Sony debuts Soneium Minato testnet, Web3 developer incubator

Bank of England governor Mark Carney has defended Facebook’s choice to create a new currency.Canadian news outlet TheStar reported Carney’s remarks on Oct. 15, noting that he highlighted the shortcomings of the current traditional financial system. Because of the inefficiency of the payments, Carey thinks that firms like Facebook should be involved in projects like…

The Ethereum network witnessed the deployment of its London upgrade on the Ropsten testnet on June 24. This upgrade consists of the highly anticipated Ethereum Improvement Proposal (EIP) 1559. Following the launch on the Ropsten testnet, the London upgrade will be deployed on Ethereum’s Goerli, Rinkeby and Kovan testnets at weekly intervals. This is one of…

Alibaba co-founder Jack Ma resigns from SoftBank’s board of directors as the firm posts the worst operating losses in its history. 1610 Total views 40 Total shares Alibaba co-founder Jack Ma is stepping down from the board of Japanese tech giant and major blockchain backer SoftBank. After 13 years of close involvement with SoftBank, China’s…

The South Korean arm of cryptocurrency exchange OKEx is removing support for five major altcoins due to new international regulations. FATF rules halt privacy coins tradingIn a blog post originally published on Sept. 10, OKEx Korea confirmed it would halt trading of Monero (XMR), Dash (DASH), Zcash (ZEC), Horizen (ZEN) and Super Bitcoin (SBTC) on Oct.…

Lookonchain shared that Plus Token had begun moving nearly $2 billion in ETH but it turns out most of it had already been sold in 2021.

Major global tech giant IBM has applied for another blockchain patent, this time aiming to deter augmented reality (AR) game players from intruding on undesirable locations. The tech firm’s latest patent document was released by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) on Thursday, Nov. 1.In the patent, IBM, also known as Big Blue, describes…

In a blog post on Sept 21, a16z's Miles Jennings discusses how decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs) can avoid power centralization by applying Machiavelli's principles. 48 Total views 1 Total shares Principles written almost 500 years ago by Niccolò Machiavelli — author of the controversial political work "The Prince" — are the path to solving decentralized