Intellistake Technologies Corp. has activated its institutional-grade self-custody wallet and validator infrastructure, according to details provided to Finbold on August 6. The secure wallet infrastructure is powered by Fireblocks through a partnership with Singularity Venture Hub. “With our infrastructure now live, we’ve taken the first key step toward securely participating in blockchain networks,” said Jason
Welcome to The Protocol, CoinDesk’s weekly wrap-up of the most important stories in cryptocurrency tech development. I’m Margaux Nijkerk, CoinDesk’s Tech & Protocols reporter. In this issue: Solana’s Seeker Phone Fixes Saga’s Flaws With Usability Upgrade Base Says Sequencer Failure Caused Block Production Halt of 33 Minutes Solana’s Jito Proposes Routing 100% of Block Engine
Paul Grewal, chief legal officer at major crypto exchange Coinbase, met this week with Priyank Kharge, the IT minister of India’s Karnataka state, as the US-based crypto exchange seeks to expand its role in India’s growing digital infrastructure. Grewal publicly thanked Kharge in a Wednesday X post, saying he “is excited to explore how Coinbase
The Solana Seeker phone is not your average smartphone, nor does it want to be. Building on the lessons of its predecessor, the Saga, Solana Mobile’s newest device reimagines what a crypto-native phone can be. Smaller, lighter and boasting a longer-lasting battery compared to its predecessor, the Seeker aims to improve on the user experience
Marex (MRX), a global financial services platform, has become the first clearing firm to integrate Kinexys Digital Payments, a blockchain-based settlement system developed by JPMorgan (JPM), through a collaboration with Brevan Howard Digital, the company said in a press release on Wednesday. The initiative is aimed at modernizing payment infrastructure and reducing settlement risk by
Walrus, a popular decentralized data storage platform, has recently integrated with Pipe Network, a prominent decentralized content delivery network (CDN). The integration endeavors to enhance bandwidth as well as minimize latency across chains. Walrus’s official social announcement labels this integration as a remarkable merger of the strengths of both the entities. The collaboration will enable
This is a segment from the Lightspeed newsletter. To read full editions, subscribe. Switchboard’s new “Surge” oracle network goes live on mainnet today. As Solana continues to reckon with competition from high-speed upstarts like Hyperliquid, one of the network’s biggest price oracles is getting much faster. The oracle will be free to integrate, and is
Coinbase’s Ethereum layer-2 blockchain Base stopped producing blocks for 33 minutes on Tuesday after switching to a backup sequencer that wasn’t set up properly to process transactions. The incident began at 6:07 am UTC when the active sequencer started falling behind on block production, prompting Conductor — Base’s system for managing sequencer availability and reliability
A software limitation in Ledger hardware wallets is preventing some Cardano users from participating in the Midnight Foundation’s Glacier Drop, a two-month-long airdrop distributing NIGHT tokens across eight blockchain ecosystems. The issue stems from the handling of message signing for Cardano. In a post on X, Cardano co-founder Charles Hoskinson explained that the Ledger’s implementation
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