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Our fragmented status quo - thousands of tokens, hundreds of dapps - will not work indefinitely without interoperability.

Charles Hoskinson, the CEO of IOHK, called on Jack Dorsey not to create a decentralized social media standard within Twitter. He said that Dorsey’s Blue Sky project should be made open-source so that the entire crypto industry can contribute to it. In the exchange, Hoskinson revealed that IOHK was working on a mysterious project that could...

Neil Liversidge, a British independent financial advisor, has launched a petition demanding legislation "to prohibit transactions in cryptocurrencies in the UK." So far, he's found little traction....

Sci-Hub, a pirate library of academic papers censored by Twitter, PayPal and domain systems, left the distributed domain platform Handshake after two days, unsatisfied by the level of decentralization.

The Twitter founder is a known Bitcoin advocate. But a recent action saw his platform getting embroiled in controversy. Why ban Trump? Twitter founder Jack Dorsey took to his platform this morning to explain banning the account of incumbent US President...

"We are certainly open to it,” Cameron Winklevoss said in the interview.

Since charging onto the crypto scene late last year, MicroStrategy CEO Michael Saylor has become something of a Bitcoin poster boy. MicroStrategy became the first public listed company to hold Bitcoin as part of its treasury policy. At the time, the move was met with trepidation from a number of the firm's shareholders. They questioned whether being cash-light, Bitcoin-heavy was the...

Nonprofits and their supporters are turning to crypto to avoid taxmen, middlemen and restrictive lawmakers. Unless they do their homework, nonprofits face restrictions of a different kind.

CryptoSlate recently had the opportunity to chat with Bobby Ong, the co- founder of CoinGecko. CoinGecko was established in April 2014 and is the largest independent cryptoasset data aggregator in the world. Bobby is a contributing author in two digital currencies books – Handbook of Digital Currency, 1st Edition and Handbook of Blockchain, Digital Finance, and Inclusion, Volume 1....

Bitcoin bounces at $30k support to allay fears of a complete capitulation. Nonetheless, the 30% drop from last Friday's high was a real wake-up call for investors. More so for the over-leveraged longs who, to their detriment, chose to ignore the warning signs. As much as recent weeks have been a boon for hodlers, yesterday's dip...

United States regulator Brian Brooks will soon step down as Comptroller of the Currency, according to a Politico report. Brooks Leaves as Biden Takes Office Brooks first took over as Acting Comptroller of the Currency May 2020. In November 2020, U.S. President Donald Trump nominated him for a full five-year term as...

Gensler has testified before Congress about cryptocurrency and blockchain on multiple occasions.

Digital asset custodian Anchorage has hired its first Head of Risk.

CryptoSlate recently had the opportunity to chat with Huy Nguyen, CTO and Co- Founder of interoperable blockchain, KardiaChain. Before founding KardiaChain, Huy spent 10 years working at Google, building large-scale distributed infrastructure. Huy studied Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) at UC Berkeley. In the interview, we...

Trump, COVID-19, massive money printing. Voorhees, Shrem, Wan, Carlson and others on bitcoin's big boom, and what's changed from 2017.

After the U.S. Capitol insurrection and Twitter's unilateral ban of President Trump, decentralizing the web has never been more necessary.

The EOS founder left after three years of working on the high-speed blockchain project. But critics aren’t impressed. Bye, EOS Daniel Larimer, CTO at EOS code maintainer and operator Block.one, has permanently departed the project, as per a post by the firm on...

Over the past few months, Yearn.finance (YFI) has been on a collaboration spree. Late last year, project founder Andre Cronje announced that it would be absorbing Pickle Finance, a DeFi yield aggregator. This was followed by a series of other announcements in which Cronje revealed that Yearn.finance would be...

Dan Larimer announced his resignation as chief technology officer (CTO) of the crypto company, Block.one. The company is responsible for building an alleged "Ethereum killer" and earned over $4 billion during an ICO promising the same. Larimer: "All Good Things Must Come to an End"...

Bailey Reutzel on the frustrations many newbie investors must be facing right now.