Paris Hilton, a businesswoman, model, singer, and heiress to the Hilton Hotel chain has successfully sold in an auction a picture of her cat as a non-fungible token on an Ethereum-based platform for 40 ETH. While employing the same platform to auction off a picture of his own, Ashton Kutcher burned the paper copy to...Read More
The Algorand Foundation and Algorand Inc have announced a significant upgrade to its layer-1 protocol that will enhance the platform’s abilities to power complex decentralized applications, including DeFi projects scalable to tens of millions of daily transactions with low fees. Algorand Protocol Update To Enhance DeFi Solutions The company announced the protocol upgrade in a...Read More
The U.S. Government’s acting Comptroller of the Currency allowed banks in the country to offer cryptocurrency custody services a little less than a month ago. Advocating the case for crypto, he now says that payments need to happen ‘virtually instantaneously.’ He also feels that ‘the crypto phenomenon cannot be ignored.’ Crypto-Friendly Brian: Payments Need To...Read More
Back in April this year, banking giant Capital One had filed a patent for an AI-based crypto fact-checking platform. The patent is now officially published. Will it find enough takers, given the bank’s massive 2019 data breach? Capital One Files Patent For AI-Based Crypto Information Analyzer According to Capital One’s patent, its artificial intelligence-led platform...Read More
How to pass the most trusted cryptocurrency platform’s security guidelines for ERC-20 tokens By Nadir Akhtar TL;DR: The ERC-20 standard has become a popular way to create digital assets and assign protocol voting rights on the Ethereum blockchain. When evaluating an ERC-20 token for listing, Coinbase performs a security assessment looking primarily for these four...Read More
Months after launching operations in China, the country’s Blockchain-based Service Network (BSN) saw the release of an official international website, aiming to attract global DLT developers as well. China’s BSN Goes International The Blockchain-based Service Network went live a few months back after a delay prompted by the COVID-19 pandemic. As CryptoPotato reported back then,...Read More
The large South Korean bank KB Kookmin Bank plans to launch a cryptocurrency custodial service for its clients. The new feature will be available after a partnership with the blockchain venture fund Hashed, the digital asset trading platform Cumberland Korea, and the smart contract security audit firm – Haechi Labs. Crypto Custody For KB Kookmin...Read More
China’s blockchain growth in terms of newly added firms in 2020 has surpassed the total figure seen in 2017. With support from the government, startups dedicated to developing decentralized ledger technology (DLT) are increasing in number with the country looking to dominate the emerging digital landscape. Current 2020 Figures Topple 2017’s Total In a tweet...Read More
The large American multinational bank Goldman Sachs has appointed a pro-blockchain head of its digital asset department – Mathew McDermott. In a recent interview, McDermott expressed his views that the global financial scene should be digitalized and even hinted that Goldman is exploring the possibility of launching its own stablecoin. Pro-Blockchain Head At Goldman Sachs...Read More
Central bank digital currency (CBDC) fever appears to be heating up across the APAC region as The Philippines announces plans to study the possibility of issuing its own sovereign virtual “coin.” Committee to Study Modalities for Possible CBDC Issuance According to a report by Bloomberg on Wednesday (July 29, 2020), the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas...Read More
A collaboration between the famous actor William Shatner and the DLT project WAX has sold 125,000 blockchain-based non-fungible token cards containing digital photographs of the actor’s memorabilia in less than ten minutes. William Shatner Sells Blockchain-based NFTs Born in 1931, Shatners has been an active actor for nearly 70 years. The Canadian entertainer, who is...Read More
According to Ethereum foundation’s official blog, Ethereum 2.0 validator launchpad testnet version officially went live on 27th July 2020. The development and research with regard to Ethereum 2.0 network have been ongoing for many months now and alongside Consensys and DeepWork Studio, the eth2 research team revealed that validators would be able to keep track...Read More
Russian chess grandmaster Garry Kasparov is a supporter of blockchain, cryptocurrencies, and Bitcoin in particular. In a recent interview, he outlined some of the digital assets’ merits, including increasing personal protection and allowing people to reclaim control over their finances. Kasparov Believes Bitcoin Is Here To Help Arguably the greatest chess player of all time,...Read More
The Bank of Lithuania has officially launched its blockchain-based digital collector coin called LBCOIN. Although bank officials clarified that it’s not a CBDC, they suggested LBCOIN could eventually lead to releasing a central bank digital currency. Bank Of Lithuania’s Digital Collector Coin As CryptoPotato reported recently, the central bank of the Baltic country had finished...Read More
Often referred to as the ‘Chinese Ethereum,’ NEO has teamed up with the state-backed BSN to drive mainstream adoption. NEO will become one of the technological pillars of the BSN, which includes tech and payment giants such as China UnionPay and China Mobile, in addition to the Chinese State Information Center, the official announcement stated....Read More
