2021-8-24 21:46 |
Will wealth flow to layer 1 or layer 2? It depends on the use case, says a long-time observer and investor.
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Bitcoin ABC (BCHA) has announced that it would be rebranding and officially changing its name to a new project dubbed eCash. The BCHA token will now be renamed XEC. New eCash To Use PoS Consensus Algorithm The project said it would be using the latest proof-of-stake consensus layer, “Avalanche,” which would introduce concepts like staking, […] The post Bitcoin Cash ABC Rebrands To eCash, Introduces Avalanche Consensus Layer first appeared on BitcoinExchangeGuide.
2021-7-2 20:35 | |
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Popular Ethereum layer two scaling solution Polygon has added another milestone to its cap. Polygon said its SDK stack is now available for use on the Ethereum network in a Medium post. Polygon SDK Is Live This will see developers build Ethereum-compatible blockchains easily and seamlessly.
2021-5-27 17:35 | |
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Famed American entrepreneur and investor Mark Cuban has divulged a strategic investment in Polygon, highlighting his own use and embrace of the protocol’s multi-chain approach to Ethereum. Investment Accompanies Release of the Polygon SDK As major names line up behind Ethereum, notably Goldman Sachs, which presented a thesis highlighting the network’s potential to overtake Bitcoin […]
2021-5-27 05:00 | |
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Formation Fi, the chain agnostic smart yield farming 2. 0 protocol, has partnered up with Polygon (Matic) to create a secret ‘dark pool’ automated market (AMM). The partnership will use Polygon’s layer 2 solutions allowing Formation Fi to actualize its vision for chain agonistic 0yield farming 2.
2021-5-26 22:29 | |
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Increasing use of Ethereum, leading to extremely high fees on the network, has been resulting in BSC and Solana (SOL) getting traction. But it is not only layer 1 chains that are gaining support, but layer 2 solutions are getting just as much usage.
2021-5-4 20:03 | |
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CryptoNinjas » Harmony blockchain to use Raze Network to increase its privacy protection Harmony, a sharding protocol with a trustless Ethereum bridge, today announced a partnership with Raze Network to increase the privacy protection layer of the Harmony ecosystem.
2021-4-27 04:03 | |
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CUDOS Providing Access To Decentralized Cloud Computing CUDOS is a multi-chain Layer 2 solution that is cost-effective and is governed by smart contracts. By connecting the blockchain world to the Cudo platform, the CUDOS network increases the performance for DeFi and other popular blockchain use cases.
2021-2-3 08:59 | |
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The Singapore Stock Exchange (SGX) has partnered with investment firm Temasek to explore the use of blockchain technology for the settling of asset trades. Temasek remains a prominent player in Singapore’s expanding utilization of decentralized ledger technology (DLT) with several collaborations with both public and private establishments in the city-state. SGX and Temasek to BuildRead More
2021-1-23 16:00 | |
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Finance.vote, the governance layer for DeFi communities, is conducting a series of airdrops of its FVT token to onboard a new wave of users. Participants who claim their free tokens and use them to mint a voting identity can engage with the platform’s prediction markets, earning reputation and voting power for correct calls. The finance.vote […]
2020-12-21 19:49 | |
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Chinese conglomerate Tencent is working with blockchain startup ShareRing to develop a decentralized ledger technology (DLT) base layer for more efficient identity management systems. The move is part of efforts to use the technology to bootstrap a recovery in the travel and tourism sector, which has been one of the hardest-hit industries by the coronavirus […] The post China’s Tencent Partners with ShareRing for Blockchain ID Management appeared first on BeInCrypto.
2020-11-17 16:59 | |
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Decentralized exchange platform, dYdX has announced it has partnered with StarkWare to integrate Layer 2 scaling for use with perpetual contracts. The Layer 2 scaling solution will be built on StarkWare’s StarkEX scalability network as well as dYdX perpetual smart contracts.
2020-8-19 17:40 | |
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Bill Zielke, BitPay’s Chief Marketing Officer, revealed on Thursday this week that the company was not planning to integrate the layer 2 Bitcoin channels. Bill explains that Bitcoin transactions dominate the customers’ preference hence no rush to switch despite the fees reaching highs of $7 after a 256% spike earlier in the month. The company […]
2020-5-30 22:47 | |
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Kleros, the decentralized dispute resolution layer, has officially announced the coming of the Kleros Governor – the smart contract to decentralize Kleros governance. Kleros has been using Aragon to hold votes in order to make decisions for the smart contracts, however, it is now unable to use Aragon to make the updates in the smart […] CryptoNinjas: Blockchain-powered dispute resolution protocol Kleros decentralizes governance
2020-2-13 14:26 | |
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The first week of Lightning Network support at cryptocurrency exchange Bitfinex, has seen more than 800 transactions make use the Bitcoin payments layer. The company’s Chief Technical Officer Paolo Ardoino says customers have deposited more than seven Bitcoin (~$52,000) to the exchange since it added Lightning payments.
