Hacks into crypto exchanges target open-source libraries and take advantage of inside jobs researchers said. Researchers at the Black Hat security conference revealed that crypto exchanges might be vulnerable to hackers. Although crypto exchanges have high privacy and security to protect their funds, researchers still found three ways hackers can attack these crypto exchanges, according…
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In the emerging global crypto economy, crypto mining is probably going to remain and even become more profitable in the upcoming years. Miner profitability metrics are based on a handful of factors regulating difficulty and emission, which are hard-coded into the blockchain’s attributes, making it predictable to work with. While predictability does not always immediately…
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The new Russian “crypto” law provides a regulatory regime for tokenized securities and has no regulation for cryptocurrencies. Russian legislators have passed the nation’s first crypto law after discussing crypto regulation for the last five years. The bill, titled “On Digital Financial Assets,” has had dozens of versions that have varied from one another massively.…
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Kava Labs partners with BNB48 Club to raise awareness of BNB DeFi opportunities. Kava Labs announced a new collaboration with the BNB investor club – BNB48. The popular platform added in a press release that under the agreement, BNB48 will act as a technical advisor for the Kava community and provide services such as professional…
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The Haeundae Beach System in Busan is part of a pilot project that aims to offer crypto payment solutions to beachgoers in the summertime. A pilot project run by Bitbeat-affiliate company CIC Enterprise wants to provide crypto payment solutions at two of the busiest beaches of the country for tourists to use. According to ZDNet…
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Decentralized technology is liberating yet intimidating to crypto-beginners. How can DeFi projects ease this transition for users? Many speculate that mainstream adoption of cryptocurrency is dependent solely on improving ease of access and user experience. In reality, there’s an even bigger obstacle: a mentality shift. Self-sovereignty and personal autonomy are the endgame of this technology,…
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Zhejiang province issued its first blackout insurance policy backed by a blockchain platform. A branch of China’s state-backed grid released its first blockchain-powered blackout insurance policy issued to the chairman of a local company that needed to compensate for a power outage loss suffered recently. According to Shupeidian, Zhejiang Ningbo Power Supply Company, in partnership…
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The VeChain Foundation announced a blockchain-based food safety solution based on its Blockchain-as-a-Service platform, ToolChain. VeChain’s newly released tool offers a suite of whitelabel services that will allow the food sector to implement on-chain safety management services. These services include traceability templates which track things like origin traceability, cross-border traceability, full-process traceability, and more. They…
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The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority’s new request for digital assets activities adds more confusion to the regulatory environment. The United States Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, or FINRA, has once again invited itself to the digital assets oversight party for at least another year. Specifically, on July 9, FINRA published “Regulatory Notice 20-23,” which encourages broker-dealers…
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Discussing cross-blockchain protocol that enables the use of ledgers in an interoperable bundle. The advantage of the cross-blockchain protocol for public registries is that it can unite any number of existing ledgers in one ecosystem and does not need to upgrade the protocols of such blockchains. In simple terms, the protocol works as an aggregator…
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