2019-2-2 15:00 |
New protocol by Boston University academics brings the security of self-custody associated with decentralized exchanges, to their centralized counterparts — without the corresponding lack of liquidity or other DEX related headaches. origin »
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xCrypt is the first innovative crypto ecosystem with its heart in ist exchange: hybrid, compliant with the securities and attentive to the erc721’s future, designed to be simple, comfortable and innovative.
2019-2-2 00:03 | |
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Earlier this week, January 28, Arwen announced it was partnering with KuCoin in order to deliver a new non-custodial service to its customers which will allow them to use the exchange to trade “without exposing coins to the security risks inherent at centralized exchanges.
2019-1-31 20:00 | |
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Centralized exchanges are a common security concern in the cryptocurrency ecosystem. As a single point of failure they can be strong-armed by governments, routinely targeted by hackers, or operators could pull an exit scam and elope with client funds.
2019-1-29 01:04 | |
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“Ethereum (ETH) Is Arguably Centralized” On January 14th, Preston Byrne, an attorney at Bryne & Storm that is enamored with blockchain technology, took to Twitter to mention his thoughts on Ethereum (ETH), likely in the context of the then-impending Constantinople hard fork, which was recently delayed due to security qualms.
2019-1-20 05:30 | |
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Latest EOS News While there are numerous opportunities to profit, we cannot really hide our heads in the sands. Blockchain and web 3. 0 is proving to be a breeding ground for hackers and scammers.
2019-1-15 16:00 | |
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And the nerd we are talking about is Preston Byrne, a lawyer who also runs a website where he occasionally gives his insight in crypto related legal matters, like if Ether is security or not (spoiler alert: he thinks it is a security).
2019-1-14 09:09 | |
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Individual centralized cryptocurrency exchanges have always come out to say that they are the most secure with the best security team, technicians and engineers that would ensure that their users are protected while using their sites.
2019-1-7 13:25 | |
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The demand for decentralized token exchange solutions has been on the rise as the shortcomings of centralized exchanges have become increasingly more evident. Crypto investors also continue to be plagued by security concerns and are now facing lengthier onboarding and KYC processes when trading on these platforms.
2018-12-17 15:00 | |
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IOTA To Remove The Coordinator And Become Decentralized Sooner In the world of cryptocurrency, IOTA is considered to be entirely different from its competition in various aspects. About IOTA First, IOTA is open to the fact that its current setup consists of a system that is centralized. It has a coordinator that serves as security […]
2018-12-10 21:37 | |
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Sberbank And Interros Group Perform OTC Repo Transaction Using Blockchain Technology Sberbank And Interros Group Perform OTC Repo Transaction Using Blockchain Technology SEC Chairman “Bitcoin Is NOT A Security”: Stating Open Distribution, No Centralized Authority Control SEC Chairman “Bitcoin Is NOT A Security”: Stating Open Distribution, No Centralized Authority Control VeChainThor (VET) Releases Node Tokenization […]
2018-12-5 22:33 | |
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Chairman of the US SEC, Jay Clayton, recently came forth and spoke about why he believes Bitcoin is not a security. In a recent interview with Andrew Ross Sorkin (of TimesTalk), Clayton not only spoke about Bitcoin but also gave his wider opinions on various topics related to the global blockchain space. Clayton Speaks Out […]
2018-12-5 09:38 | |
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Cryptocurrency exchanges Bitfinex and Ethfinex now support trading for all six of the market’s major stablecoins. Adding to its support for MakerDao’s Dai and Tether’s USDT, the sister platforms recently listed USD Coin (USDC), TrueUSD (TUSD), Paxos Standard Token (PAX) and Gemini USD (GUSD).
2018-12-4 21:02 | |
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BEXAM is built on a new consensus-building algorithm called Proof of Rounds. PoR reconciles high speed and scalability with high security. Our next generation blockchain technology finally meets the specifications required for the implementation of blockchain into core centralized systems of large-scale businesses.
2018-12-3 13:35 | |
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Global private capital platform CapBridge Pte. Ltd. has garnered a license from the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) to operate a security exchange known as 1exchange (also called 1X), which became operational on November 21, 2018.
2018-11-24 21:31 | |
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International cybersecurity solutions provider Group-IB has come up with a scoring model to grade crypto exchanges based on their level of security. The scoring model was created by Group-IB in conjunction with Swiss-based Cryptolns (which is operated by Swiss insurance broker APIS AS), and the grading is intrinsic to CryptoIns’ new cryptocurrency exchange insurance, which will allow exchange users to cover up to 15 BTC worth of digital assets held in their exchange accounts.
2018-11-13 00:43 | |
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CoinSpeaker EOS: Blockchain or Just Distributed Database? Whiteblock Inc. Releases a Verdict The independent benchmark testing dubbed the EOS platform as a cloud service built with a centralized design that suffers from serious security breaches.
