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DeFi Protocol Balancer Hacked Through Exploit It Seemingly Knew About
29.6.2020
A spat between the Balancer and STA team following the $500,000 hack suggests that the DeFi protocol was aware of the weakness
Bitfinex Launches Open-Source Crypto-Powered Streaming Protocol
26.6.2020
Bitfinex has uploaded the code for a crypto-powered open-source P2P data streaming protocol to GitHub
Liquidity Mining With Compound Finance — Just a Fad, or the Latest Toolbox After IEO, ICOs?
25.6.2020
Introduction to Compound Finance What Is It? Compound Finance is an algorithmically-operated, decentralized, interest rate protocol for lending and borrowingContinue Reading
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Activists Document Police Misconduct Using Decentralized Protocol
23.6.2020
Built on the InterPlanetary File System and the Ethereum blockchain, the protocol lets anyo file police misconduct reports anonymously
In Banking First, ING Develops FATF-Friendly Protocol for Tracking Crypto Transfers
23.6.2020
ING Bank, Standard Chartered and others have developed a protocol to handle a new rule for crypto exchanges and firms dealing in digital assets
Meet Mistcoin – The First Mineable SLP Token Implementation Launched on Bitcoin Cash
22.6.2020
Bitcoin Cash proponents have been introduced to a new project built using the Simple Ledger Protocol (SLP) framework called mistcoin (MIST). The new token is essentially the first mineable implementation of colored coins on Bitcoin Cash. Mist allows participants to mine the SLP tokens “using...
Simple Ledger Protocol Universe Is Thriving: Lottery, Mint, ATMs, Over 8,500 SLP Tokens Created
21.6.2020
It’s been close to twelve months since we reported on the vast Simple Ledger Protocol (SLP) universe built on top of the Bitcoin Cash chain. At the time, there were 2,700 unique SLP tokens created, and that’s increased by 217% during the last year with 8,585 SLP tokens created to-date....
Coda Protocol Sets Aside $2.1M in Tokens for Development Grants
16.6.2020
The project plans to use $2.1 million worth of tokens to incentivize development on its lightweight blockchain
Hardware Wallet Maker Ledger Joins the Universal Protocol Alliance
15.6.2020
The high-profile wallet maker will be integrating its security and infrastructure solutions with Universal Protocol technology and assets
Sequoia-Backed Band Protocol Creeps Onto Chainlink’s Turf With Oracle Product
10.6.2020
Band Protocol 2.0 launched Wednesday with its mainnet oracle solution, BandChain, leveraging the Cosmos SDK from Tendermint Labs
Bison Trails Adds Support for NEAR Blockchain Protocol
9.6.2020
Libra association member Bison Trails aims to offer users the opportunity to participate in the NEAR network
NEAR Protocol Enlists Bison Trails for Validator Support as It Heads Toward Full Mainnet
9.6.2020
Bison Trails will help host the NEAR Protocol’s early validator set, currently consisting of over 150 nodes including some 40 of the project’s investors
Metanyx to provide Enterprise solutions based on the IOST Core protocol
9.6.2020
Metanyx, a UK based Public Chain Validator that aims to provide Enterprise solution, which is based on the IOST Core Protocol. Metanyx will provide Enterprise Solution to Financial Services, Universities, and Governments in parts of the UK and Europe. The organization’s main aim is to help...
Bitcoin Hashrate Spikes to 120 Exahash: Difficulty Drops Allowing Miners to Rejoin the Competition
7.6.2020
The Bitcoin hashrate is up this weekend after the network experienced it’s fourth negative difficulty adjustment this year. The Bitcoin (BTC) protocol’s difficulty adjustment dropped over 9% on June 4, giving miners who shut off their machines a chance to join the competition once...
Patoshi Researcher Says “Altruistic” Satoshi Will Never Spend His 1.1M Bitcoin
6.6.2020
Bitcoin founder Satoshi Nakamoto will never spend his “1.1 million bitcoins” because he is altruistic, Patoshi Pattern researcher Sergio Demian Lerner has said. The Patoshi Pattern exploits privacy flaws of an early protocol, v.01, to identify blocks possibly minded by Satoshi Nakamoto....
‘Careless’ Users Are Ruining Ethereum’s Privacy: Paper
4.6.2020
Ethereum's account-based model makes it more susceptible to surveillance than some other protocols and users aren't helping, a research paper argues
No, Marvin Ammori, CoinDesk Is Not Trying to Extort You
2.6.2020
Marvin Ammori, Head of Policy at Protocol Labs, says his crypto hero is Hal Finney, recalls his trip to Iceland and thinks crypto should disrupt banks next
Bitcoin Hashrate Bounces Back- 2x the Mining Pools, Farm Diversification, 100 Exahash
30.5.2020
Around 18 days ago, the Bitcoin protocol experienced it’s third block reward halving and the network saw a 33% hashrate loss. Since then, however, bitcoin miners have increased in both number and hashpower, as the network has seen a 15-20 exahash per second (EH/s) increase. Moreover, on...
South Korea's ICON Releases Blockchain Interoperability Protocol
29.5.2020
South Korea’s largest public blockchain, ICON, has released its Blockchain Transmission Protocol, allowing individual blockchains to interact and communicate with each other
Force Protocol Joins Hands With Chainlink to Power the Decentralized Finance
28.5.2020
The field of decentralized finance (DeFi) has been on the rise for quite some time. Now one of the main players in the field of decentralized finance, the Force Protocol has announced integration with the Chainlink – the partnership intended to tap into reliable data sources of token prices....