The foundation stated on its Hackerone.com account that the promotion to spot vulnerabilities would run for six weeks between February 14, 2022, to March 25, 2022, as part of making the network more secure. Under the Cardano node, the bounty reward has been set at $20,000 for critical bugs with vulnerability labeled high, attracting a reward of $10,000. For medium and low bugs, the prize has been set at $4,000 and $800, respectively....

Through a Twitter post, Hopkinson says that the paper is part of some “unfinished business” from the Bitshares days. Notably, Hoskinson co-founded Bitshares, a decentralized exchange alongside cryptocurrency entrepreneur Daniel Larimer. However, the two split up over unclear reasons. Early this year, Cardano parent company IOHK and EMURGO announced that the AgeUSD stablecoin would launch on the Ergo blockchain. On the other hand, Hoskinson is on record expressing his admiration for the decentralized finance concept....

Recently, a number of key network milestones have been reached, as blockchain development has soared thanks to the update. At the same time, Cardano anticipates another wave of improvements with June 29, 2022, Vasil Hard Fork. Currently, over 900 projects are being built on ADA as of April 18, meaning that the blockchain network has added almost 400 new projects building on its network in a little over a month....

Speaking during a panel at the Crypto Bahamas conference, Demirors said politicians globally want to ban Bitcoin over energy consumption, but in reality, they are threatened by the asset’s decentralized nature. She believes attacking mining is an almost sure way to tackle the threat posed by Bitcoin, and a successful ban on proof-of-work will likely result in the overall crush of the crypto market. Demirors further warned that the tight regulations could easily shift to the energy-efficient proof-of-stake despite the focus on proof-of-stake....

Elsewhere, The Hang Seng Tech index dropped “only” 2.96%, Alibaba (NYSE: BABA) took the lead, with the e-commerce giant’s shares slipping 2.86%. AFP’s bureau chief, Jerome Taylor, shared his concerns connecting the losses with the new Covid lockdowns in Shanghai and Beijing. Aside from the stock indexes, it seems that the Chinese Yuan has fallen as a result of concerns over lockdowns. Near-term Covid issues Beijing authorities have mandated 3....

German industry titans met with Chancellor Olaf Scholz to discuss concerns brought about by the disrupted supply chains, rising energy prices, and the consequence of sanctions targeting Russian energy supplies. Germany has watered down the introduced ban on coal imports from Russia. Yet, these developments haven’t prevented coal prices from reaching all-time highs in 2022 as more pressure is applied to the Russian economy due to their aggression on Ukraine....

Other participants include Avon Ventures, Raptor Group, Coinbase Ventures, Communitas Capital, Collaborative Fund, Digital Currency Group, Castle Island Ventures, and FMR LLC. The funds will be used to strengthen and grow Coin Metrics’ team, provide enhanced coverage of digital assets, and expand their product offering according to their official announcement. Coin Metrics is setting the standard for institutional investors providing comprehensive and informative products for this market segment. The CEO Tim Rice said: The startup company was created in 2017 by Nic Carter and Aleksei Nokhrin....

In this line, commodity strategist at Bloomberg Intelligence Mike McGlone has stated that Bitcoin’s value is highly discounted at its current price but projected that the asset would rally to a high of $100,000 during an interview with Stansberry Research on October 17. According to McGlone, Bitcoin’s rally will be inspired by the diminishing supply and increased demand from investors, a factor missing from other assets terming Bitcoin the ‘fastest horse in the race....

As it happened the financial entity acquired in-principle clearance from the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) to provide trading services for digital payment tokens, according to a press release on Thursday, 12th August. For instance, DBS Digital Exchange (DDEx), a members-only platform for institutional and professional investors, will be open 24 hours a day, seven days a week starting Monday, in order “to respond to increased trading volume amidst escalating customer demand....

One of them is crypto trading expert Michaël van de Poppe who had originally set $21,900 as the crucial resistance level to watch for Bitcoin after taking liquidity, now believes that if the asset was to crack $22,300, and then “there’s not much in between and the odds are that we‘re going to have a very swift move all the way towards $27,200 next,” as he said in his YouTube live stream on July 11....

