This week marks the completion of our fourth hard fork, Spurious Dragon, and the subsequent state clearing process, the final steps in the two-hard-fork solution to the recent Ethereum denial of service attacks that slowed down the network in September...
A decade of tokenized equity pitches promised global access to American stocks. The use case that finally moved volume is pairing them against memecoins on a...
The possibilities of zkSNARKs are impressive, you can verify the correctness of computations without having to execute them and you will not even learn what was executed - just that it was done correctly. Unfortunately, most explanations of...
SALT announced on July 30 that Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse will speak at the third annual Wyoming Blockchain Symposium, scheduled for Aug. 17–20 at the Four...
Vitalik suggested last week that I share my basic research and design philosophy in a blog post, I agreed but complained that it was still changing. My friend Jon West told me that everyone would really appreciate it...
Adam Hollander has announced that he has stepped down as OpenSea’s chief marketing officer after serving in the role for roughly a year and a half,...
This chapter describes the game theory and economic security modelling we were doing in the Fall of 2014. It recounts how the "bribing attacker model" led our research directly to a radical solution to the long range attack...
U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission Chair Paul Atkins said the regulator is prepared to write crypto market rules if Congress fails to pass the CLARITY Act,...
With the long awaited geth 1.5 ("let there bee light") release, Swarm made it into the official go-ethereum release as an experimental feature. The current version of the code is POC 0.2 RC5 -- "embrace your daemons" (roadmap),...
Crypto exchange Luno is cutting about 20% of its global workforce as part of a restructuring confirmed on July 28 by Chief Executive James Lanigan.  ...