Bitcoin › Scams 
CipherTrace
Bitcoin allure has darknet markets jumping to record highs (and scams)
Darknet marketplaces and their operators have been the focus of authorities since the last decade.
Shaurya Malwa · 3 months ago · 3 min read · Insights via CipherTrace 
Cardano › Adoption 
Charles Hoskinson
How IOHK built Cardano from the ground up
Speaking at the third BlockDown conference, Charles Hoskinson, the CEO of IOHK, looked back at the way his company approached designing Cardano.
Priyeshu Garg · 3 months ago · 5 min read · Insights via Charles Hoskinson 
Ethereum › Adoption
This WordPress plugin will allow authors to timestamp content on the Ethereum blockchain
Amsterdam-based WordProof announced today it will allow customers to timestamp content on the Ethereum blockchain, it said during the BlockDown Conference 2020 on October 22.
Ethereum › Technology
Vitalik Buterin discusses the values and ideas that formed Ethereum 2.0
With Ethereum 2 expected to ship in the near future, the values that underlie the world’s second-largest blockchain have become increasingly important.
Ethereum › Technology 
Sasha Ivanov
Waves announces ERC20 interoperability with Ethereum network
Waves.tech, an ecosystem of next-generation technologies built on the Waves protocol, has ported its native token WAVES into Ethereum to enhance interoperability between the two networks and introduce Waves functionality to Ethereum users, the firm said in a release shared with CryptoSlate.
Shaurya Malwa · 3 months ago · 2 min read · Insights via Sasha Ivanov 
Edge › Analysis
Why Filecoin’s hyped token launch was a multimillion “failure”
Decentralized file-sharing project Filecoin launched last week after years of development and a jawdropping $200 million ICO.
Cardano › Technology
Cardano’s Ouroboros paper is the 2nd most cited academic paper about cryptocurrencies and blockchain
“Ouroboros: A Provably Secure Proof-of-Stake Blockchain Protocol” has made it to the topmost cited security papers list.
Analysis 
IntoTheBlock
IntoTheBlock launches DeFi Insights tool for crypto traders and investors
The rise of decentralized finance (DeFi) has been buoyed on trends like non-custodian lending, automated market making, and yield farming, which together, have opened newer possibilities for users to spend and use their cryptocurrency holdings, while even earning attractive interest rates.
Shaurya Malwa · 3 months ago · 2 min read · Insights via IntoTheBlock 
Cardano › Adoption
A first look at the projects competing for Cardano’s Fund2
The second-ever Cardano fund is in full effect, with three of the dozens of projects now competing for a part of the 2 million ADA fund presented on the Cardano Effect podcast.
Korea › Adoption
Blockchain at the center of Korean island’s $5 billion development plan
Won Hee-ryong, the governor of Korea’s Jeju island, has announced a $5 billion government investment plan focused on developing blockchain and IoT technologies.
Cardano › Technology
How Voltaire will bring accountability to funding on Cardano
In his latest YouTube video, Charles Hoskinson, the CEO of IOHK, explained the lengthy process behind ensuring accountability to funding on Cardano.
Ethereum › DeFi
Leading Ethereum dex Curve begins dabbling in layer-two solutions
Ethereum transaction fees have dropped dramatically since the summer highs when gas cost upwards of 1,000 Gwei.
XRP › Technology 
Ripple
New Ripple service enables XRP payments on credit for SMBs
Blockchain payments provider Ripple launched its “Line of Credit” service yesterday to cater to customers using On-Demand Liquidity (ODL) to source capital on-demand to initiate cross-border payments at scale using the digital asset XRP.
Shaurya Malwa · 3 months ago · 2 min read · Insights via Ripple 
Chainlink › Adoption
Fetch.ai integrates Chainlink price feeds for powering its digital economy
Fetch.ai, a Cambridge-based artificial intelligence lab building an open-access decentralized machine learning network for smart infrastructure, announced yesterday that it had successfully completed a mainnet integration of Chainlink, as per a release shared with CryptoSlate.
Ethereum › Technology 
Solana
Solana announces Ethereum cross-chain bridge ‘Wormhole’
Web-scale blockchain network Solana, which boasts over 2 billion transactions since its introduction in March 2020, announced ‘Wormhole,’ a secure, trustless bridge connecting Ethereum to Solana, in a release shared with CryptoSlate.
Shaurya Malwa · 3 months ago · 2 min read · Insights via Solana 
Chainlink › Technology
Chainlink oracles are now live on AdEx Network (ADX/USD) price feeds
AdEx Network is going live on mainnet with a Chainlink oracle integration and the launch of a novel DeFi concept called “elastic token issuance,” it said in a release shared with CryptoSlate.
Polkadot › Technology
How the next DeFi powerhouse Polkadot is changing the face of ‘IPOs’
Polkadot, the interoperability and Web3 interface blockchain platform, is bringing a new type of token issuance via an “Initial Parachain Offering” (IPO), it said in a release shared with CryptoSlate.
Adoption Charles Hoskinson
Cardano update: IOHK fired up for DeFi, mobile clients for Daedalus, and CBDCs
With multiple teams both inside and outside of IOHK currently working on Daedalus and Goguen, the first week of October has been largely uneventful for Cardano.
Priyeshu Garg · 3 months ago · 4 min read · Insights via Charles Hoskinson 
Ethereum › Technology
An Ethereum scaling solution is near—a DeFi founder thinks it will “melt faces”
While Ethereum has become much less congested than it was just weeks ago, transaction fees are still far from cheap.
