Business 25 October 2018

Synthetic Minds rounds up $5.5M in Pantera Capital-led funding

Synthetic Minds, a smart contract security startup out of San Francisco, has raised $5.5 million in a funding round backed by blockchain investment company Pantera Capital and venture capital firm Khosla Ventures.

Tech 12 October 2018

Adult industry payment platform saves own ass after getting spanked

As a result of a broken smart contract, a hacker was able to break into the SpankChain platform and siphon funds from some of its users, through deploying a reentrancy bug—the same bug that has previously been used to attack the DAO.

Editorial 16 July 2018

A year in review for Bitcoin Cash

With Bitcoin Cash taking leaps and bounds in its first year, we can only imagine what’s in store for its second year. Stripped away from its shackles, Bitcoin can grow—indefinitely.

Business 5 July 2018

Bitcoin BCH tokenization proposals solve token, smart contract issues

CoinGeek has already seen three impressive drafts of white papers solving the token and smart contract issue, and expects the solutions to be rolled out before the CoinGeek Conference in November.

Tech 27 April 2018

Parity rejects Ethereum split proposal to recover lost $320M in ETH

A glitch in a multi-sig wallet smart contract library last year was responsible for the funds being locked, a factor which had led some to speculate on a potential fork in the Ethereum blockchain to recover the money.

Tech 16 March 2018

AmEx jumps in on blockchain, files patent for mobile invoice and payment system

Amex plans an invoice and payment system with a smart contract that records merchant reputation.