Scalability

Investments

$35 Million: Sequoia Backs Turing Award Winner’s Blockchain Project

Conflux, a scalable blockchain project with a Turing Award-winning co-founder, has raised $35 million from backers including Sequoia and Baidu.

Business  ·  4 December 2018
Ethereum

Developers Rally Around Ethereum 1x, A New Roadmap for Faster Scaling

Ethereum developers are aggregating efforts to implement ethereum 1x – a new proposed upgrade intended to act as the intermediary bridge to ethereum 2.0.

Tech  ·  30 November 2018
Bitcoin

The New Effort to Get Bitcoin’s Lightning Network In Every Browser

Devs are looking to make bitcoin's layer-two lightning network compatible with a payment standard used by all major browsers – and so far, so good.

Tech  ·  30 October 2018
Bitcoin

Bitcoin Startup Acinq Raises $1.7 Million to Double Down on Lightning

A new funding round shows that lightning technology isn't just a big hit with bitcoin developers - investors are getting interested, too.

Tech  ·  4 October 2018
Privacy

Ecash’s Creator Is Back – And He Thinks He’s Built the Fastest Blockchain Ever

Famed cryptographer and digital money pioneer, David Chaum, revealed he thinks he's built a "better" cryptocurrency.

Tech  ·  20 September 2018
Bitcoin

You Can Now Get Paid (a Little) for Using Bitcoin’s Lightning Network

Lightning nodes are making money – albeit not much – displaying the potential for a growing fee market on the layer two tech.

Tech  ·  14 August 2018
Bitcoin

Bitcoin’s Open Secret: Lightning Is Making Better Online Payments Possible

An influx of lightning apps are mostly silly, but they demo a serious point: the tech enables bitcoin to compete with traditional payment rails.

Tech  ·  10 August 2018
Bitcoin

One Year Later, A Wave of Apps Is Emerging on Bitcoin Cash

Now a year old, bitcoin cash is carving out a unique niche for itself with new applications.

Tech  ·  1 August 2018
Ethereum

These Digital Monsters Live on Ethereum, But They’ll Fight on Zilliqa

A popular decentralized game couldn't take ethereum's slow, costly transactions. But it's not leaving the chain behind entirely.

Tech  ·  19 July 2018
Bitcoin

Schnorr Is Looking Poised to Become Bitcoin’s Biggest Change Since SegWit

Highly-respected bitcoin developer Pieter Wuille unveiled a draft document outlining the technical makeup of bitcoin's likely next major upgrade.

Tech  ·  16 July 2018
Bitcoin

An Upcoming Cryptocurrency Is Trialling a Trio of Bitcoin Tech Advances

As grin inches toward launch, the team is incorporating three bold scalability and privacy technologies originally created for bitcoin.

Tech  ·  3 June 2018
Investments

This Blockchain Tosses Blocks: Naval, MetaStable Back Twist on Crypto ‘Cash’

A new blockchain startup is coming out of stealth Wednesday and boasting a significant cast of investors.

Business  ·  9 May 2018
Bitcoin

Bigger Blocks and Smarter Contracts: What’s In Bitcoin Cash’s Next Fork?

Bitcoin cash's most ambitious hard fork upgrade is coming in May, backed by the promise of taking its "on-chain scaling" philosophy to new heights.

Tech  ·  27 April 2018
Ethereum

New Ethereum Tech Calls on Slavic Gods for Security

Researchers have unveiled a new ethereum scaling project with a focus on security, and even Vitalik Buterin wants to see it grow and succeed.

Tech  ·  19 April 2018
Bitcoin

Bitcoin Is Close to Cutting Fees with Better Coin Selection

Years of work has culminated in Bitcoin Core software getting a "coin selection" upgrade that will lower transaction fees and scale the blockchain.

Tech  ·  2 April 2018