Microsoft Looks to Trusted Computing for Boosting Blockchain Security

We’ve seen this before. A radical technological breakthrough spins off applications that promoters insist will revolutionize whatever industry they happen to be targeting. Breathless conferences promise that nothing will ever be the same again. Funding floods in at back-of-the-envelope valuations based on exponential growth. I could be talking about the crypto circuit circa 2016-17. But…

Feb 22, 2020 at 10:25 UTCChorleywood Common, Rickmansworth, England. (Credit: Unsplash)Michael Casey is chief content officer at CoinDesk. The following is part of "The Token Economy," an essay in Alex Tapscott’s new book "The Financial Services Revolution."Blockchain technology, and the cryptocurrencies, tokens and other digital assets it has engendered, may be moving us toward a…

In the world of crypto, digital assets, and the dream of decentralization, the middleman is a figure of scorn. We speak of peer-to-peer networks, of unmediated transactions flowing freely across borders, with no need for gatekeepers. Yet, whether we like it or not, intermediaries haunt every corner of this landscape. Some extract rent for their

Bitcoin’s price briefly crashed 87% and then recovered within the span of a single minute early Thursday on Binance.US, in a fleeting but very real flash crash that the cryptocurrency exchange attributed to a “bug” in an institutional customer’s trading algorithm.At 11:34 UTC (7:34 a.m. ET), the price fell from around $65,760 to as low…

Shaurya is the Deputy Managing Editor for the Data & Tokens team, focusing on decentralized finance, markets, on-chain data, and governance across all major and minor blockchains.The Milady non-fungible token (NFT) collection spiked after receiving acknowledgement from Twitter owner Elon Musk, drawing parallels to Musk's treatment of dogecoin (DOGE).Miladys are a profile-pic (PFP) NFT, which…

news Blocko, the South Korean enterprise blockchain provider backed by Samsung, has launched in the UAE after raising funding in Asia Pacific and Europe, the company said. In April 2018, the Dubai government announced the Emirates Blockchain Strategy 2021, where the UAE government will migrate 50% of its transactions such as visa applications and bill payments…

This article originally appeared in First Mover, CoinDesk’s daily newsletter putting the latest moves in crypto markets in context. Subscribe to get it in your inbox every day.Latest PricesTop StoriesX, the Elon Musk-owned social media platform formerly called Twitter, has obtained payments licenses from several U.S. states in recent months, including a currency transmitter license

The decentralized exchange (DEX) dYdX announced Tuesday that it is open-sourcing its code, marking the initiation of the exchange’s v4 upgrade and the much-watched transition from a layer-2 network atop Ethereum to a standalone blockchain in the Cosmos ecosystem.Open-sourcing code is at the core of the blockchain ethos, bringing transparency for developers thatallows them to

Oct 2, 2020 at 20:15 UTCUpdated Oct 2, 2020 at 20:44 UTCMuch of the bitcoin outflow from BitMEX has gone to three of its competitors.(Shutterstock)U.S. regulatory authorities on Thursday brought a series of civil and criminal charges against BitMEX. Since then more than 41,000 bitcoin were withdrawn from the Seychelles-based crypto exchange. Where did it…