Grin Network Executes First Hard Fork in Bid to Decentralize Mining Power

Beam announces first hard fork

Popular, privacy-centric cryptocurrency Beam is rolling out a raft of changes with its August upgrade.

Golem Execs Depart to Pursue ‘Riskier’ Research With New Non-Profit

Concerns Over Facebook Data Use Derailed at Least 3 Crypto Partnerships

Samourai Wallet Raises First Funding Round in Fight Against Bitcoin Surveillance

State Street’s Blockchain Lead Departs to Build Data Privacy Startup

Nym Technologies Raises $2.5 Million to Anonymize Crypto Apps

Why Tron’s (TRX) Founder Paid More Than a Hundred Million Dollars for BitTorrent

Justin Sun, the founder of Blockchain startup TRON, whose coin market cap this week was more than $ 4.5 billion, agreed to personally acquire BitTorrent, the long running file sharing service, for $140 million as originally reported by TechCrunch. As this recent article from the Daily Hodl notes there is still some question about how Tron's tech might be combined with BitTorrent's filesharing. TRONIX, Tron's digitial tradeable token, has moved higher in early trading following the announcement of Sun's purchase of BitTorrent.

Tech Companies to Watch 2018

WSJ's list of companies to watch has a good representation of startups focused on distributed ledger technology including Abra, Blockstream, Digital Asset Holdings, Brave and R3. This month, R3 denied that there was truth behind a story published in Fortune which said R3 was running low on money, according to press reports.

China’s first blockchain-based social network ONO raises $16 million Series A

The investment represents the start of China's first blockchain based social network, according to the announcement,

Episode #9: Privacy Coins Explained

CoinTalk takes a look at privacy coins

Five Top Blockchain-Based Social Networks

A look at a few companies using blockchain to build social apps with an emphasis on user privacy