Tag: no-livewire
CoinDesk Mothballs DESK Reward Token Program
These users began transferring large amounts of DESK to "collector" wallets on-chain. Even though our terms of service prohibited trading DESK, a seco [...]
Aptos (APT) Led a Year of Venture Capital Blockchains
Aptos and Sui, being constructed by Mysten Labs, also use the same custom programming language (Move, developed for the quashed Facebook stablecoin pr [...]
Karl Floersch's 'Optimism' Tech Paved the Way for Coinbase's 'Base' Blockchain
The CEO of OP Labs helped create a set of tools that let developers build their own layer-2 chains.
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Reinventing Lightning to Reinvent Bitcoin
Bitcoin, the first cryptocurrency, is sometimes derided for being slow to adopt new innovations, a point Neigut contends. At Consensus 2023, for insta [...]
Sergey Nazarov: The Crypto Oracle
Chainlink is where digital assets meet the real world, and Nazarov is predicting TradFi and crypto will become intertwined.
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Mike Belshe, the Crypto Custody King at BitGo
BitGo was one of the few crypto companies to raise capital in a depressed market, and even did so at an elevated valuation. That's one reason why CEO [...]
Ria Bhutoria Is Researcher-in-Chief
A partner at Castle Island Ventures, Bhutoria has produced some of the smartest analysis in crypto over the last several years.
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The Metaverse Man Gets Real
Siu sees the year ahead as a year for many existing and emerging verticals in crypto, like GameFi, EduFi and digital identity. In other words, these a [...]
Balaji Put His Money Where His Mouth Was
Srinivasan bet $1 million the U.S. dollar would collapse (and lost), and evangelized his ideas about startup societies, making him one of CoinDesk's M [...]
Paul Sztorc: Scaling Bitcoin With Sidechains
Sztorc, 34, said approvals of soft forks, which introduce new features to Bitcoin without undermining previous versions of the blockchain, are becomin [...]
The Year of Decentralized Social Media
Crypto and the wider world of open-source, distributed tech has social media alternatives, too. There’s Bluesky, Blockstack, DeSo, Farcaster, Friend.T [...]
Shining a Light on Crypto’s Leaky Pseudonymity
There is a case to be made that companies like Arkham and Chainalyis, though controversial, have a singularly positive impact on crypto. Chainalysis, [...]
Ogle Catches the Crypto Crooks
There's usually a type, a psychological profile of a hacker: young, smart and hungry, and usually under 25 years old and living in Asia. Sometimes, af [...]
Caroline Ellison Buried Sam Bankman-Fried
Her co-CEO, the better risk manager, she said, had checked out mentally, long before he officially left in August 2021. His name was also Sam. He boug [...]
Pascal Gauthier’s Ledger Wallet Service Gave Crypto What It Needs – And Earned Jeers
In 2014, Gauthier founded Kaiko, which was originally named Challenger Deep (inspired by the deep sea submarine that explored the Mariana Trench). He' [...]