Researchers Build Blockchain Electricity Exchange They Say Cuts Waste

Feb 25, 2020 at 13:36 UTCDerivatives exchange FTX is hosting a public sale for tokenized equity in the hopes it can attain a billion-dollar valuation. The Binance-backed platform, famed for creating the Shitcoin Index of low-market coins, announced Tuesday its FTX_Equity token sale would welcome investors willing to allocate a minimum $250,000 each. Each FTX_Equity…

news A new software based on the Hyperledger Fabric blockchain was launched for commodities trading for the gas industry. EnHelix Marketplace was unveiled at the Gastech energy conference in Singapore, company executives told CoinDesk. The software streamlines commodities trading with applications supporting every step of the process — pre-trade KYC, trade execution and post-trade risk…

Stacking Fasts: Inside the Crypto Community’s New Diet CrazeIt’s been 27 hours since my last meal and my body is starting to eat itself.Autophagy, literally self-eating, is the latest dietary trend in the crypto community. More commonly known as fasting, the idea is to abstain from ingesting food for a set amount of time, ranging…

May 13, 2020 at 12:40 UTCFinancial advisor Tyrone Ross, Jr. ducked into a coffee shop in Midtown Manhattan wearing a checked blazer and a pocket square in February to meet with me, a simple activity that’s unimaginable now. He approached with a wide, disarming smile, and its effect was immediately clear: This is a man…

The rapidly growing TON blockchain, originally started by messaging app Telegram, is getting its own venture capital fund with ecosystem leaders spinning out an independent, for-profit entity from the network's development foundation. TON Ventures announced its formation on Wednesday, led by Ian Wittkopp, the former director of TON Accelerator, and Inal Kardan, former gaming lead

One of the most interesting features of the current crypto markets is the elevated level of dispersion, or range of returns across different parts of the market. In today's liquid markets, sectors focused on infrastructure and technology have significantly outperformed more consumer-oriented categories like gaming, metaverse, and entertainment-related tokens. CoinDesk sector indices' performance since November

Feb 25, 2020 at 05:00 UTCLightning image via ShutterstockLightning Solves Bitcoin’s Speed Problem, But Watch Out for FraudstersJ.P. Koning, a CoinDesk columnist, worked as an equity researcher at a Canadian brokerage firm and a financial writer at a large Canadian bank. He runs the popular Moneyness blog. I don't know about you, but the thing…

news Harbor has pivoted from helping companies issue security tokens to helping them tokenize existing securities. Announced Monday, the startup has created tokens on the ethereum blockchain representing the shares of four real estate funds worth $100 million. The move is intended to make these private securities easier to trade for the 1,100 investors that…

Join the most important conversation in crypto and Web3 taking place in Austin, Texas, April 26-28.Oliver Knight is a CoinDesk reporter based between London and Lisbon. He does not own any crypto.Join the most important conversation in crypto and Web3 taking place in Austin, Texas, April 26-28.Polkadot, which describes itself as a "layer 0 blockchain,"…