US Agriculture Dept approves blockchain-based certification system

Nonfungible token (NFT) marketplace LooksRare is the latest in a string of NFT markets to do away with enforcing creator royalties by default following the likes of Magic Eden and X2Y2.The platform tweeted on Oct. 27 that it would not be supporting creator royalties by default, instead choosing to share 25% of its protocol fees…

The most recent seizure of $5 million USDT from pig-butchering scams marks a “significant victory” in the ongoing fight against cyber fraud, according to Tether.

Mr. Wonderful thinks that crypto needs more regulation and less “crypto cowboys” like Tornado Cash creator Alexey Pertsev, who he suggested was a necessary sacrifice to create stability for institutional inflows. 216 Total views 2 Total shares Clamping down on crypto applications that “mess with the primal forces of regulation” is necessary, says Shark Tank…

Abracadabra Money enables users to provide collateral via interest-bearing bearing tokens and borrow the Magic Internet Money stablecoin against their holdings. Abracadabra Money’s stablecoin Magic Internet Money (MIM) has surged past a $1 billion total supply this month as the project works to provide competition to MakerDAO. Abracadabra is a cross-chain stablecoin lending protocol that…

There are more Bitcoin (BTC) whales now than at any point in the past two years — and that mimics a trend from its 2016 halving, data shows.In its latest Week On-Chain report on April 9, monitoring resource Glassnode revealed that current numbers of major Bitcoin investors are extremely similar to early 2016.Glassnode: whales see…

Bitcoin (BTC) eased volatility into Oct. 6 as BTC price downside preparations returned.BTC/USD 1-hour chart. Source: TradingViewBitcoin keeps liquidations limited amid long, short “squeeze”Data from Cointelegraph Markets Pro and TradingView covered a flatter 24 hours for BTC/USD after a failed retest of $28,000.After lingering in a narrow range around 1.5% lower, the largest cryptocurrency was

A vulnerability has reportedly been discovered in Intel’s Software Guard eXtensions (SGX) allowing passwords, encrypted keys, and other sensitive data to be siphoned from a computer’s memory.On March 10, computer researcher Daniel Gruss uploaded a video to YouTube describing how the proof-of-concept attack, dubbed a “Load Value Injection [LVI],” can be used to steal sensitive…

Aztec 2.0 is both a scaling and a privacy solution rolled into one. 5586 Total views 29 Total shares Aztec, a privacy protocol developing on Ethereum, announced on Monday the launch of its second iteration, promising private transactions and smart contracts while being cheaper than standard transfers.The layer two solution adopted by Aztec relies on…

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) said it plans to use its ongoing research and experimentation with blockchain as an “anchor” for its future policy on the technology in comments Nov. 12.Speaking on a panel with Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse during the Singapore Fintech Festival 2018, IMF Deputy General Counsel Ross Leckow highlighted three areas the…