Overstock’s tZero Wraps Up Months-Long Token Sale

Decentralized trading platform Radar Relay closed a $10 million Series A funding round led by Blockchain Capital, the startup announced Wednesday.

news A new blockchain-powered startup led by three physical scientists promises to paint the world in diamond dust. DUST Identity’s service, known as DUST Ledger, allows users to enroll all manner of physical objects onto a blockchain, the founders claim. The system uses a product called the Diamond Unclonable Security Tag (DUST), a coating that uniquely identifies…

feature Last weekend, two privacy coin conferences heralded the future of cryptocurrency governance: the hybrid startup model versus grassroots experimentation. Over 200 people gathered in Croatia for Zcon1, organized by the nonprofit Zcash Foundation, while roughly 75 attendees gathered in Denver for the first Monero Konferenco. These two privacy coins are fundamentally different in a…

Aug 27, 2020 at 00:42 UTCUpdated Aug 27, 2020 at 00:43 UTC(Nikhilesh De / CoinDesk)Messaging giant LINE has launched a wallet for users to manage digital assets and a blockchain platform where developers can issue their own tokens, tokenize digital assets, and run decentralized applications (dapps). LINE’s development platform aims to allow companies to easily…

May 5, 2020 at 10:00 UTCUpdated May 5, 2020 at 10:27 UTCTEAM EFFORT: The new Trust over IP Foundation is enlisting big partners to establish digital ID standards. (Credit: Joshua Hoehne / Unsplash)IBM, Mastercard Join Digital Identity Project Building ‘Ecosystems of Trust’The highly specialized world of digital identity is opening itself to a wider audience.Announced…

A guard polices access to a shopping area in Wuhan. Via ShutterstockWuhan Days: What I Learned About Blockchain From Two Months Under LockdownWei Liu is Head of Business Development for DeFiner.org, a peer-to-peer network for digital savings, loans and payments. He is based in Wuhan, China. For my family and I, the Chinese Lunar New…

Despite its estimated size of over $3.1 trillion in 2024, today's telecom industry is facing financial, technological, and infrastructural sustainability challenges. As an average of 26% and 29% of households regularly experience unreliable Wi-Fi or broadband and mobile data in their homes, respectively, connectivity problems and service unreliability force people to miss out on opportunities.

news A 21-year-old student from the U.S. who stole over $7.5 million in cryptocurrency via SIM-swapping hacks has been sentenced to 10 years in prison. The Santa Clara County’s District Attorney’s Office announced Monday that the thief, Joel Ortiz, had hacked the cellphones of at least 40 individuals. Ortiz was a “prolific” SIM swapper, the…

NASD Inc., the company behind Noble, an asset issuance chain built for communication between blockchains, has raised $3.3 million in a seed round.The raise was led by Polychain Capital and included Borderless Capital, Circle Ventures and Wintermute Ventures, among others.Noble was created for native asset issuance in Cosmos and is part of the inter-blockchain communication