Ethereum Network DRPC Aims to Quell Centralization Risks Ahead of Shanghai Upgrade

news The Federal Reserve of Boston is starting a new blockchain experiment this summer. The Massachusetts state regulator has been one of the earliest and most involved government bodies to dip their toe into the new technology. It has been quietly developing blockchain systems since 2016 but has said very little about their plans. Now…

Crypto exchange Binance has reopened registrations and access to products and services in Belgium three months after the Financial Services and Markets Authority (FSMA) ordered it to stop providing services in the country."Various Binance products and services are accessible again to Belgian users who have accepted our new Terms of Use," the company said in

Hex Trust says it has received in-principle approval from the Monetary Authority of Singapore for a Major Payment Institution License. This has been a multi-year process for the custodian, but will be well worth it as regulation is the future, its CEO Alessio Quaglini said in an interview. Crypto custodian Hex Trust announced on Wednesday

news StrongBlock – a private blockchain studio founded by the former executives of Block.one, the company behind the EOS blockchain – has closed a $4 million seed round, the firm announced Wednesday. The round was led by Pangea Blockchain Fund and its limited partners including Copernicus Asset Management. The startup, which was founded last year, aims…

Sep 29, 2020 at 19:01 UTCRings of Zilfin screenshot (crpgbook/Flickr, modified by CoinDesk)Better Broadband Will Pave the Way for a 'Brand New World'Bandwidth will be the defining factor of modern life and social evolution going forward. With increased access to the internet as well as ever-advanced computing, it’s likely the tone and tenor of human…

May 14, 2020 at 20:49 UTCUpdated May 14, 2020 at 21:05 UTCCredit: CoinDesk archivesCoinDesk Confessionals is a new series aiming to illuminate the lives of our cryptic crypto leaders. Based on the Proust Questionnaire, popular during the Victorian Age, we sent a survey asking about the quotidian and the extra-ordinary. The hope was their honest…

Jul 13, 2020 at 02:15 UTCProtocol Labs co-founder and CEO Juan Benet speaks at CoinDesk's Construct 2017 conference. (CoinDesk archives)Inside the Craze for Filecoin Crypto Mining in ChinaAs Filecoin inches closer to a blockchain mainnet launch – after several delays since its $200 million raise in 2017 – investors in China are again speculating heavily…

The project demonstrated that tokenized assets could be used to meet intraday margin calls instantaneously, regardless of traditional settlement cycles, processing times and time zones, Digital Asset's Kelly Mathieson said. Tokenized gold allowed the precious metal to be used more freely as collateral without traditional limitations like storage, a World Gold Council executive noted. 00:55

CoinDesk Indices (CDI) presents its bi-weekly market update, highlighting the performance of leaders and laggards in the benchmark CoinDesk 20 Index (CD20) and the broad CoinDesk Market Index (CMI).The CoinDesk 20 slipped 6.8% over the past week, bringing its loss to 21% for the month of April. Each of the 20 assets in the index