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PortuguêsDecentraland opened for gameplay on Thursday and anyone who thinks they might like it is better off playing now rather than later, because free stuff. For regular gamers, Decentraland may…
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Top Italian soccer team Juventus is launching digital collectibles of its star players on blockchain-enabled fantasy football platform Sorare. The freshly inked licensing deal, announced on Wednesday, will see Juventus…
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Australia‘s primary stock exchange could soon have a new blockchain-based rival. National Stock Exchange of Australia owner NSX Ltd. and financial institution iSignthis (ISX), both publicly listed companies, announced Thursday…
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A new payments system is coming to Brazil later this year promising almost instant transfers. Called PIX, the project from the country’s central bank will provide 24/7 payments in up…
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CoinDesk columnist Hasu is a pseudonymous crypto researcher publishing analysis for Deribit Insights and his personal blog. A recent TokenAnalyst report claims a single entity could be in control of…
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There’s now a case study for how DeFi can go awry. bZx, the eighth-largest decentralized finance project according to DeFi Pulse, suffered two attacks last weekend following the introduction of…
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Today we’re breaking down the flash loan attacks that rocked the DeFi community in a way even your grandpa can understand, presented in both audio and full-text format below. For…
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An old debate is resurfacing in the bitcoin developer community, underscoring one of the critical challenges facing decentralized systems: how to update the software when ostensibly no one’s in charge.…
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Samsung Electronics’ newly launched Galaxy smartphone will come with the same crypto storage facilities found on previous models. Unveiling the Samsung Galaxy S20 range recently, the Korean tech giant said…
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Are two recent attacks taking advantage of “flash loans,” low liquidity and price oracle issues the first of more to come? Part of what makes decentralized finance, or DeFi, interesting…
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Enjin has announced the launch of its game development platform on ethereum, enabling potentially millions of developers to integrate crypto assets into games and apps with no knowledge of writing…
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The Australian entrepreneur who claims to be the inventor of bitcoin has suggested he might take legal action against the cryptocurrency‘s developer team over claimed infringement of his intellectual property.…
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Viktor Bunin is a protocol specialist at Bison Trails, a company that offers one-click access to various blockchain nodes. While the number of Bison Trails users is, according to Bunin,…
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Decentralized finance (DeFi) project bZx has suffered an attack in which a hacker successfully gamed multiple DeFi protocols to extract $350,000 from the platform, about 2 percent of the assets…
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Undeterred by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)’s lawsuit against Telegram, developers and investors in the company’s blockchain project have formed a nonprofit for community governance. One of the…
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The Cardano blockchain‘s lead development firm has established a new research center at the University of Wyoming (UW), after making a $500,000 donation in the ADA cryptocurrency. IOHK announced Friday…
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IOTA Foundation, the nonprofit behind the IOTA distributed network, recommended users close their Trinity wallets Thursday after multiple reports of fund theft. IOTA said it started receiving the reports Wednesday…
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Torus, a key-management startup offering one-click logins for decentralized apps (dapps), launched out of beta Thursday, announcing eight initial hosting partners for its Web 3.0 product. Alongside Torus itself, Binance,…
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As the bitcoin community gears up for its next likely major code upgrade, students of the cryptocurrency have an opportunity to inspect the changes themselves, with help from core developers.…
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The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC) wants the financial sector to form a consortium alongside regulators to reduce risks associated with blockchain. In a white paper published Wednesday, the…
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Mastercard has joined a working group that supports blockchain education and research in universities around the world. Blockchain accelerator MouseBelt announced Tuesday it has welcomed 11 founding members into its…
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One of the world’s largest defense contractors is seeking “cryptocurrency exploiters” to support a client based in Washington, D.C. Advertised on LinkedIn, the Virginia-based arm of BAE Systems is searching…
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After posting solid gains in January, a key measure of competition among bitcoin miners has stagnated in the past two weeks as the coronavirus outbreak disrupts economic activity in China.…
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Wasabi Wallet developer nopara73 and BTCPay lead developer Nicolas Dorier faced off in a digital boxing match at bitcoin developer conference Advancing Bitcoin in London. In a video game from…
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A ConsenSys token platform launching its first token project Tuesday hopes to support ethereum projects while discouraging speculative investing and trading in their tokens. Activate – a decentralized token network…
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One of the oldest banks in Europe is developing a special-purpose euro stablecoin that can facilitate private placements in tokenized securities. Munich-based Bank von der Heydt, established in 1754, announced…
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American computer giant Dell is among 15 companies joining an IOTA working group to explore how the firm’s “Tangle” technology can be integrated into commercial solutions. IOTA and Eclipse Foundation,…
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Banking giant JPMorgan Chase may soon merge its Quorum blockchain project with ConsenSys, the ethereum-focused software developer and investor. According to a Reuters report Tuesday citing “people familiar with the…
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The token industry is applauding SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce’s “Safe Harbor” proposal, calling it a mature response to the 2017 ICO bubble. Announced the day before decentralized finance (DeFi) protocol…
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Why isn’t the average person into bitcoin? That was the question posed by Blockstream’s Selene Jin at the Advancing Bitcoin conference in London on Thursday, in a room with some…
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The parent company behind the bitcoin-based smart contract platform RSK has launched a new token bridge joining it to ethereum. Gibraltar-based developer IOV Labs announced Wednesday that the newly released…
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A new institutional settlement solution that allows clients to trade directly from their custodial accounts has completed its first transaction. Digital asset trading infrastructure provider SettleBit announced this week that…
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Ethereum’s next system-wide upgrade, Eth 2.0, won’t launch in Q2 2020 as expected, but researchers remain confident the initial network parameters will deploy in 2020. Anything less would be considered…
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Blockstack is giving its long-term holders a new way to earn bitcoin. Announced Thursday, the decentralized-web startup is rolling out a consensus mechanism that essentially presents a fresh use case…
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Pseudonymous researcher Hasu has discovered a new twist on a well-known potential attack on the bitcoin network.co The researcher posted a description of the attack, which he named “Purge” after…
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Zoom might not be a decentralized app but as the go-to video conferencing tool for crypto project communications, it is seen by many as an important enabler of the industry’s…
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Telegram, the messaging app company currently facing a legal fight with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission over its $1.7 billion token sale, revealed more details about the technical specifications…
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In a chat on the Davos Promenade during last month’s World Economic Forum, Dante A. Disparte, vice chair of the Libra Association, made the case for the consortium-managed cryptocurrency project.…
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Arwen, a non-custodial settlement protocol developer, has raised $3.3 million in a funding round including Meltem Demirors at CoinShares and Jill Carlson at Slow Ventures. According to Arwen CEO and…
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The Iowa caucuses were thrown into disarray as reports surfaced that a secretive app used to tabulate the results and report them to Democratic Party officials was reporting only part…
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