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Why build your own security apparatus when you can rent?That’s the premise behind “restaking,” a new concept taking hold in the crypto landscape – where the ether (ETH) tokens that are deposited or “staked” on Ethereum, the world’s second-largest blockchain – as a guarantee of security – can get reused and repurposed for smaller networks…

Dec 11, 2019 at 20:09 UTCUpdated Dec 11, 2019 at 20:15 UTCDavid Z. Morris, author of the book Bitcoin is MagicThe Year in Crypto Journalism: Truth Will Always Be HumanThis post is part of CoinDesk's 2019 Year in Review, a collection of 100 op-eds, interviews and takes on the state of blockchain and the world.…

Sep 18, 2020 at 17:06 UTCBerlin Brandenburg Airport in 2012. The long-delayed megaproject is tentatively set to open this October. (Muns/Wikimedia commons)German Lawmakers Vote ‘Nein’ on Blockchain for Transparency on MegaprojectsGermany’s money-hemorrhaging effort to build a sleek new airport for Berlin might have convinced one political party that a blockchain for megaproject transparency was in…

Aug 28, 2020 at 09:03 UTCUpdated Aug 28, 2020 at 09:04 UTC(Svetlana Lukienko/Shutterstock)Framework Labs – a new “fintech studio” that incubates and supports projects in the decentralized finance (DeFi) space – has stepped out of the shadows with the announcement of a successful seed funding round. Announced Thursday, the $8 million dollar investment was led…

Decentralized finance (DeFi) protocol Balancer has attracted several of its peers to a proposal that aims to increase liquidity and reduce price slippage by replacing the single-asset staking model with a two-token version.Dubbed the 8020 Initiative, the proposal aims to address the lack of liquidity in DeFi by creating a two-asset pool comprising a governance…

news Coinbase has added support for five new crypto options to its Visa debit card, and also expanded availability to 10 more European nations. The U.S.-based cryptocurrency exchange announced Thursday that holders of the card can now spend XRP, basic attention token (BAT), augur (REP), 0x (ZRX) and stellar (XLM). The new options come in addition…

Hong Kong-based crypto exchange Bitfinex has hit back against claims it is insolvent and disclosed wallet addresses that hold over $1.5 billion in crypto assets. The company, which shares management with Tether, the venture behind the U.S dollar-pegged crypto USDT, stated in a blog post on Sunday that it is not insolvent, and "a constant…

Sep 17, 2020 at 09:00 UTCA mobile bitcoin options trading platform set to launch this year has secured funding from some of the industry’s top-tier investors. PowerTrade raised $4.7 million via token sales in a round led by Pantera Capital and joined by Framework Ventures, CMS Holdings and QCP Capital among others.Prominent founders Kain Warwick…

Coinbase has filed a so-called interlocutory appeal in federal court to challenge just a single legal point at the heart of its dispute with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.The appeal is asking a higher court to review whether a digital asset transaction that poses no obligation to the original issuer of the asset should