2020-10-14 14:01 |
LINK run oracles have quickly become a mainstay of the DeFi universe. However, the flurry of on-chain activity is likely related to speculative demand and not necessarily organic use of the network. origin »
2020-10-14 14:01 |
LINK run oracles have quickly become a mainstay of the DeFi universe. However, the flurry of on-chain activity is likely related to speculative demand and not necessarily organic use of the network. origin »
Fundamentals show increasing on-chain use in the context of a growing number of Ripple partnerships across the globe. However, it remains difficult or impossible to determine if these positive metrics represent institutional use - or are fueled purely by speculative demand.
2019-7-15 15:01 | |
Fundamental network metrics for XLM show rising on-chain use over the past few months. However, the concern in April around network centralization followed by the brief network outage in May suggests the chain remains in the nascent stages of maturity.
2019-7-9 15:01 | |
Xfers to use Zilliqa smart contracts to drive business payment efficiency - CryptoNinjas Zilliqa, the high-throughput public blockchain platform, today announced it will be partnering with Xfers, a Singapore based digital payment service.
2019-6-19 23:12 | |
Tezos Co-Founder Explains New OnChain Upgrade As A Simpler Way To Use Complex Smart Contracts Tezos – the blockchain network for smart contracts and decentralised applications (DApps) which facilitates formal verification – has officially launched its on-chain blockchain update.
2019-6-3 21:08 | |
“The Eye of Sauron casts its gaze upon the Lightning Network. ”This is how Lightning Labs CTO Olaoluwa Osuntokun (aka, roasbeef) has heralded the coming of Watchtowers to the Lightning Network.
2019-6-3 17:43 | |
About two months ago, Lightning Labs released Lightning Loop, a service that allows users to fill or empty Lightning channels without closing them, thus reducing on-chain fees.
2019-5-29 16:58 | |
On-chain metrics suggest increasing use of the stable coin despite a decreasing circulating supply.
2019-5-29 15:01 | |
Lightning Network app Tippin. me has released a version 1. 0 update, which includes a host of new features and promotional measures intended to increase the user base and improve the user experience.
2019-5-28 16:28 | |
Fundamental network metrics for XLM show rising on-chain use over the past few months. The recent concern around network centralization followed by the brief network outage suggests the chain remains in the nascent stages of maturity.
2019-5-25 15:01 | |
Lightning Labs just released an alpha version of its Lightning Network wallet. The desktop application is now compatible with Bitcoin’s mainnet and it leverages Neutrino (the protocol, not the analytics company acquired by Coinbase) to give users a lightweight option to “control their own funds,” as opposed to running a full node or trusting a third party to play custodian.
2019-4-24 01:38 | |
What Is TokenAnalyst? TokenAnalyst is a simple tool that enables users to explore on-chain data for a wide variety of crypto assets. The tool is designed to acquire data from blocks located on the Ethereum blockchain and then convert the data into meaningful metrics that users can use to enhance their research and cryptocurrency investment […]
2019-4-21 11:53 | |
Bitcoin’s first decentralized exchange to make use of the Lightning Network’s Atomic Swaps is now in beta. Sparkswap, an exchange with backing from Pantera Capital (which announced its ambitious mission to become the most decentralized bitcoin exchange on the market in August 2018), has now opened its beta to users.
2019-4-9 23:28 | |
New announcements around Bitcoin’s Lightning Network have been coming almost nonstop lately, with new exchanges, wallets and other services popping up seemingly every day.
2019-4-8 18:21 | |
The Bitcoin bull and bear market cycles are a pattern that produces significant developments — when the market is cold, people tend to focus on building the next wave of groundbreaking technology.
2019-3-29 16:26 | |
Lightning Labs, the development team working to grow the Lightning Network, just released the alpha version of a new protocol called Lightning Loop. Lightning Loop is designed to give users the ability to deposit and withdraw bitcoin from their payment channels (the two-way payment gateways that allow users to send and receive funds to and from each other) without closing these channels entirely.
2019-3-22 20:32 | |
BitGo is the market leader in digital asset financial services providing security, compliance, custodial, liquidity solutions for institutional investors. BitGo is the world’s largest processor of on-chain bitcoin transactions, processing 15% of global Bitcoin transactions and $15 billion per month across all cryptocurrencies.
2019-2-15 14:13 | |
Many popular blockchains, including Ethereum, are trying to tackle the problem of scaling as their network rapidly expands. One of the various approaches proposed is the use of state channels. State channels enable transactions to be conducted off the blockchain directly between network users, based on on-chain information.
2019-2-15 13:27 | |
Bitfury’s new suite of Lightning products has been released to the public. Lightning Peach, the title of the product bundle, was developed by Bitfury’s Lightning Network team of the same name.
2019-1-23 20:02 | |
Lightning is all the rage these days and, while it's an exciting development, users currently have to have a full node running in order to transact in it. In this article, I'm going to introduce Neutrino, a new protocol for light clients to get the data that they need while preserving privacy and without trusting a central server.
