2022-2-10 19:31 |
Concordium, the layer 1 blockchain with an ID layer at the protocol level, has announced its sponsorship and backing of a new crypto-focused news channel:... origin »
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In a post on Ethereum developers' GitHub channel, Vitalik wrote a proposal to allow platforms using rollups to communicate with each other. He proposes cross-rollup scaling solutions that will ease the rising Ethereum fees while maintaining interconnectivity and composability across the platforms.
2021-3-4 18:49 | |
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Lightning Labs has launched a marketplace for liquidity on the network. The startup focused on developing the Layer 2 payment channel for Bitcoin, Lighting network, has opened the door to “LiFi” – Lightning financial products.
2020-11-4 23:22 | |
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Special thanks to the Plasma Group team for review and feedback Current approaches to layer 2 scaling - basically, Plasma and state channels - are increasingly moving from theory to practice, but at the same time it is becoming easier to see the inherent challenges in treating these techniques as a fully fledged scaling solution for Ethereum.
2019-9-2 04:03 | |
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To Bitcoin or Not to BitcoinDuring the “scaling debate” before the SegWit2X user-activated soft fork (UASF), Bitcoin businesses were getting their first bitter taste of Bitcoin’s censorship resistance.
2019-5-21 21:10 | |
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Bitcoin’s second layer off-chain solution for payment channels managed to take significant leaps this year, owing to the massive support from many luminaries in the cryptocurrency space, participating in the LN Torch experiment.
2019-4-15 21:30 | |
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The CoolWallet S, made by CoolBit X, combines hot and cold storage solutions, blending the mobility afforded by software wallets with the enhanced security features offered by hardware wallets.
2019-4-4 00:05 | |
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Lightning Labs, one of the major contributors to the Lightning Network, has announced the alpha launch of a new feature coming to the second layer micro-payments solution on top of the Bitcoin network.
2019-3-21 00:00 | |
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The Lightning Network is lauded by its proponents to be the ultimate fix to any scaling problem Bitcoin will encounter. It is an added layer to the Bitcoin protocol. The added layer is intended to create a faster channel to make payments.
2019-3-7 09:40 | |
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Binance just offered its users an in-depth sneak peek of its forthcoming decentralized exchange (DEX). Announced in March of 2018, the decentralized exchange will be built on Binance’s own Binance chain, the soon-to-be base layer for BNB, Binance’s trading currency that is currently an ERC-20 token.
2018-12-6 23:38 | |
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Binance just offered its users an in-depth sneak peek of its forthcoming decentralized exchange (DEX). Announced in March of 2018, the decentralized exchange will be built on Binance’s own Binance chain, the soon-to-be base layer for BNB, Binance’s trading currency that is currently an ERC-20 token.
2018-12-6 23:38 | |
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Bitcoin-built smart contract platform RSK (a. k. a. Rootstock) is merging with an offshoot established by its founders. The partnership will allow it to spread its roots to Ethereum — and beyond.
2018-11-19 04:39 | |
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Bitcoin-built smart contract platform RSK (a. k. a. Rootstock) is merging with an offshoot established by its founders. The partnership will allow it to spread its roots to Ethereum — and beyond.
2018-11-20 04:39 | |
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The Lightning Network continues to post steady growth. According to data from 1ML, the network is now supported by roughly 4,070 nodes, which house just over 12,500 payment channels, an average of 10.
2018-11-17 01:17 | |
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In order to make payments on the lightning network — Bitcoin’s second layer solution for instant and cheap transactions — users must first fund lightning channels.
2018-8-30 22:18 | |
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The capacity of the Lightning Network, a micropayment channel that is compatible with Segregated Witness (SegWit) and a layer two scaling solution deployed on top of the Bitcoin protocol, has increased by 68 percent in the past 30 days.
2018-7-10 01:05 | |
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Daniel Larmier, the founder and technical architect of EOS, has confirmed that he wants to scrap the platform’s current constitution and build a new one. Speaking on the EOSIO Gov Telegram Channel, Larimer claimed he has doubts about the company’s current on-chain governance model and called the existing constitution “unwise.
2018-6-28 01:44 | |
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Hours before Spotify announced its 2025 Wrapped results, the odds on The Weeknd finishing third on Polymarket’s contract surged from 40% to 99%. Polymarket shared the news on X, framing it as proof that prediction markets work.
A new on-chain report from Lookonchain has reignited debate around Pump. fun’s treasury activity. But the team behind the memecoin launchpad is openly rejecting the claims, calling the circulating numbers “misinformation” and insisting the large transfers reflect internal treasury management, not cash-outs.
Democratic Senators pressed Mike Selig, President Trump’s nomination as the next head of the Commodity Future Trading Commission, about sports event contracts during a hearing before the Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry Committee today.
Unless it’s repealed, a new tax provision capping the losses gamblers can deduct at 90% takes effect on Jan. 1, 2026. Meanwhile, prediction markets are rising in prominence. A potential result of this dynamic: A migration of big gamblers — professionals and whales, alike — from regulated sportsbooks to prediction markets in the new year.
Just days after announcing a deal with Polymarket, PrizePicks has launched prediction markets through a partnership with Kalshi, Polymarket’s main adversary. Kalshi prediction markets are now available on the PrizePicks app.
Massachusetts has become the latest to state to warn sports betting licensees about getting too deep into the prediction markets business. In a letter to operators, Massachusetts Gaming Commission executive director Dean Serpa writes, “Please accept this letter as notice that you are prohibited from offering sports-related event contracts in Massachusetts, directly or via an […] The post Massachusetts Issues Stern Warning To Sportsbooks About Prediction Market Plans appeared first on DeFi Rate.
Polymarket has relaunched in a limited beta in the U. S. , announcing that it is letting a small number of American users trade contracts on outcomes for sports, politics, pop culture, and more. Founder Shayne Coplan confirmed the news at Cantor Fitzgerald’s Crypto and AI Infrastructure Conference in Miami, calling the U.