Franklin Templeton Taps Wallet Service Provider to Support Tokenized Shares

Mar 13, 2020 at 12:40 UTCUpdated Mar 13, 2020 at 13:03 UTCWilliam Mougayar, a CoinDesk columnist, is the author of “The Business Blockchain,” producer of the Token Summit and a venture investor and adviser.We should stop trying to define or classify cryptocurrency as if it were a beast from another planet. Rather, we just need…

Exploiting DeFi protocols has long become crypto’s most popular type of crime, while traditional exchange hacks have become far less frequent. But cybercriminals haven’t lost all interest in the good old digital robbery.The recent hack of a crypto payment processor CoinsPaid shows that the most industrious cybercriminal groups in the world are still willing to…

news A newly-proposed relay protocol could reduce the “transaction bandwidth” used up by bitcoin nodes by up to 75%. Called Erlay, the proposed protocol alters the way transactions are relayed so that they use significantly less bandwidth, an important resource for the nodes that make up the network. The authors include The University of British…

When did I get interested in DePIN? It goes back to SETI, a 2000s-era crowdsourced search for extraterrestrial intelligence, and my own family. We have always found a hobby in setting up airplane antennas and watching the planes on radar for fun. I never thought there would be a decentralized version of this network, where

news The Veritaseum blockchain platform and its founder Reggie Middleton have filed a response to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) over the regulator’s claim that its ICO was fraudulent and illegal, and that Middleton had later manipulated the VERI token’s value. As a result, the SEC managed to get a New York court last week to…

Decentralized exchange (DEX) PancakeSwap will go live on the Polygon zkEVM network in line with broader plans to expand its user base and build protocol revenues, developer “Chef Cocoa” shared with CoinDesk.As a DEX, PancakeSwap relies on smart contracts instead of middlemen to process trading, lending and lottery services for users on the BNB Chain,…

Apr 23, 2020 at 08:45 UTCdYdX’s Crypto Loans Hit $1B as Traders Scramble to Capitalize on Coronavirus-led VolatilityDecentralized margin trading exchange dYdX has seen loan originations spike in recent months as traders borrowed digital assets to exploit volatile market conditions.The San Francisco-based project said Saturday it had lent more than a billion dollars worth of…

news Joel Telpner, Chair of Fintech and Blockchain Practice Group at Sullivan & Worcester LLP, isn’t surprised that Facebook is getting a grilling on Capitol Hill. In fact, he’s pleased. “These are attacks on Facebook itself that really has nothing to do with crypto has nothing to with Libra it’s just Facebook being bad boys…

Digital payments firm Strike has established a new headquarters in El Salvador for its international entity that could serve as a beachhead as it expands to more than 65 countries.But Strike says its primary headquarters is still in Chicago, despite regulatory uncertainty that has caused other crypto companies like Bittrex to exit the U.S. market.Strike…