Visa R&D Arm Develops a Blockchain System That Could Replace Financial Data Aggregators

Sam Bankman-Fried’s trial for fraud is due to start Tuesday morning Eastern time.His lawyers are querying the government’s right to call witnesses including a Ukrainian investor and former FTX executives.Former crypto boss Sam Bankman-Fried wants to stop the government from calling multiple witnesses, including company investors and a Ukrainian customer left bereft by the collapse

news Payments startup Uphold is partnering with hardware provider Ledger to beef up its security processes when storing different cryptocurrencies. Through its Ledger Vault wing, Ledger will provide new tools to Uphold, letting the latter to better protect its customers’ funds from hacks, while also adding new user access controls, the companies announced at CoinDesk’s…

The partnership will help provide an added layer of security to blockchain transactions.Telefónica will introduce the security measure in Brazil.One of the world's largest telecommunication services providers, Telefónica (TEF), is partnering with decentralized oracle network Chainlink (LINK) to ensure security against Web3-related hacks and exploits, including "SIM Swap" attacks.The partnership will provide security for smart

Bitcoin ticked down slightly on Friday morning in Asia after a Nikkei report that the Bank of Japan was mulling a change to its yield curve control policy, but then recovered lost ground quickly to trade at $29,210, off about 0.15% over the past four hours and down 1% from Thursday, same time.BTC has spent…

Can you plagiarize something that’s meant to be copied?On Wednesday, Jan. 31, blockchain researcher 0xKaden called out the controversial crypto project Blast essentially for stealing code and trying to pass it off as its own. In particular, Blast, a much-anticipated, but also highly criticized project that raised over $1 billion last year using what some

news Facebook is looking to hire more than 30 professionals to ramp up its blockchain work, including the Libra cryptocurrency. The social media giant’s career website now lists 31 job openings requiring some blockchain expertise. Six of them are for Calibra, Facebook’s wallet app for Libra. These are all jobs for data scientists and engineers,…

feature Crypto loan platforms are booming as ether holders look to mitigate portfolio losses endured during 2018’s bear market. Among these decentralized finance (DeFi) applications, San Francisco-based startup Dharma Labs is emerging as one of the industry leaders by facilitating more than $6.4 million worth for crypto loans since its peer-to-peer lending platform launched on…

opinion Timothy Enneking is the founder and the primary principal of Digital Capital Management, LLC (DCM). The crypto space ain’t what it used to be. In the good old days when bitcoin was the only “cryptocurrency” around, life was much simpler. Then, a few other “currencies” came along, followed by ICOs and things rapidly got…

markets View Bitcoin is set to end April with around 26 percent gains. The growth marks the third straight monthly increase and the first three-month winning streak since the final quarter of 2017. A falling channel breakout seen on the monthly chart confirms a long-term bullish reversal. A similar breakout seen in October 2015 had…