News

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is looking for contractors that would run Bitcoin, Ethereum, and XRP nodes on its behalf. The regulator said the nodes will support its efforts to monitor risks and improve compliance, despite dozens of free blockchain explorers and analytic tools being available online. U.S. market regulator wants to run […]

Since its humble origins among academic circles and DARPA researchers, the Internet evolved from a limited, fragmented set of networks to the ubiquitous global behemoth that it has become today. At the core of the Internet’s ability to empower unprecedented levels of communication is the standardization of a fundamental set of protocols, including the application, […]

The Bitcoin network is approaching its billionth dollar charged in cumulative transaction fees—a threshold due to be broken nearly 10 years after the creation of the original cryptocurrency. The revelation came in a tweet Tuesday by Nic Carter, who expects the network will surpass $1 billion in total cumulative fees this fall based on data […]

As Justin Sun’s reputation continues to suffer from media fallout, the price of TRON and BitTorrent plummeted over the past week. This technical analysis will evaluate whether TRX and BTT are likely to keep falling or begin a new uptrend. Background on the controversial news TRON and BitTorrent have gone through an extreme period of volatility […]

A massive crypto whale has moved 142,323 BTC on July 29, causing a stir in the crypto community on Twitter. With more than $1.3 billion moved, further investigation showed that the whale was most likely Xapo, a crypto wallet recently acquired by Coinbase. A billion-dollar Bitcoin move The crypto market has entered a period of […]

Over the last week, Bitcoin’s trading volume has been fading away. On July 15, it surpassed $25 billion, but over the past few weeks, it dropped to around $14 billion today. As BTC’s volume continues declining, its price seems to have gotten stuck in a $600 trading range between $9,900 and $9,300 without any clear signs […]

After Facebook’s Libra, it seems likely that other major brands like Amazon, Delta, and T-Mobile will create their own stablecoins. Stablecoins of the future The coming years will see the advent of the second generation of stablecoins. These “branded” stablecoins would not only employ the fundamental aspects of price stability and blockchain technology used by […]

Coinbase announced that it will be listing Tezos on Coinbase Pro. Following the announcement, XTZ jumped 16.4 percent while the altcoin markets overall remained stable. Tezos (XTZ) is a proof-of-work smart contract platform with built-in features for user governance. Using these governance features, Tezos is attempting to “democratize” protocol upgrades by incenting user participation. On […]

Blockchain and gaming have been on a collision course and may have reached the point of impact. Rapid changes in technology and methodologies have begun to happen across different sectors of the gaming industry. Here are some of the most significant ways distributed ledger technology is changing gaming. Variety of use cases At the core, […]

Facebook has warned investors that its highly anticipated, and much-contested cryptocurrency project, Libra, may never get off the ground. Libra’s May 2019 debut brought to an end nearly a year of speculation that Facebook was quietly building a cryptocurrency, with the social media giant unveiling a permissioned payments blockchain for its 2.4 billion users backed […]