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The hardware wallet manufacturer stated it would reimburse victims of last week's exploit involving a malicious version of its Connect Kit library.
A big selling point of blockchain networks is that they are "decentralized." But just a few validators, including those run by Lido, have gradually amassed a lion's share of the power over the dominant smat-contracts blockchain, Ethereum. One idea is to decentralize the validators themselves.
According to tech and crypto CEOs, Crypto had been relegated to the ‘back of the bus’ at the 2023 edition of Web Summit despite impending ETF news.
The platform is developing Bitcoin tools as the applications built on the network catch favor with investors.
Binance uses a third-party service called Kodex to validate law enforcement requests.
Unstoppable Domains recently integrated .com domains into its platform. What implications could this move have?
The distribution of funds is planned for the first quarter of 2024, and supposed to occur a week after Metis' decentralized sequencer will go live.
Polygon Labs, a developer of scaling networks for Ethereum, has shifted toward "Polygon CDK," a blockchain-development kit powered by zero-knowledge cryptography. The older "Polygon Edge" was used by Dogechain, in an unofficial effort to build a Dogecoin-oriented smart-contracts network.
The latest in blockchain tech upgrades, funding announcements and deals. For the period of Dec 14-Dec. 20, with live updates throughout.
According to the report, specific AI tools are highly technical and complex, posing challenges for institutions to explain or monitor them effectively.
In the historic auction house's first-ever sale of the Ordinals inscriptions known as "NFTs on Bitcoin," a batch of three pixelated images from a mushroom-themed collection drew about $450,000, or roughly five times the highest estimates.
Celo originally planned to build its Ethereum layer-2 network with Optimism's OP Stack. Then Polygon and Matter Labs pitched their stacks. Now, Arbitrum, the biggest layer-2, wants in on the bake-off.
The new "Cronos zkEVM chain" is launching initially as a test network, based on Matter Labs’ software tools, which can be used to spin up new layer 2 and layer 3 “hyperchains” atop Ethereum.
Vitalik Buterin, a member of the Ethereum Foundation's executive board, once pushed "layer-2" networks as a way to provide faster and cheaper transactions. Now he's got ideas for "enshrining" some of those functions on the main chain.
In this week's issue of The Protocol newsletter, we're covering Worldcoin's latest update, airdrop season, the new Bitcoin wallet from Jack Dorsey's company and the "data availability" network Celestia's market-moving plan to plug into Polygon's blockchain development kit.
Blockchain intelligence firm TRM Labs credits this decline to enhanced security measures, law enforcement, and industry coordination.
Uniswap version 3 (v3) has been deployed on Bitcoin sidechain Rootstock by GFX Labs, the team behind trading terminal Oku.
The blockchain-oracle project's "v0.2" staking program expanded the capacity to 45M LINK tokens from 25M, and the portion reserved for the community quickly filled up. The LINK token surged in price.
Bitcoin has been declared dead more times than you’d think amid downswings in the market, but it’s always managed to bounce back.
The regulator’s examination will assess whether the collaboration constitutes an “acquisition of control,” implying substantial influence of one party over another.
The NFT-like Ordinals inscriptions are anathema to some Bitcoin purists who want to preserve the blockchain for financial applications. But a few of the images are fetching eye-popping sums in the in-real-life art world.
The platform allows clients to compare and benchmark quantum and classical algorithms for a given task.
Four of the five biggest "block builders" on Ethereum are excluding transactions sanctioned by the U.S. government, according to new research.
The grants are supposed to give developers a “focus on building resilient technology and more equitable systems.”
In a joint statement, IBM and Meta outlined the AI Alliance’s objectives, emphasizing a commitment to safety, collaboration, diversity, economic opportunity and universal benefits.
The filing lists the Tesla-billionaire-turned-social-media tycoon as a key backer.
The low-latency oracle network's new "strategic partners" include Castle Island Ventures, Multicoin Capital and Wintermute Ventures. They could play a major role in shaping how the platform evolves.
The release will be the second core product in the Mantle ecosystem, and comes just six months after the Mantle Network, a layer-2 network atop Ethereum, went live.
The latest in blockchain tech upgrades, funding announcements and deals. For the period of Nov. 30-Dec. 6, with live updates throughout.