Tech

Square

Square Funds Designer to Make Crypto Wallets Usable by Anyone

Maggie Valentine was awarded a grant to help make bitcoin wallets less complicated for non-crypto users.

Tech  ·  1 November 2020
Governance

Uniswap Proposal to Airdrop More UNI Falls Short in Governance Vote

The votes were staggeringly in favor, but a quorum was not reached, and Uniswap’s second-ever governance proposal has been defeated.

Tech  ·  1 November 2020
Governance

MakerDAO Members Voting on a Safeguard Against BProtocol Flash Loan-Type Attack

The MakerDAO community is voting on a proposal to harden the protocol's governance structure against flash loan voting.

Tech  ·  30 October 2020
Bitcoin

Bitcoin Developers Still Divided on Specifics of Taproot Activation

The code for Taproot is ready to go, but developers are still discussing how to deploy the update across Bitcoin’s distributed network.

Tech  ·  30 October 2020
Ethereum

Ethereum Developers Pencil In January for Eth 1.x ‘Berlin’ Hard Fork

Ethereum developers are eyeing January for the Berlin hard fork. The backwards-incompatible upgrade of the existing Eth 1.x blockchain was first set for July.

Tech  ·  30 October 2020
DeFi

Harvest Finance Boosts Bounty to $1M for Information Leading to Return of Exploited Funds

Harvest Finance is offering $1 million for information leading to the return of funds from Monday's $24 million exploit.

Tech  ·  29 October 2020
Governance

‘Flash Loans’ Have Made Their Way to Manipulating Protocol Elections

BProtocol used a flash loan to speed up election results on MakerDAO. The DeFi platform is now weighing changes to its voting process.

Tech  ·  29 October 2020
CoinFlash

Blockchain Firm Figment Raises $2.5M in Funding Round Led by Bonfire Ventures

Figment said the latest round will enable it to continue developing its blockchain staking, governance and developer tools.

Tech  ·  29 October 2020
CoinFlash

Ethereum Developer ConsenSys to Assist French Bank With CBDC Pilot

The Ethereum developer will help the digital assets arm of Societe Generale carry out research on a central bank digital currency.

Tech  ·  28 October 2020
Bitcoin

‘A Race Toward Zero’: With Hashrate in the Clouds, Bitcoin Mining Is Less Profitable Than Ever

ASIC financing has driven Bitcoin's hashrate to all-time highs in 2020. By consequence, Bitcoin is less profitable to mine than ever.

Tech  ·  27 October 2020
Wallets

‘Convincing’ Phishing Attack Targets Ledger Hardware Wallet Users

Ledger confirmed that for the last week some customers have been the target of a phishing attack.

Tech  ·  27 October 2020
Opinion

An Internet for Humans: Proof-of-Personhood Explained

Identity is one of our most fundamental human rights. In the age of surveillance, commodification and centralization, it is under threat.

Tech  ·  27 October 2020
DeFi

This Paradigm-Backed Startup Is Offering DeFi’s First ‘T-Bill’

Newly launched DeFi lending project Yield Protocol is offering stable interest rates for investors.

Tech  ·  27 October 2020
DeFi

Harvest Finance: $24M Attack Triggers $570M ‘Bank Run’ in Latest DeFi Exploit

Harvest Finance has seen its total value locked drop by more than $500 million in the 12 hours since being hit by a flash loan attack.

Tech  ·  26 October 2020
Ethereum

Ethereum 2.0 Deposit Contract Release Kicked Back Until November

Researchers are waiting on a final audit of a critical crypto library before releasing the deposit contract, Ethereum Foundation researcher Danny Ryan said.

Tech  ·  23 October 2020