2019-5-25 15:01 |
Fundamental network metrics for XLM show rising on-chain use over the past few months. The recent concern around network centralization followed by the brief network outage suggests the chain remains in the nascent stages of maturity. origin »
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Fundamental network metrics for XLM show rising on-chain use over the past few months. However, the concern in April around network centralization followed by the brief network outage in May suggests the chain remains in the nascent stages of maturity.
2019-7-9 15:01 | |
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Bitcoin SV has been considered to be the fork of Bitcoin Cash they have just gone ahead to set up the Scaling Test Network, STN. One that has been explicitly being designed to test the on-chain scaling for the large blocks in the network. And in the latest update, it has been able to act […]
2019-5-24 02:27 | |
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Bitcoin SV, the fork of Bitcoin Cash, has set up an STN [Scaling Test Network], specifically intended to test on-chain scaling for large blocks, which also acts as a standard network in the latest update of Bitcoin SV.
2019-5-23 17:00 | |
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Bitcoin’s Lightning Network designed to free up Bitcoin’s on-chain congestion and improve its scalability seems to have lost its mojo as the network capacity, among others, have started declining for over a month.
2019-5-21 21:24 | |
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Research has shown that the number of on-chain Bitcoin transactions has risen dramatically throughout 2019, nearing the volume of Bitcoin’s peak in December 2017. Even so, transaction fees are a fraction of what they were around bitcoin’s all-time high, likely due to the continued uptick of SegWit transactions on the network.
2019-5-8 00:53 | |
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Smartlands Has Gone Ahead To Launch He Very First Wallet For Security Tokens On The Stellar Network One of the platforms that have been established for crowdfunding investments through the issuance of security tokens, the Smartlands has just gone ahead to announce their new deployment of a Stellar Wallet, one that has been designed for […]
2019-5-7 21:11 | |
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The Bitcoin daily transaction volume is now at its highest level since January 2018 showing increased on-chain economic activity. Meanwhile, transaction count and average blocksize on the network continue to move in the same upward direction, proof that the 1MB blocksize limit is well and truly a thing of the past in the post-SegWit Bitcoin era.
2019-5-4 19:00 | |
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Lightning Labs just released an alpha version of its Lightning Network wallet. The desktop application is now compatible with Bitcoin’s mainnet and it leverages Neutrino (the protocol, not the analytics company acquired by Coinbase) to give users a lightweight option to “control their own funds,” as opposed to running a full node or trusting a third party to play custodian.
2019-4-24 01:38 | |
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Bitcoin scaling solutions may be getting huge publicity in 2019, but the amount of money the network processes daily could already cause headaches for competitors. Bitcoin Usage Tramples Venmo As Morgan Creek Digital co-founder Anthony Pompliano noted on social media April 17, Bitcoin’s ‘on-chain’ transaction volumes grew to $7 billion per day earlier this week.
2019-4-18 16:00 | |
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DEX Brokerage was created with the intention of offering trading services for ERC20 tokens and Ether. The plan of the company is to eventually offer tokenized assets that are representations of stocks, bonds, and similar financial instruments, with the option of using completely decentralized protocols.
2019-4-14 23:47 | |
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CryptoNinjas Dex Brokerage, a blockchain-driven, decentralized exchange for cryptocurrencies and derivatives, has announced the finalization of its integration with Kyber Network, the on-chain liquidity protocol.
2019-4-11 18:55 | |
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There are Bitcoin off-chain scalable solutions such as the Lightning Network, but that would not make you immune to on-chain transaction fees which are expected to rise over time as blocks become full.
2019-4-11 17:30 | |
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The number one cryptocurrency Bitcoin (BTC) has been for over ten years now and is so far known as lead cryptocurrency in the world. Apart from celebrating its tenth year of existence, another major event in 2019 is the network reaching over 400 million transactions since 2009, as reported by ‘Gielbier’ on Reddit.
2019-4-10 05:08 | |
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Bitcoin’s first decentralized exchange to make use of the Lightning Network’s Atomic Swaps is now in beta. Sparkswap, an exchange with backing from Pantera Capital (which announced its ambitious mission to become the most decentralized bitcoin exchange on the market in August 2018), has now opened its beta to users.
2019-4-9 23:28 | |
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New announcements around Bitcoin’s Lightning Network have been coming almost nonstop lately, with new exchanges, wallets and other services popping up seemingly every day.
2019-4-8 18:21 | |
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The Lightning Network is growing stronger every day. In addition to seeing the number of nodes double in a few months, a new project has added another element of crypto infrastructure: an account-free, non-custodial cryptocurrency exchange.
