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Humanity Protocol, which uses palm scans for identify verification, raised $30 million and was valued at $1 billion.The cash will fund hiring and development costs, with a testnet release planned for the second half.00:58GameStop's Business Will Fail 'at Some Point': Economist01:04Can Miners Survive Lower Bitcoin Fees and Reduced Rewards?01:46Tornado Cash's Alexey Pertsev Sentenced to 64

Base, the layer 2 blockchain developed by Nasdaq-listed crypto exchange Coinbase (COIN), has completed a series of security audits as it prepares to launch its mainnet with the aim of attracting as many as 1 million new crypto users in coming years.Base, which is built on the OP stack in collaboration with Optimism, was announced…

D.A. Davidson, the Wall Street investment banking and research firm, launched research coverage of bitcoin mining companies Core Scientific, Marathon Digital, Riot Blockchain and Hut 8 Mining with buy ratings for all the stocks.D.A. Davidson analyst Christopher Brendler sees a “huge opportunity” for the domestic miners, after bitcoin’s sustained rally and China’s sweeping crypto bans.…

Jul 31, 2020 at 03:00 UTCUpdated Jul 31, 2020 at 03:02 UTCToronto, 2014 (Duncan Rawlinson/Flickr Creative Commons)Ethereum History in 5 ChartsFive years ago this week, the first general-purpose blockchain went live on mainnet. Ethereum paved the way for a whole new use case for blockchain technology untethered from Bitcoin’s original vision as electronic cash. CoinDesk…

Pyth, an oracle service that provides low-latency pricing data to blockchains, distributed its new PYTH governance tokens to more than 90,000 crypto wallets in November. The token was introduced as a way to decentralize Pyth's governance process – a system that will allow token-holders to vote on how the platform evolves.As the result of a

news Cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase has revealed that it has been targeted by, and foiled, “a sophisticated, highly targeted, thought out attack” aimed to access its systems and presumably to make of with some of the billions of dollars’-worth of cryptocurrency it holds. In an Aug. 8 blog post that sets out in technical detail how…

Jump Trading, Wintermute and Abraxas Capital deposited large amounts of bitcoin (BTC), ether (ETH) and Arbitrum’s ARB token to crypto exchanges during Monday’s crypto market sell-off, blockchain data shows.Asset manager Abraxas Capital transferred 14,130 ETH – worth roughly $22.5 million – to Bitfinex in two transactions, blockchain analytics firm Arkham Intelligence noted in an X

Solana-based NFT trading platform Tensor said Tuesday it will issue a token, $TNSR, whose holders will govern the protocol.In a post on X (formerly Twitter) the Tensor Foundation said more details about the token's release will come "soon." It did not state whether there would be an airdrop."Shortly, Tensor protocols will be adopted by the

Celo has added Google Cloud to its list of network validatorsGoogle Cloud’s Blockchain Node Engine will aid Celo’s migration to an Ethereum layer 2The Celo Foundation announced on Wednesday that Google’s computing cloud service, Google Cloud, is running a validator on the Celo network, joining Deutsche Telekom and other ecosystem contributors. A validator participates in…