Cardano developer house IOHK has set up a $20 million “cFund” alongside Los Angeles-based Wave Financial. Edit (10:30 UTC): This article previously indicated that Wave Financial was based in Canada. It is, in fact, based in Los Angeles and...
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A vulnerability in a blockchain-based system used in Russia’s recent poll meant users’ votes could be decrypted, journalists found. On Wednesday, the final day of a vote on constitutional amendments, Russian media outlet Meduza published research showing the keys...
A standard way to transact bitcoin could be misused to enable a kind of double-spending, new research has found. Blockchain sleuths at ZenGo, a wallet startup, have found a vulnerability that affected at least three major competing crypto wallets...
Cryptography firm Bolt Labs has launched a private payment solution, zkChannels, on Tezos. The startup is now working with Tezos developer groups Nomadic Labs and Metastate to implement the tech in the next network update. Similar to the Lightning...
Decentralized exchanges (DEXs) are seeing more action than ever thanks to a surge in decentralized finance (DeFi) activity. The chief benefit of DEXs compared to the Coinbases of the world? They allow users to hold their crypto until they...
Blockchain startup Kirobo says its technology can prevent the loss of cryptocurrency caused by human error when sending what are normally irreversible transactions between wallets. The firm’s Retrievable Transfer feature works by building a new layer onto existing blockchain...
Demand to transact on the Ethereum blockchain has pushed fees to uncomfortable levels. A new technical proposal helps address high fees by implementing a dynamic pricing system. Called EIP 1559, Ethereum users would now pay a set “base fee”...
A hacker has attempted to disrupt a blockchain voting system currently being used to help decide constitutional changes in the Russian Federation. According to Russian news agency TASS, head of the Moscow government’s IT technologies department Artem Kostyrko said...
Facebook, Accenture, IoTeX, Nvidia and six other companies are joining the Linux Foundation’s Confidential Computing Consortium (CCC), increasing the size of the privacy-focused group by 60 percent. The addition of members IoTeX, which leverages blockchain to secure the internet...
Kyber Network’s next protocol upgrade, dubbed Katalyst, is expected to go live on July 7. In an emailed announcement on Monday, Kyber said the upgrade will usher in changes around the role of its native token, the Kyber Network...