Hive Blockchain Buys 6,400 Mining Machines From Canaan to Reach 1,200 PH/s

Crypto derivatives exchange BitMEX has started a prediction market, which allows traders to bet on the outcome of real-world events.Prediction markets have been around for quite some time but have seen a surge in popularity thanks to Polymarket.Polymarket, which was fined $1.4 million in January 2022 for unregistered swaps, offers bettors a plethora of contracts

Sky, the decentralized finance lender formerly known as MakerDAO, will vote on fully ditching wrapped bitcoin (wBTC) from its ecosystem, according to a Thursday governance post, potentially a major development in DeFi since the platform has $200 million of loans collateralized by the token. WBTC is a token that allows investors to use bitcoin (BTC)

Sage D. Young is a tech protocol reporter at CoinDesk. He owns a few NFTs, gold and silver, as well as BTC, ETH, LINK, AAVE, ARB, PEOPLE, DOGE, OS, and HTR. Lido, the dominant liquid staking platform, is voting to execute its second iteration on the Ethereum blockchain, a pivotal moment for users in the…

Jun 25, 2020 at 11:01 UTC(Drozdin Vladimir/Shutterstock)IBM Spawns Blockchain for Norwegian Salmon FisheriesThe Norwegian Seafood Association has teamed up with IBM and Atea, a technology firm focused on the internet of things (IoT), to create a blockchain-based track-and-trace system. The project aims to prove the provenance of sustainably farmed salmon in Norway. Following a successful…

Craig Wright has dropped his appeal against Hodlonaut in Norway.The decision to drop the case comes a month after a U.K. judge definitively ruled that Wright is not the inventor of Bitcoin.Craig Wright has dropped his appeal against Norwegian bitcoiner Hodlonaut, ending a nearly five-year-long legal battle over a series of social media posts in

feature Moiz Kohari, State Street’s global chief technology architect, has traded his position at the custodian bank for a move into the startup world, he told CoinDesk. Kohari helped kickstart the bank’s wide-ranging technology transformation program structured on a bedrock of distributed ledger technology (DLT) from the point he joined State Street in September 2016.…

Blockchain firm SIMBA Chain won a contract to build a system to anticipate demand for "critical" military weaponry parts.Jan 13, 2021 at 2:52 p.m. UTCUpdated Jan 13, 2021 at 3:44 p.m. UTCUS Navy Commissions $1.5M Blockchain System for Tracking Critical WeaponryThe U.S. Office of Navy Research has awarded a $1.5 million contract for a blockchain…

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).Meme coin shiba inu (SHIB) continues to see outsized gains among the CoinDesk 20, more than doubling in value so far this week and now up nearly

news The U.S. Congress will soon vote on a bill providing new information about the Commodity Futures Trading Commission’s (CFTC) authority over the cryptocurrency derivatives markets. A provision in the 2019 CFTC Reauthorization Act clarifies how the regulator would collect information on digital commodities contracts and commodity swaps. The bill is heading to the House…