Blockchain News
Welcome to our Blockchain News category. Our expert writers and journalists are working to bring you coverage on the most important and relevant Crypto News, analyses and insights from the rapidly evolving world of blockchain. Whether you are looking for recent developments about existing blockchains, or hoping to learn more about upcoming projects, our Blockchain News are there for you.
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Cardano Booms with 5000+ Plutus-based Smart Contracts
The Cardano network is on fire with the recent surge in smart contract activity! In September 2021, the network underwent…
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Over $1.7 billion were stolen by north korean hackers in 2022
According to a report from Chainalysis, North Korean hackers stole $1.7 billion worth of cryptocurrencies in 2022, mainly from DeFi…
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Ripple CEO doesn’t expect a settlement with the SEC
Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse expressed his views on a potential settlement with the SEC in a CNBC interview. In his…
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Binance and Huobi teamed up to freeze $2.5 million from Harmony One Exploit
2022 was a year marked by bankruptcy and massive hacks. The Harmony One exploit was maybe one of the biggest.…
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A California cannabis producer will use blockchain to track its products
When people talk about blockchain, most of us think cryptocurrencies and Bitcoin. But the technology itself has many more uses…
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Iran and Russia are to collaborate to create a gold-backed stablecoin
Iran and Russia have been struggling economically from financial and trade sanctions imposed by the European Union and the United…
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Ava Labs partners with Amazon cloud, AVAX rallies
Amazon Web Services is now partnering with Ava labs, the company behind Avalanche. Avalanche is a layer-1 blockchain launched in…
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GALA went up 146% in 4 days, here’s what happened
It has been an eventful few days for Gala. On January 5, the CEO announced on Discord the acquisition of…
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Mastercard partners with Polygon to launch a Web3 incubator for artists
Mastercard, one of the world’s biggest payment service provider, has announced a partnership with Polygon Network, to launch a Web3…
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BONK airdrops on Solana, and goes up 4,300% in a week
Airdropped on the Solana blockchain on Dec. 30, the new meme coin BONK, which follows after the likes of DOGE…
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The First Bitcoin Block was mined 14 years ago
14 years ago, Satoshi Nakamoto, the person or entity behind the oldest cryptocurrency, mined the first Bitcoin block on the…
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The Chinese government will launch a state-backed NFT marketplace
China is famous for its ever-changing cryptocurrency policies, encouraging Bitcoin mining to finally banning it. The government ended up banning…
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Microstrategy will launch applications on Bitcoin Lightning Network in 2023
In a Twitter Spaces, Michael Saylor revealed that MicroStrategy was working on plans to develop Bitcoin Lightning Network solutions and…
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Could we be seeing the end of Solana ? The token dropped below $10
For the first time since February 2021, the SOL token has dropped below $10 today. While the token price fell…
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Hong Kong startup accelerator will help 1,000 Web3 startups in the next 3 years
G-Rocket is launching an initiative called « Hong Kong Web3.0 Hub » in order to encourage startups from the Web3…
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Credit Giant Visa is working to set up automatic payments from self-custody wallets on the Ethereum Blockchain
As part of its research into blockchain innovation, Visa proposed earlier today in a blog post the use of Account…
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Binance “will survive any crypto winter” according to CEO Changpeng Zhao
According to Bloomberg, Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao (CZ) addressed his staff in a memo. He expects the next few months…
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ConsenSys will keep your data, but only for seven days
Blockchain software company ConsenSys was at the center of a major controversy on privacy in the last few weeks. This…
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Putin wants to create a blockchain-based international payment system
Speaking at a conference on artificial intelligence, Russian President Vladimir Putin expressed his point of view on the creation of…
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Addresses holding at least 1 BTC reach all-time high
The market collapses from Luna and FTX may have caused many to get out of the industry. But the market…
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Data shows 62% of ethereum nodes are hosted by Amazon
Ethereum’s decentralization has been questioned since the shift to Proof-of-stake in September. New data shows from Etherenodes shows that more…
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Tornado Cash developer will remain in jail until late February 2023
Alexey Pertsev, one of Tornado Cash’s developer, stands accused of facilitating money laundering, due to his contribution in the protocol’s…
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CoinMarketCap launches Proof-of-Reserves tracker
The need for transparency is ever more important in the crypto industry. As such, CoinMarketCap, the leading market price aggregator,…
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Binance Labs invests in cold wallet maker NGRAVE
Binance Labs, the investment branch of the popular exchange, announced that it would take the lead in the upcoming Series…
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FTX hacker ranks 34th in list of largest ETH address balances
Following the Chapter 11 bankruptcy filing of the exchange, a hacker drained around $400 million in ETH, BNB and various…
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Binance receives final regulatory approval to operate in Abu Dhabi
After securing approval from Dubai regulators in September 2022, and following the in-principle approval from Abu Dhabi’s Global Market in…
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Tron’s founder shows support to FTX on Twitter after Binance backs out of his acquisition deal
Justin Sun took to Twitter yesterday evening to show his support to Tron token (#trx, #btt, #jst, #sun, #ht) holders…
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Solana takes a major hit from the FTX debacle
Though all the market has suffered from the recent news, Solana seems to be the more impacted of all. FTX…
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Polygon network reaches 188 million unique adresses
The Ethereum scaling platform has recorded a lot of interest lately, from entities of Instagram (Meta) and JPMorgan. According to…
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Google Cloud launches a Solana validator
During Solana Breakpoint, which happened over the weekend, Google Cloud reinforced its interest in Web3. After the launch of the…
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