Ore wins Solana hackathon despite disrupting Solana’s network in April

Bitcoin (BTC) price witnessed a sharp dump to $50,900 on April 18, which some analysts attribute to a drop in hash rate and rumors of possible action by United States regulators against unnamed “financial institutions” alleging crypto-related money laundering.While it is difficult to pinpoint a single reason, the sale of roughly $5 billion worth of COIN…

San Francisco-based nonprofit Kiva, a company that crowdfunds loans for financial inclusion, has launched a blockchain platform for credit history with the government of Sierra Leone.According to a Reuters report on Aug. 21, Kiva and President of Sierra Leone Julius Maada Bio jointly launched the blockchain initiative in the country’s capital. The platform will use biometric…

Ethereum’s highly anticipated Pectra upgrade could set the stage for the next phase of the 2025 crypto market cycle, according to analysts, even as Ether continues to underperform Bitcoin. The Ether (ETH) price fell over 32% during February, finding a local bottom at an over two-month low of $2,073 before recovering to the current $2,245

USD Coin continues to capture stablecoin market share, with Tether’s stable token dominance falling below 75% for the first time ever. 174 Total views 4 Total shares The sands are shifting in the stablecoin ecosystem, with Circle’s USD Coin quickly eating into the dominance of the sector’s leader, Tether.According to a Feb. 1 report from…

In the crypto space in Asia last week, new data concerning Bitcoin (BTC) use in Hong Kong shows that residents are using crypto to hedge against the possibility of capital restraints, while the Japanese Financial Services Agency (FSA) is undertaking new regulatory actions.Here is the past week of crypto and blockchain news in review, as…

The Blockscan Chat service enables users to message each other via their Ethereum wallet addresses. 83 Total views 6 Total shares The team behind the popular blockchain explorer and analytics platform Etherscan has launched an Ethereum-based wallet-to-wallet instant messaging service dubbed “Blockscan Chat.” Blockscan is currently in beta testing mode, and it currently enables users…

Since its inception in 2017, Web3 gaming (a.k.a. blockchain gaming) has faced significant hurdles, leaving the industry at a critical crossroads — adapt or perish (as some believe). But others, including myself, are confident that the world of Web3 games is merely undergoing a much-needed transformation, having only recently shed the hype-driven mentality that marked…

The Ethereum block difficulty began to grow back in November 2016. Since then, developers have been constantly forced to carry out hard forks to keep the network up until the transition to a proof-of-stake algorithm takes place.In the lead-up to the Istanbul upgrade, implemented on Dec. 8, the Ethereum team decided again to postpone the…

The two protocols will collaborate on a joint platform that will combine the best features of each. 2434 Total views 19 Total shares Decentralized exchange Balancer and decentralized finance platform Gnosis have announced today a planned integration dubbed the Balancer-Gnosis-Protocol, a collaboration that will combine Balancer’s v2 pool mechanisms with Gnosis’s DEX aggregation and batch…