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Tecnología

Cardano’s Vasil Upgrade Marks an Important Milestone in the Blockchain’s Evolution

The chief scientist at IOG, Aggelos Kiayias, explains why Cardano has re-thought smart contracts and how it prioritizes security over speed.

Chief scientist at IOG Aggelos Kiayias (Provided)

Tecnología

Cream Finance Exploiter Converts $1.75M in Stolen Funds to Bitcoin

The decentralized finance application has been exploited three times since it went live in 2020.

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Finanzas

Near Blockchain Moves Ahead With Phase One of Sharding Upgrade

As a part of Near’s four-step plan to shard the network over the next year, the protocol will introduce 200 new validators.

Near co-founder Illia Polosukhin (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)

Opinión

Digital Liberation: How Blockchain Can Be Sexy (and Safe)

Tech is changing the way individuals live and innovate. How will this affect "the oldest profession," sex work? This article is part of CoinDesk's Sin Week.

Can the metaverse empower sex workers? (Kunal Patil/Unsplash)

Tecnología

'Copycats' Stole $88M During Nomad Exploit by Copying Attacker's Code: Coinbase

Over 88% of the addresses involved in the $190 million Nomad attack likely belonged to users copying a code that was initially used by the exploiters.

Elliptic says RenBridge was used to launder $540 million in illicit funds. (Charlie Green/Unsplash)

Tecnología

Cardano's Vasil Upgrade Is Delayed Again for More Testing

The hard fork has been pushed back by at least “a few more weeks” until testing is complete, developers said.

Time on clock stop by nail delay concept

Tecnología

Ethereum’s Mainnet Tenth 'Shadow Fork' Goes Live Ahead of September Merge

Developers focused this time on testing key releases similar to the ones in the upcoming Goerli merge – the final testnet hard fork before the real Ethereum Merge.

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Tecnología

Harmony Proposes Issuing ONE Tokens to Reimburse Victims of $100M Hack

Developers decided against using treasury funds, citing the project’s long-term viability.

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Opinión

To Use or Hold? Solving the Classic Crypto Conundrum With a Dual Token Model

Where blockchain is concerned, two really can be better than one.

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Tecnología

Matter Labs Schedules zkSync 2.0 Mainnet Launch for October

As Ethereum scaling competition heats up, Matter Labs says it will bring the first EVM-compatible ZK rollup to market.

Matter Labs says it will bring the first EVM-compatible ZK rollup to market. (Shutterstock)