What is EOS?
EOS was announced in 2017 by the private company Block.One and released as open-source software in June 2018. EOS seeks to achieve greater scalability than bitcoin …
What is Grin?
On July 16 2016, an individual using the pseudonym ‘Tom Elvis Jedusor’ (the name of Potter’s arch-nemesis, Tom Riddle, in French) signed onto a bitcoin …
Bitfinex and Tether Respond to New York Judge, Will Pursue Appeals
Bitfinex issued its reply in an official blog post on Aug. 20. Tether published the same response on its website, also on Aug. 20. The companies maintain …
What is Zilliqa? (ZIL)
Based in Singapore, Zilliqa launched in June 2017. The project was co-founded by Amrit Kumar, its president and chief scientific officer; Yaoqi Jia, its chief …
What is Cardano? (ADA)
Cardano was founded in 2017 by co-founder and ex-CEO of Ethereum, Charles Hoskinson. He sought to create a platform that was scalable, sustainable and interoperable. …
What is 0x? (ZRX)
The 0x platform provides a means of exchanging a variety of tokenized assets such as stocks, gold, real estate, video game items, etc. and seeks …
What is Decentraland? (MANA)
Created in 2015 by Ari Meilich and Esteban Ordano, decentraland started as a simple, pixelated grid that allocated pixels to users through a proof-of-work algorithm. …
How Do Crypto Exchanges Select Coins, What Does It Take to Get Listed?
While in the early days of the crypto Wild West the procedures whereby exchanges vetted …
The European Commission Concerned About Libra’s Potential Monopoly
Moreover, regulators have reportedly begun investigating how Libra might be used in Facebook’s WhatsApp and …
Crypto Transaction Tracking Service Whale Alert Announces Version 2
As Cointelegraph recently reported, Whale Alert attracted attention to four Bitcoin transactions on Aug. 17, which combined moved $240 million in BTC. The platform believed …
What is XRP?
The origins of XRP and Ripple trace back to Ripplepay, a peer-to-peer payment network created in 2004 by Ryan Fugger. Fugger aimed to build a …
Square Crypto Hires Matt Corallo to Boost Bitcoin Development
Chaincode Labs alum and Blockstream co-founder Matt Corallo previously authored notable efficiency improvements such as …