2018-11-5 21:57 | |
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On October 30, 2018, Storj Labs released a public alpha for their version 3 (V3) platform –– enabling developers and companies to test their decentralized cloud storage solution.
2018-10-31 17:07 | |
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Earlier in June, William Hinman, the Director of the Division of Corporate Finance in the SEC, declared that Ethereum is not a security. The announcement came as a reprieve to crypto investors. Speaking on Ethereum, Hinman noted that it operates on a decentralized network, rather than a typical centralized platform that usually offers securities. For […]
2018-10-30 23:14 | |
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With billions of people and devices connected to the internet at any given point of time, online security has perhaps never been this crucial. Despite all the vulnerabilities the approach implies, sensitive data – including personal identities and financial records – is still stored on centralized servers accessible via password authentication.
2018-10-28 18:00 | |
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David Schwartz of Ripple participated in a debate by Money 20/20 in which he identified his stance on why blockchain technology is the ideal place for building new payment systems. Schwartz cited the traditional banking systems and recent YouTube outages to address how vulnerable a centralized system is. He also noted that security and governance […]
2018-10-25 23:51 | |
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First hinting at his project in a reply to a BitPay tweet on August 2017, Nicolas Dorier boldly claimed that BTCPay would make one of crypto’s most popular payment processors obsolete.
2018-10-24 22:00 | |
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Rhetorical style should never distract from the content of someone’s arguments. So when I heard that Nouriel Roubini testified to the U. S. Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs on the cryptocurrency and blockchain ecosystem, I decided to peruse his testimony and reflect on it.
2018-10-24 19:38 | |
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The crypt market has been advancing quite rapidly since its founding. Daily trade volumes were estimated at USD 15 billion by August 2018. However most participants still face major issues; in most cases, the exchanges they use to trade a centralized.
2018-10-23 09:57 | |
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If blockchain-based identity platform Civic is to go mainstream, then making it simple for as many businesses and consumers as possible to start using its app will be key.
2018-10-23 20:50 | |
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G4S (LSE: GFS), a security services provider with operations in more than 90 countries, guards everything from cash transfers to nuclear power plants and prisons. The London-headquartered company has now started to offer cryptocurrency protection, according to a recent report.
2018-10-18 11:30 | |
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October 12th, 2018 — Lugano, Switzerland — when Binfinex put together the Ethfinex Governance Summit in Lugano, Switzerland, for select top traders and stakeholders, one team stood out.
2018-10-17 22:08 | |
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As cryptocurrency exchanges are mostly centralized, they’re often attacked by hackers. According to an Exchange Security Report by ICORating, “over the past 8 years about 31 crypto exchanges have been hacked and more than 1 billion dollars (actually, $ 1.
2018-10-5 21:24 | |
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Over 30 years after creating eCash, a predecessor of bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies which spawned the Cypherpunk movement of the 1980s, Dr. David Chaum is back in the public eye with a claim of having invented “the world’s fastest cryptocurrency.
2018-9-22 23:59 | |
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The world of cryptocurrencies is now moving from centralized exchanges to decentralized exchanges. Crypto enthusiasts have often criticized the single-point-of-failure architecture used in these platforms as it makes their funds vulnerable to security breaches and coin robberies.
2018-9-20 19:54 | |
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John McAfee, the security expert turn cryptocurrency enthusiast, who is believed to have the crystal ball for his right predictions in the cryptocurrency market in his opinion says that decentralized exchanges (DEX) will soon gain the heart of the cryptocurrency community with lots ditching centralized exchanges.
2018-9-16 01:24 | |
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Ripple Labs, Inc is big on decentralization right now. Stung by criticism that XRP is a centralized currency, and the very real risk that an ongoing lawsuit could see it ruled a security, Ripple has been on the offensive.
2018-8-23 16:05 | |
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Ripple Labs, Inc. has long been on the defensive against claims from cryptocurrency pundits and investors who believe that its native token, XRP, will be viewed as a security by the U. S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) due to its seemingly centralized design.
2018-8-23 00:30 | |
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Cryptocurrency trading service Coinberry has partnered with BRD, a secure bitcoin wallet service, in a deal that promises to bring BRD's Canadian users onto Coinberry's no-fee trading platform.
2018-8-21 18:52 | |
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The regulators have awoken. SEC Director William Hinman introduced novel concepts to the securities law analysis such that sellers of digital assets may have an escape valve.
2018-8-10 22:24 | |
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On July 10, 2018, news broke that cryptocurrency wallet and decentralized exchange Bancor was hit with a hack. A wallet the Bancor team used to update the protocol’s smart contracts was infiltrated, and the $23.
2018-8-3 19:24 | |
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From privacy, to security, to resistance to government interference, decentralized exchanges are way ahead of their centralized counterparts — and yet they’re not capturing the public imagination. IOST co-founder Jimmy Zhong offers his thoughts as to why
2018-7-31 19:58 | |
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As with brick-and-mortar industries that are slowly fading away to the globalism of the online world, so too will the traditional prediction market industry have to innovate to keep up with the sheer efficiency, reliability and security that the decentralized prediction markets promise to bring.
