The advancement of computing power over the past few decades has been extraordinary. As computers become more powerful, hackers gain access to more sophisticated tools to launch attacks against crypto platforms. The threat of quantum and AI-driven hacks will soon be a major challenge for crypto entrepreneurs and developers. Web3 hacks are one of the...Read More
By Adam Efrima The crypto space is full of buzzwords and abbreviations, and today, I’ll be discussing one that’s not quite so widespread yet: Decentralized Validator Technology, or DVT. It promises to fix a major worry about how traditional validator setups operate on Ethereum by significantly decentralizing and securing the process. Validators are the entities...Read More
By Trevor Traina, Founder and CEO of Kresus You are reading these words because our planet is orbiting the sun at just the right distance to neither fry nor freeze us. Our planet is perfectly balanced for life to thrive. And within that world, numerous other forces exist in a state of optimal balance: light...Read More
By Piers Ridyard, CEO of RDX Works The 2018-19 bear market saw the development of the MetaMask wallet, Uniswap decentralized exchange, OpenSea NFT marketplace, and alternative Layer 1s such as Solana. Only with this kind of core infrastructure in place was the subsequent 2021 boom in DeFi and NFTs made possible. A similar story is...Read More
In recent years, we’ve seen countless Web2 companies dip their toes into Web3, with mixed results. In Japan, where Web3 has become a matter of national economic policy, we frequently encounter companies considering testing the waters but unsure quite how to do so. Let’s face it: adding a Web3 strategy doesn’t make sense for every...Read More
The new rules require companies to conduct AI safety tests and share the results with the US government. In addition, they include meeting official standards for safe AI development and clearly labeling AI-generated content. That’s worth avoiding a Skynet or Omni Consumer Products fiasco. White House Issues New Rules for AI A fact sheet released...Read More
Polkadot’s parachain auctions have been one of the most hotly anticipated events for the platform since it launched on mainnet in May last year. When the project announced in mid-October that the auctions would be starting on November 11, DOT prices rallied by over 25% before going on to reach a new all-time high within...Read More
In a CNBC interview over the week, a major hedge fund manager predicted that “massive inflation” will lead the Fed to hike interest rates six times by 2024. Crypto traders are keeping a close watch on the macro-financial environment as they wrap up another volatile month. Federated Hermes has over $600 billion in assets under...Read More
With his approval ratings battered by several failures in the withdrawal from Afghanistan, Joe Biden is turning his attention to massive infrastructure spending and expanding the government’s programs to provide a social safety net for Americans who are struggling. Biden Proposes Tax Hikes to Boost Washington’s Budget If passed, Biden’s tax plan would raise the...Read More
El Salvador will, in ten days, adopt Bitcoin as an official currency. It’s making massive investments in projects to develop end-user products to hold and spend bitcoin. The opportunities of this venture are enormous, though some warn there are risks. El Salvadorians Will Soon Find Imports Attractive Because Bitcoin is a deflationary cryptocurrency, and the...Read More
With the gargantuan $1 trillion U.S. infrastructure bill in parliamentary limbo, the fate of the crypto tax proposal tacked onto it remains in question. Meanwhile, the cryptocurrency industry is getting organized with a new sense of urgency to lobby and campaign. The Senate has passed the trillion-dollar bipartisan infrastructure package without an amendment hoped for...Read More
Palantir says it’s preparing for a black swan event with its massive gold purchase this month. Bloomberg reports the company also accepts bitcoin and gold as payment, but no one has paid in either. The Peter Thiel cloud computing company is also interested in accumulating bitcoin, Per a recently report: “The company spent $50.7 million...Read More
Though the Justice Department declined to comment for the article, Bloomberg was able to report last week that the DOJ is investigating U.S. banks and the backers of popular stablecoin USDT. There is some ongoing speculation about how this might affect bitcoin’s price. What’s Supposedly Going on With Tether and the DOJ? The Justice Department...Read More
For the first time in a decade, central banks around the world are selling off their bullion stocks. Economists have opined that this is a direct result of the coronavirus pandemic led fiscal stress. If the trend continues, gold prices are in for some serious freefall rides. The question is, will central banks start stockpiling...Read More
They say that to see the future, one should only learn history. Oftentimes, though, we tend to ignore history altogether. Exactly 33 years ago, on this day, October 19th, 1987, Wall Street and global markets tumbled in a massive selloff that saw the S&P 500 lose about 20% and the DJIA about 22%. One might...Read More
A few hours ago, the Asian exchange KuCoin announced that it suffered a hack that caused millions of dollars in losses. A hacker, or a group of hackers, gained access to the platform’s hot wallet and stole more than $150 million in Bitcoin, Ethereum, and other cryptocurrencies. The funds held in a hot wallet are...Read More
Minneapolis Federal Reserve President Neel Kashkari wrote Thursday that banks should cancel dividends and sell shares to raise cash. Kashkari said these measures would be necessary to create a cash buffer going into a potentially drawn-out recession. Because should the banks fail to have enough cash on hand, a wave of defaults could trigger a...Read More
While the US stock market saw its steepest one-day sell-off since Black Monday in 1987, Bitcoin saw its steepest one-day sell-off in its ten-year history, just a few days before. But don’t worry, that was institutional money running from everything Thursday. Of course, it ran from the risky cryptocurrency industry. Don’t forget that institutional investors...Read More
When your completely non-computer savvy, totally apolitical friends or family members come up to you asking, “Hey, you think I should buy this Bitcoin thing?” you’re in bubble territory. The coin is very possibly overheated, and it might be time to sell. We need a healthy pull back. Too much hype about #bitcoin halving and...Read More
At its first policy meeting of 2020, the Federal Reserve didn’t change much. As expected, the Federal Open Market Committee decided not to raise interest rates. The Fed will keep repo operations in overnight money markets going until April. But Fed Chair Jerome Powell did walk somewhat of a tightrope trying to explain what the...Read More
