What Happens if Big Tech Only Gets Bigger?
Amy Webb, a quantitative futurist and founder of the strategic foresight firm Future Today Institute, thinks the world can, indeed, get worse. In her most...
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Data Management Startup Fluree Unlocks $1.5M Air Force Contract With Latest VC Raise
Blockchain startup Fluree, already building a distributed data management platform to boost the U.S. Air Force’s decision-making prowess, has raised $2.5 million in additional funding...
Blockchain Bites: Coinbase’s Severance Offer, DeFi’s Latest Fund, Overstock’s Legal Win
Coinbase will offer non-aligned employees a severance package, Kadena looks to cut into the DeFi market with a new decentralized exchange and Sushiswap is hemorrhaging...
Bitcoin News Roundup for Sept. 30, 2020
With bitcoin trading in an unusually tight range and DeFi darling SushiSwap suffering shrinkage, CoinDesk’s Markets Daily is back for your latest crypto news roundup!...
‘Great Artists Steal’ – What Enterprise Blockchain Can Learn From the Past
For as long as there have been computers in enterprises, there have been people working on how to make machine-to-machine commerce a reality. While the...
CBDCs Could Challenge US Dollar’s Dominance: Deutsche Bank
Geopolitical jostling accelerated by large-scale private stablecoin initiatives like libra, plus an added dose of COVID-19, means we are now facing a perfect storm for...
SEC Orders Salt Lending to Offer Refunds to Investors in Its $47M ICO
The top U.S. financial watchdog has ordered Salt Lending to offer investors refunds for its 2017 initial coin offering (ICO). EDIT (Sept. 30, 16:50 UTC): This...
First Mover: Chainlink’s Sorry September Returns Shows DeFi Hysteria Deflating
DeFi deflated. That was the story in cryptocurrency markets in September as prices tumbled for digital tokens from “decentralized finance” (DeFi), the fast-evolving arena of...
Reef Finance Raises $3.9M for Cross-Chain DeFi on Polkadot
As the limitations and costs of running decentralized finance (DeFi) apps on Ethereum continue to ride high, a growing list of projects are lining up...
Energy Web Is Starting With Ripple in Its Bid to Make Crypto Provably Green
The crypto industry, with its questionable carbon footprint, now has a convenient way to showcase its green cred on a verified (rather than trusted) basis....