3 things that can spoil a potentially bullish July for Bitcoin

A pair of hackathons from two fast-rising blockchain projects augur more composability, interoperability, and tooling for DeFi 923 Total views 14 Total shares On Friday, blockchain projects Cosmos and Blockstack both announced winners of their respective HackAtom V and HackDeFi hackathons, each offering a glimpse into the coming wave of DeFi development — a vision…

The Bank for International Settlements is on a roll with its third publication within days detailing how commercial banks in four jurisdictions transferred funds using CBDC. 193 Total views 3 Total shares The Bank for International Settlements (BIS) has released the full details of its mBridge pilot project to use central bank digital currencies (CBDCs)…

Google's parent company is reportedly exploring applying emerging tech to its main products and services. 223 Total views 23 Total shares Google has started researching blockchain and how it may benefit Web 3.0 technology.According to a Tuesday statement from Sundar Pichai, the CEO of Alphabet — Google's parent company — the company is exploring integrating…

The anti-crypto United States Congressman Brad Sherman (D-CA) has been elected to serve as Chairman of the Subcommittee on Investor Protection, Entrepreneurship and Capital Markets.On Dec. 5, Chairwoman of the House Financial Services Committee Maxine Waters (D-CA) announced that Sherman was elected to take up the position of Chair at the subcommittee that oversees the…

The Stellar Development Foundation unveiled a partnership with Elliptic, adding transparency capabilities for Stellar-based businesses. 1330 Total views 30 Total shares The Stellar Development Foundation, or SDF, a non-profit tasked with fostering Stellar's network growth, unveiled new ties with crypto risk-management operation, Elliptic, on April 30. The partnership sees the SDF calling on Elliptic's crypto risk expertise…

Chainalysis CEO Michael Gronager believes “it’s not much further away” before governments use AI agents to catch onchain crypto wrongdoers.

Over 10,000 Redditors have signed up for the platform’s ETH-based rewards, however, 75% of them are Fortnight players. 2423 Total views 68 Total shares Within days of launching on the Rinkeby testnet, Reddit’s Ethereum (ETH)-based Community Points rewards system has seen more than 10,000 addresses created.Reddit’s points were rolled out across two subreddit communities pertaining…

A study by risk solutions provider, Kroll, identified a growing trend in the use of Qakbot trojan, or Qbot, to launch email thread hijacking campaigns and to deploy ransomware attacks.According to the findings in conjunction with analysts from the National Cyber-Forensics and Training Alliance, or NCFTA, cybercriminals seek to steal financial data from multiple industries…

The Ethereum co-founder said it was “stage 1 or bust” for his acceptance of a layer-2 project’s decentralization progress.