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Polygon uses zero-knowledge proof to club multiple transactions into groups before relaying them over to the Ethereum blockchain as a single transaction. 245 Total views 8 Total shares Polygon, a Web3 infrastructure on the Ethereum blockchain, announced the launch of Polygon zkEVM or zero-knowledge Ethereum Virtual Machine, a Layer-2 scaling solution aimed at reducing transaction…

"It is key that the scope of the new EU authority explicitly includes crypto-assets," said Luis Garicano, a member of the European Parliament. 470 Total views 4 Total shares The European Commission, in coordination with other authorities, reportedly plans to have its financial watchdog group potentially oversee illicit transactions at crypto firms.According to a Tuesday…

Ripple’s significant donation to Deaton highlights the growing influence of blockchain in politics amid SEC scrutiny.

Yahoo Finance has integrated trading with Bitcoin (BTC), Ethereum (ETH), and Litecoin (LTC) on its platform. While statistics are available on the platform for other digital currencies like Bitcoin Cash (BCH), Ethereum Classic (ETC) or EOS, they currently do not have buy and sell options. The development has led some in the crypto community to…

Digital currency solutions that directly face consumers will not be taken seriously by central banks, according to a Visa executive. 967 Total views 25 Total shares Consumer-facing digital currency solutions will not be taken seriously by central banks, according to a Visa executive.Visa head of crypto Cuy Sheffield tweeted on May 18 that he does…

The Telegram team said, “Telegram’s CEO Pavel Durov has nothing to hide and travels frequently in Europe.”

It's a case of "same, same but different" when it comes to Bitcoin price action this year, but historically, nothing has fallen outside the norm. Bitcoin (BTC) has "at least one more upward impulse to come" before reaching this halving cycle's all-time high, new research maintains.In a series of tweets about the current state of…

BlockShow Asia 2019 hosted some big names today for a panel on blockchain scalability. All the speakers agreed: people have to choose between scalability and decentralization.The panel included Max Kordek, CEO at Lisk; Matthew Tan, founder of Etherscan; Saranya Sriram, technical lead at Microsoft Azure; and Xinxi Wang, co-founder of Litecoin Foundation. It attracted a…

Coming every Saturday, Hodler’s Digest will help you track every single important news story that happened this week. The best (and worst) quotes, adoption and regulation highlights, leading coins, predictions and much more — a week on Cointelegraph in one link.Top Stories This WeekUS financial regulator FinCEN hires its first-ever chief digital currency adviserThe United…