Riot Platforms buys more than $500M in Bitcoin

According to an open letter published on Circle’s blog, the company has not provided services to Justin Sun since February. 248 Total views 18 Total shares USD Coin (USDC) stablecoin issuer Circle has denied claims of illicit financing and ties to Tron founder Justin Sun in an open letter posted to Circle’s blog on Nov.

The ADA/USD exchange rate has moved further into its “overbought” area, suggesting that a trend correction might follow suit. 3795 Total views 162 Total shares Cardano blockchain’s native asset, ADA, reached a new record high on Monday as investors pinned hopes on an upcoming smart contracts feature that expects to boost the cryptocurrency’s adoption.The ADA/USD exchange…

In the 19th century, the barons of American industries rose to prominence by leveraging their hold on tangible resources like oil and steel. Today, corporate titans seek to attain even greater heights of wealth by gathering consumer data. But now, like then, the benefits of accumulating such resources come paired with a significant business risk:…

Bitcoin (BTC) reached its highest level in more than two months with just a few days remaining before the July inflation report.The top cryptocurrency climbed 1.65% to $45,363 on Aug.8, continuing the upside momentum that has already seen it jumping 21.62% from its August 5 low of $37,300. BTC/USD daily chart. Source: TradingView.comMomentum was strong…

Polygon takes zero-knowledge rollups to the final testnet to gauge the performance of its zkEVM ahead of eventual mainnet integration. 167 Total views 1 Total shares Own this piece of history Collect this article as an NFTEthereum layer-2 scaling protocol Polygon (MATIC) is carrying out performance testing of zero-knowledge rollup (zk rollups) technology ahead of…

The French data protection agency CNIL said that it finds the legality of Worldcoin’s collection methods “questionable” as are its conditions for storing the data. 133 Total views 1 Total shares The French data protection agency, also called the Commission Nationale Informatique & Libertés (CNIL), is reportedly questioning the legality of data collection methods conducted…

This in turn could reduce the headaches involved when achieving consensus. Bison Trails, a Blockchain infrastructure-as-a-service provider, has created double-signing protection software, or DSP, which aims to address the slashing penalties associated with double signing messages.According to the company, many digital asset holders consider slashing penalties to be one of the “main risks” of Blockchain…

It seems like every week we hear news of another DeFi project being hacked or exploited. The latest crop of victims includes such projects as Harvest Finance, Akropolis, Value DeFi, Origin and of course Compound.When exploits do occur, they usually involve manipulating the reference price like ETH/DAI on a data source, such as Curve, Kyber…