Digital Asset Summit 2024 | London
Blockworks’ Digital Asset Summit (DAS) will take place March 18-20, 2024 at The Hilton London Metropole.
Ethereum’s decentralization takes hit as number of relayers drops to 4
Over 90% of Ethereum transactions are now handled by four block builders, raising fears of centralization
Binance fully exits Russia after sale deal with startup CommEX
Binance has decided to fully exit the Russian market by selling its entire local operations to the newly-launched Russian-based exchange, CommEX.
Celestia opens airdrop for planned modular data availability network
A total of 7,579 developers and almost 600,000 addresses will be eligible to receive the allocated TIA tokens
Crypto funding: Startups raise $115M across gaming, custody, and institutional services
Eleven crypto startups raised a combined total of $115.5 million across a variety of disciplines this week. Gaming, though, took the cake.
Mining pool ViaBTC controls over 51% of Zcash hash rate
ViaBTC, primarily known as a popular bitcoin mining pool, now controls over 51% of the hashing power on Zcash, according to MiningPoolStats. The hashrate for Zcash, a proof-of-work network, is measured in giga solutions per second (Gsol/s) and ViaBTC is hashing at 4.53Gsol/s.
LayerZero moves to Google Cloud: A move away from decentralization?
The argument for enabling Google Cloud as an oracle is all about security, Kong says. LayerZero’s answer to the security model question, Kong explains, was that “Google is a one trillion dollar big tech company. They’re not going to rug you.”
25-year old video shows Bitcoin pioneer Hal Finney talking zero-knowledge proofs – history in the making.
A newly-unearthed video shows the Bitcoin pioneer Hal Finney giving a talk on zero-knowledge proofs at the Crypto ‘98 conference. In the video, Finney talks about performing a zero-knowledge proof on a SHA-1 hash, demonstrating the existence of a cryptographically scrambled message without disclosing any details about the message. At the time of Finney’s talk, […]
Web3 is far from its iPhone moment
Until Web3 technologies embrace usability and are truly intuitive solutions, Web3 will remain a fringe set of technologies.
Ethereum co-founder says US regulators will ultimately embrace crypto
Is it possible rational thinking will proceed in the long run with US regulators as they begin to embrace blockchain technologies?