BLOCKCHAIN
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14SLP Token Market Cap Surpasses $50 Million
For over a year now, the Simple Ledger Protocol (SLP) token universe has grown quite vast. There are now more than 6,000...
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19VC Firm Andreessen Horowitz Announces Instructors at Free Crypto School
Venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) has shared a list of instructors for its free, seven-week crypto startup school, scheduled to launch...
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15ConsenSys Is Shutting Down Offices in India and the Philippines
Consensys founder Joseph Lubin has informed teams in India and the Philippines that their offices will be closing down. Consensys confirmed to...
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21Central Bank ‘Parental Controls’ Obsolete for Crypto: Bank of Lithuania
The Bank of Lithuania said that central banks’ “parental controls” are obsolete when it comes to crypto assets, but that should not...
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19The State Encourages ICO Fraud. The Free Market Minimizes It
Many Initial Coin Offerings (ICOs) have been and are frauds. The state enables this con game in various ways, including the establishment...
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20World’s 2nd-Largest Bank CCB Launches Blockchain Refactoring: Report
China Construction Bank (CCB), the world’s second-biggest bank by operated assets, has officially launched its blockchain-based refactoring platform. Targeting commercial factoring business,...
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Ripple’s Revamped Xpring Platform Looks to Boost XRP Development
With the wallet, which is currently available on XRP Testnet, developers can generate and manage account credentials, view balances, send and receive...
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22MakerDAO Responds to Dev Accusing Network of $340M Vulnerabilty
The Maker Foundation has announced a series of governance polls aimed at security after software developer Micah Zoltu explained how any hacker...
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27Santander Redeems $20M Bond Using Ethereum Blockchain
Spain’s multinational banking giant Banco Santander has just redeemed a $20 million bond using the Ethereum blockchain. The firm has performed an...
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20Bakkt Launches Bitcoin Options in US, Futures in Asia
Bakkt has launched two new regulated bitcoin derivatives products. Within hours of launch, Bakkt announced that over 1,000 futures contracts had been...
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20After Hard Fork, Ethereum Takes Second in China’s Blockchain Rankings
China’s state-backed tech workgroup has released its fifteenth blockchain technology assessment, in which it promoted Ethereum to second place after its recent...
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20LedgerX Places Founders On Leave Following Public CFTC Woes
The board of directors of Ledger Holdings, Inc., parent company to LedgerX, announced that co-founders Paul and Juthica Chou have been placed...
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2423 Days Until a Bonded Courier Supposedly Delivers Keys to $8 Billion in BTC
In 23 days, the infamous self-proclaimed Bitcoin inventor Craig Wright will allegedly receive 1,100,111 BTC from a trust purportedly held in Seychelles....
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25China’s Central Bank Uses Blockchain to Issue $2.8B Worth of Financial Bonds
The adoption rate of blockchain technology in China continues to impress as the People’s Bank of China (PBoC) has reportedly issued 20...
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22Binance Futures Hits $2.7B All-Time High as Firm Adds Futures on iOS
Binance, the second-biggest cryptocurrency exchange by daily trading volume at press time, now supports Bitcoin (BTC) futures trading on its new iOS...
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20A Reality Check: Blockchain and DLT in International Trade
Distributed ledger technology, colloquially termed “blockchain,” is making a bold promise to help bring the trade industry into the digital age. To...
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23New Ukrainian Law Says ‘Virtual Assets’ Can Be Used for Payments
The Verkhovna Rada, Ukraine’s legislature, has approved amendments that introduce legal terms and definitions pertaining to the crypto space. The new legislation,...
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26Ethereum Istanbul Hard Fork Get Support From Major Crypto Exchanges
Following the successful Ethereum Istanbul hard fork update, several popular exchanges have announced their official support for the network upgrade. Yesterday, on...
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24Ethereum Hard Fork Live, Stolen ETH Moved, ‘Hodlers Are Insane’: Hodler’s Digest, Dec. 2–8
Coming every Sunday, Hodler’s Digest will help you track every single important news story that happened this week. The best (and worst)...