Nervos Network has set up a $30 million public grant fund to sponsor external developers building on its blockchain infrastructure. Announced Thursday, the fund will pay developers in cash,…
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Hedera Hashgraph Asks Investors to Wait Longer for Tokens After Price Crash – CoinDesk
Hedera Hashgraph, the company behind the blockchain-like Hedera network, is asking investors to wait longer for tokens they paid for, in order to stabilize their cratering price. In return…
Alibaba Patents Would Secure, Accelerate Its Consortium Blockchain – CoinDesk
Chinese internet giant Alibaba Group has won two U.S. patents designed to make its blockchain network safer and faster. One patent aims to reduce the time to verify block…
Kyber Network Aims to Improve DeFi Liquidity With ‘Katalyst’ Protocol Upgrade – CoinDesk
Kyber Network, the ethereum-based protocol focused on aggregating liquidity and facilitating swaps for ERC-20 tokens, is about to launch a major upgrade. Planned to go live in the second…
Mining Giant Glencore to Trace Cobalt Using ‘Responsible Sourcing’ Blockchain Consortium – CoinDesk
Cobalt producer Glencore PLC is joining the Responsible Sourcing Blockchain Network (RSBN). In a press release Thursday, the publicly traded company, one of the world’s largest cobalt producers, announced…
US Arrests 3 in Alleged Crypto Mining Pool Fraud Scheme – CoinDesk
U.S. authorities arrested three alleged scammers attached to the BitClub Network Tuesday who successfully defrauded investors of $722 million through a mining pool Ponzi scheme. According to a press…
Implosion: MATIC Erases Four-Week Rally in Just Two Days – CoinDesk
The Matic Network cryptocurrency (MATIC) plunged significantly in the past 48 hours, erasing a four-week rally that saw the alternative cryptocurrency appreciate by 280 percent. It was a brutal…
Nayuta Claims Its Android Lightning Wallet Is the First to Build in a Bitcoin Full Node – CoinDesk
Japan-based startup Nayuta has released what it says is the first lightning network wallet with a built-in bitcoin “full node.” Lightning is the scaling technology trumpeted as the future…
Matter Labs Unveils Layer-2 Scaling Solution for Ethereum Payments – CoinDesk
The latest ethereum hard fork, Istanbul, is bringing Layer 2 solutions to the network – this time in the form of a payment channel. Cryptographic research hub Matter Labs…
Ethereum Devs Reconsider ‘Difficulty Bomb’ Timing as Hard Forks Loom – CoinDesk
A newly proposed ethereum hard fork may punt a key network feature two years down the road to avoid complicating ethereum’s transition to proof-of-stake (PoS). Ethereum improvement proposal (EIP)…