Baar, Switzerland — 8 October, 2020 — Cosmos, the interoperable blockchain ecosystem, has increased its incentives for their bug bounty program for the Cosmos Stargate software upgrade. The bug bounty will allow hackers, developers, and the community to trial and debug the upgrades and breaking changes to the Cosmos SDK, Tendermint Core, Gaia, and Inter Blockchain Communication codebases. The special bug bounty program … [Read more…]
San Francisco, California — 10 June 2020 — Filecoin, the world’s largest decentralized storage network, has announced the details of its incentivized testnet, the final phase of testing before Filecoin’s mainnet launch. A global community effort to stress test the network, the incentivized testnet sees the launch of a collaborative competition that will run over … [Read more…]
NEW YORK — June 6th, 2020 — Dash, one of the largest cryptocurrencies by market capitalization, and LGO, the leading institutional digital asset trading platform have partnered to power one of the world’s largest cryptocurrency cross border payment networks. Through their OTC platform, LGO will bring deep liquidity, competitive prices, and industry-best customer service to … [Read more…]
On April 24, 2020, with massive uncertainty circling the market, Israeli startup D-ID raised over $13.5 Million as part of its Round A fundraising. Led by AXA Venture Partners, investors in the round included Pitango Venture Capital, Y-Combinator, AI Alliance, Hyundai Motor Company, OMRON Ventures, Maverick Ventures (U.S.), Mindset Ventures and Redds Capital. D-ID plans to direct … [Read more…]
The following is an op-ed by Interchain GmbH Lead Developer of IBC Christopher Goes. Enter Inter-Blockchain Communication (IBC): a protocol designed to enable an open, sovereign, secure network of interconnected blockchains or “Internet of Blockchains”. IBC is the connective substrate of the distributed interchain future — the cornerstone upon which the entire structure rests. IBC … [Read more…]
Common insurance fraud tactics like the one shown here cost insurance companies and their customers billions of dollars every year and can be hard to prove. Attestive aims to use Algorand’s blockchain to improve forensic handling of digital media assets related to insurance claims. Image credit Legal Dictionary According to the FBI’s statistics, insurance fraud … [Read more…]
Use Litecoin to purchase the Atari VCS gaming console or the new Atari Token under a new deal with the Litecoin Foundation. The Litecoin Foundation has announced a new agreement with the gaming company Atari to add Litecoin as a payment option on Atari’s gaming platforms. The deal also covers future joint merchandising and support … [Read more…]
Deep fakes like these could be coming to a movie theater near you thanks to Aletha AI’s new marketplace. Aletha AI has announced the launch of a decentralized marketplace for AI-generated synthetic media with a partnership with Oasis Labs to ensure smooth and secure transactions using Oasis Labs’ Parcel API. Synthetic media is most commonly … [Read more…]
If you’re one of those people who pays attention to chatter about cryptocurrencies, you may have heard quite a few opinions and analyses about Bitcoin’s recent “halving” and how it could affect the price. Periodic “halvings” have an impact on the number of bitcoins that owners of computing power, or “miners,” can generate for solving … [Read more…]
Most asteroids in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter are little things. They’re almost cute. In the highly unlikely event that they get kicked out of the asteroid belt and enter Earth’s atmosphere, they probably wouldn’t hurt a fly. Ceres is basically the opposite. Although it has a stable orbit around the sun and … [Read more…]