David Rutter, CEO of blockchain firm R3, is independently working on a platform that leverages the distributed ledger technology (DLT) for bond trading. Digitizing the Corporate Bond Market with Blockchain There is no doubt that the bond market is among the largest securities markets in the world, and yet trades are still handled over the...Read More
The Bank of Thailand (BOT) is ready to deploy its central bank digital currency (CBDC) to local corporations as part of the third phase of the project’s development. BOT Launches Third Phase of its Digital Currency Project Thailand’s central bank has stepped into the third phase of development of its digital currency, according to The...Read More
A recent report informs that Singapore has developed a fully functional blockchain-based payment network allowing faster and cheaper international settlements. The team behind it, including investment giant Temasek and US multinational bank JP Morgan, is finalizing technical details for the prototype, and the final product should arrive soon. Singapore Taps Blockchain For A Payment Network...Read More
US privacy advocates are worried that the 4th amendment does not protect Bitcoin transactions after a court ruled that the FBI agents hadn’t violated the law when they accessed data of Coinbase clients. Bitcoin Transactions Reveal Deeply Personal Information A week ago, CryptoPotato reported that a three-judge panel of the Court of Appeals for the...Read More
Chainlink continues with its impressive price performance after reaching a new all-time high today. Interestingly, the latest surge coincided with the launch of China’s Blockchain Service Network, which integrated Chainlink’s price oracles into its ecosystem. China’s BSN Launches As CryptoPotato reported in March this year, the world’s most populated country planned to introduce a DLT-based...Read More
A few hours back, Indian IT heavyweight, Tata Consultancy Services, announced the launch of Quartz™ Smart Solution for Crypto Services. The offering will help banks and other financial institutions provide ‘secure and seamless’ crypto trading facilities to their clientele. IT Giant TCS is Spearheading Crypto Adoption As per the official press release, Tata Consultancy Services’...Read More
The government of South Korea is considering a local hemp regulatory-free trade zone and is looking to manage the production of hemp by employing blockchain technology. Tracking Hemp Production With Blockchain According to a report by Newspim on Tuesday (July 7, 2020), the Andong region in the Gyeongbuk Province became a ‘Special Industrial Hemp Free...Read More
Kenya’s local cryptocurrencies are helping communities survive the coronavirus crisis. One example is the recently-launched Sarafu, which is used alongside the Kenyan Shilling to make payments locally. Crypto Industry is Not Only About Speculation The cryptocurrency market is normally discussed from the perspective of investment opportunities. However, many coins and tokens have a real utility...Read More
Blockchain utilization is continuously rising in various countries across the world, a recent report revealed. It outlined that US-based companies have been awarded the most substantial number of patents for blockchain endeavors, but the Chinese multinational giant Alibaba is the single entity to receive the most. Blockchain Patents Across The Map The report from the...Read More
Bolt Labs announced today that it plans to integrate its off-chain Bitcoin private payments protocol called zkChannels to the Tezos blockchain. The company is working with teams at Nomadic Labs and Metastate to complete the integration via an amendment proposal to be done by 2021. zkChannels To Build On Tezos Originally called BOLT, zkChannels v1...Read More
SYNQA, the parent company of the OMG Network, recently announced successfully raising $80 million in a Series C funding round lead by SCB 10x and venture capital group SPARX. At the same time, the price of OMG has experienced a sudden increase of nearly 11% in the past few hours. OMG Network’s Parent Company Raises...Read More
More companies are utilizing blockchain, reveals a recent study compiled by the multinational professional service network Deloitte. Interestingly, the Asia-Pacific region appears to be leading on the matter with the most use cases employing the distributed ledger technology (DLT). Blockchain Matures Deloitte surveyed nearly 1,500 senior executives and practitioners from large companies from 14 countries,...Read More
By Surojit Chatterjee, Chief Product Officer At Coinbase, we believe a thriving and open ecosystem is necessary for the promise of crypto to be realized, ultimately leading to our vision of more economic freedom for the world. As early as 2016, the Coinbase Secret Master Plan stated our commitment to the open source communities around crypto...Read More
Blockchain technology has been touted as the technology of the future. Several years into this optimistic outlook, real-world adoption of distributed ledgers remains at a low. That doesn’t necessarily mean that blockchains aren’t going to be used on a broader scale, though. Blockchain Remains of Great Interest If a survey by Deloitte is to be...Read More
Ren, the open-source protocol enabling permissionless and private transfers of value between any blockchain, launched its mainnet and a dApp utilizing it within a few weeks. Interestingly, the protocol’s native cryptocurrency REN has gained more than 40% of value in the same period. Ren Launches RenVM Mainnet The blockchain-based company announced the release of its...Read More
