Analysis
Adoption
RSK-powered blockchain gas network goes live in Argentina with 10,000 service providers set to join
Argentina’s natural gas ecosystem is to incorporate blockchain tech going forward, thanks to a collaboration between IOV Labs and gas distributor Gasnor. The newly-launched…
Technology
RSK further advances blockchain interoperability with Bitcoin-Ethereum bridge
The team behind RSK, the smart contract platform developed as a side chain of the Bitcoin blockchain, has announced the launch of an interoperability…
Technology
Ethereum broadens its reach after Syscoin builds it a bridge
The S-word that dominated talk of blockchain shortcomings two years ago – ‘scalability’ – has been replaced by the I-word – interoperability. It’s the…
Opinion
National digital currencies fail to fix the stablecoin problem
2019 will go down as the year when the world went digital currency crazy. Not crypto crazy (that was 2017), but crazy for issuing…
Technology
Proof of History is the latest feature to solve consensus challenges, but how does it compare to its predecessors?
Surely the greatest irony in the blockchain space is that there has never been any agreement on “the best” consensus model. Bitcoin and Ethereum…
Adoption
Could Linux help overcome blockchain’s usability challenge?
2019 has been a good year for Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies. An influx of institutional money and Facebook announcing its Libra plans have provided a…
Investments
a16z and Multicoin Capital lead $5m funding round for “Permaweb” protocol Arweave
Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) and Multicoin Capital have been unveiled as the latest investors to fund the development of Arweave. The distributed internet protocol, designed…
Price Watch
TRON Blockchain integrates with Samsung blockchain keystore
Samsung’s Developer Conference 2019 is underway in San Jose, California, where the mobile giant is outlining its future plans and some of its forthcoming…
Exchanges
As leading US exchanges bow out due to regulatory pressure, DEXs step into the breach
These are testing times for US crypto traders. Accessing the same services that their European counterparts take for granted has become an impossibly convoluted…
Adoption
Ukraine is legalizing crypto – but what does it mean?
How governments react to new technologies continues to be a source of fascination for the media and broader tech sector. Even now, in 2019,…
Exchanges
Two years from now, the crypto exchange landscape may look very different
Exchanges beware: crypto evolves rapidly, and provides no shelter for complacency. That was the clear warning that could be drawn from James Todaro, Managing…
Adoption
Popular dApp game Knight Story turns to TRON for next iteration
Blockchain-based gaming has long been one of the most popular and natural expressions of the continually-expanding decentralized economy. Not only do these platforms democratize…