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Sep 18, 2020 at 09:14 UTCMcDonald's outlet in Hong Kong ( S3studio/Getty Images)VeChain to Supply Blockchain Tech for Chinese Food Safety Group That Includes McDonald’sThe VeChain Foundation has become the first blockchain-based entity to join the China Animal Health and Food Safety Alliance (CAFA). According to a Thursday medium blog post, VeChain joins the 130…

And yes, if we wanted, we could do it on a blockchain. If a real dollar were issued on a real, public blockchain like Ethereum (not a “permissioned chain” that only a few parties can access or administer), the financial infrastructure we could build and automate on top of that would be incredibly efficient and…

Usage of Avalanche, the seventh-largest smart contract platform, more than doubled in the second quarter, even as users committed less of their cash to the system.Daily transactions on Avalanche C-Chain, an implementation of the Ethereum Virtual Machine, grew to just under 500,000 from roughly 200,000, and the number of daily active addresses ranged between about…

news A primary challenger to U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) is looking to change the way the federal government regulates the blockchain industry, in addition to raising $1 million in cryptocurrency donations. 2020 congressional candidate hopeful Agatha Bacelar (D) is looking to unseat Pelosi in California’s 12th district, according to her campaign…

Things are going as expected, according to Standard Chartered Bank, reiterating its April forecast that bitcoin (BTC) would reach $100,000 by the end of 2024.The next catalyst, wrote the bank's Geoff Kendrick and team, will be the approvals of several U.S.-based spot bitcoin ETFs, which they expect “are likely to come sooner than expected."“We think

Nov 29, 2019 at 10:38 UTCUpdated Nov 29, 2019 at 10:41 UTCShanghai image via ShutterstockLittle-Known Crypto Exchange With Ties to a Shanghai Firm Halts Services, Says CEO ‘Missing’An obscure cryptocurrency exchange named IDAX has said its "global CEO has gone missing" and asked users to stop using its services.The exchange said in an urgent notice…

Nearly a year after alleged crypto market manipulator Avi Eisenberg raided the blockchain-based trading protocol Mango Markets for more than $100 million, the platform’s stakeholders are struggling to afford growing legal expenses.And based on the early voting results on a key proposal from the platform’s founder, they appear reluctant to keep footing the bill.Mango Labs,…

A unit of the Optimism Foundation has hired Ryan Wyatt as as chief growth officer, just four months after he departed rival Polygon Labs in a management shakeup.As CGO of Optimism Unlimited Ltd., an operating subsidiary of the Optimism Foundation, Wyatt will be responsible for supporting blockchain development, and helping developers build across the Optimism

Crypto newbies from around the world are now using their old laptops to earn bitcoin, according to statistics from the firm.