Augur Platform Prepares for Main Network Deployment

Augur, a peer-to-peer prediction market platform, is all set to launch its main network on July 9th at 11:01 PST. Augur raised $5.5 million in 2015 by offering its token REP in a crowdsale. Augur was one of the earliest ICO’s on the Ethereum blockchain and has been under development since. Decentralized Prediction Markets The […]

Interview: David Sapper, CEO of Aussie Crypto Exchange Blockbid

CCN reported in June that Australian blockchain startup Blockbid pioneered a new risk management and identity verification system that substantially reduces the risk of identity fraud. Using data aggregated from a 1.4 billion-strong identity database held by ThreatMetrix with a LexisNexis database of potentially high risk identities, the service establishes customer identities so as to […]

William Shatner Wants you to Know he is not Giving Away ETH

Cryptocurrency scams are on the rise. In a recent workshop organized by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission dubbed ‘Decrypting Cryptocurrency Scams’, it was revealed that consumers lost approximately $542 million in the first two months of this year in crypto-related fraud. By the end of 2018, this figure could hit the $3 billion mark according […]