Blockchain is the core technology behind Bitcoin and thousands of cryptocurrencies and has promising potential beyond digital currencies. Many, or all, of the products featured on this page are from ...

A blockchain is a digital ledger of transactions that is replicated and distributed across a large network of computer systems, or nodes, to record and secure information. Each block in the blockchain ...

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You keep hearing the word and it isn’t going away. You admit defeat of your lack of knowledge and find yourself Googling “What is blockchain?” Decentralized, tokens, ledgers….you’ll quickly find ...

THE BLOCKCHAIN, the technology that underlies bitcoin, has yet to live up to the hype surrounding it. Promising blockchain-based projects, such as a land registry in Honduras, have fallen short of ...

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. There’s nothing like an explosion of blockchain news to leave you thinking, “Um… what’s going on here?” That’s ...

A protocol and framework for creating Layer 2 blockchains and sidechains, both of which run parallel to and interact with the Ethereum network. Introduced in 2017 as the Matic network, which was a ...

Blockchain is being pulled between traditional finance and its decentralized ethos as the industry shifts to serve ...

The blockchain ecosystem is home to several highly successful smart contract protocols, which makes the arrival of newcomers ...

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