BlockShow News

Seven sponsors have backed the hackathon, which aims to encourage developers to put various blockchain solutions to the test.

Vitalik Buterin, Heath Tarbert, Brock Pierce and many more — here are 10 memorable quotes to take away from five days of the Unitize virtual blockchain conference.

Day three and four of the Unitize virtual conference saw speakers focusing on the challenges of, and opportunities for, greater blockchain adoption.

Stateless clients research promises to make blockchain nodes lighter without sacrificing validation, but there are stumbling blocks in their cryptography.

Economic historian Barry Eichengreen believes that stablecoins are either too fragile, or too expensive, to emerge as a dominant monetary form.

Smart contracts in the trade sector will need to rely on IoT sensors to live up to their full potential new research suggests.

Professor Richard Holden thinks exploring distributed ledger technology for voting in US elections could put voter fraud lawsuits to bed.

The founder of blockchain security company Quantstamp, Richard Ma, said security is the biggest challenge for DeFi’s growth.

Chainlink CEO Sergey Nazarov and Interwork Alliance President Ron Resnick are optimistic that enterprise adoption is speeding up.

The Head of Blockchain at the World Economic Forum says people excluded from traditional financial systems will help drive mass adoption.

Ripple and Coinbase-backed cryptocurrency exchange Bitso has topped Argentina’s crypto market in the six months after launch.

A researcher suggested that exchanges could “rollback” hacks by renting mining power from online marketplaces.

Dr. Ali Loveys says the biggest challenge in the blockchain space is not about the tech, but rather defining the right business value.

The Italian Banking Association, or ABI, uses a blockchain-based system called Spunta, built with decentralization in mind.

A Unitize panel looked at two approaches to building blockchain ecosystems from the government of The Netherlands and a Singaporean accelerator program.