Steem stands out among social aggregation sites. Not only is Steemit blockchain-based, it also has a sizable (and knowledgeable) user base of content creators. The Steem model - which rewards creators for sharing their work - has already led to a top-1500…

Telegram cancels ICO: the encrypted messaging service reportedly decided to scrap plans for a public offering for its cryptocurrency, known as grams. Highly anticipated, the decision was apparently taken after two private sales managed to raise $500m more…

Slowly but surely, the investment banks are creeping toward the grudging acceptance that Bitcoin is, in fact, a thing, and that it may well remain a thing for a long time to come. Goldman Sachs, the Wall Street bank, is opening a Bitcoin trading desk. Is…

Our nOS ICO preview reveals a highly anticipated NEO-based project offering a virtual operating system and gateway to the decentralized internet. The nOS ICO places the principle of transparency at the heart of the operating system. nOS tokens confer authority…

Although there are concerns that privacy coins could be used for illegal activity, there is a real need for users to be able to separate their identity from their transaction history. The Cambridge Analytica scandal was bad, but it could represent just the…

A Coinbase listing is the crypto equivalent of the Holy Grail for the community behind a token. Aside from the obvious benefits - including an exponential spike in the price and volume - Coinbase listings expose tokens to a much wider audience, increasing…

Zcash is a cryptocurrency just like Bitcoin and Litecoin, but with a few improvements. It uses cryptography and shielded transactions to control user privacy on a public ledger. Journalists and doctors and teachers and lawyers and aid groups need anonymity…

Phantasma wants to do something several people have considered before now: they want to create a decentralized system for emails, and content distribution so that artists can get paid properly, and do it all securely and with encryption and so on and so on.…

As cryptocurrencies continue to swing upwards, is the possibility of a trillion dollar crypto market more than just wishful thinking? As projects move away from the whitepaper phase to real utility, so can their value be expected to rise.

Jeopardy! is full of tough questions, but one clue last night had millions of crypto-investors yelling into their screens. The answer was: “In December 2017 one unit of this cryptocurrency was worth 15 times more than an ounce of gold.” Any clue what the…

The Solana ICO is a yet another addition to the race of high-throughput blockchains. On the homepage, visitors are greeted with a figure showing Solana will support up to 710k transactions per second (TPS) on a 1gb network without data partitioning. No wonder…

Singapore residents may soon be lining their pockets with digital currency—literally. Tangem,  a Switzerland-based technology firm, has begun selling preloaded Bitcoin “smart notes” to the Island country, allowing residents to interact with cryptocurrency…

Coinbase News. The popular American exchange has said in an open letter that it is planning to double its transaction capacity. In an open letter to New York's Attorney General, the exchange disclosed it had also doubled the size of its full-time engineering…

Bitcoin is big money for credit card companies, or so Mastercard seems to think. In its earnings call this week, the world’s second largest credit card issuer admitted that its quarterly growth was lower than expected, due to a drop in cryptocurrency purchases.

A cryptocurrency designed to implement sharding technology, the Zilliqa market cap pushed past the $1bn today. With strong plans to replace conventional payment processors like Visa, the project - which only had its ICO a few months ago - claims to be able…

The Newton ICO recently appeared on our radar. Upon taking a closer look and realizing the ICO is still in its early stages, we decided to give Newton Founder and CEO Xu Jizhe a call to learn more. Before we go on to release a full review, let’s take a look…

Cloud storage is a big business, estimated at $178 billion as of late 2017. Sia competes with Amazon, Dropbox, Microsoft, and Google to convince users to store data on their cloud servers. So what is Siacoin, does it have the right model, and can it win?

Binance, one of the most successful cryptocurrency exchanges, may begin refusing to handle projects funded by Sequoia capital. Binance Founder Zhao Changpeng said that “We may soon require all projects applying to list on Binance to disclose if they have…

The Fantom ICO offers a DAG-based blockchain protocol for higher speed and infinite scalability. The proposed transactions per second (TPS) on Fantom? 300k TPS. The ICO team have set the bar high and aim to be the first platform to truly disrupt the existing…

Markets trembled this weekend amid rumors of a regulatory crackdown on Ethereum, which may, or may not, be labeled an unregistered security.  After two days of tense sell-offs and plummeting prices, investors woke up on Monday morning to learn that the US…

Banking jobs are under threat by blockchain technology. That's simply a fact of life. When car manufacturers find that aluminum is cheaper, lighter, and easier to work with than steel - they make trucks using aluminum. No more steel. It has been replaced.…