PwC Germany, Merck KGaA and The Hashgraph Group said they are testing a system to track cocoa production just months before European Union rules on limiting deforestation come into play as a precursor to a more extensive provenance-checking system. The system pairs physical markers on cocoa bags with records on the Hedera distributed ledger. The
The leading cryptocurrency, Bitcoin, is trading below the $80,000 level, influenced by upcoming US inflation data and increasing expectations of a Fed interest rate hike. After rising above $82,000 last week, Bitcoin gave back some of its gains following the strong employment data released on Friday. Markets are now focused on the Producer Price Index
Tether CEO Paolo Ardoino stated that the company continues to accumulate Bitcoin and gold while pursuing its strategy of expanding the dollar network globally. In a recent interview, Ardoino noted that Tether provides dollar liquidity worldwide through $USDT and holds a significant amount of US Treasury bonds. According to Ardoino, the company actively uses a
The wait for bulls is over. Bitcoin’s BTC$78,564.82 golden cross is live, confirming a widely-tracked bullish signal on the price chart. However, its record as a standalone indicator is mixed. A golden cross occurs when an assets average price over 50 days, the so-called 50-day simple moving average, moves above its 200-day average. The crossover
Neo SPCC released NeoFS S3 Gateway v0.46.0 on Sept. 2, introducing an Authbox service that issues S3 credentials over HTTP alongside routing optimizations, operational improvements, and dependency updates for the S3-compatible interface to NeoFS decentralized storage. The release follows v0.45.1, which delivered read and write performance improvements in early August, and v0.45.0, which added bucket
R3E Network has resolved all 11 findings from a systematic audit of neox-rs, the Rust-based Neo X full-node client, including four classified at P1 severity. Separately, R3E shipped a security-focused release for the Neo Decompiler, hardening its parsing, output sanitisation, and release pipeline. Both releases reflect a security-first development approach across R3E’s Neo tooling, with
R3E Network’s Rust-based Neo N3 node implementation, neo-rs, has reached full protocol parity with the Neo N3 specification at v0.16.0. The milestone covers all 11 native contracts, all eight hardforks through Huyao, and all 41 system calls, verified with exact CPU pricing and permission gates. Alongside the node release, R3E published NeoRust v3.0.0, a correctness-focused