Blockchain News

Ethereum (ETH) co-founder Vitalik Buterin has tweeted that EOS, a once-popular blockchain project, stands for “Ethereum on Steroids,” recalling an old joke within the crypto community.

Blockchain games have seen a substantial drop in the number of users and trading volume over the past 30 days after delivering strong results in May.

Seoul says that it will become the first local government in South Korea to launch a metaverse public service platform.

NEPZA, the Nigerian government agency in charge of export processing zones, announced on Saturday that it is in talks with cryptocurrency exchange Binance to...

With venture capital firms boosting their exposure to crypto this year, seven out of ten all-time biggest cryptocurrency- and blockchain-related early stage venture capital investments took place in 2021, according to a recent report by financial data and software company PitchBook.

Play-to-earn games have become more than relevant for the blockchain industry, with the number of users increasing exponentially, according to a recent report released by the Blockchain Game Alliance (BGA) and dapp information provider DappRadar. They may be the key to reaching mass adoption, while outpacing decentralized finance (DeFi) and non-fungible tokens (NFTs).

The South Korean government has pledged to spend USD 7 billion on public projects this year, a figure that will include blockchain spending. The money will back what ministers have labeled the “Korean New Deal,” and particularly what they have called the “core” of the measures, the “Digital New Deal,” which will receive billions of dollars’ worth of further investment in the years up to 2025.

China is teasing the launch of its digital yuan again, riding a wave of adoption with just weeks to go until the Winter Olympics in Beijing – the event the government hopes will finally allow the central People’s Bank of China (PBoC) to showcase its coin to the world.

DCash, a central bank digital currency (CBDC) commissioned by the Eastern Caribbean Central Bank (ECCB), has remained offline for more than a month as technical issues continue to impact the platform, triggering growing concern among its users.

In a never-ending arms race pitting crypto compliance firms and cybercriminals, a blockchain analytics tool has been made available on the dark web, enabling bitcoin (BTC) addresses to be checked for ties to criminal activities, according to blockchain analytics company Elliptic.