They don’t exist yet, but you can soon buy Polkadot tokens from CoinFLEX via a new mechanism: the initial futures offering (IFO).
Polkadot Tokens Valued at $75 Pre-Launch in Crypto ‘Futures’ Offering
How Bitcoin Might Help the World’s Oppressed Sidestep Censorship – in Space
An advocacy group is testing out the idea that the combination of bitcoin and orbital communication can help fight news censorship.
Wala Was Africa’s Perfect Crypto Success Story – Until It Collapsed
Wala went from serving customers in Uganda to shuttering its payments app. Here’s what sources say happened.
Coinbase Is in Talks to Launch Its Own Insurance Company
Coinbase is exploring plans to set up its own regulated insurance company with the help of broker Aon, sources told CoinDesk.
Safety Without Silos: Why Businesses Will Learn to Love Public Ethereum
Enterprises are finally realizing that mainnet ethereum is a way to end decades of brittle, balkanized and bespoke system integration, writes John Wolpert.
Billion-Dollar Returns: The Upside of Facebook’s Libra Cryptocurrency
If Libra achieves even modest adoption, the payoff for Facebook and its partners could be in the billions.
Casa Launches Lightning Node Mobile App for Bitcoin Newbies
Casa’s new wallet aims to help aspiring cypherpunks graduate from getting their first bitcoin to running their own lightning node.
Russia’s Largest Bank Is Quitting Central Bank’s Blockchain Project
Enterprise blockchain project Masterchain is falling short of expectations – and Russia’s largest bank is quitting in frustration.
Monero and Zcash Conferences Showcase Their Differences (And Links)
The future of privacy coins relies on technologists getting the governance setup right. Here’s both sides of the zcash debate.
Facebook’s Libra Crypto Code Draws Critiques and Clones
Would-be coders and eager trolls are digging into the early code for Facebook’s Libra cryptocurrency.
Billions to Trillions: Crypto Assets and the Inevitability of Digitization
As with the evolution of music consumption, digitization of securities will have far-reaching effects, writes Ami Ben David of Ownera.
A Wannabe Netflix Raised $575 Million on Ethereum – Then Ditched Crypto
From yachting with Selena Gomez to doling out TaTaTu tokens to movie stars, one producer’s road to Hollywood was paved with ICO excess.
Buried in Facebook’s Libra White Paper, a Digital Identity Bombshell
Buried in Facebook’s Libra white paper are two sentences hinting the project’s ambitions go even further than minting a global currency.
This Ethereum Lottery Perfectly Explains How Facebook’s Big Corporate Backers Will Profit from Crypto
This is a post about a lossless DAI lottery called PoolTogether. But it’s really about how Facebook’s Libra project will make money for its big backers.
Meeting Bitcoiners Online When They Live in the Same City
Bitcoin developer Mark “Murch” Erhardt tells CoinDesk about the most surprising interaction he ever had in his years of running the Bitcoin Stack Exchange. Turns out the crypto world *is* that small!
Howey Schmowey – The Real Answer is to Update Securities Regulations
The SEC should focus more on fraud prevention than if an asset is a security, as fraud can be committed with securities too, argues David Weisberger.
Why Ethereum’s Privacy Matters and What’s Being Built to Support It
With the goal of boosting adoption, these four projects are building tools that advance privacy on ethereum.
Staking Isn’t Just a Way to Earn Crypto Money – And It Shouldn’t Be
Staking is getting attention for all the wrong reasons, and it’s time to re-examine its role, argues Decred’s Jake Yocom-Piatt.
Facebook’s Cryptocurrency Wants to Take on Banks, Not Bitcoin
If bitcoin doesn’t need to worry about competition from Facebook. Who does? You’ve guessed it, the banks.
Libra White Paper Shows How Facebook Borrowed From Bitcoin and Ethereum
Cryptocurrency, at scale. That’s Facebook’s vision as laid out in the long-awaited, just-released Libra white paper.