The inventor of Bitcoin Ordinals is proposing a new Bitcoin-based fungible token protocol as a potential alternative to the BRC-20 token standard. The BRC-20 standard was launched in March by an anonymous developer “Domo.” Within […]
Pay-to-use blockchains are done. Not for us, of course — the nerdy crypto crowd. We’re perfectly happy to open wallets, engrave seed phrases on steel cards we bury in the ground, find exchanges we haven’t […]
Welcome to Finance Redefined, your weekly dose of essential decentralized finance (DeFi) insights — a newsletter crafted to bring you the most significant developments from the past week. A new analysis by investment management fund […]
The total value locked (TVL) on Coinbase’s layer 2 network Base has surged to $397.32 million in roughly a month and a half since launching in August. That figure now places Base ahead of the […]
Ethereum developers are gathering to salute the teams behind Ganache and Truffle, two toolkits that were once vital in the early days of Ethereum smart contracts. In a Sept. 22 post, Consensys announced the sunset […]
Early Bitcoin (BTC) pioneer Hal Finney shared his vision for zero-knowledge proofs more than 25 years ago, a full decade before the launch of the first cryptocurrency, Bitcoin. The video, purportedly from the Crypto ‘98 conference […]
Crypto exchange Coinbase says it will focus its “Stand with Crypto” campaign on nine states in the U.S., including four “swing states” where voters were polled as less likely to choose anti-crypto presidential candidates. The […]
Citigroup has introduced Citi Token Services, a private, permissioned blockchain that offers cross-border payments, liquidity and automated trade finance solutions to institutional clients. The new services “will integrate tokenized deposits and smart contracts into Citi’s […]
The Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA) has issued a warning to users that crypto businesses presenting themselves as banks and using banking terminology could be violating the region’s banking laws. In a press release, the […]
The Boston Consulting Group estimates the tokenization of real-world assets could become a $16 trillion industry in the coming years. Its impact, however, goes well beyond financial figures, and can help people in developing countries […]