Fidelity Cryptocurrency. A cyber-security expert has expressed concerns that Fidelity Investment's decision to set up a crypto exchange could make the asset manager a prime target for hackers and malicious agents. Yo Kwon from Hoshi said that the large number of assets could make Fidelity vulnerable.
The Emotiq ICO team and their EMTQ token hope to revolutionize smart contracts by using natural language, so that anyone can create one. Despite (literally) out of this world academic talent, the challenge seems immense and the blockchain may see major adoption issues. Plain English: not this time.
It turns out that bitcoin mining energy estimates may have been overexaggerated and that its environmental impact might not be as bad as previously thought. A new report published by CoinShares has disputed the methodologies that have been used to calculate previous estimates.
So this is an Ankr Code Review, not an ICO review, but I'm looking very carefully at the consensus protocol here. Proof of Useful Work sounds intriguing. Ankr explain they're creating 'Distributed Cloud Computing on Trusted Hardware' and they have a lot of original ideas. Maybe too many for one project?
Valerie Szczepanik was elevated to the newly created position of Senior Advisor for Digital Assets and Innovation. In her new capacity, she will advise the Division of Corporation Finance on cryptocurrencies, ICOs and other blockchain-related inventions.
You might think that the sagging crypto prices would be a sign of institutional money fleeing the market. However, recent research has found that the opposite is true: despite the sleepy bears, 2018 is shaping up to be a record year for institutional funds investing in cryptocurrency.
Investors have been queueing up around the block to try and purchase QKC, with the QuarkChain price experiencing a sudden boom in value following multiple exchange listings. A peer-to-peer platform, QuarkChain's ICO only finished yesterday with only a fraction are being traded on exchanges.
Crypto Briefing interviews the co-founder of Orvium, a blockchain publishing project that plans to offer a platform where scientists and academics can publish and access work in a communal and collaborative environment. Publishers have dominated the sector for decades, blockchain could change that...
