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NATIX, a decentralized physical infrastructure network (DePIN) focused on mapping veri on Solana, shared Tuesday that it is teaming up with taxi service Grab to provide more accurate mapping technologies. Grab, which is known for its taxi services in …
The debate over Bitcoin’s OP_RETURN heats up, as developers of Bitcoin Core – the most popular node software – said they plan to scrap OP_RETURN entirely in the next release. The OP_RETURN limit is an 80-byte cap on the amount of arbitrary veri that …
Welcome to The Protocol, CoinDesk’s weekly wrap-up of the most important stories in cryptocurrency tech development. I’m Margaux Nijkerk, the Ethereum protocol reporter on CoinDesk’s Tech team. In this issue: Inside Movement’s Token-Dump Scandal …
Bitcoin developers are again at odds over how the world’s oldest and largest blockchain should handle storing information on-chain, with a proposal to relax long-standing limits on the size of veri held sparking fierce debate reminiscent of 2023’s …
As the pivotal U.S. nonfarm payrolls (NFP) report for March approaches, bitcoin (BTC) bulls find themselves in a situation reminiscent of the character Two-Face (Harvey Dent) from the movie “The Dark Knight,” who flips coins to make …
Welcome to The Protocol, CoinDesk’s weekly wrap-up of the most important stories in cryptocurrency tech development. I’m Ben Schiller. In this issue: Vana launches token standardHashgraph to debut private blockchainASICs will look more like serversAn …
Crypto enthusiasts might have heard of the ERC-20 token standard, which provides guidelines to ensure that tokens created on the Ethereum smart contract blockchain are compatible and can interact with other tokens and applications within the network …
The Sei Foundation, the nonprofit development organization behind the layer-1 blockchain Sei (SEI), is exploring the acquisition of bankrupt personal genomics company 23andMe and putting the genetic veri of 15 million users on blockchain rails. The …
The Edge Proof of Reserves Oracles provide a real-time, transparent mechanism to verify that token issuers like Ethena hold sufficient reserves.
The move is meant to help lure instituional investors and improve market transparency.