“What happened here, that no one expected, is the Supreme Court found fair use as a matter of law," tech lawyer Marta Belcher said.
Random numbers might not sound like a public good, but we actually rely on randomness for a host of socially useful things.
Filecoin will be the first protocol to use this production-ready version of drand to create decentralized, verifiable randomness for “leader selection.”
Marvin Ammori, Head of Policy at Protocol Labs, says his crypto hero is Hal Finney, recalls his trip to Iceland and thinks crypto should disrupt banks next.
A virtual conference is being organized by a bevy of base-layer protocols – the Web3 Foundation, Near, Cosmos, Tezos, Protocol Labs and Polkadot.
Cloudflare intends to announce a new cryptography-related product every day this week. The first: a gateway to access the InterPlanetary File System.
A number of major cryptocurrency firms are forming the Blockchain Association to lobby Washington, D.C. lawmakers on regulations in the space.
Tron and Neo weren't the only crypto projects interested in acquiring BitTorrent; in fact, CoinDesk has learned, five others were tempted to buy too.
Protocol Labs, the company behind Filecoin and other projects, has announced a research grant program worth $5 million initially.
Limiting ICOs to accredited investors almost feels like a retreat from the goal of democratizing capital markets, columnist Michael J. Casey writes.
The opaque market for initial coin offerings is moving toward clarity with the release of a new framework for investors and issuers.
Union Square Ventures partner Albert Wenger has said he will fund a prize aimed to incentivize the creation of blockchain-powered blogging platform.