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Blockchain Bites: Introducing the CoinDesk 50 and a Roadmap to Consensus: Distributed

Credit: Cavendish DesignThe CryptoX 50Congratulations to the inaugural CryptoX 50. This new list features the most important, innovative and viable projects in the crypto and blockchain industry. In just 11 years, cryptocurrency and its underlying technology has made serious in-roads, promising to reinvent how the world transacts, how the internet will

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CoinDesk Explains SIM Jacking – CoinDesk

For early access before our regular noon Eastern time releases, subscribe with Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Pocketcasts, Google Podcasts, Castbox, Stitcher, RadioPublica or RSS.In the pantheon of crypto hacks, “SIM jacking” is one of the worst. The hack, which is less a hack and more social engineering, is basically a form of identity theft, with the attacker swapping a victim's

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How Fund Managers View Lending and Staking: 3 Takeaways From a CoinDesk Research Webinar

Not everyone is totally excited about DeFi.Volatile crypto is nurturing its fixed-income side. Crypto lending activity is growing on decentralized finance (DeFi) networks. Staking, where investors reap payments for locking up assets in functions essential to network protocols, is moving into crypto's mainstream, with large crypto exchanges offering staking services

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Illinois Legalizes Blockchain Contracts – CoinDesk

With the new year Illinois became the latest state to recognize smart contracts and other blockchain-based records as legal instruments.The state’s “Blockchain Technology Act,” sponsored by Rep. Keith Wheeler (R), took effect Jan. 1, opening a slew of potential new legal scenarios for blockchain-based contracts. These contracts are now admissible

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