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Facebook's Cryptocurrency Wants to Take on Banks, Not Bitcoin

If bitcoin doesn't need to worry about competition from Facebook. Who does? You've guessed it, the banks.

Binance will issue a number of tokens pegged to leading cryptocurrencies on Binance Chain to boost the number of trading options on its platform.

By Daniel KuhnJun 18, 2019

Microsoft and Salesforce have joined Hyperledger, lending their enterprise software heft to the DLT consortium.

By Anna BaydakovaJun 18, 2019

The IBM Blockchain Platform has just been revamped, adding flexibility for deployment in different environments and new tools.

By Daniel PalmerJun 18, 2019

Cryptocurrency, at scale. That's Facebook's vision as laid out in the long-awaited, just-released Libra white paper.

By Brady DaleJun 18, 2019

Technical details of Facebook's Libra blockchain were published Tuesday in a white paper by the Libra Foundation. Here's what stands out.

Tendermint, the firm behind the core technology of Cosmos, has released a full disclosure about a past vulnerability in the Cosmos SDK.

By Christine KimJun 17, 2019

Twitter and Square CEO Jack Dorsey has revealed more details about the role Square Crypto might play in boosting bitcoin development.

By Daniel PalmerJun 14, 2019

The first protocol for issuing tokens via bitcoin’s lightning network is aimed to rival ethereum's ERC-20. But that's a tall order.

By Leigh CuenJun 14, 2019

Two blockchain-focused startups are teaming up to enable Amazon purchases with ethereum via an app-like browser extension.

By Daniel PalmerJun 14, 2019