As Consumers Turn to Bitcoin, Will Merchants Follow?
Due to the latest market volatility in crypto markets, many Bitcoin exchanges and fiat on-ramps have experienced high volumes. Critically, new users have made up the bulk of this volume. But beyond s...
Healthcare Gets a Dose of Open-Source, But Will It Cure Coronavirus?
The crypto and open-source community have been working hard to stamp out the spread of Coronavirus. These healthcare efforts have been manifested in several initiatives from ethical tracking measures,...
Who Is Vitalik Buterin, the Co-Creator of Ethereum?
A man that has become almost synonymous with Ethereum, Vitalik Buterin is one of a handful of people that have been responsible for taking the crypto industry from niche forums and bringing it into th...
Lightning Labs Has Announced LSAT Authentication Tokens
Lightning Labs has introduced LSAT, an authentication token standard that will allow online services to offer metered access to their APIs and websites.How It WorksLSAT allows services to issue authen...
DeFi Transactions Are Now Competing for Block Space on Ethereum
Slowly but steadily, “complex” smart contract transactions are overtaking standard Ethereum transactions. As these transactions need more gas to execute, the network risks becoming much more expen...
AVA Labs Wants to Be Ethereum 2.0’s Testnet, and Then Some
Headed by Cornell professor Emin Gün Sirer, AVA Labs is building a next-generation blockchain that is working to become the so-called “AWS of Finance.” And even in a crypto community deeply oppo...
Kava Wants to Challenge MakerDAO, but Will it Work?
Kava, an aspiring lending protocol, wants to rival Maker Protocol as a CDP platform that accepts a variety of assets as collateral. In a bid to bring liquidity to the protocol’s native stablecoin, U...