As Bitcoin’s price surges, it is attracting more thieves. According to the FBI, in 2022, crypto scams resulted in north of $2.57 billion in losses. The average victim lost $54,000. The increasing intersection of cryptocurrency popularity and evolving fraud tactics highlights the critical need for… Read More
As the year 2024 came to an end, the team at Polygon said it was clear that the past year was a mix of significant progress as well as challenges. The team at Polygon has provided a quick recap of the key developments from the… Read More
Circle has introduced Event Monitoring for its Smart Contract Platform. According to Circle, this feature allows developers to: Subscribe to events emitted on Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM) blockchains Receive real-time notifications via webhooks Take programmatic action based on these events. Circle added that with Event… Read More
21X, which will reportedly launch the EU-regulated financial market infrastructure (FMI) in order to provide order matching, trading, settlement and registry services for tokenized money and securities, announced that it has signed a partnership with Chainlink, which claims to be the standard for onchain finance…. Read More
HBAR Foundation is joining Chainlink Scale which now deepens the collaboration between the Chainlink and Hedera ecosystems. As noted in a blog post, the HBAR Foundation, which supports the growth and adoption of the Hedera ecosystem, has joined the Chainlink Scale program. As an initial… Read More
Visa Tokenized Asset Platform (VTAP) is a product that is designed to help banking service providers issue fiat-backed tokens. BBVA will reportedly be using VTAP in order to create digital tokens on the public Ethereum (ETH) blockchain with expected live pilots in 2025. Visa (NYSE:… Read More
Chainlink, the industry-standard decentralized computing platform, and ZKsync, an ever expanding verifiable blockchain network secured by math, announced that Chainlink CCIP, the industry-standard cross-chain protocol, is now live on ZKsync’s Era Mainnet. This is the next phase between Chainlink and ZKsync, and is “in line… Read More
CertiK notes that during the past few months, their team has conducted extensive research on the Bitcoin ecosystem and its developments. CertiK also audited several Bitcoin projects and smart contracts based “on different languages, including OKX’s BRC-20 wallet and MVC DAO’s sCrypt smart contract implementation.”… Read More
Chainlink is pleased to announce that the Chainlink Cross-Chain Interoperability Protocol (CCIP) has officially entered general availability (GA). Any developer can now permissionlessly use CCIP “to securely transfer onboarded tokens cross-chain, send arbitrary messages to smart contracts on another integrated blockchain, or simultaneously send data… Read More
Aon plc (NYSE: AON), a global professional services firm, announced the successful completion of an innovative pilot for placing insurance using blockchain and smart contract technology. The pilot was conducted with Nayms SAC Ltd., “a crypto-compatible insurance marketplace, and Copper.co, a digital assets custodian.” Benefits… Read More
Circle, a global digital financial technology firm and the issuer of USDC, announced new smart contract functionality that would allow holders of the BlackRock USD Institutional Digital Liquidity Fund (BUIDL) to transfer their shares to Circle for USDC. This smart contract reportedly provides BUIDL investors… Read More
Taurus SA announces it has joined the ERC3643 Association. This move is said to establish Taurus “as one of the first digital asset custody and tokenization infrastructure providers to join the association, marking a significant step in the advancement of smart contract standardization, and reinforcing… Read More
Michael Nadeau, the founder of The DeFi Report who also helps startups and asset managers, has pointed out that Ethereum (ETH), the world’s largest smart contract platform, reached $10 billion in revenue “faster than any other major software company besides Google.” Although this may be… Read More
Bitcoin (BTC) gained 13% in December 2023 (and is trading at over $45,000 to start off the new year). These price moves punctuate a year of strong returns, but the largest crypto asset was, in fact, “outpaced by other market segments last month,” the team… Read More
DAML for Azure Database enables customers to “deploy multiparty applications on Microsoft’s powerful cloud infrastructure immediately.” Businesses are using distributed ledger platforms “to deploy multiparty applications even though many wish they could simply leverage familiar infrastructure to improve complex business processes that don’t require overhauling… Read More
Atul Bhuchar, Head of Product at Partior, the global unified ledger market infrastructure for clearing and settlement, recently shared his views and insights with Crowdfund Insider. Partior claims it is redefining the way money moves globally by “optimizing how liquidity is accessed.” Founded in 2021,… Read More
Today, less than 0.25% of total global assets are “represented on blockchain infrastructure, leaving massive efficiency gains uncaptured,” according to an update from Coinbase (NASDAQ:COIN). Coinbase says that its goal is “to close this gap by enabling institutional use of next-generation financial technology.” Project Diamond… Read More
On December 5, 2023, thirdweb, a Web3 foundational development platform, reported security vulnerabilities in its pre-built smart contracts. As noted in a blog post by SlowMist, this issue affects all tokens “deployed using these pre-built smart contracts, including ERC20, ERC721, and ERC1155 tokens.” Based on… Read More
A couple of weeks ago, the cryptocurrency community witnessed a “peculiar” and complex exploit within the Raft Protocol, which is described as a decentralized finance (DeFi) platform operating on the Ethereum network. This incident, now widely referred to as the “Raft Protocol Exploit,” stands out… Read More
Today, digital asset security firm Fireblocks announced the acquisition of BlockFold, a smart contract development and consulting firm specializing in advanced tokenization projects for financial institutions. Fireblocks said the acquisition enriches its tokenization capabilities to provide clients with a complete service layer that includes advisory, token… Read More
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