OKEx, a top full-service cryptocurrency exchange, announced earlier today that its new BTCUSD options trading product is now officially live on the OKEx website and API. The options instrument went live on 06:00 Jan 9,…

Binance released its report on decentralized finance applications (a trend most often affiliated with Ethereum) yesterday, highlighting the continued growth of the DeFi ecosystem; according to a Tweet by @CryptoWolf, as Ethereum locked in DeFi…

Bancor, an on-chain liquidity protocol that enables automated, decentralized exchange, confirmed that by the end of this week, thousands of new liquidity providers will be born, and Bancor will have taken one step closer to…

Bitcoin has pulled back from seven-week highs above $8,400, but the bullish breakout confirmed on Jan. 6 is still valid. The price drop was backed by low seller volumes and may be reversed. The bullish…

I follow the macro trend of how access to financial products is changing and try to make sense of what that means for blockchain applications. We are not operating in a vacuum, but in a…

If bitcoin is digital cash and ethereum is digital law, Urbit is digital land.  The highly ambitious cloud computing project imagines nothing less than a rewiring of the internet, allowing users, not corporations, to own…

On January 7, digital preservation researcher David Rosenthal published an overview of BTC’s Lightning Network (LN) which claims LN infrastructure isn’t decentralized and privacy-preservation is a myth. Rosenthal’s analysis found significant flaws with the LN…

Hotmine, a company based in Ukraine which engineers home appliances for crypto enthusiasts, is not new to mining equipment development. But sometimes it takes the right time and the right technology to be able to…