Ethereum's future hinges on interoperable layer-2s

The United States subsidiary of major European crypto exchange Bitstamp has been granted a virtual currency license from New York state’s financial regulator, according to an official press release from the New York Department of Financial Services (NYDFS) on April 9.The license, known as a BitLicense, has been awarded by the NYDFS to Bitstamp USA…

Bitmain, the largest manufacturer of mining equipment, recently revealed the Antminer Z11 device for mining Zcash and other cryptocurrencies based on the Equihash algorithm, as reported by Cointelegraph on March 19. The company claims that the new chip is three times more powerful than its predecessor, the Antminer Z9, which was released nine months ago.Introducing…

Bitcoin’s (BTC) price failed another attempt at breaking above resistance at $85,000 on March 17. Since March 12, BTC price formed daily candle highs between $84,000 and $85,200, but has been unable to close above $84,600. Bitcoin 1-hour chart. Source: Cointelegraph/TradingView Bitcoin remains in “no man’s land” on the lower time frame (LTF) of the

Singapore's central bank and state investment firm have created a prototype multi-currency blockchain-based payments network together with JPMorgan.A Nov. 11 report from The Business Times indicates that the prototype is designed to enable payments denominated in different currencies to be completed on the same network.Interfaces with other blockchain networksThe Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) — …

Royalty enforcing NFTs to be a ‘new asset class’: Magic Eden CEOJack Lu, the CEO of Solana-based nonfungible token (NFT) marketplace Magic Eden has floated the idea of NFTs designed to enforce royalties.Lu said in an address at Solana’s Breakpoint 2022 conference on Nov. 5 that these NFTs could “give rise to a new asset…

The hype around initial coin offerings may have quieted down in the States, but France seems to be taking a newfound interest. On Dec. 17th, France’s financial regulator, the Autorité des Marchés Financiers (AMF), granted the country’s first approval for an ICO application.The offering came from French-ICO, a company that has developed a platform for…

The partnership will allow Bancolombia customers to trade a number of popular cryptocurrencies including BTC, ETH, and LTC. 404 Total views 20 Total shares New York-based crypto exchange Gemini has announced that it will be expanding into Latin America through an upcoming partnership with Colombia’s largest bank, Bancolombia. The partnership will take effect Dec. 14,…

Despite the decline in traffic, ChatGPT still stays ahead of its AI chatbot competitors like Google’s Bard and Character AI. Worldwide traffic for the popular artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot ChatGPT has witnessed a decline from the month of May to June, suggesting a reduction in interest in the AI assistant tool developed by OpenAI. According to…

Decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs) offer a new way of organizing businesses in a non-hierarchical structure that encourages participation from every member of a community. With no central leadership and decisions made collectively, DAOs could revolutionize the way we think about work, but their implementation is not without challenges. The term DAO is sometimes used to refer…