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We are thrilled to introduce the three newest additions to CryptoSlate Places: Australia, London, and New York City. In parallel with the flourishing blockchain sector, CryptoSlate Places, intends to assemble and manage information from global blockchain hubs. By unifying localized news, events, company listings, and projects, we are steadily creating a comprehensive directory of the vast […]

Monday’s segment of CNBC Cryptotrader entitled ‘The Future of the Utility Token,” one of the guests made a bold prediction on the crypto market. Kira Sun, an investment manager at China-based blockchain investment firm BlockVC, stated that he believes the bear market on Bitcoin to be at an end, but that altcoins will take longer […]

Despite its ubiquitous presence in everyday life, it is easy to forget that the internet is still a young technology. Recalling a time before the internet isn’t difficult for some – but it isn’t ideal to think in terms of pre-or-post internet, because its reception was not a big bang but rather a slow crawl. […]

Will Warren, the co-founder of the 0x Project, announced Monday via Medium that the next iteration of the 0x protocol is now live. 0x protocol v2.0 is live!https://t.co/ZNroZY31FM — 0x (@0xProject) September 24, 2018 A Year in the Making Warren claims the team at 0x has worked hard over the course of the past year developing the […]

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 […]