Yilun Cheng

Ousted Bitmain co-founder Micree Zhan has reportedly taken over the company’s factory in Shenzhen and demanded the latter to stop shipping miners to customers. 

China has published a new book to educate government officials on digital currency and propose policy measures to deal with emerging challenges like Facebook’s Libra.  The book, Discussing Digital Currency with Leading Officials, is part of a series that explores the political and economic consequences of technologies like cryptocurrency and artificial intelligence. The publisher, the […]

A new synthetic token designed to track the ETH/BTC price ratio in a way that minimizes the need for an oracle has launched on Ethereum.  The so-called ETHBTC token is the first to utilize the “priceless” synthetic token infrastructure developed by Universal Market Access (UMA). UMA is a financial contract platform that aims to build […]

The team behind tBTC – a newly launched Ethereum-based token backed 1:1 by bitcoin – has published a post-mortem report detailing a smart contract bug that led the developer team to initiate a system-wide emergency pause on Monday. The ERC-20 token has its supply pegged to bitcoin’s supply. Users wishing to spend their bitcoin on […]

Crypto wallet and services provider Blockchain.com is set to roll out interest-bearing accounts, letting users earn yields on their bitcoin deposits.

Visa has filed a patent application for a "digital fiat currency" that points to a use case for central banks.

Ethereum 2.0’s multi-client paradigm – while crucial for security reasons – is one of the main reasons the launch process is taking so long, according to project lead Danny Ryan.

Blockchain node provider Blockdaemon has secured $5.5 million in new funding.