Coinbase Taps Amazon Web Services Vet as Engineering VP

A beach on Efate Island, Vanuatu (Shutterstock)Oxfam Ireland, a Belfast-based charity fighting global poverty, has received a €1 million ($1.1 million) grant to fund the next phase of a blockchain aid distribution project. Oxfam is piloting the Ethereum-based platform with Ethereum venture studio ConsenSys and Australian tech firm Sempo in the South Pacific Ocean nation…

The Atlas fund is staffed by alums of high-frequency trading firm Millennium and hedge fund Bridgewater. Hypersphere intends to employ the multimanager approach used at Millennium and Bridgwater to provide investors with niche trading strategies while keeping volatility low. 13:21 Kraken Incoming CEO on Company Culture, Future Plans as Jesse Powell Steps Down 06:30 Treasury

Thursday, Aug. 22 Credbull Closes $5.2M Round Led by Gnosis VC to 'Democratize Private Credit' On-chain PROTOCOL VILLAGE EXCLUSIVE: Credbull, which in April launched what it described as the "first licensed on-chain private credit fund" on the Polygon PoS blockchain, announced a $5.2M funding round led by GnosisVC, with strategic participation from Outlier Ventures, HODL

This week's major bitcoin bug was even worse than developers initially let on. The bug originally rocked the bitcoin world when it was reported the vulnerability could be used to shut down a chunk of the network. While this sounded bad enough for many, it turns out developers for Bitcoin Core kept a second, bigger part…

XRP and silver went viral – showing mind-meld market mechanics are still in play – though both hit limits.(Shutterstock)Feb 1, 2021 at 5:51 p.m. UTCBlockchain Bites: The ‘Silver Lining’ for BitcoinThree storiesIndia’s Parliament is considering a bill that would ban “private,” non-sovereign currencies, including cryptocurrencies. This is the latest attack on the growing crypto industry…

The bank’s game plan was hidden in plain sight in a widely overlooked report by the World Economic Forum. Deutsche Bank headquarters in Frankfurt, Germany (Thomas Lohnes/Getty Images)Feb 13, 2021 at 2:10 a.m. UTCUpdated Feb 13, 2021 at 2:18 a.m. UTCDeutsche Bank Quietly Plans to Offer Crypto Custody, Prime BrokerageDeutsche Bank has joined the growing…

The chairman of Deltec Bank & Trust says a widely scrutinized letter about stablecoin issuer Tether's  account at the Bahamas-based institution is "authentic." The letter, which Tether published Nov. 1, stated – albeit with a prominent disclaimer – that the company held an account at the bank, and that the account's balance as of Oct.…

It costs a lot to swap assets on Ethereum. Curve Finance is building a version on Polkadot to enable a multi-chain future.Feb 9, 2021 at 5:00 p.m. UTCUpdated Feb 9, 2021 at 5:12 p.m. UTCDeFi’s Curve Finance Is Branching Out to PolkadotCurve Finance is making its way to another blockchain – Polkadot.The decentralized finance (DeFi)…

Dec 14, 2020 at 2:27 p.m. UTCUpdated Dec 14, 2020 at 2:35 p.m. UTCVitalik Buterin at DEVCON 2018(Vitalik Buterin at DEVCON 2018)Buterin Warns Followers Not to Take Out Personal Loans to Buy CryptoEthereum founder Vitalik Buterin took to Twitter to warn his followers not to take personal loans to purchase cryptocurrencies.On Monday, Buterin shared a…