2019-12-10 23:00 | |
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Special thanks to Justin Drake and Jinglan Wang for feedback In 2014, I made a post and a presentation with a list of hard problems in math, computer science and economics that I thought were important for the cryptocurrency space (as I then called it) to be able to reach maturity.
2019-11-25 04:03 | |
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Visa unveiled its newest innovation this week: a trusted execution environment (TEE) that can help induce a fair and just computational layer that maintains privacy and wards off bad actors. According to Ledger Insights, there are a wide range of use cases for this that can help improve customer privacy without affecting process efficiency, NovemberRead MoreRead More.
2019-11-19 22:00 | |
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Special thanks to the Gitcoin team and especially Frank Chen for working with me through these numbers The next round of Gitcoin Grants quadratic funding has just finished, and we the numbers for how much each project has received were just released.
2019-10-30 04:03 | |
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Swedish company Yubico has announced that its hardware security keys can now be used to login to a local Windows OS account. The feature, which underwent extensive testing over the past six months, lets you add a second layer of authentication to your Windows accounts, by plugging a USB key into your PC.
2019-10-18 08:32 | |
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Liquid, a second layer tech for Bitcoin built by Blockstream, welcomed another crypto exchange to use its services. Coinut exchange, a Singapore-based exchange announced on 28 September announced the integration of Liquid network on its platform.
2019-9-29 02:30 | |
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Plans have been announced to implement MarkerDAOs dai stable coin on the bitcoin and Tron chains via Loom Network in the coming days. According to a blog posted on the company website on Monday, the stable coin is a second layer scaling solution for use in Ethereum blockchain. The ERC-20 token forms part of the […]
2019-9-20 18:55 | |
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Liquid Exchange Network, the second layer technology for Bitcoin that was created by Blockstream recently took on board a new cryptocurrency partner. The chain which is meant to facilitate faster bitcoin transactions now has a total membership of 30.
2019-9-16 19:28 | |
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Nahmii, a second-layer scaling solution built for the Ethereum blockchain, recently announced that Norwegian Block Exchange (NBX) will become the first member of the nahmii’s Foundation governing association.
2019-8-21 12:20 | |
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Nahmii, a second-layer scaling solution built for the Ethereum blockchain, recently announced that Norwegian Block Exchange (NBX) will become the first member of the nahmii Foundation. The goal of the project is to improve Ethereum’s capabilities for small and large-scale commercial use.
2019-8-22 12:20 | |
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The lightning network, seen as the future of bitcoin payments, is now a bit easier to monitor. This Wednesday, Lightning Labs released a new network analysis tool dubbed “Lndmon” that bitcoin lightning network users can use to pull up data about the state of their node and the rest of the network. The offering features […]
2019-7-27 15:20 | |
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Samsung’s Galaxy Fold was heralded as the phone that was supposed to change smartphone design forever. But that all fell apart in the days leading up to its initial launch date as reviewers found multiple egregious durability issues, to the point Samsung’s CEO admitted the device was pushed ‘before it was ready‘.
2019-7-25 05:04 | |
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First scalable decentralized social security network Project Introduction Asure Network is a layer 2 scaling network that enables fast, easy and secure transactions for not only payment transactions, but also generalized smart contract.
2019-7-18 11:03 | |
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In an unexpected turn of events, Vitalik Buterin has suggested the use of the Bitcoin Cash (BCH) blockchain as a data layer where transaction verification takes place. In essence, all ETH transactions would be settled and verified on the BCH blockchain, and confirmation will be sent back to Ethereum.
2019-7-16 13:00 | |
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Bitcoin’s second layer scaling solution is growing fast but is still in an early experimental stage and it remains best suited to technical users. The Lightning Network's new ‘watchtowers’ aim to keep users safe from fraud, making the network safer to use.
2019-6-21 22:00 | |
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Smart contracts are getting a bit…smarter. Yesterday oracle provider ChainLink (LINK) struck a partnership with Matic Network (MATIC), a layer two protocol to speed up payments on Ethereum (ETH).
2019-6-14 00:18 | |
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Special thanks to Jinglan Wang for review and feedback One question that often comes up is: how exactly is sharding different from sidechains or Plasma? All three architectures seem to involve a hub-and-spoke architecture with a central “main chain” that serves as the consensus backbone of the system, and a set of “child” chains containing actual user-level transactions.
2019-6-14 04:03 | |
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A series of op eds by Kyle Torpey addressing some of the oft-repeated arguments against Bitcoin. One of the earliest criticisms of Bitcoin was that the underlying token in the system had no intrinsic value.
2019-6-4 23:41 | |
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A series of op eds by Kyle Torpey addressing some of the oft-repeated arguments against Bitcoin. One of the earliest criticisms of Bitcoin was that the underlying token in the system had no intrinsic value.