With the majority of the cryptocurrency market turning green after a long period of bearishness, one of the most popular meme tokens – Shiba Inu (SHIB) is following suit, resulting in optimism from within the crypto community concerning its future price. Specifically, the community at CoinMarketCap has projected that the SHIB token would trade at an average of $0.00002065 by the end of July 2022, as per the latest data retrieved using the platform’s ‘Price Estimates’ tool that allows users to make crypto price predictions....

One of them is the fact that bear market rallies, or periods when assets increase in value briefly during a broader period of decline, can be very enticing, as the senior research analyst at crypto market intelligence platform Messari Tom Dunleavy said on October 5. Posting the charts of the past S&P 500 bear market rallies for reference, Dunleavy explained the appeal of such periods – one of which he says we’re in at the moment – especially considering the historical data that shows them “often exceeding 20% in short bursts....

According to the Bloomberg Indices Outlook Cryptos June report, ethereum’s support is from the asset’s role in building the decentralized finance ecosystem. The report also states that ethereum’s position in the DeFi sector is the main difference with bitcoin, which is more in the macros space as a store of value asset. Ethereum is among the stand-out cryptocurrencies of 2021, hitting a new all-time high of $4,328. Besides emerging as a central player in the DeFi sector boom, ethereum has also facilitated operations within the NFT market....

Over the weekend, cryptocurrency market capitalization rose to its highest level since the end of February. The figure hit $273 billion on Sunday which is a three month high. Bitcoin Closes a Strong Month Bitcoin has been performing well, spiking above $9,700, but a pull back during Monday trading in Asia has dropped it back to around $9,550. Analysts have observed that May was a good month for BTC with an overall gain of 9% for the period according to Coinmarketcap....

The NFT project dubbed ‘Bowie on the Blockchain’ is a partnership with acts like We Love the Arts and film producer Joaquin Acrich alongside other artists, including FEWOCiOUS, JAKE, and Nadya Tolokonnikova of Pussy Riot,” Billboard reported on September 6. Notably, each artist on the project created their own unique takes while appreciating David Bowie and his influence across the art world. OpenSea to handle NFT sales Elsewhere, NFT marketplace OpenSea confirmed that it would handle the sale of the NFT project that will kick off on September 13....

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As a result, the price of Dogecoin is going through the roof. Dogecoin is currently changing hands at $0.08761, up 8.46% in the last 24 hours and around 2.4% across the previous seven days. Interestingly, the price of DOGE added over $1 billion to its market cap in a little over an hour, from $10.9 billion to $12.07 billion before retracing slightly. The spike in the price of DOGE came after crypto podcaster and influencer David Gokhshtein told his 700,000 followers that he believes Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin and Twitter CEO Elon Musk will soon begin working together to improve Dogecoin in a tweet on November 25....

According to Neuralink, the funding also attracted Google’s G.V. alongside other individual investors like Y Combinator president Sam Altman, Coinbase co-founder Fred Ehrsam, and PayPal co-founder Ken Howery. Other returning investors like Craft Ventures and Howery co-founded Founders Fund also participated in the round. The company is currently focusing on a brain-computer interface for therapeutic use to assist individuals with paralysis interact with electronic devices like computers. To attain this goal, Neuralink is working on establishing a wireless computer chip that will be implanted in the human brain....

The explosion in the decentralized finance sector (DeFi) this year has given a massive boost to its underlying framework, Ethereum. Since the beginning of 2020 ETH prices has climbed 225%, way outperforming their big brother, Bitcoin, which has only managed a gain of 62%. Over the weekend, Ethereum prices increased almost ten percent lifting the asset from just above $390 to top out at $430 during Monday morning’s Asian trading session according to Tradingview....

Despite marker players reassessing their appetite for risk, the Euro-area economy expanded more than initially expected as the gross domestic product (GDP) rose by 0.8% for the second quarter of 2022, propped up by consumer and government spending, according to Eurostat data released on September 7. On the other hand, the contribution by external trade was negative, since both exports and imports went up by 1.3% and 1.8%, respectively. Member state contribution The block’s largest economic engine, Germany, grew by a paltry 0....