Alibaba Affiliate to Boost Blockchain Development After $14 Billion Raise
Alibaba's Ant Financial has raised $14 billion in a new funding, part of which will be used to continue its development of blockchain technology.
Alibaba's Ant Financial has raised $14 billion in a new funding, part of which will be used to continue its development of blockchain technology.
At least five cryptocurrencies have recently been hit with a 51% attack, a vulnerability users used to scoff at.
CryptoKitties meets Pokemon Go? That's FOAM's initial goal, but the team thinks its decentralized location-tracking tech has more serious potential.
A critical bug was found in Parity's software within a testing environment and users are hurrying to update so it doesn't affect the mainnet.
Huobi wants to create its own blockchain and decentralized organization – and is offering $166 million in tokens for help on their development.
Less than a year since Casper was formalized, ethereum clients are starting to test a smart contract for the network's big consensus change.
Japanese IT giant GMO Internet has revealed prices and specs for its new-from-the-ground-up bitcoin miner – the world's first based on a 7nm chip.
Privacy-oriented cryptocurrency verge has dealt with several attacks recently, displaying how difficult it is to code blockchains without exploits.
Longer than hours, but maybe less than days – that's about the best estimate for when the EOS blockchain, years in the making, will finally launch.
Ripple is setting aside millions of dollars to fund university-based research into blockchain, cryptocurrency and digital payments.
Cryptocurrencies may offer solutions to a host of big problems, but for now, they're making issues with social media echo chambers worse.
Despite China's 2017 ban on ICOs, a Chinese firm still appears to have openly promoted a token sale that reportedly raised $18 million.
As grin inches toward launch, the team is incorporating three bold scalability and privacy technologies originally created for bitcoin.
CoinDesk gives our best guess of how the distributed launch of the much-anticipated EOS software can be expected to unfold.
Airdrops are well established idea here at the launch of the EOS mainnet, so its startups are way ahead of being the first to give free tokens away.
Japan's GMO Internet Group has developed a new mobile app that aims to introduce the public to bitcoin simply by playing games.
Bitmain has been criticized over one of its mining products, the AntMiner B3, with users making allegations about its marketing and quality control.
One of the most widely anticipated blockchain project, EOS, is expected to release its software this Saturday.
Months ago, savvy coders were taking an any-means-necessary approach to keeping big miners off their blockchains. Now, reality is setting in.
Motherboard maker Asus has debuted a new product aimed specifically at cryptocurrency miners.
The rise of solutions like the lightning network suggests crypto can have its cake and eat it too. Transactional scaling may just be the icing.
The ethereum classic difficulty bomb has been successfully removed, at least, according to the developers backing the 17th largest blockchain.
Blockchain platform EOS says serious vulnerabilities reported by an internet security firm just days before its mainnet launch have been fixed.
To advocate for regulatory leniency, we must consider the advantages, not the disadvantages, that privacy coins will provide to the greater community.
The lightning network is still new, but a group of its devs are already thinking about an alternative technology to better protect users' funds.
China expects to form its national blockchain standards committee by the end of 2018, according to an IT ministry official.
A newly released Intel patent application sets out a system for automatically creating and validating blocks on a distributed ledger.
The upcoming ethereum classic fork will disable a 'difficulty bomb,' committing the network to a proof-of-work consensus algorithm.
Loom Network, which came up with the idea of dedicated "dappchains" for scalable decentralized apps, is embracing sharing.
While there is tremendous promise for the tech, blockchain must evolve substantially to meet the unique demands of the internet of things.