Vitalik Buterin proposes faster Ethereum trades with single-slot finality

This is the second layoff by the pioneering NFT marketplace after the crypto winter and a stubborn bear market for collectibles. 29 Total views 7 Total shares Nonfungible token (NFT) marketplace OpenSea announced on Nov. 3 that it was laying off employees. Co-founder and CEO Devin Finzer broke the news on X (formerly Twitter), saying

Ethereum layer-2 scaling solution Optimism has been overwhelmed with “all-time high demand” following the launch of its highly anticipated airdrop on Wednesday. Users racing to collect their tokens were greeted with failed or delayed transactions as the Optimism team raced in the background to add additional capacity to the network. As previously reported in April, Optimism…

The weekend failed to ignite bullish momentum from crypto investors and both Bitcoin (BTC) and Ether (ETH) turned down on Oct. 31. The bulls will now try to achieve the third successive weekly close and the first-ever monthly close above the psychological $60,000 level.$63,000 is another level of interest for traders because the stock-to-flow creator…

According to an educational video from the International Monetary Fund, cryptocurrencies could be ‘the next step in the evolution of money.’ 2002 Total views 22 Total shares An old International Monetary Fund video explaining the benefits and disadvantages of cryptocurrency has resurfaced on social media, and many viewers are largely unimpressed.The two-minute video originally published…

The global demand for blockchain engineers is up by 517 percent year-over-year, according to a report released by recruitment company Hired on Feb. 28.The document also notes that the second-fastest growing software engineering role is security engineer, with 132 percent growth, and third is embedded engineer, up 76 percent. The blockchain engineer role also consistently…

A Nikkei article states that Soramitsu will start testing its ‘White Tiger’ digital currency for retailers at a university in Fukushima. 115 Total views 4 Total shares Japanese blockchain company Soramitsu announced it would start testing a new local digital currency for retailers at the University of Aizu.According to a June 29 report in the…

Securities Commissioner Karen Tyler of North Dakota, U.S., has issued a cease and desist order against a Russian Initial Coin Offering (ICO) that posed as Liechtenstein Union Bank, according to a Monday, Nov. 19 press release.The state Securities Department’s ICO Task Force conducted an investigation and found out that the website of the fraudulent ICO…

The U.S. Department of the Treasury Under Secretary for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence Sigal Mandelker urged crypto industry players and regulators to prevent the illicit use of cryptocurrencies in a speech Dec. 3.Speaking at the Financial Crimes Enforcement Conference on Dec. 3, Mandelker addressed the issue of mitigating risks related to emerging technologies, including digital…

All unlicensed crypto exchanges have been kicked out of Hong Kong.