Blockchain

Another weekend, another batch of stories you mightve missed. Or as we like to put it: welcome back to another edition of Moonday Mornings, Hard Forks wrap-up of the weekends top cryptocurrency and blockchain stories. So, without further ado, lets get into i…

Dutch bank ABN AMRO has decided to cancel its plans for a custodial cryptocurrency wallet, called Wallie, claiming that digital assets are just too risky. Back in January, the rumor mill spun into action after images surfaced on Twitter that appeared to sugg…

Alleged cryptocurrency exchange Goxtrade bills itself as a “trusted platform for trading bitcoins,” but its staff page is filled with photos of people of pulled seemingly at random from the internet. The alleged exchange, which claimed to debut in 2017 yet i…

Cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase today launched its Earn product, which lets users earn cryptocurrency by solving tasks, trying out new decentralized protocols and answering quizzes, in more than 100 countries.  The list of countries where Earn is now availa…

The open source project, called Ion, deals with the underlying mechanics of how networks talk to each other. For example, if you log onto Airbnb using Facebook, a protocol deals with the software that sends the personal information from your social profile to…

Even thought its 2019, initial coin offering (ICO) exit scams are still being uncovered. The latest to surface has seemingly conned over $8 million from would-be investors. It appears that blockchain startups RepuX and JoyToken have conned investors out of $…

The mobile game and app ecosystem is extremely saturated. The mobile gaming markets are still growing and already worth more than $40 billion — but only a few developers are reaping benefits from this growth. Let’s address why mobile games and app stores shou…

Stellars blockchain suffered a cascading failure that halted transactions for roughly two hours on May 15. Breaking: yesterday the Stellar network went down for about 2 hours only those who run validators noticed it. no new transactions were added for ~2 ho…

The blockchain infrastructure firm that sent a Bitcoin BTCsatellite into space is launching a platform to allow businesses to offer security tokens on the Liquid Network. Blockstream announced the launch of Liquid Securities earlier today at CoinDesks blockc…

Opera will soon be adding native support for the TRON blockchain in its cryptocurrency-focused browser. Among other things, the new integration will make it possible to natively use TRON-powered dapps and tokens within the browser. Opera will also add suppor…