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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 […]

While Tron remains one of the top blockchain platforms by market capitalization and user activity, its founder Justin Sun has continued to attract controversy. Here’s a chronology of all the drama and controversy around Tron and Justin Sun to date: Tron, a leading blockchain network for building decentralized applications (dApps), has attracted a relatively large […]

Square App started a mass movement on Twitter asking its followers to submit designs for a new symbol for increments of Bitcoin, the satoshi. The Twitter community responded by submitting dozens of designs, starting a larger conversation about the inclusion of Bitcoin and satoshi symbols and the future of crypto payments online. Satoshi is to […]

On the fifth anniversary of Ethereum’s 2014 pre-sale, ConsenSys took a look back at the network’s history. This year has proved to be critical for Ethereum with data showing that it managed to rise from the 2018 crypto crash better and more popular than ever. World’s second-largest cryptocurrency boasts with better-than-ever stats Ethereum, the world’s […]

Jiang Zhuoer, the CEO at BTC.TOP, one of the largest Bitcoin mining pools, revealed that Craig Wright and Calvin Ayre planned the split from the Bitcoin Cash network long before the matter was publicly discussed. In a Reddit post that shares part of an interview with Zhuoer, the Chinese entrepreneur pointed out that Craig Wright […]

Binance now offers wealthy traders a “personalized way” to conduct trades larger than 10 BTC off of the exchange’s order books via over-the-counter (OTC) trading. Binance trading introduces block trading services One of the world’s largest and most popular cryptocurrency exchanges, the Malta-headquartered Binance, introduced a new feature that allows its users to trade larger […]

Traders were net short Bitcoin on Chicago Mercantile Exchange’s (CME) regulated futures market based on their latest report. Data from the Commitment of Traders (COT) report released Friday, July 26 shows that both commercial and non-commercial traders held a combined 4,464 short contracts to 3,216 longs on CME, skewing the balance 58% to 42% in […]

Billionaire venture capitalist Tim Draper evaluated cryptocurrency custody solutions provided by Coinbase, BitGo, Gemini, Casa, Ledger, and Anchorage. After examining the different services, Draper recommended that institutions should increasingly invest in Bitcoin. Institutions should be comfortable to hold bitcoin soon. I evaluated Coinbase, Ledger, Anchorage, Bitgo, Casa, and Gemini for custody solutions. There is amazing […]