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Incident Post Mortem: November 19, 2021

Incident Post Mortem: November 19, 2021

Summary On November 19, 2021, Coinbase learned that it had erroneously credited some customers transacting in GYEN and POWR either 100x or 1/100th the amount they purchased. Coinbase promptly disabled trading in POWR and GYEN, worked around the clock to resolve the underlying technical issue, and then made adjustments in customer accounts to reflect the […]

Cardano Enters The Basho Stage: How It Improves Performance

Cardano Enters The Basho Stage: How It Improves Performance

The software platform Cardano has entered the third stage of its roadmap, the Basho era. It promises to improve the network’s performance and scalability. Cardano’s roadmap is “a summary of Cardano development” divided into five eras to deliver improvements in diverse functionalities of the network that are “delivered across multiple code releases”. Now that the […]

Visa Teams Up With Consensys To Build Payment Infrastructure For CBDCs

Visa Teams Up With Consensys To Build Payment Infrastructure For CBDCs

Visa and ConsenSys, a blockchain software startup, are working to develop a central bank digital currency (CBDC) pilot program to explore retail applications such as cards and wallets. Both firms will first meet with an estimated 30 central banks to discuss the goals that governments hope to achieve with government-backed digital currency. The pilot program […]

What’s In Store For MicroStrategy Going Forward? CEO Michael Saylor Reveals

What’s In Store For MicroStrategy Going Forward? CEO Michael Saylor Reveals

MicroStrategy has been topping its bitcoin holdings in the last year and is now the public company with the largest bitcoin holdings in the world. Presently, the firm holds over 124K BTC on its balance sheet, worth over $5 billion, remaining in profit despite the recent downtrend. However, with such a large holding, one tends […]

Coinbase Expands Live Customer Support

Coinbase Expands Live Customer Support

By Casper Sorensen, Vice President, Customer Experience The following is the latest update in our series of blog posts describing our commitment to continuously improving our customer experience. In past blog posts we highlighted our ongoing journey to create more value for customers with our support experience. In 2021, we invested in providing improved support […]

Why IOTA Was Chosen By The European Union To Develop Blockchain Solutions

Why IOTA Was Chosen By The European Union To Develop Blockchain Solutions

IOTA was selected as one of the projects that will take part in the European Union Blockchain Pre-Commercial Procurement. The platform will be competing with four projects in a second round for this EU program for a chance at improving the European Blockchain Services Infrastructure (EBSI). Related Reading | IOTA Smart Contracts Enter Beta Phase […]

The Ultimate IDEX Review

The Ultimate IDEX Review

People’s interest in crypto and blockchain technology has recently skyrocketed, and cryptocurrency tokens are being treated as an asset class and traded on exchanges, centralized and decentralized (DEXs) alike. With the development of DeFi, more crypto users are turning to DeFi protocols for exchanging and trading crypto assets. However, choosing the right platform to suit […]

Coinbase Chief Of Product Predicts Major Advances For Ethereum In 2022

Coinbase Chief Of Product Predicts Major Advances For Ethereum In 2022

Ethereum is one of the prominent blockchains in the crypto industry that established smart contract technology. This helped consolidate decentralized finance and checkmate third-party interference in cryptocurrency transactions. But in the past, its main challenge and setback were linked to scalability and speed in executing transactions. As the months and years roll by, Ethereum is […]

Bitcoin Miners Show Strong Accumulation As Their Inventories Spike Up

Bitcoin Miners Show Strong Accumulation As Their Inventories Spike Up

On-chain data shows Bitcoin miner reserve has showed a sharp spike recently, suggesting that miners are currently loading up on the crypto. Bitcoin Miner Reserve Shoots Up; Trend Of Accumulation From Last Year Continues As pointed out by an analyst in a CryptoQuant post, the BTC miner reserve has shown strong uptrend recently. This seems […]

