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Blockchains
- HashrateIn 2023, the Bitcoin network processed roughly 300 exahashes of data every single second. That number represents three hundred trillion hash calculations occurring in the blink of an eye. Hashrate measures the total computational power of…
- Solana (blockchain platform)Solana's first block was created on the 16th of March 2020. That quiet start marked the launch of a blockchain platform whose founders believed it could outpace every rival. Toly Yakovenko and Raj Gokal had established Solana Labs in San…
- EthereumEthereum went live on the 30th of July 2015 with a genesis block containing 8,893 transactions. That first block was not a financial instrument in the traditional sense. It was a programmable layer for the internet, a platform where anyone…
- Non-fungible tokenNon-fungible tokens were born in a live demonstration at New York City's New Museum. In May 2014, Kevin McCoy and Anil Dash sold a video clip for four dollars. The clip had been made by McCoy's wife, Jennifer. McCoy had registered it on…
- Initial coin offeringInitial coin offering is the name for a method of raising money. A project issues digital tokens and sells them, usually for cryptocurrency or ordinary currency. In September 2017, Chinese regulators discovered that token sales inside the…
- Avalanche (blockchain platform)Avalanche is a blockchain platform whose native token, AVAX, was trading near $13.8 in January 2026, with a market cap close to $5.9 billion. The platform launched in September 2020, built by the American company Ava Labs. That price sits…
- TezosTezos announced itself to the world through a disguise. In 2014, Arthur Breitman published two papers proposing a new kind of blockchain. He signed them under the pseudonym "L. M. Goodman." That name was a pointed reference to a Newsweek…
- Blockchain analysisIn 2022, the IRS used blockchain analysis to seize over 50,000 bitcoin stolen from the Silk Road dark web marketplace. The seizure raises a question many people find surprising: how do you locate and seize cryptocurrency that has moved…
- Terra (blockchain)In May 2022, Terra's two central tokens, TerraUSD and LUNA, lost almost $45 billion in market capitalization within a single week. The blockchain protocol had been created four years earlier by Do Kwon and Daniel Shin. Their goal was to…
- Cardano (blockchain platform)In August 2022, the advertising agency MBLM ranked Cardano 26th for brand intimacy out of 600 brands, placing it between Ford and Nestlé. Ad Age, an advertising trade magazine, quoted an MBLM partner attributing the high rank to what they…