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PortuguêsThe official WikiLeaks Shop, an offshoot of the non-profit infamous for leaking government secrets, now accepts bitcoin Lightning payments. All proceeds from the online store, which sells WikiLeaks T-shirts and…
Continue ReadingDirectors of Canaan Creative, a publicly listed bitcoin miner manufacturer, were suddenly dropped from the company’s business registry, prompting speculation of a power grab. Disclosure The leader in blockchain news,…
Continue ReadingKyber, a decentralized exchange (DEX), is preparing to share trading fees with KNC token holders. Launched Tuesday, KyberDAO will let users stake KNC and earn yields in more KNC, proportional…
Continue ReadingBlockchain startup Marlin has released its relay network framework OpenWeaver in an effort to speed up block propagation on the Ethereum network. Based in San Francisco, U.S. and Bangalore, India,…
Continue ReadingA Colorado company is betting it can make the decentralized web more accessible with a no-frills server you can install in your own home. Start9 Labs’ Embassy server, housed in…
Continue ReadingCopper has launched a service that allows institutional investors to create securitized tokens for a range of crypto-based products, from token trackers to complex trading strategies. Disclosure The leader in…
Continue ReadingA new decentralized finance (DeFi) “money Lego” will allow app developers to make it possible for users to automate their transactions. Called Gelato, the protocol moved from alpha to a…
Continue ReadingLevels of activity on Ethereum have peaked to their highest in two years, going by one metric. The seven-day moving average of the number of active ether addresses rose to…
Continue ReadingAs the U.S. moves to pass legislation that threatens to weaken end-to-end encryption, Unstoppable Domains is planning to give users full control over their chat data with a new decentralized…
Continue ReadingThe crackdown on alleged hate speech is intensifying as social media platforms either expand their policies or step up enforcement of their terms of service. Reddit banned over 2,000 subreddits…
Continue ReadingSavvy attackers might be able to “loot” bitcoin from others by way of the Lightning Network if users aren’t careful, a new cybersecurity report warns. The Hebrew University of Jerusalem…
Continue ReadingIt’s effectively July 2017 in the world of decentralized finance (DeFi), and as in the heady days of the initial coin offering (ICO) boom, the numbers are only trending up.…
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Continue ReadingCardano developer house IOHK has set up a $20 million “cFund” alongside Los Angeles-based Wave Financial. Edit (10:30 UTC): This article previously indicated that Wave Financial was based in Canada,…
Continue ReadingA vulnerability in a blockchain-based system used in Russia’s recent poll meant users’ votes could be decrypted, journalists found. On Wednesday, the final day of a vote on constitutional amendments,…
Continue ReadingThe latest venture from CNET founder Halsey Minor looks a lot like an attempt to recreate the legacy monetary system on a blockchain. Disclosure The leader in blockchain news, CoinDesk…
Continue ReadingA standard way to transact Bitcoin could be vulnerable to double-spending, new research has found. Blockchain sleuths at ZenGo, a wallet startup, have found a vulnerability that affected at least…
Continue ReadingCryptography firm Bolt Labs has launched a private payment solution, zkChannels, on Tezos. The startup is now working with Tezos developer groups Nomadic Labs and Metastate to implement the tech…
Continue ReadingBitcoin’s mining difficulty just posted the smallest percentage change in 10 years. The bitcoin network adjusted its difficulty level at 01:18 UTC on July 1 to 15.7842 trillion – down…
Continue ReadingThe daily distribution of the Compound protocol’s COMP token will soon change dramatically. Compound governance proposal #11 passed today at 18:37 UTC. It will go into effect in two days,…
Continue ReadingDecentralized exchanges (DEXs) are seeing more action than ever thanks to a surge in decentralized finance (DeFi) activity. The chief benefit of DEXs compared to the Coinbases of the world?…
Continue ReadingSo many users are dependent on Ethereum client Geth that a bug could temporarily freeze the network – something blockchains aren’t supposed to do, ever. In light of this, Ethereum…
Continue ReadingDecentralized cloud computing startup Dfinity has announced its “Internet Computer” is now open to third-party developers. The firm said in a press release Tuesday it’s already operating on a “network…
Continue ReadingBlockchain startup Kirobo says its technology can prevent the loss of cryptocurrency caused by human error when sending what are normally irreversible transactions between wallets. The firm’s Retrievable Transfer feature…
Continue ReadingThe Takeaway: Demand to transact on the Ethereum blockchain has pushed fees to uncomfortable levels. A new technical proposal helps address high fees by implementing a dynamic pricing system. Called…
Continue ReadingA hacker has attempted to disrupt a blockchain voting system currently being used to help decide constitutional changes in the Russian Federation. According to Russian news agency TASS, head of…
Continue ReadingFacebook, Accenture, IoTeX, Nvidia and six other companies are joining the Linux Foundation’s Confidential Computing Consortium (CCC), increasing the size of the privacy-focused group by 60 percent. The addition of…
Continue ReadingKyber Network’s next protocol upgrade, dubbed Katalyst, is expected to go live on July 7. In an emailed announcement on Monday, Kyber said the upgrade will usher in changes around…
Continue Reading“Here lies the huge irony in this discussion. Persistent pseudonyms aren’t ways to hide who you are. They provide a way to be who you are. You can finally talk…
Continue ReadingBitcoins stored on the Liquid Network were temporarily able to be seized by network moderators Thursday night. The potential vulnerability in the Bitcoin sidechain’s security parameters was discovered by Summa…
Continue ReadingThe number three decentralized finance (DeFi) application, Synthetix, is also enjoying the current boom times in bankless banking. (Warning: This post is going to go a lot of places so…
Continue ReadingNow Wasabi Wallet-maker zkSNACKs Ltd announced on Thursday it is joining the cohort by donating 1 bitcoin to the HRF’s Bitcoin Development Fund. The privacy startup released a statement, saying,…
Continue ReadingJack Dorsey, CEO of Twitter, recently re-tweeted a call for fact checking through open source tech rather than new intermediaries, like Twitter. Dorsey’s message came at the end of May,…
Continue ReadingIt’s hard to figure out what the new governance token from Compound, COMP, costs. Not its price, but its cost: How much will a user pay to earn freshly minted…
Continue ReadingTezos-based StakerDAO has distributed its Staker (STKR) tokens to equity investors, launching the “tokenized hedge fund.” STKR is priced at $13.30 a pop with a market capitalization of $20 million,…
Continue ReadingCryptocurrency exchange Kraken has donated $150,000 in bitcoin to BTCPay Foundation, the entity managing BTCPay, a popular open-source tool for merchants accepting bitcoin payments. Since BTCPay is free, it relies…
Continue ReadingAvalanche blockchain developer AVA Labs has closed a $12 million private sale of its AVAX token. The funding round was co-led by Galaxy Digital, Bitmain, Initialized Capital, NGC Ventures and…
Continue ReadingAlethea AI, a synthetic media company, is piloting “privacy-preserving face skins,” or digital masks that counter facial recognition algorithms and help users preserve privacy on pre-recorded videos. The move comes…
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