Blockchain Expo North America will take place at Santa Clara Convention Center, California on May 17-18, 2023. Witness talks, fireside chats and panels from the most forward-thinking experts within the blockchain ecosystem alongside the space to network with senior professionals, all...
Warner Music Singapore and Affyn, a Singapore-based Web3 company, have partnered to create new opportunities for artists and audiences in the gaming industry.
The deal aims to motivate and inspire creators to explore the endless possibilities of the Web3 gaming world, and provide...
Digital Asset and leading market participants have unveiled plans to launch the Canton Network, the industry’s first privacy-enabled interoperable blockchain network designed for institutional assets and built to responsibly unlock the potential of synchronised financial markets....
Analysis from Naoris Protocol, a global cyber security firm, reveals there was a rise in the number of reported cyber security hacks on Web3 and DeFi in Q1 2023 compared to the same period in 2022 and 2021 – with 19 reported hacks.
This is up from 16 reported hacks in Q1 2022 and...
Mastercard has introduced Mastercard Crypto Credential, a set of common standards and infrastructure that will help verify interactions among consumers and businesses using blockchain networks.
Mastercard Crypto Credential aims to provide a foundation for financial institutions,...
Circle, creators of the stablecoin USD Coin (USDC), has launched a mainnet protocol enabling users to transfer USDC between the Ethereum and Avalanche blockchains. The cross-chain bridge is different from other bridges in that, instead of locking tokens sent to its contract, it completely burns...
Layer-1 blockchain network Solana has launched a real-time tracking dashboard with data platform Trycarbonara to measure on-chain carbon emissions.
The Solana Foundation, a non-profit dedicated to growing and decentralising the network, said the update makes it the first “major...
The Bank of England and Bank for International Settlements (BIS) have completed a joint pilot testing a distributed ledger technology-based settlements system between institutions.
The UK central bank plans to take lessons from the project and apply them to its real-time gross...
Another non-fungible token (NFT) collection licensing the name and likeness of former US President Donald Trump has sold out, one day after launching on 18 April.
The second of its kind, the ‘Trump Digital Trading Cards Series 2’ collection features 47.000 NFTs that were...
BNB Chain, the blockchain network of crypto exchange Binance, has updated its red alarm list with 191 new projects and decentralised applications (DApps) it considers to be high-risk.
The red alarm list is updated every Friday, warning users of projects and DApps on the blockchain...
San Francisco-based fintech firm Ripple has launched a liquidity solution to act as a bridge between crypto and fiat currency for businesses.
The Ripple Liquidity Hub launched 13 April following a successful pilot last year.
“Liquidity Hub is publicly available to provide...
Tokeny, a tokenisation infrastructure provider, has partnered with CoFund, an Ethereum real-estate tokenisation marketplace, to tokenise a luxury hotel in Indonesia.
The $10 million hotel sits on the island resort of Bali, and will be tokenised using ERC-3643 security tokens on the...
Decentralised finance (DeFi) protocol SushiSwap has suffered a smart contract bug that allowed for more than $3 million of funds to be siphoned in an exploit.
The hack should only impact users who swapped crypto on the protocol within the past four days, according to DefiLlama...
Of all the rug pull scams carried out across the crypto ecosystem in the first quarter of 2023, almost three quarters occurred on Binance’s BNB Chain, according to a report from Immunefi.
The blockchain security firm’s latest report, ‘Crypto Losses in Q1 2023’, looked at the...
Huobi Global, a cryptocurrency exchange, has declared a strategic partnership with Gala Games, a blockchain-based play-to-earn gaming platform.
Cryptocurrency exchange Huobi Global has entered into a strategic partnership with blockchain-based gaming platform Gala...
China plans to improve its standards for blockchain technology development by 2025, according to the country’s fintech watchdog, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology.
The update comes from guidelines published in a draft post on the ministry’s website that also asks...
US crypto exchange Coinbase wants inflation-pegged “flatcoins” to be one of four “critical” innovations it hopes to see on its newly launched layer-2 network, Base.
The company also wants developers to explore an on-chain reputation system, an on-chain limit order book (LOB)...
Crypto scammers are finding ways to adapt to the bear market despite revenue from scams halving last year, according to research from blockchain analysis firm Chainalysis.
A crypto crime webinar hosted by the company explained how scammers tend to shift their tactics as market...
Cryptocurrency derivatives exchange Bitget has invested $30 million (£24.4m) into multi-chain wallet BitKeep to improve stability and security on its exchange.
The deal, which sees Bitget become the controlling shareholder of BitKeep, brings the wallet start-up’s valuation to $300...
A Bitcoin ATM manufacturer has shut down its cloud services due to a security issue that let an attacker access customers’ hot wallets and steal private information.
Prague-based company General Bytes issued a warning on 18 March saying that the hacker had remotely uploaded a Java...
Ethereum’s much anticipated Shanghai hard fork is set to go live on 12 April, bringing several upgrades that complete the network’s transition to a proof-of-stake consensus.
The mainnet upgrade includes five Ethereum Improvement Proposals, most notable of which is EIP-4985,...
Web3 security firm Halborn has found that more than 280 blockchain networks are vulnerable to “zero-day” exploits that could put upwards of £20 billion worth of crypto at risk.
A zero-day vulnerability is one which is discovered by attackers but remains unknown to the network and...
Global banking firm HSBC is acquiring the UK branch of the recently collapsed Silicon Valley Bank, SVB UK.
The company announced on 13 March that its subsidiary, HSBC UK Bank, would be acquiring SVB UK for £1.
HSBC said in its announcement that SVB UK had outstanding loans...
Global banking system SWIFT is moving to the next phase of its central bank digital currency (CBDC) testing after positive results in the pilot stages.
The interbank network said its project to connect different nations’ CBDCs with one another offers “clear potential and value”...
Leading crypto exchange Binance has added 11 tokens to its proof-of-reserves (PoR) report, claiming it now holds $63 billion (£53bn).
The company began publishing its reserves in late 2022 following the collapse of rival exchange FTX in a bid to increase...
An ex-developer of Tornado Cash, the sanctioned crypto mixer that makes crypto assets harder to track, is working on a new platform that hopes to solve the service’s ties to illicit activity.
Ameen Soleimani believes that Privacy Pools, the working name for his new Ethereum mixer...
Moscow Credit Bank, a commercial Russian bank, has issued the country’s first blockchain-based guarantee to use Chinese yuan as currency.
The transaction was made using Russia’s national blockchain network, Masterchain, which is built to transfer digital assets between the...
Visa and Mastercard, the United States’ two largest payment processors, have delayed the launch of new crypto partnerships as bankruptcies and increased regulatory scrutiny continue to affect the industry.
The move, first reported by Reuters, comes after a period of improved...
Liquidity staking protocol Lido Finance activated safety features to limit staking after more than 150,000 Ether was staked on the platform in a single day.
The decentralised finance (DeFi) protocol is popular amongst the crypto community as a tool to stake digital assets like Ether...
US crypto exchange Coinbase is launching its own Ethereum layer-2 network, called Base.
The NASDAQ-listed company says the new network will provide a low-cost and developer-friendly environment for creating decentralised apps (DApps).
Base has been designed as a bridge to...
