Blockchain News

Industries ranging from sports to entertainment are at a crossroads, debating whether to embrace emerging technologies or resist them. In a recent discussion, Roundtable anchor, Rob Nelson, delves into how these sectors could benefit from embracing blockchain. David Packham, CEO of Chintai, and Sam Price, host of CryptoLifer, offer their perspectives on the potential and […]

Executives from Blockchain Capital, MetaGood, Dragonfly, Arche Capital, and Breyer Capital came together in an Aug. 21 panel to discuss venture capital strategy at this year’s Wyoming Blockchain Symposium. Rob Hadick, a general partner at venture capital firm Dragonfly, explained that investors with traditional institutional approaches tend to lag behind their crypto-native counterparts in terms […]

The Aptos blockchain witnessed an extraordinary surge in activity, with daily transactions reaching a staggering 69 million on Aug. 15. This represents a significant spike from the network’s typical daily average of around 1 million transactions. This record-breaking transaction count raises questions about the nature and sustainability of this activity spike. The dramatic increase appears […]

Delysium, a leading AI-focused blockchain platform, has recently forged a strategic partnership with Worldcoin, marking a significant step towards fortifying the crypto community in the rapidly evolving realm of artificial intelligence. This collaboration underscores a shared vision between the two entities to push the boundaries of innovation at the intersection of AI and blockchain technology, […]

AI giants like Anthropic, OpenAI and Stability AI have faced a lot of heat over how they’ve scraped data and rode rough-shod over others’ intellectual property when training and operating their foundational models. Now, a startup called Story — that’s announcing $83 million in funding — is bidding to rebalance the scales with a blockchain-based […]

Layer-2 sequencers have become dangerously centralized, introducing significant risks that undermine the foundational principles of blockchain. To safeguard network integrity and prevent the erosion of trust, we must urgently transition to a model that does a better job at eliminating single points of failure. Failing to do so jeopardizes network security and exposes entire ecosystems […]

Gate Ventures (crypto exchange Gate.io’s VC arm) and Abu Dhabi Blockchain Center partnered to launch Falcon Gate Ventures, a $100 million fund supporting Web3 innovation. The fund aims to stimulate global Web3 growth and solidify the United Arab Emirates’ position as a digital economy hub. The collaboration will leverage expertise from both parties and involves […]

A new project is hoping to use the blockchain to entice investors in a bid to buy the oldest church still standing in Fort Collins. The project initially aims to buy the church building on Remington and East Magnolia streets for $2.3 million so it can be rented out and used by organizations in the […]

In the early days of Bitcoin, miners could receive rewards for either mining a block or as commissions for a transaction with the highest gas price. The logic behind forming a block was relatively simple – get all the valid unmined transactions from the mempool, sort them according to their gas price, form them into a block and […]

DeFi protocol Drift has launched a prediction market called BET on the Solana blockchain, according to an Aug. 19 statement. Drift Protocol co-founder Cindy Leow likened BET’s prediction market to perpetual trading. She explained that, just as perpetual traders bet on potential price changes in crypto, prediction markets allow for financial stakes in the outcomes […]