Parity Technologies co-founder and CEO Jutta Steiner has left the company. Parity is the technology firm behind the much-anticipated Polkadot blockchain network. A Parity representative confirmed to CoinDesk that Steiner stepped away earlier this year after running the company since 2015. The representative also confirmed that Gavin Wood will assume the role of CEO following […]

The University of British Columbia (UBC) is ranked among the top three institutions in Canada overall and educated the current prime minister, Justin Trudeau. Its contribution to the country’s blockchain ecosystem is important. 28New University of British Columbia Total Score55.8 Regional Rank7 Courses1 Blockchain@UBC describes itself as a “multidisciplinary research cluster” aiming to use “blockchain […]

Soccer star Andrés Iniesta, who plays for Japan’s Vissel Kobe, received a warning from the Spanish markets regulator after he promoted trading on cryptocurrency exchange Binance. Iniesta, who spent much of his career at FC Barcelona and has over 25 million followers on Twitter, wrote that he is “learning how to get started with crypto […]

This Thanksgiving, I will be giving thanks for technology and the endless opportunity it offers us for re-inventing ourselves and fixing our mistakes. Technology has done so much for my family and for me, no matter the challenges we face today, I could not be convinced to go backwards. My great-grandfather ran a cheese shop […]