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South Korea’s Central Bank to Test Digital Currency With Banks in 2021
7.10.2020
Following China's lead, the Bank of Korea is to run circulation trials of a central bank digital currency with assistance from banks
Amid US-China Tech War, Can Neo’s DeFi Stack Rival Ethereum’s?
7.10.2020
Neo revealed its ambition to beat the second largest blockchain by market cap during a time when Chinese firms such as TikTok and Huawei successfully established their dominance in an international market
US is losing 'tech cold war with China' says Ripple co-founder
7.10.2020
Ripple’s executive chairman has slammed U.S. lawmakers for losing the blockchain arms race to China
China Central Bank Official Reveals Results of First Digital Yuan Pilots
7.10.2020
An official for China’s central bank has unveiled usage statistics of state-backed digital currency trials that were conducted in three Chinese cities. Speaking virtually at the Sibos 2020 conference on Monday, Fan Yifei, deputy governor of the People’s Bank of China, said the bank opened 113,300...
The Top Universities for Blockchain
6.10.2020
CoinDesk's 2020 blockchain university rankings are the most nuanced, rigorous, and defensible rankings of their kind. See the winners here
How the Decentralized Web Transfers Wealth From Corporations to People
6.10.2020
Companies today control our domain names, the content we host and our access to the internet. By 2030, that will change
This Self-Sovereign ‘DocuSign’ Uses Bitcoin for Digital Proofs
6.10.2020
Woleet provides a digital ID software suite which allows its clients to authenticate documents and signatures using Bitcoin’s blockchain
MetaMask Gets Into the Decentralized Exchange Aggregation Business With Token Swaps
6.10.2020
MetaMask announced a new feature Tuesday: token swaps directly within the popular Ethereum browser extension and mobile application
Downvoted: Security Researchers Slam Voatz Over Stance on White-Hat Hackers
6.10.2020
A broad ruling on the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act could “chill” security research by white-hat hackers, making tech less secure
CBDC Design Needs to Address Risk to Users, Says Bank of Canada
6.10.2020
Building an anonymous central bank digital currency (CBDC) presents security risks – not only to the issuer but to the users themselves, says the Bank of Canada
Guggenheim, MoMA-Collected Artist to Release Digital Artwork on the Blockchain
6.10.2020
A prominent Taiwanese-American multimedia artist considered a pioneer of internet-based art is releasing her work on blockchain-based platform MakersPlace
Three Mega-Trends Shaping the Future of Money
5.10.2020
How three forces driving digital forms of money will upend markets, geopolitics and society over the next decade
Estonia’s Central Bank to Research if Blockchain Can Support a Digital Euro
5.10.2020
Eesti Pank said the initiative will gauge the suitability of the KSI Blockchain, already used within the country's e-government system, in supporting a central bank digital currency
The Web Wasn’t Built For Privacy – But It Could Be
4.10.2020
Because privacy means different things to different people, a privacy-focused internet is unlikely to please everyone. But it should offer greater personal control
SEC Is Willing to ‘Try’ a Tokenized ETF, Chairman Says: Report
3.10.2020
SEC Chairman Jay Clayton expressed an openness to a tokenized exchange-traded fund
The Digital Archipelago: How to Build an Internet Where Communities Thrive
3.10.2020
Technology exists to serve people. Today, the situation is nearly reversed. Each of us is just propping up an engagement graph somewhere
Belarus News Media Are Testing Decentralized Tech to Resist Censorship
2.10.2020
Belarus media are testing NewNode, a decentralized tech helping resist the government censorship
What to Watch at ETHOnline, This Year’s Devcon
2.10.2020
Ethereum’s annual developer conference, ETHOnline, kicks off Friday afternoon, standing in for the regular Devcon in-person event
Ripple Wins US Patent for New Oracle-Based Smart Contract Design
2.10.2020
Ripple's patented design would allow derivatives to settle based on external information – such as temperature data
Venezuela Rolls Out Ethereum-Based Stock Exchange to Help Skirt US Sanctions
2.10.2020
The blockchain-based exchange comes as part of new measures announced by President Nicolas Maduro in a big to sidestep tough U.S. sanctions