Tron’s BitTorrent Acquisition Triggers String of Employee Exits

DJT, a crypto token minted two months ago on the Solana blockchain, rallied as much as 180% Monday on an unconfirmed report that former U.S. president Donald J. Trump is behind it.If true, this would be the first time a presidential candidate from a major political party has created a cryptocurrency – but as of

Smart contracts of the upcoming POL token went live on the Ethereum mainnet as the Polygon blockchain gears for a shift towards its ‘2.0’ plan, developers shared in a release to CoinDesk on Wednesday.A group of Polygon founders and researchers previously proposed a token upgrade that would replace the network’s MATIC token with POL in

We are all slowly losing something we barely noticed we had: the right to transact. A couple decades ago, it was inconceivable that an overbearing government would freeze payments as a means of social control. Today, a system of pervasive censorship of transactions is emerging to complement pervasive censorship of speech.Zelinar XY, aka ZXY, is

news Two Ethereum Improvement Proposals (EIPs) have been approved for inclusion in ethereum’s next major upgrade, Istanbul. These are the first two code changes to be officially approved for the Istanbul upgrade, which is tentatively targeted to activate on ethereum mainnet in October. In today’s bi-weekly call, developers discussed which of the nearly 30 EIPs…

Good morning. Here’s what’s happening:Prices: As the trading week begins in Asia, Bitcoin and Ether are experiencing minor declines.Insights: An exploit of stablecoin exchange Curve could threaten more than $100 million in crypto. PLUS: Russia's share of bitcoin mining rose when China banned the industry; now mining is booming in Russia.Bitcoin Hovers Above 29K as…

Jan 12, 2020 at 07:23 UTCEthereum classic image via CoinDesk archivesEthereum Classic successfully completed the “Agharta” hard fork at block number 9,573,000 at 06:26 UTC on Sunday, according to etcnodes.org.Similar to the network’s last backwards-incompatible upgrade in September, Atlantis, Agharta makes ethereum classic more interoperable with sister-chain ethereum. As part of the hard fork, the…

news The former CTO of Tron, who left the project to launch a competing blockchain, has denied accusations of embezzlement, bribery and infringement that were levied by Tron founder Justin Sun. The dispute between the two emerged after Zhiqiang Chen announced in a May 10 Medium post that since his departure from Tron in January…

Backpack’s founders, Armani Ferrante and Tristan Yver, left FTX/Alameda before the firms collapsed.The fresh capital injection will cover the compliance and licensing costs as Backpack looks to expand into more jurisdictions.Longtime Solana contributor Armani Ferrante’s crypto wallet and exchange company Backpack has raised $17 million in a funding round led by Placeholder VC, according to

"QE is increasing the balance sheet for monetary purposes. This is about financial stability, and all expansion of the balance sheet is not QE," Marc Chandler, chief market strategist at Bannockburn Global Forex and author of the book "Making Sense of the Dollar," told CoinDesk in an email.