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ICOs have evolved from what they used to be.

Primalbase, a Dutch private start-up is launching a next-generation working space ecosystem in London. These workspaces will allow fintech companies to sell, share, rent and pay for private space with both Ethereum and Waves-based digital tokens. Primalbase raised $7.5M in less than 24 hours during an ICO that ended in June 2017. Those interested in the private […]

John Newbery, a Bitcoin Core developer and contributor to cryptocurrency research and development group Chaincode Labs, takes responsibility for a critical bug recently discovered on the Bitcoin network. As CryptoSlate reported, on September 20, a serious issue called “bug CVE-2018–17144” left the Bitcoin network vulnerable to hackers who could have shut down the largest cryptocurrency […]

Hive.one, formerly known as CryptoInfluencers, a platform that lists influential figures in major cryptocurrency communities, was forced to eliminate its section on Ripple. Update: Please see the response from the Hive team at the bottom of this article. According to the Hive team, for an undisclosed reason, the platform was under heavy scrutiny whilst receiving […]

Qtum celebrated its first birthday with a bang, doubling down on the ambitions of its 2019 roadmap and releasing its “game-changer” 0.16 update, designed to scale the network to 50,000 transactions per second through lightning networks. A marriage of Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM) functionality and Bitcoin’s established UTXO security measures, the project has traditionally sold itself […]

Grupo XP, Brazil’s largest independent brokerage and owner of XP Investimentos SA, is launching an exchange in the upcoming months that will facilitate Bitcoin and Ethereum trading. According to Bloomberg, the new crypto exchange dubbed XDEX will have around 40 employees. With a mission to “to help Brazilians invest better, offering the ideal solutions for […]

Bitmain, one of the largest cryptocurrency mining ASIC manufacturing companies, announced on Sept. 21 the release of new SHA-256 mining rigs at the World Digital Mining Summit in Georgia. SHA-256 is a common cryptographic encryption algorithm used in several industries and is what Bitcoin uses to secure its network. Bitmain’s most recent SHA-256 ASIC is the Antminer […]

The fourth-largest asset manager in the world with over $2 trillion in assets under management, Fidelity Investments, appears to be moving above and beyond its courting stage with cryptocurrency, revealed its intention to offer crypto-related products by the end of the year. CEO Abigail Johnson raised the curtain on the firm’s ambitions to roll out […]

XRP, the native cryptocurrency of the Ripple network is up another 10 percent as investors speculate on what has caused its price to nearly triple in the past week. According to prominent investors and analysts, the staggering 155 percent price increase of Ripple in the last seven days from $0.27 to $0.69 is largely attributable […]

Bitcoin Core developers acknowledged a potentially devastating vulnerability in the code of the original cryptocurrency and appealed to miners to upgrade to their newly issued patch with immediate effect. If exploited, bug CVE-2018–17144 would have permitted bad actors to shut down entire nodes and create Bitcoin, supposedly debasing the largest cryptocurrency by market capitalization. The […]