There are many different blockchains—public and private—and they allow anyone to send value anywhere in the world where the blockchain file can be accessed. Blockchain technology has solid and ...

Smart contracts are the worker bees of blockchain technology. Most of the programs that run on blockchains–ranging from financial exchanges to games–are decentralized applications (dapps) that ...

What is blockchain? Blocks, distributed ledgers and nodes explained in simple terms Since Bitcoin was implemented in 2009 as one of the earliest use cases of blockchain, many blockchains have been ...

Developers love to tout the number of transactions that blockchains can process per second. Unfortunately, that fixation often distracts from other important issues — such as network security.

Blockchains allow for a level of security and transparency that has otherwise been unobtainable and has thus far left widespread remote electronic voting as little more than an aspiration. Similar ...

Hackers exploited the Ronin Network, software that allows players of the ‘Axie Infinity’ online game, pictured above, to transfer digital assets across different blockchains. Photo: Sky Mavis Ltd.

The trustless and programmable nature of public blockchains have made it possible to implement new “fiscal” and “monetary” policy tools in the blockchain economies, which in many cases ...

Could blockchains unseat the tech titans? Our podcast on markets, the economy and business. This week, how crypto could save the web ...

Pay-to-use blockchains are done. Not for us, of course — the nerdy crypto crowd. We’re perfectly happy to open wallets, engrave seed phrases on steel cards we bury in the ground, find ...

Despite this, Bluesky says it’s not changing its stance on blockchains: > This does not change the fact that the Bluesky app and the AT Protocol do not use blockchains or cryptocurrency, and we ...