Category: ICO

Banks Using Permissionless Blockchains for Transactions Face Multiple Risks: BIS’ Basel Committee Says

Banks are also exposed to political uncertainty as a new legislation could “change validator behaviour,” making the “blockchains themselves operationally unstable.” A ban for instance could “reduce the amount of computing power or staked native tokens available to secure the blockchain, temporarily increasing the risk of a 51% attack,” in which ”a coordinated effort is put forward to control greater than 50% of the validation nodes.” Source

Can Prediction Market Boom Continue After Election? This Crypto Team Has a Plan

Doing away with stock market-type trading gives Hedgehog more flexibility in engaging its user base, said DiPeppe. For example, users can spin up custom prediction markets, place their own bet on the outcome, and hope someone else takes them up on the opposite point of view. (Polymarket allows community members to suggest markets in its Discord server, but the company decides which ones to publish.) Source

TON Back Online After Second Outage

On Wednesday local time, Durov was indicted in a French court on charges related to enabling illicit transactions and child exploitation on the platform, failing to cooperate with police and providing encryption services without controls, following his recent arrest near Paris, among other charges. Source

Bitcoin Layer-2 Network Stacks (STX) Begins Nakamoto Upgrade

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Telegram-Linked TON Blockchain Suffers Second Outage

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Proof of Play Adds ‘Boss’ as 2nd Arbitrum Orbit Chain, Lombard Launches LBTC

Lombard has publicly launched LBTC, a “cross-chain, yield-bearing Bitcoin token designed for DeFi use.” According to the team: “The launch follows a successful private beta that attracted more than $165 million in deposits from over 600 institutional allocators. LBTC allows users to stake Bitcoin through Babylon and utilize it across various DeFi protocols. Initial integrations include major DeFi protocols such as Symbiotic, Morpho, Pendle, Corn, Gauntlet, Derive, EtherFi and Gearbox.” Source