Kaiko Research: Monthly Market Report March 2021

"Crypto dad" made his case for the next evolution of America's greenback.(CoinDesk)Feb 12, 2021 at 3:12 p.m. UTCEx-CFTC Chair Christopher Giancarlo Stumps for Digital DollarFormer CFTC chairman J. Christopher Giancarlo laid out his case for state-issued digital currencies on CoinDesk TV’s First Mover program Friday morning.Speaking as G7 leaders were set to meet with central…

news The government of Catalonia has announced it will develop a decentralized identity platform aimed to give citizens control of their own data when interacting with online services. According to a press release on Monday, the IdentiCAT project was announced today by Jordi Puigneró, minister of Digital Policy and Public Administration, as part of the ministry’s primary…

Jul 31, 2020 at 12:50 UTCUpdated Jul 31, 2020 at 13:00 UTCEthereum art (CoinDesk archives)Ethereum 2.0: Closer Than Ever, Still Plenty of Work to Do“Though now evolved in many ways,” Gavin Wood wrote in Ethereum’s 2015 yellow paper, “the key functionality of a blockchain with a Turing-complete language and an effectively unlimited inter-transaction storage capability…

Celo has added Google Cloud to its list of network validatorsGoogle Cloud’s Blockchain Node Engine will aid Celo’s migration to an Ethereum layer 2The Celo Foundation announced on Wednesday that Google’s computing cloud service, Google Cloud, is running a validator on the Celo network, joining Deutsche Telekom and other ecosystem contributors. A validator participates in…

Selling user data to artificial intelligence (AI) companies is simply mass surveillance under a new guise. People are rightfully worried about governmental mass surveillance. Yet most people are blithely unaware of the surveillance they sign up to when opening an account with a Web 2.0 company.Harry Halpin is the CEO and co-founder of Nym Technologies.Recently

news Enterprise Ethereum Alliance (EEA), the standards body seeking a common approach for businesses using ethereum’s code, has released a third version of its client specification, as well as updates on privacy and performance. Announced Monday at CoinDesk’s Consensus 2019 conference, EEA released its Enterprise Ethereum Client Specification V3, which simplifies permissioning systems, inherent to…

news The blockchain investigations firm Chainalysis has hired a top official from the main U.S. anti-money-laundering agency to help its cryptocurrency clients comply with tough new international data-sharing requirements. Announced Wednesday, Mike Mosier, the former chief of strategic advancement and tactical development at the U.S. Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN), has joined Chainalysis as chief…

DraftKings tapped Polygon for its marquee non-fungible token (NFT) release with Tom Brady’s Autograph back in August.Now the sports betting giant is going all-in on the Ethereum layer-2 solution with a partnership that could make it one of the blockchain’s largest governors.DraftKings, valued at nearly $20 billion on the public market, is planning to use…

Crypto adoption has remained steady in the U.S. and the U.K. in the past two years, the report said. Gemini said 65% of those surveyed said they held crypto for its long-term investment potential. The majority of crypto owners said they wanted to allocate 5% or more to digital assets, the survey said. Crypto adoption