Blockchain

Professor Ronghui Gu, CertiK co-founder, noted that the capital will go a long way in advancing blockchain security.Blockchain security startup CertiK announced the completion of Series B funding round with $37 million raised. According to the company through a blog post on its official website, the just-completed funding round was led by Coatue Management, Shunwei Capital, and Coinbase Ventures. Notably, the three joined a list of existing investors including Binance, IDG, Lightspeed Venture...

ShapeShift is planning to conduct one of the largest airdrops in the history of the crypto industry. The price of the native FOX tokens has jumped 180% in the last 24 hours.On Wednesday, July 14, crypto trading giant ShapeShift announced that it will close its operations in the next 12 months. The crypto exchange will hand over its legacy to a decentralized autonomous organization (DAO) controlled by the FOX token holders. However, ShapeShift will soon kick off the largest airdrop in the...

Wault finance, a community-owned protocol, has grown from a relatively obscure project into one of the largest communities in DeFi within only a few months of launch.Decentralized finance (DeFi) or Open Finance has gained a lot of traction in crypto news media and finance over the past twelve months. Though originally lambasted by some traditional finance participants, few of them remain that can make such critical statements, and many have come to embrace the movement, realizing that...

[Featured Content] Cryptocurrencies and blockchain-based technologies, in general, exploded in popularity over the past few years, and especially in 2021. This was largely due to the parabolic increase in the price of Bitcoin, which charted an all-time high of around $65,000 in April. This propelled the entire industry forward and also brought to light a variety of projects, apart from the ones with large market capitalization. While a lot of the projects are focused on...

Top blockchain data indexer and DeFi querying protocol Unmarshal announces the launch of its much-awaited Smart Notification APIs, an infrastructure that completely revolutionises smart contract communication with dapps.Unmarshal is a multi-chain data indexing protocol that facilitates seamless access to on-chain data for DeFi applications data in several formats such as rich APIs, historical data, data streams, and now push notifications support for smart contracts. With its Smart...

Cryptocurrencies took center stage in 2021 as the market went through a massive bull run where the price for bitcoin skyrocketed to an all-time high of $65,000 in mid-April, and many other cryptocurrencies followed suit. This attracted a lot of attention even from institutional players and large, publicly-listed companies. The elephant in the room is obviously Tesla. Elon Musk’s electric car maker announced that it had bought $1.5 billion worth of BTC back in January and even...

[PRESS RELEASE – Stockholm, Sweden, 13th July 2021] Qtum, an open-source public blockchain platform, has partnered with Travala.com, the leading cryptocurrency-friendly travel booking gateway. With such a move, Qtum is offering yet another onramp for QTUM token holders to capture value through new real-world applications. The partnership aims to continue promoting cryptocurrency adoption with over 3 million travel products – across accommodations, activities, and flights –...

Gala Games in a statement revealed that the greater degree of control over the gaming experience is vital to the company’s core mission of empowering users.Gala games, a blockchain gaming company founded by Zynga Inc, co-founder Eric Schiermeyer has received funding from the Binance Smart Chain’s $100 million Accelerator Fund. Gala Games will also use the Binance Smart Chain in addition to the funding.The Binance Smart Chain is a new blockchain launched in 2020 by global crypto exchange...

[Featured Content] Billions of gamers worldwide will soon be able to earn rewards while playing, thanks to Citrus – a new platform that aims to integrate blockchain-based technology in the gaming industry. What Is Citrus? Citrus is a new gaming token built on the Binance Smart Chain (BSC) that plans to enable Artificial Intelligence (AI), Virtual Reality (VR), and Augmented Reality (AR) to all games. The token is mined to fund blockchain gaming as well as Multiplayer Online...

The move to digitize the won could be well suited for South Korea as 86 percent of all transactions conducted in the country are cashless. Bidding for an operator to oversee a blockchain-based CBDC pilot program in South Korea has ended. The program is slated to begin next month. Bidding commenced in May and ended on Monday, July 12. Prior to this, the Bank of Korea (BoK) had released a book on Central Bank issued Digital Currencies along with an announcement that it was planning to look into...