustless…
Continue ReadingMakerDAO will not compensate victims of March 12’s “Black Thursday” flash crash that left some of the decentralized finance (DeFi) platform’s investors out $8.33 million, according to a vote that…
Continue ReadingThe Takeaway: For this year’s Blockchain Commons internship, Christopher Allen had an uncommon “problem”: too many quality applications to turn down. Instead, he expanded the program to accommodate 7 interns…
Continue ReadingParity Technologies has released the second version of its blockchain building kit, Substrate 2.0, according to a blog post shared Wednesday with CoinDesk. The new release gives developers additional tools…
Continue ReadingIceland may be the first nation to get its own cryptocurrency, but if Payu Harris has his way, it won’t be the last. This week, he hopes to mine the…
Continue ReadingUPDATE (27th March 22:40 GMT): More information, and coins. This year has seen a new, if predictable, trend in altcoin development: nation-based digital currencies. There are at least eight coins…
Continue ReadingSucceeding in the cryptocurrency mining industry over the long term may require thinking outside of the box. It takes creativity to rise above the rest and survive in such a…
Continue ReadingTo the surprise of many, bitcoin (BTC) has been a breakout star in Ethereum’s decentralized finance (DeFi) moment. Taking the form of wrapped or tokenized bitcoin, the digital asset takes…
Continue ReadingA decentralized way to copy bitcoin (BTC) over to Ethereum is relaunching today after a smart-contract bug sunk the project in May. Called tBTC, the Thesis-built protocol was first announced…
Continue ReadingBRD team is spearheading a new initiative: Blockset, a business-to-business blockchain technology stack with a bent towards compliance, surveillance and security for cryptocurrency companies and government agencies. After its 2014…
Continue ReadingDouglas Rushkoff is a futurist, author, early cypherpunk and professor of media studies at Queens College. His early writings on the internet paved the way for thinking about the web…
Continue ReadingThe leader in blockchain news, CoinDesk is a media outlet that strives for the highest journalistic standards and abides by a strict set of editorial policies. CoinDesk is an independent…
Continue ReadingThe enthusiasm for decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs) continues to gain momentum as the crypto industry recognizes that monetary systems need governance; yet the gap between promise and implementation is demonstrated…
Continue ReadingWith Ethereum 2.0’s much-anticipated move to Proof-of-Stake getting closer, CoinDesk Research Analyst Christine Kim spoke with Ethereum developer Danny Ryan and Liz Steininger, CEO of blockchain security company Least Authority…
Continue ReadingDeFi is short for “decentralized finance,” an umbrella term for a variety of financial applications in cryptocurrency or blockchain geared toward disrupting financial intermediaries. DeFi draws inspiration from blockchain, the…
Continue ReadingThe leader in blockchain news, CoinDesk is a media outlet that strives for the highest journalistic standards and abides by a strict set of editorial policies. CoinDesk is an independent…
Continue ReadingWhen Satoshi Nakamoto invented Bitcoin in 2009, we began to envision decentralized finance as an alternative to traditional banking. A little more than a decade later, we are starting to…
Continue ReadingWhile so-called “DeFi degens” are busy bidding up the price of food-themed tokens, on the other end of crypto’s DeFi spectrum two teams working on the most popular implementations of…
Continue ReadingThe leader in blockchain news, CoinDesk is a media outlet that strives for the highest journalistic standards and abides by a strict set of editorial policies. CoinDesk is an independent…
Continue ReadingThe two Russians who were sanctioned earlier this week by the U.S. Treasury Department on accusations of being crypto thieves allegedly got their millions through market manipulation and phishing. Prosecutors…
Continue ReadingThis isn’t the CryptoKitties craze of 2017. “The situation is different now,” Stefan George of Gnosis told CoinDesk. Lots of dapps are clawing for Ethereum’s compute power. If activity calms…
Continue ReadingThe current blockchain world is so full of crazy ups and downs, it’s easy to become so focused on the short term that one loses track of the big picture.…
Continue ReadingBloomberg News reporter Mathew Leising’s new book “Out of the Ether: The Amazing Story of Ethereum and the $55 Million Heist That Almost Destroyed It All” tells the story of…
Continue ReadingThe number of pending transactions on Ethereum per minute has jumped 30% after the claim for Uniswap’s UNI token begins. The decentralized trading platform announced around 00:30 UTC time Thursday…
Continue ReadingU.S. prosecutors charged three Chinese nationals with allegedly mounting a global hacking campaign to steal sensitive corporate data from over 100 companies and installing a mass network of crypto-mining malware.…
Continue Reading“Republican_win”; “Democratic_win.” These are the parameters (and call functions) for the first smart contract escrowed bet placed on Bitcoin’s mainnet. On Sept. 8, BTCPay Server founder Nicolas Dorier and Suredbits…
Continue ReadingThe Takeaway Political and social upheaval around the world can lead to internet censorship and interference by powerful actors. The Open Observatory of Network Interference (OONI) is allowing people around…
Continue ReadingFilecoin might be the most complex thing the blockchain industry has ever brought to market. The Web 3.0 data-storage project, funded by a $257 million initial coin offering that closed…
Continue ReadingThe Takeaway Under development by the LNP/BP Standards Association, the RGB protocol entered beta in June. The second layer network promises to bring smart contracts and tokenized assets to Bitcoin…
Continue ReadingPaul Brody is a Principal and Global Blockchain Leader at EY. Oracles, an often overlooked feature of blockchain technology, are having a moment. In ancient times, oracles were people or…
Continue ReadingIt seems there is a lot of turmoil happening in the world, as the year 2020 keeps giving and giving. From natural disasters, a global pandemic, and race wars and…
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