Crypto group COPA launches bid to stop blockchain ‘patent trolls’

The bonds are tokenized on Polygon using the ERC-3643 token standard. 118 Total views 1 Total shares On June 6, decentralized finance (DeFi) lending platform Defactor Labs said that it tokenized $100 million worth of Alpha Bonds using the ERC-3643 token standard. The bonds, tokenized on the Polygon (MATIC) network, will be lent to small-…

Ethereum layer-2 scaling platform Polygon has released its zkEVM to mainnet beta, allowing developers to deploy smart contracts with increased finality and lower costs. 473 Total views 3 Total shares Own this piece of history Collect this article as an NFTPolygon has released its open-source zkEVM Ethereum scaling technology to the mainnet, promising reduced transaction…

United States Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) Chairman J. Christopher Giancarlo has said the agency’s fintech innovation hub LabCFTC is the regulator’s internal stakeholder in a landscape of exponential technological change and market evolution.Giancarlo made his remarks during his last appearance as CFTC chairman before the 44th Annual International Futures Industry Conference on March 14,…

EOS parent company Block.one is opening its fourth global site located in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan region.Creating 170 jobs over the next three yearsOn Sept. 23, Block.one LLC announced that it is opening new headquarters for its United States operations arm in the region of Arlington, Virginia, located in the Washington, D.C. metro area. The…

The agricultural division of pharmaceutical and life science giant Bayer AG, Bayer CropScience, is collaborating with ConsenSys-backed Blockchain-as-a-Service (BaaS) startup BlockApps. BlockApps revealed the news to Cointelegraph on March 22.Germany-based Bayer CropScience has been working on a number of blockchain initiatives with BlockApps since early 2018, a BlockApps spokesperson told Cointelegraph.One of the largest pharmaceutical…

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On May 17, bitcoin’s (BTC) price experienced a “flash crash,” dropping to $6,400 within minutes, which was triggered by a 5,000 BTC sell-off — equivalent to around $35 million at the time.An individual investor, speculated to be a whale — an investor holding a significant amount of bitcoin — is said to have placed a…

SBI Securities’ trading revenue surged 19.2% in 2019, largely due to the inclusion of the company’s crypto investment wing, which turned a $7.1 million loss into a $30 million profit over the year.Japanese financial services giant SBI Holdings released its new financial report on Oct. 30. The report analyzed results for the six-month period ended…

As staying home becomes the new normal, the popular video conferencing app Zoom continues to flourish. Despite multiple privacy concerns, on April 21, it was reported that more than 300 million people used Zoom’s flagship video conferencing app.It’s clear that Zoom still reigns supreme during the coronavirus pandemic, even as Facebook, Google and other tech…