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May 28, 2020 at 19:44 UTCUpdated May 28, 2020 at 19:54 UTCCredit: AevanStock/ShutterstockBitClave, a California startup whose Ethereum-based search engine raised $25.5 million in a 2017 token sale, will pay back its 9,500 investors in a settlement with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). The settlement ended BitClave’s court saga almost as soon as…

Zora, the popular platform used by creators and brands to mint non-fungible tokens (NFTs), has launched its own layer 2 blockchain network to support creatives and minimize costs.The Zora Network is secured by Ethereum and built on Optimism’s tech stack. According to a press release, the new network will make minting on its platform "faster,…

Feb 8, 2020 at 09:00 UTCUpdated Feb 8, 2020 at 09:50 UTCHarvard researcher Mutale Nkonde examines technology through the lens of whether it improves people’s lives. She is an expert on how technological systems impact communities of color and she's helped craft bills on deep fakes, biometric surveillance and algorithmic bias that have been introduced…

Oct 30, 2020 at 18:09 UTCUpdated Oct 30, 2020 at 18:30 UTCDays before a U.S. presidential election marred by court fights over vote counting and partisan allegations of rampant mail-in ballot fraud, Overstock.com is once again touting what it calls a solution: blockchain voting.“If [voting] doesn’t work as well as it should, next week think…

Bitcoin derivatives trading provider LedgerX says it saw a "record" amount of trading volume over the last two months.

Andrew Griffith, economic secretary to the U.K. Treasury, told lawmakers that the government had no plans to appoint a 'crypto tsar' during a Tuesday debate.The debate was hosted by the cross-party Crypto and Digital Assets All Parliamentary Group (APPG), which published a report earlier in June asking the government to appoint an official to exclusively…

Vice president Kamala Harris' odds of becoming the Democratic nominee for president this year more than quadrupled on Tuesday, according to traders on Polymarket, the crypto-based prediction market platform that's seen torrid growth in an election year. "Yes" shares in a contract asking whether she will get the nod traded as high as 31 cents

BlackRock CEO Larry Fink said an ether ETF would still be possible even if the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission designates the cryptocurrency as a security, which would increase the regulatory scrutiny around the second-largest digital asset.Asked Wednesday on Fox Business whether BlackRock – which has made waves in crypto through its bitcoin exchange-traded fund

Payments giant Mastercard has released a platform that allows central banks to test how proposed central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) would work in real life. Mastercard announced Wednesday it had launched a virtual testing environment that can simulate issuance, distribution, and exchange of CBDCs between banks and financial service providers, as well as end-consumers purchasing…