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news Co-founders of Israeli blockchain firm Orbs are being sued by former partner Elad Arad following the dissolution of his shares in a failed joint venture, Cointree Capital. According to Israeli business media Globes, Arad is suing partners and brothers Uriel and Daniel Peled, Orbs, Cointree Management Microverse, Hexa Labs, and Hexa Solutions following a failed…

May 13, 2020 at 11:00 UTCUpdated May 13, 2020 at 11:42 UTCDenisse Halm of cLabs hosts a workshop in Mexico City. (Credit: cLabs)Silicon Valley blockchain startup cLabs just raised $10 million for the Celo project through a token sale to investors on the CoinList platform. Roughly 109 investors from dozens of countries participated in the auction,…

California's Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) digitized 42 million of car titles on the Avalanche (AVAX) network as part of development to modernize the state's title transfer process with software development firm Oxhead Alpha. Users will soon be able to claim their digital titles via the DMV's application, track and manage them without getting to

Aug 29, 2020 at 13:00 UTC(Olga Buntovskih/Getty Images)The End of an Era? Why Bitcoin and MMT Won the WeekFed Chair Jerome Powell tried to make it seem like the end of an era, but didn’t inspire confidence in the central bank’s ability to lead in the era that comes next. For more episodes and free early access…

news Cambodia’s Central Bank wants to slash the cost of cross-border payments and is studying how its in-house digital wallet, the Hyperledger Iroha-powered Bakong, might get the job done. The National Bank of Cambodia (NBC) signed an agreement last week with Malaysia’s Maybank to determine how the banks’ respective digital payment platforms – Bakong and Maybank2u…

Hive Blockchain, which is among the largest publicly traded crypto miners of ether, outperformed its peers after the price of the native token of Ethereum, climbed to a record.Hive (NASDAQ: HIVE) shares rose almost 3% at 10 a.m. in New York, while its peers, which predominantly mine bitcoin, were mostly flat to negative on Friday.Among…

markets View Bitcoin tends to pick up a strong bid six months ahead of the reward halving, according to historical data. With the halving event due in May 2020, BTC may rise above the recent high of $10,350 in November and could challenge the 2019 high of $13,880 over the next couple of months. Shorter…

Dec 12, 2019 at 19:00 UTCUpdated Dec 12, 2019 at 19:08 UTCThis post is part of CoinDesk's 2019 Year in Review, a collection of 100 op-eds, interviews and takes on the state of blockchain and the world. Gavin Wood is the co-founder of Ethereum, Parity Technologies, Polkadot and the Web3 Foundation.I don’t want to romanticize…

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