Month: November 2017

The Securities and Exchange Commission have charged day trader Joseph P. Willner with market manipulation and illegal use of brokerage accounts. It’s alleged that Willner managed to generate over $700,000 in profits from the scheme. He and an accomplice had access to more than 100 traders’ accounts and used them to manipulate the price of various stocks and securities. This allowed the pair to profit on from the advantageous conditions created using various accounts of Willner’s. To pay his accomplice, Read more …

October 17th, 2017 (Zurich, Switzerland) – Mavin will launch their ICO on November 22nd 2017. The Swiss startup will utilize blockchain technology to tokenize and revolutionize the way brands and agencies connect, incentivize and reward social media nano influencers for spreading content across their busy networks. Through the aggregation and marketing power of micro and nano influencers into single campaign entities, Mavin outperforms the traditional target advertising market through significantly higher ROI and engagement rates. At the same time, it Read more …

FLUX announces the launch of the ICO-campaign of a global decentralized gaming ecosystem based on blockchain technology. This is the first solution on the e-sports market that provides a decentralized interaction of gamers, viewers and the platform itself. FLUX is an ecosystem that provides multi-level interactivity of the gaming process, as well as gives players numerous new channels of monetization of cybersport achievements that are not available on existing platforms. FLUX is also a platform for competitive games and tournaments, Read more …

Scalability and privacy are top of mind for ethereum developers. And Jacob Eberhardt’s new programming language, ZoKrates, aims to address these topics – providing ethereum developers with a toolkit that could help the network realize the full potential of privacy tech zk-snarks. Zk-snarks was popularized by anonymous cryptocurrency zcash, but ethereum’s recent hard fork Byzantium included a couple procedures that pave the way for easier use of the tech on its blockchain. Revealed during Devcon3, ethereum’s annual developer conference, today, ZoKrates Read more …

Video games are a big deal. Increasingly, they are starting to feel like an international pastime as they perfectly blend entertainment, recreation, and socialization. According to recent studies, 4/5 Americans own some type of video game console and an impressive 42% of Americans play video games for at least three hours each week. Worldwide, more than 2 billion people are playing video games, and as Geek Wire reports, 700M of them are online.” It’s no wonder then that the most Read more …

The biggest hurdle to the mainstream adoption of smart contracts is the oracle problem: the challenge of delivering trusted data to the blockchain. The Zap token (ZAP) is a deft market solution for incentivizing the creation and curation of useful oracles. In order for smart contracts and decentralized applications to operate based on real-world events, there must be a trusted way of conveying the state of those events to the blockchain. Many solutions have been proposed, ranging from trusted intermediaries Read more …