Better Know a Crypto Candidate: Jerrod Sessler

A major new report from the U.S. Treasury Department published July 31 has called for a more agile and conducive regulatory approach to innovations in the fintech sector. The 222-page report, devoted to ‘Nonbank Financials, Fintech, and Innovation,’ only fleetingly touches upon cryptocurrencies and distributed ledger technologies (DLT) such as blockchain, noting that these are…

Decentralized file- and web-hosting protocol InterPlanetary File System (IPFS) announced its largest upgrade so far.According to an announcement shared with Cointelegraph, the developers will release IPFS version 0.5. on April 28. IPFS 0.5 reportedly makes uploading new data 25 times faster, fetching content two to five times faster, while finding nodes that have it will be…

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The video conference app will launch its end-to-end encryption in July 2020 in a beta stage for both free and paid users. 421 Total views 18 Total shares On June 17, the popular video conference app, Zoom, officially announced that end-to-end encryption, or E2EE, has finally arrived for their software. It will be provided to…

One week after introducing the Address Ownership Proof Protocol, or AOPP, the hardware wallet company backtracked on its decision due to customer privacy concerns. 155 Total views 9 Total shares Since 2019, Swiss financial crypto intermediaries have required proof of ownership of an external wallet's address for Bitcoin withdrawals and deposits to their customers' non-custodial…

The Sveriges Riksbank said that CBDC technology still requires further investigation. 2371 Total views 13 Total shares After completing the first phase of its digital currency pilot project, Sveriges Riksbank has found some critical issues that must be addressed before Stockholmers can buy coffee and kanelbullar with e-krona.In a recent study, Sweden’s central bank presented the first results…

The Maker Foundation has returned 84,000 MKR to the project’s DAO in a major milestone for the protocol’s road to decentralization. 4177 Total views 22 Total shares The MakerDAO Foundation has returned 84,000 MKR tokens from its development fund to MakerDAO’s governance module, marking a milestone in the project’s path to decentralization.In a May 3…

India’s largest port operator APSEZ has partnered with IBM’s TradeLens platform to digitize its supply chain process. 1094 Total views 35 Total shares The largest multi-port operator of India, Adani Ports and Special Economic Zone Limited (APSEZ), has partnered with the blockchain-based supply chain solution platform TradeLens.APSEZ plans to integrate TradeLens’s blockchain solutions across 10…

Cointelegraph speaks to the once-anonymous founder of Nirvana Finance, revealing how one random Telegram message led to the capture of the exploiter that stole $3.5 million from the protocol.