Use Cases & Verticals

Data Provider Messari Closes $4 Million Funding Round

Messari's funding round was led by Uncork Capital and joined by Coinbase Ventures and Balaji Srinivasan, among others.

Business  ·  13 November 2019

Lock BTC, Get DAI: Lending Firm Bridges Bitcoin-DeFi Divide in Latin America

Ledn is partnering with MakerDAO to bring the ethereum-backed stablecoin DAI to more users in Latin America.

Business  ·  29 October 2019
Supply Chain

Ant Financial and Bayer to Jointly Develop Blockchain for Agriculture

Bayer Crop Science has agreed to work with Alibaba's Ant Financial to develop a blockchain-based system for agricultural product monitoring.

Business  ·  30 September 2019
News

Harbor Tokenizes Real Estate Funds Worth $100 Million on Ethereum

Harbor has created tokens on the ethereum blockchain representing the shares of four real estate funds worth $100 million.

Business  ·  16 September 2019
Senate Banking Committee

Human-Trafficking Expert Urges US Congress to Regulate Crypto Miners

A former U.S. Treasury official urged Congress to regulate cryptocurrency miners in order to fight human trafficking.

Business  ·  3 September 2019
Security

Firearm Firm Wins Patent for Integrating Blockchain into ‘Black Box’ for Guns

A new solution adds a blockchain-based recording system to firearms.

Policy & regulation  ·  30 July 2019
Reddit

I Was Reddit’s First (And Only) Cryptocurrency Engineer

Before his move to supporting Craig Wright's bitcoin SV, Ryan X Charles describes his short-lived tenure at reddit and the trolls who made his life hell.

Business  ·  15 June 2019
Security

MPC Explained: The Bold New Vision for Securing Crypto Money

Cryptography advances are converging to help developers bring blockchain uses to their core decentralizing principles, writes Michael J. Casey.

Policy & regulation  ·  10 June 2019
Bitcoin

Encrypted Email Service Launches on Blockstack With Bitcoin Features

An Egyptian web firm is building Dmail on Blockstack to bring bitcoin-friendly privacy tech to the Middle East.

Policy & regulation  ·  3 June 2019
Ethereum

At Blockchain Week, Maturity Is the Motto as Ethereum Organizations Push Toward 2.0 Upgrade

Improved relations between the Ethereum Foundation and ConsenSys point to a governance shift that could have major implications for the network's goals.

Business  ·  21 May 2019
Japan

My Bank Account Was Frozen for Bitcoin – And It Only Made Me Love Crypto More

The guy who coined the term "hodl" has a real bitcoin story that only made his interest in the technology stronger.

Policy & regulation  ·  19 May 2019
Bitcoin

Bitcoin and Blockchain: The Tangled History of Two Tech Buzzwords

The word "blockchain" isn't used in the bitcoin white paper, the document that started it all. So, how did the term take off as a buzzword?

Business  ·  19 May 2019
Bitcoin

The Blockchain Paradox

Blockchains offer potential solutions to deep-seated problems in society, but their own governance issues need to be solved first, writes Pindar Wong.

Business  ·  15 May 2019
News

Polymath, Charles Hoskinson Team Up on Security Token Blockchain

Polymath is partnering with Charles Hoskinson to build a blockchain network specifically designed to support security tokens.

Business  ·  13 May 2019
Loans

Ex-SoFI CEO’s Startup Closes $1 Billion Credit Line on a Blockchain

Figure Technologies, founded by former SoFi CEO Mike Cagney, has closed a $1 billion “uncommitted” line of credit on a blockchain.

Business  ·  10 May 2019