After years of exclusively maintaining an order book-based decentralized exchange, Stellar (XLM) has launched automated market-maker (AMM) functionality native to its protocol. Stellar’s Protocol 18 upgrade went live following a successful community on Nov. 3, enabling developers to launch front-ends and other applications utilizing the new AMM functionality. The Stellar Development Foundation (SDF) has urged devs to ensure all up-to-date software and SDKs are installed as previous versions...

Speaking at the BlockDown 2020 conference, the chief executive and founder of leading cryptocurrency exchange Binance, Changpeng Zhao (CZ), shared his outlook for crypto assets amid the current global climate of economic uncertainty. BlockDown 2020 is a two-day conference being held from April 16 to 17. The event is being held virtually in response to the coronavirus pandemic. Crypto exchanges going strong despite price volatility While CZ acknowledged that 2020 has “been rocky in terms of...

Seven former top Steem developers have converged to form OpenOrchard, a company seeking to build innovative open-source technologies on top of Hive. Cointelegraph spoke to Andrew Levine, OpenOrchard CEO and former head of communications at Steemit, to find out more about the new project. OpenOrchard emerges after Hive hard fork OpenOrchard has grown out of OpenSeed, a team comprising Andrew Levine, Benjamin Flanagin, and Ron Hamenahem. This group was previously working on a second-layer...

On the same day that Cointelegraph published an article detailing that KuCoin’s primary web domain was locked from being transferred to other owners, the crypto exchange has announced that its platform can be accessed through two additional domains globally — kucoin.io, and kubi.cc. Anxieties flared on the exchange’s Telegram channel during the hours leading up to KuCoin’s announcement. As followers questioned whether Singapore’s High Court had indeed issued an order against KuCoin, the...

Researchers from the Norwegian University and the University of Luxembourg have published a research paper detailing an attack that can deanonymize transactions broadcast across Bitcoin’s Lightning Network. The Lightning Network emerged as a controversial compromise from the Bitcoin (BTC) block limit and scalability debate. It’s a second layer solution that facilitates near-instant, low-cost Bitcoin transactions. Proponents claim it offers privacy by implementing segregated witness...