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The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC), has published a corporate plan that describes a vision for the country’s economic future as well as its intentions to regulate the cryptocurrency market. Governing the Crypto Trading Market The watchdog identified initial coin offerings (ICOs) as an increased risk to investors, among other upcoming financial products, but stated […]

Earlier this week, Brendan Eich, co-founder and CEO of Brave Software, unveiled the latest stats on his fledgling browser, Brave. Latest @Brave stats: 4M users (MAU), 21K verified channels, 26K publisher accounts. We will step on gas w/ brave-core + BAT on mobile this fall, get past 5M easily by EOY, >= 12M next, adding […]

Joseph Lubin and Amanda Gutterman of ConsenSys explained how blockchain technology and media companies go hand in hand during TechCrunch Disrupt; while the latest project ConsenSys is working with, The Civil Media Company, looks to create independent newsrooms in hopes of creating high-quality local, international, investigative and policy journalism. In today’s world of “fake news,” […]

Third-generation smart contract platforms are seeking to improve upon the inefficiencies of derivative blockchains. On Sept. 6, RChain showcased its blockchain at internet-scale through an audio-on-chain demonstration. Immersive Audio on Blockchain Third-generation blockchain cooperative RChain provided a glimpse into a blockchain at internet-scale during its developer conference in Berlin, according to a press release. By running […]

Come Sept. 10, enterprise blockchain ecosystem Dragonchain will raise the curtain on seven of its new, “innovative” products, designed to tackle several of the most critical issues hampering the blockchain industry, at the Blockchain Seattle Conference, according to a press release. The move comes just weeks after Dragonchain’s Blockchain-as-a-Service (BaaS) ecosystem moved into “production-ready” alpha 1.0 […]

More than 250 developers will be hacking their way through Blockchain Island’s inaugural Malta Blockchain Summit, yet the organizers of the event’s official Hackathon are calling for more talent to join, what it describes as, the “hottest coding competition around.” Malta to Welcome Industry Heavyweights, Aspiring Developers Opening just prior to the government-backed conference, Oct. […]

Since the ICO fervor of 2017, cryptocurrency and blockchain have become an international phenomenon, driving the digital economy movement. With public adoption on the rise, market research firm YouGov has conducted a study revealing recent statistics on cryptocurrency awareness. Cryptocurrency Awareness and Support On the Rise Market research and data analytics firm YouGov conducted a […]

Up to 70 percent of European adults are overweight, according to the World Health Organization. Lympo is aiming to change that with the introduction of its new app, which incentives users to live a more active lifestyle by rewarding LYM tokens for completing activities. Running for Tokens Lympo, a blockchain company that rewards users for […]

With public adoption on the rise, international cryptocurrency regulations continue to develop. On Sept. 4, Iran legitimized cryptocurrency mining as an industry–propelling local Bitcoin prices to new, record highs. Crypto Industry Gains Global Traction in Legitimization The Iranian government has accepted cryptocurrency mining as an industry and is now developing a regulatory framework for the […]

On the heels of the industry’s latest push to protect users, one of the top Ethereum mobile clients, Status, is implementing a new interoperability standard to “drastically improve user privacy.” Where decentralized apps (dApps) once had autonomous access to users’ Ethereum accounts within the browser, Status will now force all applications to request permission, according […]