Winners and losers of 2024: A year of all-time highs, hacks and hodling

Bridges have become one of the largest points of failure in the crypto industry. Polkadot wants to do away with them. 526 Total views 15 Total shares Blockchain platform Polkadot has launched a new cross-chain communications protocol, saying it will do away with cumbersome bridging mechanisms that have cost the crypto industry billions in cyber…

Controversy surrounds Signal’s recently announced MobileCoin integration, with users expressing concerns over ties between Signal’s founder and the cryptocurrency, opacity surrounding the coin’s issuance, and suspicious gains leading up to the partnership’s announcement.Signal is an encrypted messaging application that has been embraced by the privacy and security-conscious community since launching as Open Whisper Systems in…

Ethereum-based virtual-reality (VR) platform Somnium Space has moved from scalability solution Loom Network to Matic to enhance scaling.On March 23, Somnium Space said that it hopes the transition will allow it to achieve scalability and provide a superior user experience. The firm explained:“By implementing Matic’s high-performance Plasma-based sidechains, Somnium aims to solve any future issues…

The dispute over the legal ownership of the Bitcoin whitepaper could make it all the way to the courts as one website owner refuses to back down from Craig Wright's legal threats. 2831 Total views 11 Total shares The unfolding drama surrounding the ownership of the Bitcoin (BTC) whitepaper could very well make its way…

The Canada country director for Coinbase said local regulators were “much more collaborative” with the industry than their U.S. counterparts, but politicians were falling short.

Llama 2 is trained on 40% more public data and can process twice as much context than that of Llama 1 according to Meta. 152 Total views 18 Total shares Big Tech firms Meta and Microsoft have teamed up to launch Llama 2, an open-source large language model from Meta that will feature on Microsoft’s…

Bitcoin (BTC) delivered a swift six-week high into July 29 as the aftermath of the latest macro developments boosted risk assets. BTC/USD 1-hour candle chart (Bitstamp). Source: TradingViewMonthly close could seal 20% gainsData from Cointelegraph Markets Pro and TradingView captured local highs of $24,445 for BTC/USD on Bitstamp, its best since the week beginning June 13.After…

The tournament, “0xMonaco: Battle of Titans,” is scheduled to kick off on Jan. 29 and will bring together developers from around the blockchain space. 45 Total views 1 Total shares Own this piece of history Collect this article as an NFTMatchBoxDAO — a collective of developers, artists and designers building on-chain gaming infrastructure with StarkNet…