Playboy Files Fraud Lawsuit Against Blockchain Startup

The crypto startup Axiom – a protocol allowing developers to write smart contracts on Ethereum that can retrieve data from the blockchain network and then perform intensive computations on it – has launched its mainnet in alpha mode.The startup is looking at eventually using the technology to quickly and accurately detect deepfakes on the internet,…

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission release this statement in response to the hack of its X account that led to a fake announcement being issued in the SEC's name saying the regulator had a approved a spot bitcoin exchange-traded fund:Based on current information, staff understands that, shortly after 4:00 pm ET on Tuesday, January

news The Swiss branch of one of the top financial institutions in the Middle East is launching a suite of cryptocurrency-based services. Arab Bank (Switzerland) announced on Thursday that it will offer clients a range of services including custody and brokerage of bitcoin (BTC) and ether (ETH). The bank – based in the canton of…

This space ain't big enough for all of us. That about sums up the way R3's technical chiefs, CTO Richard Gendal Brown and lead platform engineer Mike Hearn, view the rivalry among enterprise blockchain solutions. While it may be more genial and less chaotic than the public blockchain world that Hearn left behind when he…

Jun 15, 2020 at 20:32 UTCSource: CoinDesk Bitcoin Price IndexMarket Wrap: Bitcoin Drops, Then Pops as Traders See Weaker Markets ComingBitcoin took a hit Monday, only to recover as many market participants see price weakness ahead. Bitcoin (BTC) was trading around $9,426 as of 20:00 UTC (4 p.m. ET), gaining less than a percent over…

Feb 20, 2020 at 17:30 UTCUpdated Feb 20, 2020 at 17:34 UTCEntrepreneur and investor Jennifer Zhu Scott is a Council Member of The Future of Blockchain Council at the World Economic Forum and holds a dual fellowship with the APAC Program and the Digital Society Initiative at Chatham House. She is also a consultant to…

news The U.S. state of New Jersey is taking legal action over alleged securities violations by token-powered online rental marketplace Pocketinns. New Jersey Attorney General Gurbir S. Grewal and the Bureau of Securities within the state’s Division of Consumer Affairs announced Thursday that its pursuing a three counts lawsuit against the company and its president, Sarvajnya G. Mada,…

The U.S. Department of Justice pushed back against Tornado Cash developer Roman Storm's motion to dismiss a criminal indictment against him.Tornado Cash was a money transmitting business, and the DOJ said it expects its evidence to support the charges, a Friday filing said.The U.S. Department of Justice rebuffed Tornado Cash developer Roman Storm's motion to

For the last few years, decentralized finance (DeFi) has emerged as a fundamental financial backbone of the digital assets space and as a parallel ecosystem to traditional financial markets. The space keeps evolving, creating new experiences and uses for participants.The first few years of DeFi have been marked by the establishment of programmable financial primitives…