Fireblocks and Google Cloud partner to enhance PKM security

On March 15, the European Parliament voted 418 to 103 (with 24 abstentions) in favor of negotiating a mandate for talks with the European Union member states about revising the new European Digital Identity (eID) framework and creating the “European Digital Identity Wallet,” also known as EUDI Wallet or EU wallet. Citizen’s IDs, health cards, certificates…

Institutional appetite for Ethereum will grow now that the network is ESG compliant, according to the BitMEX boss. 443 Total views 13 Total shares In a recent interview, BitMEX chief executive Alexander Höptner shared his thoughts about institutional investors who, in his view, still have an appetite for crypto and Ethereum.Speaking at the Token2049 conference…

Binance and Oasis Labs are building a platform to facilitate threat intelligence sharing among exchanges. The world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange, Binance, has teamed up with privacy-centric blockchain-powered cloud computing developers Oasis Labs to fight fraud in the crypto sector.Oasis was announced as the inaugural member and primary infrastructure provider for the Binance-led CryptoSafe Alliance on…

The U.S. Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) issued sanctions against Tornado Cash this month, marking its first action against a decentralized finance (mixer in what may prove to be a watershed moment for DeFi regulation.A lack of response and regulatory preparation from the industry is perhaps unsurprising of a mindset honed outside the…

Overstock shares soared by 21 percent in after-hours trading following news that Hong Kong-based private equity firm GSR Capital will invest up to $270 million in tZERO, an Overstock blockchain subsidiary, CNBC reported Aug. 9. The two companies signed a deal wherein GSR Capital will invest up to $374.55 million in exchange for tZERO and…

The Schnorr-based multi-signature scheme MuSig, a test code for a potential upgrade to the Bitcoin (BTC) blockchain, has been released by blockchain tech firm Blockstream, according to an announcement published on Feb. 18.Last January, four Bitcoin developers released a paper outlining how Schnorr multi-signatures (‘multisig’) could help scale the Bitcoin blockchain, saying that the technology…

Hedera shifts toward open-source decentralization, transferring its codebase to Linux Foundation’s Decentralized Trust for global collaboration.

A day after Twitter implemented new restrictions on the number of posts users can view, the rival platform Mastodon reported a major increase in traffic numbers. A day following Twitter’s new limits on the number of posts users can see according to their verification status, a rival to the social media company called Mastodon reported…

Rich Checkan described CBDCs as the spawn of Satan, and thinks that Bitcoin is still a speculative asset and not a currency alternative yet. 915 Total views 26 Total shares Rich Checkan, the president of Asset Strategies International (ASI) has described central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) as a product that was “concocted in hell by…