Bakkt’s new CEO steps down, leaving the Vice President of mergers and acquisitions to take over. Mike Blandina, former PayPal and Google veteran, is stepping down from his role as the CEO of digital assets company, Bakkt, after only 4 months on the job. Intercontinental Exchange, or ICE, the parent company of Bakkt, has indicated […]
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One of the Stellar Development Foundation’s recent hires said he is personally more concerned with industry growth than trading or holding individual assets. International and Public Affairs professor, Ronaldo Lemos, a recent addition to the Stellar Development Foundation, or SDF, said his personal interests align more with industry growth than asset holding or trading. “I’m […]
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Charles Hoskinson explains how Cardano will get to a trillion dollar market cap. In a recent interview with Cointelegraph, Ethereum (ETH) co-founder and Cardano (ADA) founder Charles Hoskinson explained why he believes Cardano is poised for a trillion dollar market cap. One of the main distinguishing points of Cardano’s development approach is its emphasis on […]
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Renowned artist, Lyle Owerko, is selling his digital artwork on a blockchain platform backed by major crypto exchange Gemini. Renowned photographer and filmmaker, Lyle Owerko, is selling his digital artwork on Nifty Gateway — a blockchain platform backed by the Gemini crypto exchange. Owerko, whose patrons include Madonna and Jay-Z, is auctioning works that are […]
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The Wall Street Blockchain Alliance welcomes Algorand to their team as a corporate member. The Wall Street Blockchain Alliance, or WSBA, announced on April 23 that the proof-of-stake cryptocurrency platform, Algorand, has joined their alliance as a corporate member. According to the post, Algorand is teaming up with many of the tech and finance companies […]
Continue ReadingCurv has launched a software-based custody product allowing secure signing via multi-party computations protocols from offline devices. Curv, a Tel-Aviv and New York-based digital asset security platform, has launched Curv Air Gap — an institutional transaction signing solution that uses multi-party computation, or MPC, protocols on offline devices. The launch comes roughly one week after […]
Continue ReadingAs Grayscale reveals it holds 1.7% of all Bitcoin in circulation, institutional investors seem to be gaining more confidence in Bitcoin. A recent report by Grayscale, a cryptocurrency venture capital company, revealed the firm now holds roughly 1.7% of all of Bitcoin’s supply in its Bitcoin Trust (GBTC). Having seen the biggest quarter yet, Grayscale’s […]
Continue ReadingXRP price has rebounded since the March crash and looks to tackle key resistance in an attempt to reclaim the $0.30 level. Recently, altcoins have been showing strength as Bitcoin (BTC) has just broken a key resistance level. Notably, ChainLink (LINK) and Tezos (XTZ) have been moving up more than 150% in the past month. […]
Continue ReadingWhy hasn’t the Ethereum blockchain found the perfect solution for its scalability problem since 2014, and does one really exist? The Ethereum team has been trying to solve the blockchain scalability problem since 2014. During that time, solutions such as Raiden, Plasma, zk-SNARKs, sharding and rollups appeared in the developers’ tool kit. However, the implementation […]
Continue ReadingThe upcoming Bitcoin halving may result in greater demand and higher prices, but what are the challenges for the 2020 halving? Sometimes less is more. That’s a tenet of modern design, but it’s also a central belief of many in the decentralized cryptocurrency community. Throughout the Bitcoin (BTC) world — in Twitter threads, on crypto […]
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