2019-5-31 23:41 | |
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CryptoNinjas Sentinel, an interoperable networking layer for distributed services with a decentralized VPN (dVPN) as a first use case, announced today that the new Sentinel Tendermint based dVPN Client (v0.
2019-5-30 18:07 | |
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To Bitcoin or Not to BitcoinDuring the “scaling debate” before the SegWit2X user-activated soft fork (UASF), Bitcoin businesses were getting their first bitter taste of Bitcoin’s censorship resistance.
2019-5-21 21:10 | |
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It looks as if cryptocurrency service providers will have to adopt stricter know-your-customer (KYC) policies all across the world — and not everyone is happy about that.
2019-5-13 21:33 | |
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Microsoft is leveraging blockchain technology to create a trustless digital identity scheme, but its not launching a token or building a private blockchain to do so.
2019-5-13 18:34 | |
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The CoolWallet S, made by CoolBit X, combines hot and cold storage solutions, blending the mobility afforded by software wallets with the enhanced security features offered by hardware wallets.
2019-4-4 00:05 | |
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Ohio might have made history as the first city to accept cryptocurrency for corporate taxes, but one Canadian town is adding its name to the books by becoming the first in North America to permit its citizens to pay their personal taxes in bitcoin.
2019-3-28 19:04 | |
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Last week, there was a panel at SXSW that was effectively a debate on the merits of permissioned blockchains versus permissionless systems like Bitcoin. I listened to the entire audio of the panel discussion, after Programming Bitcoin author Jimmy Song tweeted it out the other day, and I thought he did an awesome job of pointing out the key value proposition of Bitcoin and why it is not worth comparing to permissioned systems.
2019-3-23 17:29 | |
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The decentralized web is hard to use, complain its critics. And to be fair, they’ve had a point up until recently. With improved UX and new layer two solutions built on top of Web3 protocols, however, interacting with these technologies is getting easier.
2019-3-16 04:00 | |
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Bither Platform (BTR) is a Three-layer and multi-mining project that is an answer to the energy consumption problem in PoW mechanism, The first layer is a fully functional and secure layer with a reward system for the miners.
2019-3-2 00:03 | |
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Jack Dorsey has endorsed the recent launch of a Twitter in-browser tipping extension built using the Lightning Network. The second layer scaling solution launched last year allows for near-instant, feeless payments in Bitcoin and by using the new Tippin extension, users can show their support for posters’ content financially.
2019-2-21 00:00 | |
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Crypto miners need VPN. The community of cryptocurrency miners are denizens of the blockchain. Cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin are emerging as the new arbiters of online financial transactions that need an extra layer of safeguards, which VPN gives.
2019-2-19 13:53 | |
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A Bank of International Settlements report concludes that bitcoin's liquidity is "set to fall dramatically" due to decreasing mining rewards and low retail use if it doesn't migrate to another consensus model such as proof-of-stake.
2019-1-30 15:00 | |
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Not only does Lightning Network negate the existence of many altcoins but also takes a hatchet to smart contract platforms by enabling various apps (LApps). Harnessing the BTC network while enabling instant transactions and near-zero fees, these Lapps are already demonstrating some promising use-cases for Bitcoin’s second layer.
2019-1-27 14:00 | |
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One problem that concerns many is the centralization of mining within the Bitcoin ecosystem. Fortunately, there are talented developers working to solve this problem and Matt Corallo, full-time Bitcoin developer at Chaincode Labs, is one of them.
2019-1-26 23:50 | |
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Lition is developing the only scalable public-private blockchain with deletable data features, made for commercial products. Designed with Lition's live P2P trading use case, and co-innovated with SAP.
2019-1-13 14:03 | |
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On December 4, 2018, our CEO, David Bailey, made an exciting announcement: Bitcoin Magazine would be returning to its roots and shifting its focus to Bitcoin-related stories only.
2019-1-3 07:24 | |
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The ongoing debate about whether or not Bitcoin can scale sufficiently on its path to mass adoption has led many people to question if it will ever reach that point at all.
2019-1-5 06:05 | |
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This article examines the advantages of Ethereum as a protocol economy and how one could gain exposure to this breakthrough technology asset.
Cross-chain protocol Orbit Bridge has suffered a hacker attack, resulting in a loss of more than $80 million in multiple cryptocurrencies. In a public X statement, the Orbit Chain team confirmed the incident, saying the root cause of the issue…
The FIX Protocol has added support for the Digital Token Identifier (DTI) to simplify and standardize communication for trading digital assets.
The FIX Protocol has added support for the Digital Token Identifier (DTI) to simplify and standardize communication for trading digital assets.
The NEM blockchain project is launching a development studio to support its move towards a major protocol upgrade later in 2019.
Cointelegraph recently spoke to Guy Zyskind, the founder and CEO of decentralized blockchain company Enigma and graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), about the future of blockchain protocols and where Enigma fits in.