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Polygon Labs, the main development firm behind the Polygon blockchain, announced Tuesday that it has acquired Toposware, a blockchain research firm that helped develop Polygon’s Type-1 prover – a core component of the company's zero-knowledge (ZK) product suite.Polygon has gone all in on zero-knowledge cryptography over the last few years, betting that the tech will

Nov 10, 2020 at 14:10 UTCUpdated Nov 10, 2020 at 14:28 UTCCoinbase staff in 2014(CoinDesk Archives/Flickr)3 Ways Coinbase Could Lose Its Crypto CrownIn 2012, Coinbase consisted of two guys in a San Francisco apartment. Today, it’s a colossus that dominates the crypto retail business in the U.S. while also boasting a thriving exchange for professional…

The list of companies leading the arms race for generative artificial intelligence tells you all you need to know about the risks we face from a concentration of power in this technology and how blockchain’s decentralizing data management model can help mitigate them.The five most prominent members of the corporate establishment now participating in AI

Some of the firm’s highest-paid partners are charging upwards of $2,000 an hour for their work on the case, while some billed hundreds of thousands of dollars in fees for the month.George W. Hicks Jr., P.C, one of Kirkland & Ellis’ litigation partners, billed $153,211 in fees across 87.8 hours of work, while Nicholas Adzima,…

Genopets, a non-fungible token (NFT) “move-to-earn” game where players receive rewards for their real-life actions, is teaming up with Yield Guild Games (YGG) to expand play-to-earn gaming globally, the company said Wednesday.YGG is a gaming guild that assembles players who can then earn rewards via blockchain-based economies. A guild makes play-to-earn games accessible by covering…

Investment firm Tiger Global Management sold its stake in crypto exchange Coinbase (COIN) late last year, according to a Wednesday regulatory filing.Tiger Global's 13F filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission showed that it held no Coinbase shares as of Dec. 31. Three months earlier, it had 38,850 shares worth $2.9 million at the

Kraken's lawyers have asked a court to dismiss SEC's claims against to avoid a "significant reordering" of the U.S. financial regulatory structure.The matter appears to be boiling down to whether the SEC has jurisdiction over the cryptocurrencies Kraken listed.Crypto exchange Kraken has asked a U.S. court to dismiss the claims brought against it by the

Sam Bankman-Fried's defense team named Joseph Pimbley as their sole proposed expert witness in the FTX founder's ongoing criminal case.Pimbley, a member of litigation consulting firm PF2, will respond to testimony from former Alameda Research CEO Caroline Ellison and developer Adam Yedidia, and former FTX Chief Technology Officer Gary Wang and Head of Engineering Nishad

Nov 6, 2020 at 11:11 UTCUpdated Nov 6, 2020 at 11:16 UTCWeb search data suggests popular interest in bitcoin remains at normal levels, despite a sharp price rally to near $16,000.The top cryptocurrency has chalked up a nearly 50% gain in the past four weeks to trade as high as $15,971 earlier on Friday –…