Blockchain News

Armenian blockchain security startup Hexens secured $4.2 M in seed funding led by IOSG Ventures. Companies including ChapterOne VC, Delta Blockchain Fund, Polygon, and others also took part in the round. Since Hexens was founded in 2021, our team has had an impressive track record and recognition...

Blockchain-based payment network Ripple is testing an option to allow the deployment of smart contracts for Ethereum on its XRP Ledger. On its developer platform, Ripple announced that the first stage of the EVM sidechain for XRPL is currently live. Now, developers can carry out tests before...

South Korea aims to offer citizens digital identities secured by blockchain tech through smartphones to boost its economic growth. According to a report by Bloomberg, the country will launch digital IDs in 2024 and plans their adoption by 45 million citizens within two years. An economist at...

In his recent interview with Bloomberg, the CEO of the crypto-focused hedge fund Pantera Capital, Dan Morehead said he believes that Bitcoin and blockchain are going to change many different things for billions of people. He mentioned that the technology is borderless and operates in every country....

On October 7, BNB Chain announced suspending operations due to irregular activity, and a potential exploit. Due to irregular activity we're temporarily pausing BSC. We apologize for the inconvenience and will provide further updates here. Thank you for your patience and understanding.—...

The Solana network announced facing an outage. The network said the team was working to detect the issue and restart operations. The Solana network is experiencing an outage and not processing transactions. Developers across the ecosystem are working on diagnosing the issue and to restart the...

At Web 3 event SmartCon 2022, Chainlink Chief Executive Officer Sergey Nazarov and SWIFT Strategy Head Jonathan Ehrenfeld Solé revealed a new collaboration. SWIFT, a network for international payments and blockchain oracle network Chainlink aim to bring traditional finance closer with blockchains....

Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin informed people about the launch of his book "Proof of Stake." Before Ethereum’s launch, the Russian-Canadian writer and programmer has been involved in the Bitcoin community since 2011. He co-founded Bitcoin magazine and wrote articles for the news...

Cosmos, a blockchain platform focused on interoperability solutions released a new white paper aiming to update the tokenomics of its native cryptocurrency ATOM. According to the paper, Cosmos Hub will be the center of a new feature, known as interchain security. This means that other chains will...

The Cardano blockchain finalized its Vasil hard fork which is supposed to level up the network performance. Input Output Hong Kong (IOHK), the company standing behind the development of Cardano tweeted that Vasil is the most important update of the protocol. According to IOHK, the update will...

Blockchain development infrastructure provider Infura plans to deploy a decentralized protocol next year to offer developers a new model for building and launching Web3 products. The team announced the news at the ETHBerlin hackathon on Friday. With the step, Infura will decentralize its Web3 API...

Ethereum Merge happened on September 15, Google says. The big update was finalized a few hours ago. Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin congratulated the community on Twitter, saying everyone who helped the process to come true should feel very proud today. And we finalized!Happy merge all. This is...

Leading NFT marketplace OpenSea announced integrating Ethereum Layer 2 scaling solution Polygon into its web3 marketplace protocol Seaport. OpenSea introduced Seaport in June to allow users to buy and sell NFTs efficiently. The platform was launched on Ethereum with the aim to reduce the costs of...

Crypto custody provider Fireblocks revealed support for Solana-based DeFi and apps through its Web3 engine. For the customers, this means that they will have access to lending, borrowing, staking and Web3 products. In a blog post, Fireblocks noted that they are the first gateway for institutions to...

Ripple officially partners with the WEF, according to the website of the international NGO. Previously, the organization said Ripple provides the value of what the internet did for information. WEF finds that Ripple is committed to monetary parity and efficiency. Previously, Ripple Chief Executive...

The Ethereum Foundation released a new blog post ahead of the major network upgrade scheduled for the next month. The team said all bounties for vulnerabilities related to the merge go up 4 times between now and September 8. Crucial bugs now worth up to $1 M. With the merge, Ethereum will move to...

Crypto exchange ByBit released a report on the Solana blockchain and its growth in the second quarter of this year. The report says although Solana saw major challenges, including two outages, the network upgrades in late Q2 have shown notable improvements related to speed and reliability. In Q2...

New research by the intelligence platform Blockdata shows that from Sept. 2021 to mid-June 2022, crypto startups received investments from forty public companies. Together investments reached $6 bln. Based on the analysis, Google is the number one by the amount invested in blockchain/crypto. The...