A Digital Art Project Might Have an Answer to the Woes of Staking Centralization
Drawing inspiration from Reddit's r/place, AstroCanvas is an experiment in boosting staking participation – without appealing to financial incentives.
Drawing inspiration from Reddit's r/place, AstroCanvas is an experiment in boosting staking participation – without appealing to financial incentives.
A high token price gives a project crucial staying power, Hoskinson tells CoinDesk.
Ethereum's account-based model makes it more susceptible to surveillance than some other protocols and users aren't helping, a research paper argues.
Bitcoin Core released a new software update Wednesday. Notably, it includes experimental software to hedge against attacks from nation-states and ISPs.
Numerai has sold an additional $3 million in NMR tokens to a slate of investors led by Union Square Ventures on the strength of its latest product, Erasure.
Matic, a sidechain scaling solution for Ethereum, has deployed the first 10 nodes of its mainnet after several years in development.
Ethereum Classic has largely followed Ethereum in lockstep. But as the larger chain goes toward Proof-of-Stake, ETC is sticking with Proof-of-Work.
Bitcoin developers are exploring Point Timelock Contracts (PTLCs) to improve the privacy of payments on the Lightning Network.
Unable to meet in person, developers around the world collaborated by videoconference for a 48-hour stretch to refine Bitcoin’s Lightning Network.
The e-commerce firm says its new patent would improve upon current systems used by blockchains to communicate with one another.
CoinKite, maker of the Coldcard hardware wallet, has introduced two accessories that underscore the near-paranoia required to safely hold bitcoin.
A widespread bug has compromised a special type of bitcoin transaction that is supposed to discourage miners from cheating, new research shows.
Amazon has patented a distributed ledger-based system for proving the authenticity of consumer goods.
Nuggets, a digital identity and payments platform, has developed a way to accept deliveries without needing a physical signature to combat a spike in fraud during the coronavirus pandemic.
A member of the Hyperledger Identity Working Group on how we can keep track of COVID-19 without giving up our digital rights.
Users of the Compound lending platform will begin earning COMP governance tokens in mid-June.
Bayer China is tapping VeChain to help it track clinical trial drugs along the blockchain.
Seamless login for the decentralized apps (dapps) of any blockchain. That’s the vision for Torus Labs’ new identity solution, DirectAuth.
Players can now drop blockchain assets into their Minecraft servers, enabling ownership over in-game items and currencies.
ID2020 was moving too fast to adopt unproven technology, including distributed ledgers, for immunity passes, said prominent researcher Elizabeth Renieris.
Blockchain meets basketball in the newest game from Dapper Labs, the developers of CryptoKitties.
Google is teaming up with Theta Labs in a move meant to help the video delivery network onboard users through Google Cloud.
In the smart home era, we need to take privacy protection into our own hands, says the co-founder of IoTeX. Privacy laws won't help us.
Polkadot is now live, following the launch of its first “chain candidate” (CC1).
The pandemic is likely to accelerate a shift to automation, putting people out of work and raising the need for new types of money.
The Kin Foundation is seeking to move the kin cryptocurrency onto the Solana blockchain, according to a proposal shared with CoinDesk.
RenBTC, the latest implementation of bitcoin on the Ethereum blockchain, quietly went live this week, though the general public can't yet mint thier own tokens.
Crypto lender Nexo minted $4 million in dai on MakerDAO using synthetic bitcoin token WBTC as collateral. Here's why that matters.
Want to bet the price of ether is rising relative to the price of bitcoin? There's now a token for precisely that.
Harmony announced Tuesday that its mainnet has incorporated staking, allowing users to earn ONE tokens for locking in their current holdings.