The Winklevoss twins. Source: a video screenshot. Get your daily, bite-sized digest of cryptoasset and blockchain-related news – investigating the stories flying under the radar of today’s crypto news. DeFi news US-headquartered crypto exchange Gemini said that it is "committed to building a trustworthy skybridge for you to traverse into this new, exciting frontier" of […]
Source: iStock/Kameleon007 For over 80,000 of all blockchain projects ever launched globally, only 8% are still being actively maintained and the average life span is only around 1.22 years, or less than 15 months, according to an official from the China Academy of Information and Communications Technology (CAICT), reported China Money Network. The report did […]
Source: Adobe/coachwood Carmaking giants BMW, Ford and Honda have teamed up with auto insurance providers and tech heavyweights such as IBM and Accenture to work on an international, cross-industry, blockchain-powered vehicle history platform. Per a press release, the firms have teamed up to work on the Mobility Open Blockchain Initiative (MOBI)’s new Vehicle Identity (VID) […]
Source: iStock/sitox The first cryptocurrency to employ the long-awaited privacy protocol Mimblewimble has launched under the name of Beam. The team behind the project explains that people will be able to determine by themselves “which information will be available and to which parties, having complete control over his personal data in accordance to his will […]
Source: iStock/Inkout With the contentious Bitcoin Cash hard fork fast approaching, a number of exchanges have come out with statements that generally say they “support the hard fork.” Previously, major exchanges including Binance and Coinbase have announced their support for the Bitcoin ABC proposal as published on bitcoincash.org. However, Coinbase added that “unlike previous BCH […]