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Steem Fork Faces Legal Threat From Mining Firm Over 'Hive' Name
A new blockchain called Hive is being told it needs to change its name just days after it was created in a fork from Steem.
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Crypto Exchange Huobi's DeFi-Focused Blockchain Released in Public Beta
The exchange is eyeing use cases for its tech across areas such as tokenized asset issuance, payments, identity verification and lending.
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JPMorgan Veterans' Kadena Launches Public Blockchain, Integrates Wallet to Cosmos Network
Kadena, a startup spun out of JPMorgan’s blockchain center, has taken a step toward its vision of creating interoperable, scalable public blockchains with a full launch Wednes...
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Libra White Paper Shows How Facebook Borrowed From Bitcoin and Ethereum
Cryptocurrency, at scale. That's Facebook's vision as laid out in the long-awaited, just-released Libra white paper.
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Gavin Wood Announces 'Impending Release' of DIY Blockchain Tool
Parity Technologies founder Gavin Wood has announced that his company's new DIY blockchain tool, Substrate, is weeks from release
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Messaging Giant Kakao Launches Its Own Blockchain for Testing
Kakao's blockchain arm Ground X has announced the launch of the test version of its proprietary blockchain network dubbed Klaytn.
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Australia's Science Agency Claims Breakthrough in Global Blockchain Test
Australian federal body CSIRO says a blockchain network it developed has achieved 30,000 transactions per second in a global test.
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How to Watch the EOS Blockchain Launch
CoinDesk gives our best guess of how the distributed launch of the much-anticipated EOS software can be expected to unfold.
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