Blockchain analysis firm Glassnode recently characterized the 2022 bear market as the worst on record. This seems to be the case due to events such as the war in Ukraine and rising inflation, coupled with serious problems among centralized crypto exchanges. Yet, the bear market hasn’t negatively impacted all players in the crypto ecosystem. Hardware wallet providers seem to be benefiting from the massive amount of crypto withdrawals from centralized exchanges. Pascal Gauthier, CEO of hardware wallet crypto firm Ledger, told Cointelegraph that the company’s revenue dropped about 90% during the 2018 crypto winter, but this hasn’t been the case …
Bitcoin’s supply is capped at 21 million, but a significant proportion of that total sum is likely lost forever. This situation is due to a variety of reasons such as lost private keys and discarded storage devices containing substantial amounts of Bitcoin (BTC). When Bitcoin owners are not being careless with their wallet passwords, they can sometimes be targeted by hackers looking to steal their precious crypto. Those who utilize third-party custodial solutions place their Bitcoin fortune at the mercy of the security protocols adopted by such services. Indeed, several attack vectors are constantly being utilized to try and gain …
The DeversiFi decentralized exchange, or DEX, relaunched as DeversiFi 2.0 on June 3, incorporating Starkware’s zkSTARK layer-2 scaling technology. This new platform will be able to process over 9,000 transactions per second, while maintaining privacy, liquidity and low fees in a non-custodial solution. Zero Knowledge Proof Batch Validation Starkware’s layer-2 solution utilizes Zero Knowledge Proof, or ZKP, technology to bring scalability to non-custodial trading. It achieves this by processing trades in batches and then submitting a single proof for each batch. This consumes a small fraction of the Ethereum blockchain resources that standard on-chain processing would require. Starkware President Eli …
Leading hardware wallet producer Ledger announced that its official wallet software now supports Tron (TRX). According to an announcement, Ledger Live — the official wallet software for Ledger’s hardware wallets — now allows its users to manage their Tron addresses. Furthermore, Ledger hardware wallet owners can also stake their TRX directly from the software. The announcement reads: “You can now manage your Tron (TRX) into Ledger Live and stake them, which means getting rewards without doing anything!” Ledger also announced that — to celebrate the added Tron support — the firm is holding a contest. Among the users who participate, …
Hardware wallet company Ledger announced on Tuesday that it would release a limited edition of a brand new hardware wallet, the Ledger Nano S Plus, with only 10,000 devices available for pre-order at $79 each. In addition to the event, Ledger announced a global partnership with Ethereum-based Proof of Attendance Protocol, or POAP. POAPs are referred to as digital memories of nonfungible tokens, or NFTs, as they show proof for other users proof of engagement and attendance for key moments. In January, Ethereum's co-founder Vitalik Buterin highlighted the potential importance of making NFTs soulbound to enable proof of achievement. "Securing …