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PROOF, the private community behind the Moonbirds NFT collection, has announced it is shifting its blue-chip collection completely “in chain” — allowing images to be fully contained within the underlying smart contract, reports Cointelegraph. In a community live stream named “Future PROOF”, Harri Thomas, director of products at PROOF, explained that the new approach will […]

The Merge, Ethereum’s migration from a proof-of-work (PoW) to a proof-of-stake (PoS) consensus algorithm has raised concerns about the future of the chain when it comes to censorship, reports Bitcoin.com. After the addresses of the smart contracts of Tornado Cash, a privacy-cantered mixing protocol, were sanctioned and blacklisted by the US Treasury’s Office of Foreign […]

China officially begun rolling out the next round of its central bank digital currency (CBDC) pilot test programme, reports Cointelegraph. In the city of Guanzhou, it is now possible to pay for public bus rides with the digital yuan (e-CNY) CBDC on 10 transit routes, which is a first for the country. To do so, […]

Trinity Business School has launched a dedicated blockchain, crypto and Web3 course titled “Unpacking Crypto and Blockchain”. The programme has been designed for business professionals who have an interest in: – What bitcoin, blockchain, crypto and digital assets are – How they work – The role they are playing and will play across industries and […]

More than 100 speakers will take the stage in Dublin on 12-14 September, for talks, panels, demos and hands-on workshops. Highlights include these keynotes: Additional speakers will include: “There has been an impressive amount of market evolution, technology development and innovation in the two plus years since we last held an in-person Hyperledger Global Forum,” […]

Google’s parent company Alphabet has become the top investor in the blockchain industry, according to research on the blockchain investment activities of the world’s top 100 listed companies by market capitalization released by the blockchain market intelligence agency Blockdata. Blockchain.news reports that since June 2021, a total of $1.56 billion from Alphabet was injected into […]

Illicit crypto volumes have been diminishing year-over-year, with scams making the largest drop, according to research by blockchain analytic firm Chainalysis, reports Blockchain.news. Chainalysis points out: “Total scam revenue for 2022 currently sits at $1.6 billion, 65% lower than where it was through the end of July in 2021, and this decline appears linked to […]

One of the world’s most prominent and mission–critical uses of the blockchain – The Australian Securities Exchange’s (ASX) project to replace its CHESS core trading systems with a distributed ledger – has struck further trouble, reports The Register. As The Register has previously noted, the project commenced in 2017 but saw its go-live date pushed […]

Another day, another hack – and another blockchain bridge burned, writes Reuters. When thieves stole an estimated $190 million (€185 million) from US crypto firm Nomad last week, it was the seventh hack of 2022 to target an increasingly important cog in the crypto machine: Blockchain “bridges” – strings of code that help move crypto […]

AMD, Accenture, IBM, Fujitsu, Siemens AG, Allianz Technology, and Hitachi are just some of the more familiar names among the speakers listed for the Hyperledger Global Forum 2022, in Dublin in September. Joining those will be speakers from Blockdaemon, Zeeve, Kaleido, Indicio, Equideum Health, and many more to explore existing developments and new directions in […]

The crypto rebound is alive and kicking, according to Forbes. Over the past week, Forbes reports, the price of Bitcoin soared 4.2%, currently trading at $23,800, and the Ethereum price jumped 7.9% to just over $1,700. Most altcoins are following the major’s suit. XRPXRP +0.2% is up 2.1%, Cardano 5.1%, BNBBNB +3.6% 8.9%, Solana 1.5%, […]

European Tech School is described a first-of-its-kind online blockchain school set to disrupt the way we learn about Blockchain technology. Its mission is to educate and empower the Web3 and Crypto community around the world.  Attendees will learn through live classes with world-class instructors, self-paced materials, business cases with real blockchain founders, personalized feedback, coaching, curated readings, community-led […]