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Oct 23, 2020 at 01:43 UTCUpdated Oct 23, 2020 at 01:46 UTCJuan Benet, Filecoin founder (Credit: CoinDesk archives)Filecoin Network Upgrade Goes Live, Miners Claim 25% Block RewardsFilecoin’s latest network upgrade, which allows miners to claim some block rewards without waiting on a vesting schedule, has just gone live.Miners who migrated their software to Lotus 1.1.0…

news Amazon is seeking to integrate parts of its advertising business with a blockchain. The Seattle-based e-commerce giant is looking for a senior software engineer to join its “Advertising FinTech team focused on a Blockchain ledger,” according to a recent job posting. This new team, based in Boulder, Colorado, will be focused on billing and reconciliation systems…

news Privacy-oriented cryptocurrency Grin has just executed its first backward-incompatible upgrade, also called a hard fork. Today’s planned upgrade introduces key changes to the nearly $60-million network that will optimize for maximum miner decentralization and usability. Grin launched in January 2019. “It was planned since way before Grin launched,” Grin developer John Tromp told CoinDesk. “We…

Angry users are taking to Twitter, putting the platform in the DOGE house.Voyager CEO Steve Ehrlich (right) with Robert Dykes of Caspian at Consensus 2019.(CoinDesk archives)Jan 29, 2021 at 9:06 p.m. UTCVoyager Reports Multiple ‘Service Disruptions’ After Encouraging Users to Trade DogecoinCrypto trading platform Voyager has gone off-line several times since Thursday due to “immense…

Uniswap, which uses a unicorn as its symbol, has become Ethereum's most prominent DEX.(Marlon Garcia/Creative Commons, modified by CoinDesk)Should DEXs Be Worried After BitMEX? DeFi Founders Weigh InThe sudden takedown of BitMEX has cast a new light on Ethereum’s decentralized finance (DeFi) markets.On Thursday, the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) and Department of Justice…

Investors may seek out alternative assets like crypto due to the risk of U.S. fiscal dominance and the monetization of government debt, the report said.Standard Chartered said a Trump election win could be positive for digital assets.The bank reiterated its year-end bitcoin price target of $150,000 and $200,00 for the end of 2025.The risk of

May 19, 2020 at 12:00 UTCChris Giancarlo speaks in Davos, Switzerland, on the sidelines of the 2020 World Economic Forum. (Credit: Aaron Stanley for CoinDesk)The Swiss crypto exchange leading a $200,000 effort to support tech-driven solutions to the coronavirus-led economic crisis has snagged a high-profile advisor: former U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) Chairman J.…

Jul 3, 2020 at 15:50 UTCUpdated Jul 3, 2020 at 15:56 UTCEther put-call ratios (Skew)Search For Yield Drives Ether’s Put-Call Ratio to One-Year HighInvestors’ search for yield has pushed a widely tracked ether options market metric to its highest level in 12 months.  The put-call open interest ratio, which measures the number of put options…

Candy Digital, a non-fungible token (NFT) startup majority-owned by Fanatics, has completed a $100 million Series A financing round co-led by Insight Partners and SoftBank Vision Fund 2 at a $1.5 billion valuation.The startup plans to use the funds to expand its NFT offerings across the global sports landscape and accelerate the growth of its…