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PortuguêsOptimism has “soft launched” its solution to Ethereum’s transaction problem, the Optimistic Virtual Machine (OVM). The startup announced Friday that OVM is now live, at a time when gas fees…
Continue ReadingAn India-based startup is coming for decentralized finance (DeFi) stalwart MakerDAO’s crown with the launch of its new “valuecoin.” MahaDAO’s ARTH algorithmic stablecoin is now live on the Ethereum mainnet,…
Continue ReadingNumerous exchanges, like Bittrex, have delisted coins that have features to protect user privacy. Explanations of why they’ve done so have been vague or non-existent. It has set up clashes…
Continue ReadingThere’s a decentralized autonomous organization (DAO) that lets ETH holders back Ethereum 2.0 without losing liquidity, and it wants to give its participants a vote. Until Feb. 12, ETH holders…
Continue ReadingOriginally slated for December 1, 2020, Bitcoin Core version 0.21.0 is now available for download, and includes a handful of notable changes to Bitcoin’s primary software implementation. Most notably, Bitcoin…
Continue ReadingPrivacy coin Firo, previously known as Zcoin, has launched the new protocol Lelantus on its mainnet. The implementation introduces “on-by-default” privacy and prompts users to anonymize their funds with the…
Continue ReadingThe recent alliance of pirate academic library Sci-Hub and a blockchain-based domain name system (DNS) was celebrated by the blockchain community. Now, it’s already over. Less than two days after…
Continue ReadingPaxos is teaming up with Chainlink in a bid to make its asset-backed tokens more widely available across the decentralized finance (DeFi) market. The paxos standard (PAX) and paxos gold…
Continue ReadingIHS Markit will likely join the cryptocurrency index game, the company’s President of Financial Services Adam Kansler said during the financial information giant’s Wednesday earnings call. Kansler told analysts that…
Continue ReadingBitcoin miners representing roughly 91% of the network’s hashpower have demonstrated support for Bitcoin’s biggest upgrade in years, Taproot. These activation methods vary the length of time required and whether…
Continue ReadingInternet hosting giant Cloudflare has unveiled a new direct gateway to support the distributed web. According to a Wednesday blog post, Cloudflare will be able to connect to domains hosted…
Continue ReadingMatt Johnson, Ledger’s new Chief Information Security Officer (CISO), had no choice but to hit the ground not just running but, well, sprinting. His first week of work entailed scrutinizing…
Continue ReadingIt’s been a rough start to the week for crypto investors, although numbers are starting to point upwards once again. Eyes were anxiously set on a new all-time high for…
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Continue ReadingAfter her website faced repeated domain name revocations, Sci-Hub founder Alexandra Elbakyan has registered her website on the distributed domain names network Handshake. The pirated database of academic papers is…
Continue ReadingAragon One CEO Jorge Izquierdo has resigned, becoming the highest-profile departure from the decentralized governance project following a series of apparently controversial decisions. “After some hectic months, I took two…
Continue ReadingAragon Association, the stewards of a protocol that makes for the easy creation of decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs), has announced its acquisition of voting project Vocdoni from Estonia-based Dvote Labs…
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 ReadingDecentralized finance (DeFi), the sector of crypto that drove all the excitement this summer, isn’t quite back to its old energy, but the lull is over. “Raw DeFi numbers are…
Continue ReadingSquare Crypto’s latest grant will fund a Bitcoin developer’s work on software that could improve how mining collectives pool hash power. Pseudonymous developer Fi3 (@piccioneLibero2 on Twitter, or “free pigeon”)…
Continue ReadingWith the launch of every new blockchain comes a new block explorer website to understand. Block explorer sites offer real-time updates on network activity. Normally, they feature information on blocks,…
Continue ReadingTwelve staffers involved in the Aragon Network have announced their resignations Thursday due to an apparent lack of financial transparency. In a letter posted on GitHub and shared in the…
Continue ReadingModern cryptography is still a relatively young scientific discipline, but its history shows a significant pattern. Most developments are based on research that took place years or even decades before.…
Continue ReadingAnother crypto exchange has added support for Bitcoin’s Lightning Network. U.K.-based CoinCorner debuted Lightning Network support for its users Tuesday. They can now deposit and withdraw bitcoin with the secondary…
Continue ReadingOperating for a year now, insidious malware ElectroRAT is bringing 2020 into 2021 and targeting crypto wallets. A researcher at cybersecurity firm Intezer has identified and documented the inner workings of…
Continue ReadingBullish price activity has tipped the total value of ETH locked into Ethereum 2.0 past $2.4 billion. Find out what other network metrics have been impacted by ether’s latest price…
Continue ReadingLudwig Wittgenstein once asked a friend, “tell me, why do people say it is more natural to think that the Sun rotates around the Earth than that the earth is…
Continue ReadingToday is Bitcoin Day, the anniversary of the Genesis Block that marked the beginning of the Bitcoin blockchain in 2009. This year, with the price of bitcoin shooting for the…
Continue ReadingProof-of-stake is a method of maintaining the integrity of a cryptocurrency, preventing users from printing extra coins they didn’t earn. While a different method, called proof-of-work, is currently used by…
Continue ReadingBinance Pool, the mining pool run by one of crypto’s biggest exchanges, is prepared to support Taproot, a good omen for the next major Bitcoin upgrade. The addition of Binance…
Continue ReadingLondon-based startup CommerceBlock has revealed that they are working on a new tool for boosting Bitcoin privacy. Their new Mercury Wallet tests the new technology and, if all goes well,…
Continue ReadingIn less than 48 hours, 2020 will be behind us. It almost seems too big a task to recount all that has happened in this world, in this industry and…
Continue ReadingNew research from the cryptocurrency wallet ZenGo has shed additional light on front-running attacks happening on the Ethereum blockchain. First outlined in “Ethereum Is a Dark Forest,” DeFi investors Dan…
Continue ReadingThe year 2020, as told by the Crypto Believers, will most certainly go down in history as the year the curtain was finally pulled back. For so long we sounded…
Continue ReadingMonday’s $4 million attack on the Cover Protocol, a decentralized insurance service, sent my mind to that classic nursery rhyme, There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly. You…
Continue ReadingCover Protocol announced it’s exploring launching a new COVER token through a snapshot after its current one was abused in a minting attack by a “white hat” hacker on Monday morning. The…
Continue ReadingIn just a single year, staking has gone from an academic exercise to a dominant force in crypto. The biggest staking story of 2020 is, of course, the launch of…
Continue ReadingTurkey will begin piloting a previously undisclosed digital currency in the second half of 2021, the country’s chief central banker Naci Ağbal told members of parliament Friday. “There is an…
Continue ReadingAs soon as he learned he was among the thousands of Ledger customers whose personal information had been published online Sunday, JimboChewdip, as he’s known on Twitter, acted fast. Not…
Continue Reading‘Twas the penultimate night before Christmas, when all through the network, every machine was stirring, down to even the smallest Raspberry Pi. While businesses, the stock markets and many restaurants…
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