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Tech

Researcher Hopes Cosmos-Style 'Checkpoint' Could Fix Ethereum's Data Problem

The “ReGenesis” proposal by Ethereum researcher Alexey Akhunov would “nuke” the state for certain nodes. It might just fix the network’s growing data issue.

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Tech

How Chainlink and Cosmos Fit Into China's Grand Blockchain Initiative

Chainlink will help the state-backed Blockchain-Based Service Network with oracles, and Cosmos-powered Irisnet will assist with interoperability.

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Tech

A Digital Art Project Might Have an Answer to the Woes of Staking Centralization

Drawing inspiration from Reddit's r/place, AstroCanvas is an experiment in boosting staking participation – without appealing to financial incentives.

Josh Lee and Tony Yun of Chainapsis (Credit: Chainapsis)

Tech

Alibaba Claims Patented Cross-Chain System Is Better Than Cosmos

The e-commerce firm says its new patent would improve upon current systems used by blockchains to communicate with one another.

Ant Group and Alibaba founder Jack Ma

Tech

Zcash Alliance Aims to Bring Privacy Tech to Bitcoin, Cosmos and Ethereum

Zcash-inspired privacy tools are coming to Bitcoin's Lightning Network and many other blockchain ecosystems, creating a shared cryptocurrency privacy layer.

Electric Coin Company CTO Nathan Wilcox speaks at Zcon1 in 2019. (Credit: Electric Coin Company)

Tech

Ready Layer One: Base Layer Protocols Team for Virtual Developer Event

A virtual conference is being organized by a bevy of base-layer protocols – the Web3 Foundation, Near, Cosmos, Tezos, Protocol Labs and Polkadot.

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Finance

What Is Going On With Jae Kwon and Cosmos?

Internal tensions at Tendermint, the company building the Cosmos blockchain, have begun to spill out into public view.

Jae Kwon speaks at Construct 2017. (Photo via CoinDesk archives)

Tech

'One Network, Many Chains' – The Case for Blockchain Interoperability

Inter-blockchain communication (IBC) is poised to be a major theme of 2020. And, like most trends in crypto, it has its fair share of hope, hype and haters.

'HERESY': Andreas Antonopoulos articulated why "winner takes all" is out and inter-blockchain communication is in, at the Blockstack Summit in San Francisco. (Credit: Gary Sexton/Blockstack Summit 2019)

Markets

Binance US Now Offers Staking Rewards for These Two Cryptocurrencies

Binance US has joined other major exchanges in the staking game, adding staking rewards for cryptocurrencies algorand (ALGO) and cosmos (ATOM).

Binance.US CEO Catherine Coley

Tech

JPMorgan Veterans' Kadena Launches Public Blockchain, Integrates Wallet to Cosmos Network

Kadena, a startup spun out of JPMorgan’s blockchain center, has taken a step toward its vision of creating interoperable, scalable public blockchains with a full launch Wednesday.

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