2019-4-6 21:29 | |
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Crypto exchange Coinbase is now offering cross-border payments service to enable customers to transfer funds using Ripple (XRP) and the stablecoin USDCoin (USDC). Coinbase made the announcement on its website, touting the service as fast and convenient: “You can now send money to any user with a Coinbase account around the world using XRP or USDC.
2019-4-2 16:43 | |
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Hi San Clan! Here’s just a few things we’ve added to the Santiment platform over the last month. New on SANgraphs: Withdrawal Address Metrics Catch incoming dumps or long-term shifts in speculative activity We’re expanding our on-chain coverage of crypto exchanges with 4 new metrics dedicated to withdrawal addresses and their network activity.
2019-4-2 15:17 | |
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At the Bitcoin Association of Hong Kong’s Lightning Hack Day on March 31, 2019, Bitcoin developer Felix Weis presented a successful demonstration of his Lightning-enabled plugin for a Bitcoin ATM.
2019-4-2 22:02 | |
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Usechain has released its mainnet in order to build a “Wall Street On-Chain.” The project released a press release on March 31st, in which they inform that they have launched their mainnet. The finance professor Huining Cao, the founder of Usechain, explained that they want to become the largest public blockchain in the world in […]
2019-4-1 18:51 | |
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A recent investigation into ‘voter turnout’ as an indicator of community participation in decentralized-governance tokens, throws up some interesting results. Despite the assumption that token-holders would participate purely through the passive incentive of ownership, most prefer more tangible benefits.
2019-4-1 18:00 | |
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Bitcoin [BTC] has seen a massive spike in its network capacity despite the ongoing crypto-winter, leading to a decline in the coin’s price over the past few months. The latest research from Blockchain.
2019-3-30 17:00 | |
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The 15-month long bear market isn’t affecting Bitcoin adoption and usage, new data shows, as on-chain transactions have hit their highest since early January 2018. Bitcoin Usage Has Been Climbing for 15 Months Bitcoin network usage continues to rise contrary to the drop in bitcoin price since its historic run-up to nearly $20,000.
2019-3-29 19:00 | |
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The Bitcoin bull and bear market cycles are a pattern that produces significant developments — when the market is cold, people tend to focus on building the next wave of groundbreaking technology.
2019-3-29 16:26 | |
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Lightning Labs, the development team working to grow the Lightning Network, just released the alpha version of a new protocol called Lightning Loop. Lightning Loop is designed to give users the ability to deposit and withdraw bitcoin from their payment channels (the two-way payment gateways that allow users to send and receive funds to and from each other) without closing these channels entirely.
2019-3-22 20:32 | |
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With a new feature from peer-to-peer cash-to-crypto app Dether, individuals can buy DAI, BNB, MKR, REP, and a variety of other ERC20 tokens with cash, or sell ERC20 tokens without holding any token liquidity in their Dether wallet.
2019-3-21 18:44 | |
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Switzerland-based crypto liquidity network Bancor has launched a wallet for on-chain conversions between Ethereum and Eos tokens
2019-3-13 21:02 | |
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Many popular blockchains, including Ethereum, are trying to tackle the problem of scaling as their network rapidly expands. One of the various approaches proposed is the use of state channels. State channels enable transactions to be conducted off the blockchain directly between network users, based on on-chain information.
2019-2-15 13:27 | |
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On January 21, 2019, Diar, a crypto-focused research group, reported the unlikely rise of ether’s on-chain transaction value on the Ethereum blockchain. Despite the market crash in 2018, the number two blockchain recorded a total movement of 115 million ETH in December last year.
2019-1-25 19:38 | |
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Bitfury’s new suite of Lightning products has been released to the public. Lightning Peach, the title of the product bundle, was developed by Bitfury’s Lightning Network team of the same name.
2019-1-23 20:02 | |
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Kyber Network is an on-chain liquidity protocol that empowers users to swap tokens in various applications. Developers using the network
2019-1-14 05:47 | |
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Crypto payment platform Bitrefill has launched Thor, a service that allows customers to open Lightning channels on demand. Thor will connect to Bitrefill's node on the Lightning Network, allowing users to receive Lightning payments whether they have bitcoin loaded into their Lightning wallets or not.
2019-1-11 18:02 | |
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Qtum, a blockchain platform that merges the strength of Bitcoin’s blockchain with the Ethereum Virtual Machine to build decentralized applications, has completed its first atomic swap with Bitcoin on mainnet.
2019-1-10 21:44 | |
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Bitcoin Fundamentals Hinting At Bear Trend Willy Woo, a leading Australian crypto researcher, analyst, and commentator, recently took to his well-followed Twitter feed to convey his latest bit of Bitcoin (BTC)-related analysis.
