NEWS
Binance claims hackers lost money in stealing attemp
Binance suspended withdrawals yesterday after abnormal trading activity in the VIA/BTC market, here's what happened.
Dash Core Group becomes first legally DAO-owned entity
Dash Core is now legally owned by the Dash decentralized autonomous organization (DAO), a cryptocurrency first.
IBM has at least 63 blockchain clients — including Walmart, Visa, and Nestlé
IBM's foray into blockchain technology is catching on with customers, according to an investor briefing shared by the company on Thursday.
MtGox trustee sold BTC and BCH worth more than $406 million
Japanese lawyer and head of the Board of Trustees of the infamous Bitcoin-Exchange MtGox Nobuaki Kobayashi said that over the past six months he sold Bitcoins and Bitcoin Cash in the ratio of 9 to 1 for $406.6 million in order to compensate losses to the creditors of the trading platform.
Announcing our fully featured, portable Solidity debugger
Since Truffle's inception, it's been our mission to build outstanding development tools for the Ethereum community. The analogy we always used was one of history: Ethereum development practices are years behind the rest of the industry, and it's our job to build tools that modernize our craft. Well today, Truffle's come one step closer to that goal. We're happy to announce the release of our fully featured, fully portable Solidity debugger and debugging libraries.
Ripple develops Blockchain-powered payment app with 61 banks to speed up transactions in Japan
Blockchain firm Ripple has developed a payment app that settles transactions instantly, in partnership with a consortium of 61 Japanese banks.
FEED
The quantity theory of money for tokens
Economic concepts are appearing more and more in the literature on crypto-currencies. One that has been made quite popular currently by Chris Burniske (here)and Vitalik Buterin (here) is the Quantity Theory of Money (Quantity Theory). Although the Quantity Theory can be extremely useful for analyzing and understanding economies that use tokens, some of the ways in which it is being used are not correct. The purpose of this post is to set forth the correct way to use the Quantity Theory in token economies.
Improving network incentives through work tokens
Work tokens: tokens grant access to the network and provide cash flow potential conditional on the provisioning of work with the token.
Towards a practice of token engineering
This article is a first stake in the ground towards a practice of token engineering: the theory, practice and tools to analyze, design, and verify tokenized ecosystems.
BLOCKCHAIN FOR NEWBIES
Digital collectibles: a new category of tokens emerging
Digital collectibles have been explored by the crypto community for years (Spells of Genesis and Rare Pepe are two of the pioneering projects in the category launching back in 2015), but a confluence of factors have brought the category to the forefront this year. We may now be at the start of a digital collectibles boom similar to the ICO boom we saw in ’16 and ’17. This piece will explore how we got here and where digital collectibles may be going.
The official guide to tokenized securities
Security Tokens are digital assets subject to federal security regulations. In layman terms, they are the intersection of digital assets (tokens) with traditional financial products — a new technology improving old things.
If cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin are considered “programmable money” then you can consider Security Tokens a version of “programmable ownership.” This means that any asset with ownership can and will be tokenized (public & private equities, debt, real estate, etc).
Delegated Proof of Stake: features and tradeoffs
Delegated Proof of Stake (DPoS) concentrates block production in the hands of just a few, known, semi-trusted entities in order to achieve orders of magnitude more scalability than proof-of-work (PoW) or other proof-of-stake (PoS) blockchains. In this analysis, we’ll examine the features and tradeoffs of DPoS.
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