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Gaming developers have begun integrating Bitcoin’s Lightning Network into their own games and existing titles to provide players with bitcoin payouts. The Lightning Network is a payment protocol that facilitates fast, near-feeless transactions on a network that operates with different rules than Bitcoin’s primary network. This in-game rewards economy offers everyday gamers a “stake” in

Rows of latest-model laptops, highly sought after by the gaming community, have been spotted in China being used to mine cryptocurrency. In tweets posted on Wednesday, images show a room filled with “several hundred” gaming laptops said to be kitted out with Nvidia RTX 30-series graphics processing units (GPUs). WCCTech, a computer and gaming publication,

It was all a meme.  Well, Dogecoin still is a meme – just a more expensive meme. And as the price rises from the depths, Dogecoin’s historically scattered development is rising with it. Take Dogecoin lead maintainer, Ross Nicoll, for example. His last commitment on Github came in October of 2019, but in the past

Donations to the Brink open-source development fund are now tax exempt for U.S. donors. Founded and directed by Bitcoin Core contributor John Newbery, Brink provides grants to Bitcoin developers who work on its open-source tech stack. Now, it has secured 501(c)(3) status from the Internal Revenue Service, meaning any U.S. taxpayer donating to the fund

A digital bank guarantee has just been executed over a blockchain system in Australia, in what’s being called a first for a commercial bank product in the nation. Lygon, a blockchain-based platform and joint venture between the ANZ, Westpac and Commonwealth banks, shopping center operator Scentre Group and IBM, announced the “milestone” news Wednesday, saying

Ethereum startup Matic Network is rebranding to Polygon as it goes all-in on further Ethereum Layer 2 scaling solutions. The India-based firm is pivoting toward addressing Ethereum’s throughput problem with a forthcoming Layer 2 aggregation SDK that can host multiple technologies at once, according to a blog post shared with CoinDesk.  The startup currently administers

Curve Finance is making its way to another blockchain – Polkadot. The decentralized finance (DeFi) money market is building a cross-chain implementation to run on the Polkadot parachain Equilibrium. Once implemented, the automated market maker (AMM) will exist on both Ethereum and Polkadot. Curve Finance is one of the largest automated market makers (AMM) on

According to the crypto app tracker, State of the Dapps, there are nearly 3,000 decentralized apps (also known as “dapps”) currently running on the Ethereum blockchain. These apps differ from regular mobile and web-based apps because they aim to hand users more control over the data the apps manage. Traditional apps, such as Robinhood or

The creators of the Tendermint-based Terra suite of stablecoins are opening a fund to foster its tokens’ usage anywhere people are doing decentralized finance (DeFi) – and that primarily means Ethereum. Announced Thursday, Terraform Labs has launched a $10 million fund, Terraform Capital, to drive integrations of either its dollar-pegged stablecoin, TerraUSD (UST), or its

Centralized payment companies such as Visa, Mastercard and PayPal will need to adapt if they are to survive the potential demand for blockchain-based stablecoin payments, according to research firm Gartner. In a Thursday blog post, Gartner notes that, while new bitcoin offerings from such firms are helping to prepare the transition to a future payment

“Hashrate” refers to the total combined computational power that is being used to mine and process transactions on a Proof-of-Work blockchain, such as Bitcoin and Ethereum (prior to the 2.0 upgrade). A “hash” is a fixed-length alphanumeric code that is used to represent words, messages and data of any length. Crypto projects use a variety

Another challenge to Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, which protects tech platforms from being liable for various forms of content posted on them, has re-emerged, with bipartisan support. It takes a page from the Banking Secrecy Act (BSA) but, rather than filing Suspicious Activity Reports (SARs), the bill would force tech companies to

When Elon Musk changed his Twitter bio to “#bitcoin” last week it moved the market, but not just for bitcoin itself. Users of UniWhales could see big holders making moves in real-time. Matt Aaron, the CEO of UniWhales, sent CoinDesk screenshots showing three big moves of liquidity providers exiting USDC/ETH and USDT/ETH positions on Uniswap.

Twitter and Square CEO Jack Dorsey is further supporting bitcoin with the launch of his own “node” – software that helps validate transactions and blocks on the network. On Friday, Dorsey shared an image on Twitter showing the node in the action of synchronizing with the bitcoin blockchain. He said simply, “Running #bitcoin.” The node

In the great game of the world economy, the final boss victory for crypto would be to rob nation-states of the ability to issue legitimate money – at least, that would be the libertarian win condition. “Everyone who has been around long enough in crypto, if you scratch off the surface, is a closeted but

Yearn Finance has suffered an exploit in one of its DAI lending pools, according to the decentralized finance (DeFi) protocol’s official Twitter account.  The dollar value of the exploit is still unknown, although Yearn Finance shows percentage losses for the vault in the triple digits. An Aave flash loan was used to trigger the vault