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Sports Data for Developers: SportdataAPI (Sponsored)
12.10.2020
Most of the side projects I consider starting revolve around sports, since I’m a huge sports fan. I spend my Saturdays watching soccer, Sundays spent watching soccer and NFL, and of course the mid-week Champions League and Europa League matches. One problem I’ve always had is not being...
Boringdao Raises $1.4M: Project’s Tokenized BTC Bridge Backed by 200% Collateral
10.10.2020
There’s a new tokenized bitcoin project coming to the decentralized finance (defi) ecosystem that’s recently received $1.4 million from blockchain investors. The project called Boringdao, a decentralized bridge between Ethereum and alternative blockchains, plans to launch...
US Homeland Security Funds Anti-Forgery Blockchain Projects in Latest R&D Round
9.10.2020
The five companies will use DLT in food tracing, essential worker licensure, overhauling the Social Security Number and tracking e-commerce
Tim Draper’s Venture Studio to Triple-Down on Blockchain Projects With a $25M Fund
6.10.2020
At the LA Blockchain Summit, the blockchain and fintech venture studio Draper Goren Holm announced the launch of a $25 million blockchain fund called “Fund 1.” According to the announcement the money will be used for promising blockchain and fintech startups in Series A and seed...
Rise of the Underdog, Securypto Takes off as Investors Scramble To Get on Board
6.10.2020
The time of ICO’s seems behind us and many blockchain projects have fallen off the grid but one particular project seems not only to have survived but even thrived during these times. Securypto focuses on safe and truly anonymous exchange of data. In a world where datahacks have become...
After Banning ICOs China’s Defi Ecosystem Grows Exponential This Year
5.10.2020
The decentralized finance (defi) ecosystem has become a multi-billion dollar industry and quite a bit of the popularity is stemming from China. While a number of defi projects from the West like Uniswap, Compound, and Makerdao are popular in the country, China is also creating its own landscape...
Kucoin CEO Says Exchange Hack Suspects ‘Found,’ $204 Million Recovered
4.10.2020
According to the Kucoin exchange CEO Johnny Lyu, the trading platform has recovered $204 million in crypto assets since October 1. The exchange executive says the hacking suspects have been “found” and the “police are officially involved” in order to take action....
Parsel: A tiny, permissive CSS selector parser
2.10.2020
If you’ve ever thought to yourself, gosh, self, I wish I could have an Abstract Syntax Tree (AST) of this CSS selector, Lea has your back.
If you’ve ever thought that same thing for an entire CSS file, that’s what PostCSS is, which has gone v8. PostCSS doesn’t do anything...
Kucoin Hack: $17M Laundered Via Decentralized Exchanges, Blockchain Analysis Firm Claims This Can Still be Traced
2.10.2020
Elliptic says the Kucoin hacker has sold $17.1 million worth of tokens via decentralized exchanges (dex) platforms like Uniswap, Kyber Network, Tokenlon. The shift to dex applications comes after centralized projects came to the aid of the beleaguered exchange by blocking any cashing out of...
Smart Contract Protocol RSK Attempts to Bring Defi to the Bitcoin Network
2.10.2020
During the last year, Ethereum has dominated the decentralized finance (defi) ecosystem but a number of other blockchain projects plan to join the fray. The second layer, smart contract protocol RSK aims to bring the defi demand to the Bitcoin blockchain and there’s already a few RSK-based...
The Paper Prototype Rule
1.10.2020
I’ve been lucky to have worked with some of the best designers in the industry, including Zhenya Rynzhuk, Louis Paquet, Maria de la Paz Vargas, and of course, dozens of the amazing designers at MediaMonks. Many of the projects we’ve worked on require custom animation and guidelines that enable...
Token Projects to Recover $130M from the Kucoin Hack, Devs Condemned for Centralization
29.9.2020
The cryptocurrency community has been discussing the Kucoin hack as a great number of ERC20 projects have frozen, paused, or reversed their smart contracts after the hack. Estimates say that at least $129 million ERC20 tokens affected are considered “safe” from the hacker’s...
Freeze, pause, reboot: Projects react differently to $200M KuCoin hack
27.9.2020
KuCoin reported at least $129M of the affected funds are ‘safe.’
Degens for Hire: Based.Money Is Launching Moonbase, a Place for DeFi Projects to Find Community
26.9.2020
BASED has a new method for aligning decentralized finance (DeFi) projects with each other. At its core is a smart contract called Moonbase
How many DeFi projects still have ‘God Mode’ admin keys? More than you think
25.9.2020
The vast majority of DeFi projects still have the ability to enter ‘God Mode’ and unilaterally make changes to pretty much everything
Kelta Cafes: Building a Robust Workplace for Blockchain Enthusiasts
24.9.2020
Blockchain technology has experienced a lot of growth in the last few years. The immutable peer-to-peer distributed ledger system created by Satoshi Nakamoto was given a little chance to survive at the initial stage. Still, many people are now betting on several blockchain projects. The popularity...
DeFi projects rush towards Layer 2 as Ethereum clogs up
24.9.2020
Leading DeFi protocols are rushing to implement Layer 2 to ease the burden of high gas fees
Uquid Launch the Defi Shopping Stake (DSS) and Defito Finance (DTO)
21.9.2020
The trouble with many current DeFi projects is that while they eliminate traditional institutions from the mix, they instead transfer ultimate control over to a select group of insiders who have their financial motives and agendas. It’s an arrangement that’s ripe for abuse,...
JD.com's fintech wing partners with PBoC on digital currency projects
21.9.2020
China's e-commerce giant will reportedly help develop apps that support the forthcoming digital renminbi
OKEx CEO slams Binance’s Changpeng Zhao for promoting questionable DeFi projects
18.9.2020
Jay Hao did not mince words in disparaging Binance for strategies he referred to as "irresponsible."