Cointelegraph By Brian Newar
Layer-2 Ethereum scaling solution Polygon has not produced a new block for over 11 hours, with developers attributing the issue to a technical upgrade on the network.On March 10 at 4:20 pm UTC, Polygon (MATIC) network developers notified users on the project’s forum that there would likely be...
Crypto platform LA Token has become the latest exchange to launch its own blockchain with the LACHAIN network which it hopes will give its users access to decentralized finance (DeFi) products and a bridge between other networks.The layer-1 Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM)-compatible and WebAssembly (WASM)-compatible LACHAIN went live...
Prestigious Princeton University has launched an initiative to study the "decentralization of societal power" through blockchain technology in an effort to explore the vast depths of it’s social capabilities.For the launch, Bloomberg reported that Princeton’s Venture Forward campaign received $20 million in donations from high-profile alumni Peter Bridger...
A statement from U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen on President Joe Biden’s executive order regarding digital assets calls for efforts to support innovation while addressing risk in the industry.Yellen’s statement was released a day early apparently by error and quickly deleted, but was captured on a web archive....
Financial services giant Goldman Sachs has been offering clients exposure to ETH through Galaxy Digital’s Ethereum Fund according to a new Securities and Exchange Commission filing.Goldman Sachs clients keen on spot exposure to Ethereum (ETH) have been offered space in Galaxy’s ETH Fund. This strategy became apparent in...
A pair of siblings is now in very hot water with the U.S. government with criminal charges filed against them for allegedly committing fraud in the Ormeus Coin scheme. On Mar. 8, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) charged siblings John Albert Loar Barksdale and sister JonAtina (Tina) Barksdale...
Publicly traded crypto mining company HIVE Blockchain Technology has signed a deal to buy ASIC chips from semiconductor manufacturer Intel that will be used in their new custom mining devices.HIVE has arranged for the new devices to be made by a third-party custom design manufacturer that will integrate...
Bitcoin inflows across all exchanges have been net negative since last July, but four major exchanges have been running contrary to this trend with nearly an equal amount of net positive inflows.There have been total net outflows of 46,000 BTC (worth around $1.8 billion at current prices) from...
Decentralized exchange (DEX) aggregator KyberSwap has launched on the layer-2 Ethereum scaling solution Arbitrum network.The move puts Kyberswap on its seventh network or scaling solution along with Ethereum (ETH), Polygon (MATIC), Fantom (FTM), BSC (BNB), Avalanche (AVAX), and Cronos (CRONOS).KyberSwap joins SwaprEth, Balancer Labs, Curve Finance, and SushiSwap...
DeFi architect, Fantom Foundation technical advisor, and Yearn Finance founder Andre Cronje has left the decentralized finance (DeFi) space reeling after deactivating his Twitter account.Cronje’s long-time colleague at the Fantom Foundation Anton Nell stated in a Mar. 6 tweet that both he and Cronje were leaving the crypto...
