Blockchain Tech Predictions for 2024, From Experts at Ripple, Coinbase, a16z, Starknet

Layer-2 network Starknet will open staking on its ecosystem by the end of 2024, the developer firm StarkWare shared on Wednesday. The news was announced at the Ethereum Community Conference in Brussels, Belgium, by the company’s CEO Eli Ben-Sasson. Ben-Sasson submitted a Starknet Improvement Proposal to the community which suggests that users can choose whether

One of the more impressive runs higher ever seen in stocks took at least a brief breather on Thursday, with Bitcoin Development Company MicroStrategy (MSTR) sporting a double-digit percentage loss even as the price of bitcoin (BTC) surged to a new record high just shy of $100,000. At one point lower by more than 20%

XRP surged 17% following a settlement in the case involving Ripple Labs and the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). This led to a jump in its price from 50 cents to 65 cents and a significant increase in trading volumes. The settlement involved Ripple paying $125 million in civil penalties and agreeing to an

Jan 13, 2020 at 19:30 UTCUpdated Jan 13, 2020 at 19:36 UTCCoinsource, a well-known bitcoin ATM company, purchased a booth at this year's Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas. Given increased interest from the IRS in bitcoin ATMs, we were especially curious about how users reacted when Coinsource increased its know-your-customer (KYC) requirements."Our compliance…

Yesterday, the company behind the Sam Altman-fronted Worldcoin project announced it had raised $115 million dollars in venture capital. The raise looks like an atavistic last gasp for the kind of prestige-driven, slot-machine structured Silicon Valley fundraising fostered by a decade of cheap money. Because whether on ethical or financial grounds, there seems little rational…

Some industry experts say the SEC’s recent actions against U.S.-based Coinbase and Cayman Islands-based Binance could be a net positive for companies operating in the U.S, given the regulatory clarity they could help bring in the long run. In the short to medium term, however, these actions could force these firms to focus their efforts…

Starknet, a zero-knowledge rollup, said Wednesday it had shattered the record for transactions per second (TPS) among Ethereum layer-2 networks. According to the team, Starknet reached "a max TPS of 127.5 over the past 24 hours." 01:50 Bitcoin Open Interest Hits Record High Amid BTC Price Surge 02:41 Bitcoin Leaps Across $71K, Eyes All-Time High;

feature A new financial institution is preparing to open its doors for crypto startups in the U.S., and raising capital in an unorthodox manner. Founded by two Russians and an American with finance backgrounds, Arival Bank (with one “r”) is waiting for an International Financial Entity (IFE) license from regulators in Puerto Rico before it…

Jul 22, 2020 at 19:00 UTCHailing digital currency’s potential to democratize electronic payments, financial services giant Visa appeared on Wednesday to redouble its efforts to “shape and support” cryptocurrency’s place in the “future of money.”  Three “key values” will now steer Visa’s digital currency playbook: maintaining robust data protection standards; remaining network and currency agnostic;…