Bitcoin Loses Momentum, Why $40k Is A Key Level For Future Gains

Bitcoin Loses Momentum, Why $40k Is A Key Level For Future Gains

Bitcoin has been rejected near the $44,000 price and has been moving sideways since earlier this week. The benchmark crypto could make another attempt to break this resistance levels but will most likely remain range bound until $50,000 and $53,000 are reclaim. Related Reading | Bitcoin Aims For $48K? BTC Reacts Upward To U.S. Inflation […]

Revolutionizing the NFTs on the Solana Blockchain – Ernest in Disguise

Revolutionizing the NFTs on the Solana Blockchain – Ernest in Disguise

One of the most anticipated NFT projects has finally reached its scheduled launch date. With 6,000 disguises inspired by favorite Halloween costumes, movies, and characters, Ernest In Disguise released the annual Halloween collection on the 28th of November. Bear in mind, these disguises are all one-of-a-kind, with the rarest being based on some of the […]

Binance Backs WOO Network With A $12 Million Strategic Investment

Binance Backs WOO Network With A $12 Million Strategic Investment

Binance is the largest exchange platform in trading volume within the crypto industry. Through its user-friendly interface, the exchange has over 20 million users. In addition, the platform supports several cryptocurrencies that would boost an investor’s portfolio. In its move to enhanced performance and services to customers, Binance has a strategic investment of $12 million […]

Coinbase Voices: Why I decided on a career in crypto

Coinbase Voices: Why I decided on a career in crypto

Coinbase Voices is a collection of employee stories that highlight the expertise of our Coinbase team and share their journeys to crypto. In this post, Carolina Verdelho, Senior Recruiting Manager, discusses her experience as an international recruiter and how she’s using it to help shape the future of Coinbase. Tell us about your journey to […]

Coinbase Cloud Launches a Forum for Web3 Developers

Coinbase Cloud Launches a Forum for Web3 Developers

Last year, Coinbase Cloud announced the launch of our unified developer docs to make it easier and faster for developers to build Web3 applications using Coinbase APIs and services. As part of our commitment to developers and embracing the collaborative spirit of Web3, today Coinbase Cloud is launching a forum for developers to connect with […]

PureFi x Kirobo Are Going to Make an Offer You Can’t Resist

PureFi x Kirobo Are Going to Make an Offer You Can’t Resist

Investigate The Source of The Sender’s Funds and Retrieve Crypto Transfers Sent in Error The beauty of cryptography lies in endless opportunities, and that’s attractive to many. Seeing the recent shifts in capital flow, we can track the interest switching in favor of Decentralized Finance (DeFi). Although it is risky due to its high volatility, […]

Lightning Speed 004: What’s The Lightning Development Initiative?

Lightning Speed 004: What’s The Lightning Development Initiative?

There’s no denying that 2021 was the Lightning Network’s year. What does the future hold, though? If the objective is to onboard the next billion people, the network needs work and fine-tuning. To grab the bull by the horns, The Human Rights Foundation and Strike set up three 1 BTC bounties.  The bounties will go […]

Blockchain Backed Webtoon Platform TooNFT Launches On Toomics Ecosystem

Blockchain Backed Webtoon Platform TooNFT Launches On Toomics Ecosystem

TooNFT plans to develop a decentralized webtoon platform. The project has raised a staggering $1.75 million in a private round supervised by HG Ventures. The TooNFT project succeeds in attracting institutional investors such as Mindfulness Capital, Adaptive Labs, Prestige Fund, Alphabet, and GBIC. With the backing of such investors, TooNFT is set to become an […]

Solana Could Flip Ethereum To Become “Visa Of Crypto,” New Study By Bank Of America Shows

Solana Could Flip Ethereum To Become “Visa Of Crypto,” New Study By Bank Of America Shows

New research from Bank of America Reveals Solana might become the “Visa of the digital asset ecosystem.” Because of its focus on scalability, ease of use, and low transaction costs, the bank stated the Solana blockchain may very well become the equivalent of Visa for the world of cryptocurrencies and NFTs in a research report […]