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According to PolkaWorld, Gavin Wood, founder of Polkadot, shared the latest development of Polkadot, revealing that Kusama parachain may be launched in the next few days.

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The Immutable X platform aims to tackle the increasing energy cost and carbon footprint of producing non-fungible tokens (NFT) on the Ethereum network.

Former U.S. Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency director Christopher Krebs warned that crypto has enabled criminals to deploy more ransomware attacks.

Unlike Nvidia, AMD won't put a crypto mining limiter to its graphics cards.

With the recent Vitalik Buterin's quick merge proposal, there is a possibility to deliver the merge sooner. The main advantage of the proposal is that it introduces fewer required changes to make the consensus upgrade…

A series of new lower-cost Samsung Galaxy smartphones will feature blockchain technology-powered file-sharing functions that debuted on flagship models earlier this year.

Meter full-featured mainnet Tesla announced the launch. The new version will be deployed on the Meter mainnet at 1:00 a.m. UTC on March 19, and will officially start staking at block height 9470000 (approximately Mond…

A crypto expert pointed out any modern technology requires power to operate, which is bound to increase over time.

AMD appears to be following Nvidia's lead and introduce a repurposed graphics card to make it better suited for crypto mining.

NFT verification platform tweeted to announce that, due to high demand, the OpenSea website has crashed. The platform is going to reschedule NFT sale of Boss Logic to later in the week and reach out to the 2,500 peopl…

According to official news, SubGame, a game and payment module engine parachain based on Polkadot's ecosystem construction, has recently received strategic investment from several major European and American capital c…

The total amount lost due to crypto-related crimes almost reached $10.5 billion in 2020, which is slightly lower than 2019’s figure.

The initiative was able to raise $4 million from prominent backers in the crypto community for the purposed of hardening the Bitcoin network.

The environmental impact of crypto mining is a cause of concern to some institutional investors.

More than 8,500 merchants can now start accepting crypto payments as the OLB Group integrates cryptocurrency as a payment method.

South Korean PC gaming rooms are now mining Ether (ETH) to make things meet during the pandemic lockdown.

The fintech firm aims to change the payments landscape with its app that allows users to transfer BTC and fiat currencies in real-time via popular social media platforms such as Reddit, Discord, and Twitter.

The long-awaited gas-saving upgrade for Ethereum could be just a few months away now according to industry insiders.

Nvidia will soon introduce a graphics card specifically designed for mining Ether.

Russia is the top destination for crypto funds from darknet transactions, China for ransomware, and the U.S. for funds coming from online scams.

Bitcoin production generates between 22 and 22.9 million metric tons of carbon dioxide emissions a year.

The firm uses proprietary software to try to figure out the wallets' passwords.

According to data from filfox.info, as of 05:00 UTC on February 4, the effective hashrate of Filecoin's entire network now marks 2.295 EiB. The FIL production in the last 24 hours reads 282,878 FIL, and the amount of …

The Bank of International Settlements surveyed 60 central banks on their CBDC projects.

Losses from crypto fraud, theft, and hacks fell to $1.9 billion in 2020 compared to the $4.5 billion in losses posted in 2019.

US Fed Reserve has selected a major Ripple client ACI Worldwide for its pilot program for the future start of a new real payments service FedNow.

Terraform Labs will use the proceeds to fund its international expansion plans and enhance its product line.

According to an official announcement by Input Output HK, the software company behind Cardano's blockchain solutions, the new testing environment Plutus Playground is up and running. Based on Haskell principles, it al…

The IATA Travel Pass, which stores a passenger's health details on the blockchain, will start its testing phase in February.

The leak might have affected as many as 325,000 users of the crypto exchange.

As per an official post, ENS has deployed the smart contracts for the integration of the DNS namespace into ENS on the Ropsten testnet, and Ethereum Classic Labs (ETC Labs) has given ENS a grant to sponsor the develop…

TriumphX, a cross-chain based decentralized NFT platform developer, has begun the development of cross-chain NFT marketplace SOLE-X 2.0 mainnet based on Parachain of Polkadot.

According to data from filfox.info, as of 05:00 UTC on January 22, the effective hashrate of Filecoin's entire network now marks 2.008 EiB. The FIL production in the last 24 hours reads 262,465 FIL, and the amount of …

Blockchain technology is now being used in the deployment of COVID-19 vaccines in the U.K.

The crypto user originally intended to purchase the in-game currency of the online game DarkOrbit using Bitcoin.

An official of the Central Bank of Russia believes that the rise of digital currencies could render the SWIFT network obsolete.

Hackers breached the Exmo crypto exchange and stole various cryptocurrencies.

The firms assured that their blockchain-based system will address concerns about online voting such as double voting.

Venezuelan army just inaugurated a new facility that will be used to mine Bitcoin.