District Judge Forms Blockchain Law Study Group in South Korea

The TON blockchain created by messaging app provider Telegram is suffering its second outage in as many days. "Block production issues began at 19:19 UTC" the team behind the project told users in a message posted to Telegram and X (formerly Twitter) on Wednesday during U.S. afternoon hours. "The disruption appears to be due to

Uplink, a company attempting to democratize internet access, announced a $10 million funding round led by Framework Ventures.The firm is a Decentralized Physical Infrastructure Network (DePIN), a sector that data provider Messari estimates could have a market value of $3.5 trillion by 2028. DePIN projects connect blockchain technology with physical systems and often offer tokens

Binance is now requiring prime brokers to enhance their KYC to block U.S. nationals, according to a Bloomberg report.In court documents unsealed in November, it was revealed that U.S. customers significantly fueled Binance’s rapid growth.Binance is asking its prime brokers to do enhanced Know Your Customer (KYC) work on clients to ensure that they aren’t

Concordia, a multi-chain risk and collateral management protocol for digital assets, has raised $4 million in a seed funding round co-led by Tribe Capital and Kraken Ventures, with Cypher Capital and Saison Capital among the other participants.The fundraise follows the protocol's public testnet launch on Aptos earlier this month. The mainnet launch is expected to…

Corporations find blockchain technology challenging to use. But it's much too early to write off enterprise applications wholesale. (Moe Na/CoinDesk)Feb 5, 2021 at 5:38 p.m. UTCMoney Reimagined: Enterprise Blockchain Isn’t DeadWelcome to Money Reimagined.A snowy week has left New Yorkers chilly. But ether investors must be feeling cosy. Ethereum’s native token has risen more than…

A signal historically associated with inverse bets may spell good days ahead for bitcoin (BTC) bulls as investors in the world’s largest cryptocurrency await a key regulatory for an exchange-traded fund (ETF) product in the U.S.Jim Cramer, a former hedge fund manager and host of CNBC’s Mad Money, affirmed in a TV segment Monday that

The Web3-AI space is one of the hottest in crypto, combining great promise with significant hype. It almost feels heretical to point out the number of Web3-AI projects with multi-billion dollar market caps but no practical use cases, driven purely by proxy narratives from the traditional AI market. Meanwhile, the gap in AI capabilities between

Apr 24, 2020 at 09:47 UTCUpdated Apr 24, 2020 at 10:02 UTCEmin Gun Sirer speaking at CoinDesk Consensus AVA Labs Will Splash Millions to ‘Brain Merge’ DeFi and Traditional FinanceNow that its public testnet is live, Emin Gun Sirer’s AVA Labs wants to invest heavily in building a DeFi space more in its own image.…

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