2019-1-7 01:00 | |
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Lightning is all the rage these days and, while it's an exciting development, users currently have to have a full node running in order to transact in it. In this article, I'm going to introduce Neutrino, a new protocol for light clients to get the data that they need while preserving privacy and without trusting a central server.
2019-1-4 21:11 | |
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Following a full launch in June, the EOS network has grown in popularity as a gambling Dapp hosting platform, and now daily handles multi-million dollars worth of small, fee-less transactions. Technicals suggest an ongoing multi-month bear trend that has experienced some recent relief likely driven by a mean reversion effect.
2018-12-22 23:40 | |
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“A good time to remind you all that $LTC is completely worthless. On-chain transactions are a joke. Last 5 blocks are all smaller than 30kb, network is totally empty. It’s not used for payments, it’s not used for anything.
2018-12-20 06:05 | |
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Lightning is a second-layer solution for the Bitcoin blockchain that addresses the scaling issues surrounding it today. Similar to Bitcoin, Lightning is an open-source protocol in which anyone can contribute to.
2018-12-19 02:34 | |
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Where 2017’s dizzying price highs embedded “hodl” into the public consciousness, 2018 was the year that “buidl" became a trend in the crypto-industry — and Bitcoin was no exception.
2018-12-5 23:23 | |
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The EOSBet has just gone ahead to announce that it has managed to secure its accreditation from the oldest online gaming regulators in the market, the Curacaon eGaming. Curacao eGaming is an island based regulatory body, and it is among the only four Curacaon companies that have been issued with the Master Gambling License that […]
2018-12-2 01:12 | |
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Popular decentralized gambling app, EOSBet, becomes the first open-source Casino on the EOS network to receive an online gambling license.
2018-11-30 18:00 | |
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Kyber Network, a blockchain based liquidity protocol, has launched a trading API which is a product that will allow different users who lack smart contract knowledge access to the network’s liquidity.
2018-11-26 21:37 | |
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CryptoNinjas Kyber Network, an on-chain liquidity protocol enabling decentralized token swaps to be integrated into any application has recently introduced the Kyber Trading API, a REST API that gives users access to on-chain liquidity without much.
2018-11-26 08:58 | |
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CryptoNinjas Melon, a decentralized, public infrastructure for on-chain asset management on the Ethereum blockchain and Kyber Network, an ecosystem for decentralized token swaps today announced the successful integration of Kyber’s on-chain liquidity protocol.
2018-10-11 00:32 | |
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Today marks the official release of Bitcoin Core 0. 17. 0, the 17th generation of Bitcoin’s original software client launched by Satoshi Nakamoto almost 10 years ago and still the dominant Bitcoin implementation on the network today.
2018-10-3 16:28 | |
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CoinGate, a bitcoin payment processor, has launched bitcoin Lightning Network payments on its platform, bringing the option to accept Lightning payments to its 4,000 clients.
2018-9-7 18:47 | |
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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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Software engineer Jason Wong recently posted a proposal online showing how atomic on-chain ETH to off-chain BTC swaps would be possible. Wong had previously made headlines for making submarineswaps to support Litecoin.
2018-8-26 21:27 | |
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Singapore blockchain startup DREP Foundation (DREP) announced it has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with fellow Singapore startup REAL ID, who is developing a digital identity network.
2018-8-19 18:06 | |
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Gennaro D'Urso is the founder of Pharma Collective and Israel Mersky is the Director at Pharma Collective. Gennaro has a background in science and entrepreneurship, while Israel comes from the advertising industry and has experience in the pharmaceutical psychedelic space.
Jasper De Gooyer is the co-founder and CTO at SEDA, a multichain, permissionless protocol connecting real-world data to any network on-chain.
Bitget, top global cryptocurrency exchange and Web3 company, is responding to trader demand and is to list SKALE (SKL). The SKALE Network is designed to enhance the scalability and efficiency of Ethereum-compatible applications.
VALR, Africa's largest cryptocurrency exchange by trading volume, has launched perpetual futures trading, featuring the world's first Bitcoin and USDT perpetual futures paired against the South African Rand.
Controversial crypto exchange Binance has appointed Richard Teng as its new CEO. The appointment follows the resignation of former CEO Changpeng “CZ” Zhao who pleaded guilty to charges levied against him by the U.S. Department of Justice.
Binance founder Changpeng “CZ” Zhao will reportedly step down as CEO of the world's largest cryptocurrency exchange as part of a $4.3 billion settlement with the United States Department of Justice (DOJ).
Since its 2009 inception, Bitcoin has heralded a shift from traditional to decentralized finance (DeFi), signaling the future of financial markets. Today, the crypto landscape extends beyond Bitcoin, with multiple projects contributing to a dynamic ecosystem of financial innovation.