The Open Blockchains Book of the Year 2020 Award Goes To... Libra Shrugged: How Facebook Tried to Take Over the Money by David Gerard, November 2020, 182 Pages -- Introduction: Taking over the money ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I’m an Associate Professor of Finance at the University of Nicosia. Three years ago, blockchain had an energy problem. Now that ...

The rise of quantum computing poses both promise and peril for modern cryptography—and blockchains lie right at the crossroads. As machines become capable of shattering our current cryptographic ...

Blockchain.com praised Malta’s regulatory clarity while member states still argued over how MiCA should apply across the EU. Blockchain.com, one of the oldest crypto platforms operating a wallet and a ...

For more than a decade, blockchain has been pitched as the future of finance, supply chains, and even entire governments. Yet for the average consumer, it often feels disconnected from reality.

In 2025, you may have lost track of where crypto is in its hype cycle. But innovative things are definitely happening in fintech and on the blockchain. From building firewalls and AI agents to ...

Official support for free-threaded Python, and free-threaded improvements Python’s free-threaded build promises true parallelism for threads in Python programs by removing the Global Interpreter Lock ...

SWIFT is building a blockchain-based shared ledger as an add-on to its existing network for global money transfers. More than 30 household-name banks are participating, including Bank of America, Citi ...

Beautifully performed arias are what Milan’s La Scala theatre is most famous for. This last Saturday, however, it was Aura — luxury’s open-access blockchain traceability tool — that took centre stage ...

More than 30 of the largest banks worldwide join in the design, development, and testing of the new offering, SWIFT announced at the Sibos conference. Big news at this year’s Sibos conference in ...

Enterprises are still hesitant to adopt blockchain because most blockchain projects today require committing to a single chain — and single-chain strategies create costly risks. Interoperability is ...

Consensus mechanisms underpin the effective operation of blockchains by ensuring a single consistent and honest ledger. The design and implementation of these consensus mechanisms can improve or ...