Tech

Tokenization

People Keep Tokenizing Other Users’ Art. Here’s How Artists Can Protect Their Work

Copyright law can protect artists if their work is tokenized without their permission.

Tech  ·  11 March 2021
Attack

Nano’s Network Flooded With Spam, Nodes Out of Sync

Developers encouraged node operators to throttle their bandwidth in response. They had to make it worse before it could get better.

Tech  ·  11 March 2021
DeFi

OpenZeppelin’s ‘Defender’ Gives DeFi Teams a Weapon Against Flash Loan Attacks

Flash loan attacks have filched nearly $150 million from DeFi projects since 2020.

Tech  ·  11 March 2021
developer grants

Nexo Grants $150K to Brink for Open-Source Bitcoin Development

Nexo’s contribution is the latest in a slew of grants to Bitcoin developers who typically work as volunteers.

Tech  ·  11 March 2021
CoinFlash

South Korea’s Shinhan Bank Builds Pilot Platform for Central Bank Digital Currency

The Seoul-based bank built the blockchain-based platform in preparation for a role as intermediary should a digital won be launched.

Tech  ·  10 March 2021
DeFi

Zaki Manian’s Sommelier Finance Raises $3.5M to Help DeFi Investors Avoid Impermanent Loss

A cross-chain balm to help DeFi minnows swim with the whales.

Tech  ·  10 March 2021
Newsletters

Valid Points: Why Ether Doesn’t Need a Supply Cap to Hedge Against Inflation

Contrary to popular opinion, ether’s unlimited coin supply does not disqualify its use case as a store of value.

Tech  ·  10 March 2021
DeFi

DODO DEX Drained of $3.8M in DeFi Exploit

The decentralized finance platform said it expects $1.88 million of the stolen funds to be returned.

Tech  ·  9 March 2021
Visa

Bitcoin Startup Moon Brings the Lightning Network to All Visa E-Commerce Merchants

Yes, you can pay for that thing with Lightning.

Tech  ·  9 March 2021
Smart Contracts

Bitcoin’s Taproot Activation Gains Momentum From New ‘Speedy Trial’ Proposal

Taproot is the largest upgrade Bitcoin has seen in years, and many are proposing projects on top of it.

Tech  ·  8 March 2021
CoinFlash

Automata Network Launches With $1M in Funding to Help Keep Dapps Private

Genesis Block Ventures, IOSG Ventures and others co-led the seed round.

Tech  ·  8 March 2021
Ethereum

Ethereum’s EIP 1559 Fee Market Overhaul Greenlit for July

A large majority of Ethereum miners are against the proposal. But that hasn’t stopped developers from scheduling the upgrade for July.

Tech  ·  5 March 2021
Binance

Dapps Don’t Care About Your Feelings

By testing the limits of what's permissible on Binance Smart Chain, anonymous developers are testing whether it's really a blockchain.

Tech  ·  4 March 2021
CoinFlash

Kava Halted After Yield Farming Bug Discovered in Latest Release

The bug overpaid certain liquidity providers and will require a reboot to fix.

Tech  ·  4 March 2021
Lightning Network

OKCoin Toasts Its Bitcoin Lightning Network Launch With New Developer Grant

OKCoin joins roughly half a dozen exchanges that support the scaling technology.

Tech  ·  4 March 2021