2019-1-4 21:11 | |
Lightning is a second-layer solution for the Bitcoin blockchain that addresses the scaling issues surrounding it today. Similar to Bitcoin, Lightning is an open-source protocol in which anyone can contribute to.
2018-12-19 02:34 | |
eToro, the global investment platform with over 10 million registered users, today confirms the roll out of its crypto wallet. Multi-crypto on-chain wallet with multi-signature security Coming soon – crypto to crypto conversion, deposit fiat, payment in store The eToro wallet is a mobile application available via Google Play and the Apple App Store.
2018-11-8 10:00 | |
Blockchain financial service company Unchained Capital will now offer multi-signature and multi-institution cold storage solutions for borrowers who leverage its crypto-collateralized loans service.
2018-11-2 21:42 | |
Fresh on the market, the industry’s newest batch of stablecoins is having trouble striking a price balance. Amidst news of listings on Huobi and OKEx, two of the industry’s largest exchanges, TrueUSD (TUSD), Gemini USD (GUSD), the Paxos Standard (PAX) and Circle’s USD Coin (USDC) have all risen well above their pegs.
2018-10-17 01:17 | |
Today marks the official release of Bitcoin Core 0. 17. 0, the 17th generation of Bitcoin’s original software client launched by Satoshi Nakamoto almost 10 years ago and still the dominant Bitcoin implementation on the network today.
2018-10-3 16:28 | |
Stablecoins have garnered serious investor attention over the past few weeks. Unlike bitcoin and similar cryptocurrencies, they are digital assets built to lessen price volatility and are often paired against the U.
2018-9-29 01:06 | |
ConsenSys Social Impact — a program designed to build blockchain-based solutions for global humanitarian issues — is partnering with MakerDAO and optiMize to launch a new Blockchain for Social Impact Incubator at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor.
2018-9-20 01:55 | |
This past week has seen progress in two aspects of Bitcoin: privacy and payments. Attitudes toward blockchain technology are also showing progress as two surveys reveal.
2018-9-1 02:06 | |
In order to make payments on the lightning network — Bitcoin’s second layer solution for instant and cheap transactions — users must first fund lightning channels.
2018-8-30 22:18 | |
This week an individual revealed he had completed the first trustless swap by trading on-chain bitcoin cash (BCH) for off-chain bitcoin core (BTC) using Alex Bosworth’s submarine swap protocol. Also read: Illegal Activity No Longer Dominant Use of Bitcoin: DEA Agent On-Chain Bitcoin Cash Submarine Swapped for Off-Chain BTC The decentralized cryptocurrency bitcoin cash (BCH) was […] The post On-Chain BCH Used in a Submarine Swap for Off-Chain BTC appeared first on Bitcoin News.
2018-8-10 21:25 | |
A new way to trade bitcoin and digital currencies is now in the books. SparkSwap is the first crypto exchange to be built on the Lightning Network. It allows users to trade both bitcoin and altcoins in seconds without depositing assets with a third party.
2018-8-10 18:32 | |
Ontology (ONT). Keep Yourself Up to Date with the ONG Token Ontology’s MainNet, a distributed trust collaboration platform and a high performance public blockchain project just went live a few days ago.
2018-8-1 09:34 | |
Let’s talk about on-chain tokenization, off-chain tokenization and how we should use them.
2018-8-1 01:10 | |
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 | |
One kind of token model that has become popular among many recent token sale projects is the “network medium of exchange token”. The general pitch for this kind of token goes as follows. We, the developers, build a network, and this network allows you to do new cool stuff.
2018-7-21 23:03 | |
In which I argue that “tightly coupled” on-chain voting is overrated, the status quo of “informal governance” as practiced by Bitcoin, Bitcoin Cash, Ethereum, Zcash and similar systems is much less bad than commonly thought, that people who think that the purpose of blockchains is to completely expunge soft mushy human intuitions and feelings in favor of completely algorithmic governance (emphasis on “completely”) are absolutely crazy, and loosely coupled voting as done by Carbonvotes and similar systems is underrated, as well as describe what framework should be used when thinking about blockchain governance in the first place.
2018-7-21 23:03 | |
Stronghold, a cryptocurrency trading platform housed by Stellar, is launching a stablecoin on its parent network’s blockchain in collaboration with IBM. Stronghold USD will be backed with “one-to-one U.
2018-7-18 22:00 | |
Despite declining daily transactions, NVT has begun to decrease, suggesting more on-chain value is being transmitted. SegWit and batching have massively improved scalability going forward for the next swath of heavy network usage.
2018-7-9 07:50 | |
Fundamentals continue to show a maturing network with increasing use of batching and SegWit adoption, which add downward pressure on transaction fees. These changes will be essential for scaling when on-chain transactions begin to increase.
2018-6-25 07:00 | |