2018-7-31 15:58 | |
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Coin holder voting, both for governance of technical features, and for more extensive use cases like deciding who runs validator nodes and who receives money from development bounty funds, is unfortunately continuing to be popular, and so it seems worthwhile for me to write another post explaining why I (and Vlad Zamfir and others) do not consider it wise for Ethereum (or really, any base-layer blockchain) to start adopting these kinds of mechanisms in a tightly coupled form in any significant way.
2018-7-21 23:03 | |
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In the lead-up to the US Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) critical decision on whether digital tokens are securities, CEOs of digital asset investment firms are really giving it to Ripple’s native cryptocurrency, XRP – claiming it’s really just digital fiat.
2018-7-20 10:46 | |
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A large part of cryptocurrency trading across the world is done using centralized exchanges like Binance, Coinbase and Bittrex among others. These systems manage the user’s capital and also facilitate trading.
2018-7-18 15:50 | |
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As a rapidly growing business sector, e-commerce continues to open up new avenues for exploring, comparing and purchasing products worldwide. Spl. yt, a smart contract protocol, aims improve the e-commerce system for buyers and sellers by automating functions currently performed by “middlemen” marketplaces like Amazon, eBay and Alibaba.
2018-7-16 19:45 | |
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Dispatch is the first blockchain protocol to leverage on-chain smart contracts to manage distributed storage of application data off-chain. The smart contracts “program” how data can be accessed, governed and linked, like a traditional SaaS-based centralized architecture.
2018-7-14 17:50 | |
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Nonprofit organization PoWx has launched this week with the goal of boosting the idea behind proof of work (PoW) through more innovative algorithms. The company is seeking to decentralize Bitcoin mining and make it more accessible to consumers through a new technology that executives have dubbed “optical PoW” — a new type of hardware that utilizes a more advanced and energy-efficient form of laser technology as the cornerstone of mining.
2018-7-14 01:04 | |
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Bitcoin, in its nine years of existence, has steadily gained traction, defining itself as a new digital gold. Early adopters of this technology have shown excitement for the potential of this inflation-proof sound money.
2018-7-14 00:48 | |
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The Bancor team froze BNT tokens to combat a security breach, but this might be a proof the exchange is far more centralized than previously thought.
2018-7-13 18:41 | |
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Bancor, a decentralized exchange platform released a press statement stating that their wallet which was used to upgrade some smart contracts was compromised. The security breach occurred at 00:00 UTC on Monday and the wallet was used to withdraw ETH from the BNT smart contract.
2018-7-11 23:34 | |
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Ripple is staring down the barrel of yet another securities lawsuit — its third one this year. Filed in the Superior Court of the State of California in San Mateo County, the class action alleges that Ripple and its team illegally sold and promoted XRP, Ripple’s currency, as an unregistered security.
2018-7-5 23:14 | |
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Radical crypto vigilante and maverick presidential candidate John McAfee took aim at the centralized cryptocurrency exchange paradigm this week, firing a salvo of warlike tweets at 9th-highest ranked crypto exchange HitBTC and calling for a boycott of the platform.
2018-7-2 21:00 | |
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Last year, growing problems of Bitcoin mining centralization came to light with the controversy of an AsicBoost scandal. As a largely centralized hash rate began to threaten the software’s magical property, concerns were raised that incentives at the crux of Bitcoin’s game theory had broken away.
2018-6-29 16:42 | |
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Gennaro D'Urso is the founder of Pharma Collective and Israel Mersky is the Director at Pharma Collective. Gennaro has a background in science and entrepreneurship, while Israel comes from the advertising industry and has experience in the pharmaceutical psychedelic space.
Jasper De Gooyer is the co-founder and CTO at SEDA, a multichain, permissionless protocol connecting real-world data to any network on-chain.
Bitget, top global cryptocurrency exchange and Web3 company, is responding to trader demand and is to list SKALE (SKL). The SKALE Network is designed to enhance the scalability and efficiency of Ethereum-compatible applications.
VALR, Africa's largest cryptocurrency exchange by trading volume, has launched perpetual futures trading, featuring the world's first Bitcoin and USDT perpetual futures paired against the South African Rand.
Controversial crypto exchange Binance has appointed Richard Teng as its new CEO. The appointment follows the resignation of former CEO Changpeng “CZ” Zhao who pleaded guilty to charges levied against him by the U.S. Department of Justice.
Binance founder Changpeng “CZ” Zhao will reportedly step down as CEO of the world's largest cryptocurrency exchange as part of a $4.3 billion settlement with the United States Department of Justice (DOJ).
Since its 2009 inception, Bitcoin has heralded a shift from traditional to decentralized finance (DeFi), signaling the future of financial markets. Today, the crypto landscape extends beyond Bitcoin, with multiple projects contributing to a dynamic ecosystem of financial innovation.