Oxfam Ireland, a Belfast-based charity fighting global poverty, has received a €1 million ($1.1 million) grant to fund the next phase of a blockchain aid distribution project. Disclosure The leader in blockchain news, CoinDesk is a media outlet that strives for the highest journalistic standards and abides by a strict […]
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The Monetary Board of the Central Bank of Sri Lanka is close to starting development of a blockchain platform expected to speed up the processing of bank users’ ID information. Disclosure The leader in blockchain news, CoinDesk is a media outlet that strives for the highest journalistic standards and abides […]
Blockchain predictions platform Augur is launching a new version of its protocol next month, but users will have to migrate to a new token if they want to use it. The company announced Monday the “v2” rollout has been slated for release on July 28, and will represent an entirely […]
Blockchain analysis company Elliptic has added two privacy coins to its monitoring platform. Announced Tuesday, the addition of zcash (ZEC) and horizen (ZEN) will provide exchanges and institutional investors insight into when a transaction trail ends so they can take additional due-diligence measures. Privacy is a core tenet of crypto, […]
Mutual fund giant Vanguard has completed another blockchain pilot that aims to change the risk profile of foreign exchange (FX) transactions. The Valley Forge, Pa.-based investment firm ran the pilot on Symbiont’s Assembly blockchain with participation from State Street, BNY Mellon and investment firm Franklin Templeton. Vanguard and Franklin Templeton […]
Decentralized finance (DeFi) protocol Compound saw its governance token, COMP, skyrocket in price when it launched last week. Now, decentralized options marketplace Opyn has launched put options on COMP that will provide a safety net of sorts by helping holders mitigate some of the risk should COMP’s fortunes take a […]
A seemingly random combination of words “oxygen” and “frequency” has triggered Twitter to automatically flag tweets with a Covid-19 fact-check warning. Users responded by gaming the algorithm into absurdity. The strange message began appearing under tweets on Friday. Within hours, people were testing it with random posts that mentioned the […]
Helen Buyniski is an American journalist and political commentator at RT. Follow her on Twitter @velocirapture23 “Free speech driven” social network Parler is being smeared as a “far right” cesspool as a Twitter crackdown drives conservative signups – even as its new users include milquetoast Republican politicians like Ted Cruz. Like […]
The liquidity mining boom may be upon us. Balancer Labs, the maker of an automated portfolio management tool, has confirmed with CoinDesk it has begun distribution of its BAL token. Following the persistent mania around last week’s debut of Compound’s COMP token, BAL will be the second governance token earned […]
Citing regulatory concerns, Berlin-based security token startup Neufund has announced plans to freeze its fundraising campaigns and sideline future tokenized equity offerings. “Many European countries had aspirations to become a blockchain-friendly hub … [T]he authorities have stifled this plan, blocking the innovation in its tracks,” the firm wrote in a […]
Fans of South Korean professional soccer will now be able to collect and trade digital tokens representing league players and use them to play fantasy soccer games run by the firm Sorare. The South Korean soccer association K League announced a licensing agreement with the blockchain enabled fantasy soccer platform […]
Decentralized blogging is coming to a URL near you thanks to a partnership between Unstoppable Domains and Protocol Labs. Launched Thursday, San Francisco blockchain firm Unstoppable Domains has released its decentralized blog (dBlog) service hosted on Protocol Lab’s InterPlanetary File System (IPFS), complete with the .crypto domain. “No one can […]
US 00:03 GMT 28.05.2020Get short URL https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/106982/83/1069828323_0:313:6000:3688_1200x675_80_0_0_ea04cf4b740eb486e597222a6ae7d424.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/us/202005281079437291-zuckerberg-says-platform-companies-shoudnt-be-arbiter-of-truth/ Zuckerberg’s remarks come as President Trump is set to sign an Executive Order concerning social media companies after Twitter placed “fact-checks” on a couple of his tweets. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said on Wednesday his company did […]
US 03:04 GMT 25.05.2020Get short URL The reported renovation apparently arrives in light of the upcoming US presidential election, in which the incumbent president, Donald Trump, will most likely face presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Biden. The son-in-law and senior advisor to the US president, Jared Kushner, is reportedly launching an […]
Cash might be tight for many industries amid the Covid-19 pandemic, but not when it comes to the ever-evolving esports industry. Take Statespace, a platform that trains gamers which has raised $15 million in Series A funding. Launched in 2017 together with Aim Lab, a product that replicates the standard […]
…from TASS, Moscow [ Editor’s Note: This is an old story but I am publishing it because it was a front and center topic at the Eighth Moscow Conference on International Security conference held on April 23-25. It seems to have not gotten much coverage in the West despite defense […]