A new streaming service with its sights set on making the middlemen of the music biz obsolete is inching closer toward its goal of disrupting the Spotifys and SoundClouds of the world. After a year of development, and armed with $5 million in investment capital from VC firms General Catalyst, Lightspeed, and Pantera Capital, blockchain startup Audius is finally ready to show the world what it's been working on. Today, it’s unveiling its code on GitHub, free and open source, and inviting...

A blockchain healthcare company has settled charges with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission over an allegedly unregistered ICO that raised $6.3 million, according to a statement on Monday from the SEC. The New England-based SimplyVital Health, Inc. aimed to create a “healthcare-related blockchain ecosystem,” publicly announcing plans to build its platform through the sale of its Health Cash (HLTH) token in 2017, according to the SEC’s charges. The Commission alleges that the company...

U.S. lawmakers struggle to understand the blockchain industry. But some blockchains are more misunderstood than others, according to the latest crypto-focused lobbying group taking the fight to D.C. A group of cryptocurrency industry insiders and attorneys recently launched the Proof of Stake Alliance (POSA)—an organization dedicated to educating regulators on the key differences between proof-of-stake (PoS) blockchains, such as the much-ballyhooed Cosmos, and the energy-guzzling...

A Silicon Valley startup has developed a new way for homeowners to cash in on sky-rocketing property values in prime real-estate markets—without selling the home or taking on any debt. It’s called SmartRE, and the blockchain-based platform enables buyers and sellers to transact in fractional portions of home equity—all through the magic of Ethereum smart contracts. The platform is quickly catching on in the hot real-estate market of Southern California, according to SmartRE CEO Lloyd Huang....

The San Francisco-based blockchain startup today announced the public launch of its alpha mainnet, Eridanus. And the self-professed “most advanced layer-2 scaling platform” in the business is already talking a big game. The company claims its network is about to open up blockchain scaling solutions to an “entirely new dimension,” promising “real-time and zero-fee interaction, instant micro payments and low-latency interoperability for dapps” on its mainnet, according to a statement. In other...