Tech

Fantom

Fantom Gets Added $15M Investment From HyperChain Capital

In addition to investing in Fantom financially, Hyperchain Capital is involved in securing the network through a subsidiary that runs validator nodes on Fantom.

Tech  ·  27 April 2021
Ethereum Mining

Bitmain to Release Antminer E9 ASIC for Ethereum Mining

Bitmain's new Ethereum ASIC miner will be released later this year, in spite of Ethereum's pending switch to proof-of-stake.

Tech  ·  27 April 2021
Privacy

Anoma Network Raises $6.75M to Make Exchanging Crypto Assets Easy and Private

With funding from Polychain Capital, Electric Capital and Coinbase Ventures, the project looks to bring privacy to blockchain interoperability.

Tech  ·  27 April 2021
DeFi

Insurance Alternative Nexus Mutual Follows DeFi Activity to Polkadot, Cosmos, Binance Smart Chain

The Ethereum-based platform for covering losses from DeFi hacks and other flubs is expanding to other chains.

Tech  ·  26 April 2021
Privacy

Privacy Coin Firo Re-Launches Lelantus Protocol After February Suspension

The protocol was disabled while the Firo team investigated a number of suspicious transactions .

Tech  ·  23 April 2021
Ethereum

Ethereum Gas Limit Hits 15M as ETH Price Soars

The Ethereum gas limit sets a ceiling for how many operations can be included in each block.

Tech  ·  22 April 2021
Governance

Ampleforth Is Sending Free Governance Tokens to Every Wallet That Ever Held AMPL

Project leads estimate over 75,000 users will be eligible to receive the new FORTH governance token.

Tech  ·  21 April 2021
Privacy

A16z Leads $28M Funding Round for Data Privacy Platform Aleo

Aleo’s pitch is about building out a web platform that leverages zero-knowledge proofs (ZKPs).

Tech  ·  20 April 2021
Lightning Network

OKEx Goes Live With Bitcoin Lightning Network Deposits, Withdrawals

OKEx is the seventh major exchange to add the scaling solution.

Tech  ·  19 April 2021
Bitcoin Mining

DMG Purchases 3,600 ASICs in North American Bitcoin Mining Expansion

The Canadian firm is the latest of many North American companies to chase Bitcoin's hashrate with new machine purchases.

Tech  ·  19 April 2021
NFTs

ENS Is Minting NFTs of 23 Top Level Domains. Here’s What That Means

Winners will receive both the DNS TLD and an NFT representing the ENS version.

Tech  ·  16 April 2021
Bitcoin Core

Taproot Speedy Trial Code Merged Into Bitcoin Core

The merge puts an end to a long road of activation discussions – now all that's left is Taproot's actual activation.

Tech  ·  15 April 2021
Ethereum

Open Ethereum Clients Encounter ‘Consensus Error’ After Berlin Hard Fork; Coinbase Pauses ETH Withdrawals

The bug only affects the Open Ethereum client and occurred in the wake of today's Berlin hard fork.

Tech  ·  15 April 2021
Ethereum

Berlin Hard Fork Is Now Live on Ethereum

The upgrade incorporates four optimizations aimed at gas efficiency and improved security.

Tech  ·  15 April 2021