CoinDesk Is Spinning Up an Ethereum 2.0 Node. Here’s How to Follow Our Journey
CoinDesk just snagged a front-row seat to a seminal event in the crypto industry. Ticket price: 32 ETH.
CoinDesk just snagged a front-row seat to a seminal event in the crypto industry. Ticket price: 32 ETH.
The smart contract required for triggering Ethereum 2.0 has nearly accrued enough funds to activate the momentous upgrade.
The newly launched GnosisDAO will allow Gnosis users to vote on platform governance and development.
CipherTrace has filed two patent applications it claims offer technologies that could help authorities in tracking monero transactions.
A lottery in Suzhou will additionally trial the offline feature of the digital yuan, per a Monday report.
Cryptocurrency investigation firm Chainalysis expects to raise $100 million in venture capital at a $1 billion valuation as early as next week, the company told Forbes.
A group of Japanese companies plans to develop and test a private digital currency that would work alongside cash.
Apple's most recent Mac update is causing major problems for one of Bitcoin’s oldest wallets.
The platform is a step forward in practical uses for Homomorphic Encryption, letting multiple actors conduct analysis while keeping the data encrypted.
Tokens could be included in a users traffic request, which would allow websites accessible through the Tor network to “intelligently prioritize which requests it answers.”
DeFi’s novel flash loan products aren't to blame for the recent string of exploits, industry leaders say.
If the payments system ever becomes seriously politicized, Bitcoin's apolitical nature could become more appealing. But that's not a scenario worth looking forward to.
Along with the halving, Zcash has rolled out its Canopy upgrade that replaces the Founders Reward with built-in funding for development.
Following a recent Mac update, users will have to find alternatives if they want out from under Apple’s eye.
On Nov. 18, CoinDesk’s Ben Powers explores the data dividend: Is it an opportunity to restructure the digital economy on more equitable terms or merely a redesign of the current data ecosystem?
A new governance vote would continue liquidity mining rewards for certain asset pairs as the original allocation ends.
A loophole in MakerDAO’s collateralized debt market enables positions to be closed far more leniently than intended due to an oversight in the auction process.
Encryption inventor and head of MIT’s Digital Currency Initiative are among authors of a new paper that points out why blockchain and voting are a bad pairing.
Ethereum’s largest client Geth hard-forked after a bug was tripped Wednesday. Developers are now weighing the merits of security disclosures methods.
Axelar is a decentralized protocol designed by the founding members of Algorand to make it easier for dapps to work across blockchains.
Decentralized finance platform Akropolis’ yCurve pools have been drained resulting in the loss of $2 million.
One of two global oil benchmarks, Brent Crude Futures are now available through DeFi exchange Synthetix.
Kirobo has repurposed its bitcoin transaction reversal feature to work on Ethereum.
Billions of dollars have been stolen through exchange hacks and scams, according to a new report from blockchain analytics firm Crystal Blockchain.
A hard fork that split Ethereum’s chain in two was activated on purpose, calling into question Ethereum’s client coordination.
The stablecoin dai (DAI) broke a market capitalization of $1 billion on Wednesday, a major milestone for the DeFi pioneer.
Flash loans attacks have received a lot of press attention. But they're not DeFi's biggest vulnerability, says Chainlink's CMO.
Platforms using an older version of the Ethereum client Geth experienced an accidental split of the chain Wednesday morning.
The deposit contract for Ethereum’s 2.0 upgrade now holds over 50,000 ETH – 10% of the threshold needed to activate the watershed update.
Multisignature wallets are cryptocurrency wallets that require two or more private keys to sign and send a transaction.