The blockchain industry has long promised to rival traditional finance in speed, efficiency, and transparency. But that promise has often been delayed by one bottleneck: performance. While centralized ...

Fefe Demeny explains what a blockchain is, a digital ledger that has revolutionized the world of finance due to its decentralized model. Imagine a notebook that everyone in the world can see but no ...

A new crypto infrastructure startup called Block Street has raised $11.5 million to build what it calls an “execution layer for on-chain stocks.” The funding round was led by Hack VC, with backing ...

“Bitcoin is at a crossroads—on one hand it’s never been stronger: a trillion in market cap, millions of holders, and even talk of nation-state adoption,” Suter said. “We use Bitcoin to hold, to hedge, ...

BNB Smart Chain’s Maxwell upgrade has gone live, with average block times falling to 0.8 seconds, down from 1.5 on Monday. The Maxwell hard fork aimed to cut block times in half, among other upgrades.