Last Week’s Big Twitter Hack Was Years in the Making
Last week's Twitter hack was a shock to the company. It shouldn’t have been. Scams have been growing more sophisticated for years.
Last week's Twitter hack was a shock to the company. It shouldn’t have been. Scams have been growing more sophisticated for years.
The ongoing battle between the two co-founders at Bitmain has essentially hard forked the production at the world’s largest bitcoin miner manufacturer.
The world's fifth largest bank is set to go ahead with a digital currency launch in collaboration with Indeed.com parent firm Recruit Group.
The head of Standard Chartered's venture arm said the crypto custody solution could launch into test phase sometime later this year.
PayPal has chosen Paxos to handle the new service’s supply of digital assets, according to two people familiar with the matter.
The crypto lending platform has hired banking veteran Jonathan Mayers as general counsel in a bid to stay ahead of the regulatory curve.
Custody startup Curv is using Compound, the leading lending protocol in DeFi, to help institutions earn interest on idle crypto.
The Lightning startup Zap Inc. just raised its first round to build out both mobile bitcoin wallet services and a Visa partnership in 2020.
A massive cyberattack against Twitter raised many questions about who people trust and what it means for the future of bitcoin.
Launched Thursday, Alchemy Monitor has already been put to use by crypto firms 0x, MyEtherWallet, Lucid Sight and Zerion.
Talking to CoinDesk at the World Blockchain Summit Asia on Thursday, Changpeng "CZ" Zhao called Twitter's security "weak" after a wave of account breaches Wednesday.
OpSec pros had a wide array of opinions on Wednesday's Twitter breach, but they all agreed the fault did not lie with each hacked account's owner.
Twitter’s thin veil of security went into full meltdown at 19:00 UTC on Wednesday. Within hours, even Barack Obama’s account was compromised.
Framework Ventures and Three Arrows Capital announced a $3 million investment in Aave, the firm behind the third-largest lending platform in DeFi.
Brave users can now use the Gemini cryptocurrency exchange to buy, sell and store crypto within their browsers.
BitMEX's parent company, HDR, has undergone a perhaps controversial rebranding to 100x.
IBM is giving its blockchain track-and-trace capabilities the social-impact treatment with a provenance application focused on coffee.
Two consecutive record quarters for Grayscale mean cumulative capital inflows have doubled in the past six months to $2.6 billion.
Formerly called BlockRe, the crypto insurance provider raised the seed round from Morgan Creek,Plug n Play, Kailash Ventures and other investors.
Revolut customers in the U.S. can now buy, hold and sell BTC and ETH on the digital bank’s crypto platform, thanks to a partnership with Paxos.
The NASCAR driver has a new sponsorship deal with Jack Dorsey's Cash App. His car will sport the bitcoin logo at race events.
Standard Chartered said it invested in Metaco to improve the relatively undeveloped market infrastructure in digital assets.
Vitalik Buterin's quadratic funding notes raised 40 ETH for an open-source grant program. He and others are auctioning off NFTs on Cryptograph for charity.
Riding the surge of interest in yield farming, cryptocurrency exchange Kraken is listing three tokens from the world of decentralized finance.
The Winklevoss brothers' Gemini exchange says hardware security keys can protect users against hacks and SIM swaps.
Kingdom Trust CEO Ryan Radloff hopes the partnership with Fidelity will nudge the investment giant closer to serving retail crypto investors.
Shyft Network says 30+ exchanges are testing its blockchain-based solution to help cryptocurrency companies comply with the FATF Travel Rule.
BitGo has joined the pack of solution providers attempting to bring crypto in line with FATF anti-money laundering standards.
Billion-dollar fund manager Fidelity International is betting big on rebounding fortunes for the listed bitcoin miner Hut 8.
As Filecoin inches closer to a blockchain mainnet launch, investors in China are again speculating heavily on the network’s mining hardware and token prices.
