Articles by Ian Allison

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Blockchain Pioneer Lisk on the philosophy of decentralisation

Public blockchain networks live or die by the strength of their communities.

Apr 19, 2018

Messari: Building a Bloomberg for the crypto-asset universe

Messari just closed a seed round led by Anthemis Group, Blockchain Capital, CoinFund, Digital Asset Investment Company (DAICO) and Matthew Roszak.

Mar 8, 2018

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Kleros: Ethereum smart contracts meet ancient Greek legal democracy

Kleros borrows from the way the ancient Greeks resolved disputes in a democratic manner, and adds game theoretical incentives via a blockchain token.

Mar 6, 2018

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Smart contract experts Ilya Sergey and Evan Cheng join Zilliqa as advisors

Third generation sharded blockchain from University of Singapore has added two of the world's foremost experts in smart contracts to their advisory team.

Mar 5, 2018

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Blockstack announces another token sale - this time open to all investors

Blockstack partners with Republic to offer seven figure token pre-sale to non-accredited investors

Mar 5, 2018

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Cardano: The nitty-gritty of next generation blockchains

IOHK's Charles Hoskinson talks about scalability and consensus.

Mar 2, 2018

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Cryptocurrency supporters react to Bank of England Governor Mark Carney's speech

The BoE chief said it is time for cryptocurrencies to meet the same level of regulation as the rest of the financial system.

Mar 2, 2018

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Credit Suisse and ING do first securities lending on R3's Corda blockchain platform

Credit Suisse and ING swapped baskets of securities of value EUR 25 million using the HQLAx Corda-based collateral lending application.

Mar 1, 2018

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Winter for blockchain token sales? SEC swoops on ICOs

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has issued dozens of subpoenas and information requests to technology companies and advisers involved in ICOs.

Mar 1, 2018

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Ethereum-based insurtech Etherisc announces token event

First decentralized insurance platform opens registration for Token Generating Event.

Feb 27, 2018

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Blockchain investment platform BnkToTheFuture raises $33m

The second phase of BnkToTheFuture's public sale for a tokenized secondary market sold out in under three minutes.

Feb 26, 2018

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Siafunds token opts to be classed a security under SEC rules

Sia CEO David Vorick talks about his eventual decision to follow the accredited investors route for the siafunds token sale.

Feb 22, 2018

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UK Treasury mulls regulating cryptocurrency 'whilst not stifling innovation'

The inquiry will formulate a regulatory response to digital currencies from the Government, the FCA and the Bank of England.

Feb 22, 2018

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Cardano's Ouroboros: Proving Proof of Stake can work in the wild

Aggelos Kiayias, the Chief Scientist at IOHK, aims to provide the first theoretical analysis of PoS.

Feb 22, 2018

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CoinDesk announces 'Blockchain Week New York City'

New York City Economic Development Corporation (NYCEDC) is partnering for free to attend blockchain jobs fair.

Feb 21, 2018

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'We enable blockchain creation': Lisk relaunches to rapturous reception

Offering JavaScript and sidechains, the new look Lisk is aiming for the big time.

Feb 21, 2018

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Cardano and Z/Yen look at threat of quantum computing to blockchain security

The report is titled 'The Quantum Countdown: Quantum Computing and the Future of Distributed Ledger Encryption'.

Feb 20, 2018

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MakerDAO launches $45m Stable Fund

The fund is being launched in conjunction with 'Web 3' builders L4, to provide developers using Dai with initial capital and help business development.

Feb 17, 2018

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Bitmain out the bushes with ASIC Ethereum miner

Bitmain is working on an Ethereum ASIC miner, the Antminer F3, according to reports in Chinese technology media.

Feb 15, 2018

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OpenBazaar adds BCH, Zcash and looks towards tokens

OpenBazaar CEO Brian Hoffman said a token event is being planned for around the end of March.

Feb 14, 2018

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