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Tracing Fishy Risks With Blockchain Tech Amid the COVID-19 Pandemic
4.8.2020
The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted challenges in global seafood supply chains, and blockchain tech may help improve them
Russian Voters’ Data on Sale After Blockchain Vote to Keep Putin in Power – Report
4.8.2020
Russians voted electronically, using blockchain tech, to keep Putin in power. Now, hackers may be selling the personal data of over a million of those voters
Ethereum 2.0 Testnet Medalla Goes Live With 20,000 Validators
4.8.2020
Medalla, the final testnet before the anticipated launch of Ethereum 2.0 later this year, is now live, the Ethereum Foundation announced Tuesday
DeFi-Focused Derivatives Platform Hedget Raises $500K in Seed Funding
4.8.2020
The round was led by FBG Capital and NGC Ventures, both Asia-based venture firms
Zephyr Teachout: Take Back the Economy From Economists
3.8.2020
Law professor Zephyr Teachout discusses the recent antitrust hearings, how power impacts privacy and the "parallel governments" that Big Tech has created
Law Decoded: Big Tech, Central Banks and the Hunt for Monopolies, July 24-31
31.7.2020
The leaders in this week’s policy news focus on some case studies in power accumulation that more than anything show why decentralization tech matters
Ethereum 2.0: Closer Than Ever, Still Plenty of Work to Do
31.7.2020
Five years later, Ethereum is still chugging along as a decentralized platform for self-executing code. Eth 2.0 is quite close, but for real this time
Tech's Antitrust Issues Flare Up on Both Sides of the New ‘Cold War,’ Report
31.7.2020
At the request of the People’s Bank of China, Beijing could soon probe its digital payments monopolies, sources claim
Ethereum History in 5 Charts
31.7.2020
Five years ago this week, the first general-purpose blockchain went live on mainnet. Here are five charts for understanding Ethereum's evolution
Cardano Introduces Proof-of-Stake With ‘Shelley’ Hard Fork
30.7.2020
It's alive! Cardano has successfully hard forked to its major upgrade, Shelley, which introduced proof-of-stake to the network
CoinDesk Live Recap: Ethereum’s DeFi Luminaries Discuss What’s Next
30.7.2020
For decentralized finance (DeFi) to make its mark, it must reach beyond the crypto bubble, said MakerDAO founder Rune Christensen. “Compared to where we’re going next, we’ve still just scratched the surface of what this technology will do,” Christensen, whose lending platform recently topped...
To Beat Online Censorship, We Need Anonymous Payments
29.7.2020
Online censorship and surveillance will persist as long as local fiat currencies are the only way to pay for telecommunication services
Bitcoin Scaling Tech Could Have Saved Companies and Users $500M in Fees: Report
29.7.2020
Implementing transaction batching and SegWit could have saved bitcoin companies and users $500 million in fees – if they'd just use the technology
DeFi Lender Aave Rolls Out Governance Token on Path to Decentralization
29.7.2020
Aave will transfer ownership of the protocol to a “genesis governance” built and approved by LEND token holders. It will also swap LEND tokens for AAVE
Why Bitcoin Is Protected by the First Amendment
29.7.2020
Bitcoin's role as a communications and associative network - not just a financial network - means it deserves constitutional protection
Carbon Credits Have a Double-Spend Problem. This Microsoft-Backed Project Is Trying to Fix That
29.7.2020
The Microsoft-backed IWA sustainability group is building a tokenization standard that aims to bring transparency to carbon accounting
5 Years After Launch, Predictions Market Platform Augur Releases Version 2
29.7.2020
Augur v2 has all the bells and whistles: Interplanetary File System (IPFS), 0x Mesh, MakerDAO’s dai and Uniswap’s v2 oracle network
Facebook’s Zuckerberg and Telegram’s Durov Posture as Defenders Against Foreign Tech Invasions
28.7.2020
The leaders of two tech giants are using nationalism to win back the governments of their respective home countries after stumbling over crypto launches
Community Behind Privacy-Focused Smart Contract Forges Ahead After Settlement
28.7.2020
The open-source Secret Network has begun a swap for defunctENG tokens and launched a "secret contract" testnet with big name partners
MIT Lightning Creator Unveils First ‘Demonstration’ of Bitcoin Scaling Tech
28.7.2020
Utreexo "can make Bitcoin nodes smaller and faster while keeping the same security and privacy as full nodes," says developer Tadge Dryja