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One Big Backer Is Propping Up Media Startup Civil's Struggling ICO

The token sale for Civil has brought in $1.34 million toward its $8 million minimum goal.

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Ubisoft Backs New Blockchain Group to Spur Adoption in Gaming

Gaming giant Ubisoft has become an inaugural member of the new Blockchain Game Alliance, which aims to develop common standards for the technology.

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ConsenSys Invests $6.5 Million in Former R3 Exec's Blockchain Startup

ConsenSys invested $6.5 million into DrumG, the blockchain startup founded by former R3 official Tim Grant.

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Could This ICO Model Let Anyone Sell Tokens Legally? Civil Thinks So

Amid regulatory uncertainty, the ICO industry has all but cut off retail investors. But will a new model open it up again? Civil is testing it.

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BBVA Can't Hold Cryptocurrency – And That's a Problem

The bank wants to use ethereum as a notary, but regulators discourage holding even the tiny bit of ether needed to put data on the public blockchain.

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Google Yanked MetaMask From the Chrome Store, Left a Phishing Scam Up

Scams are an epidemic in the crypto space, and clumsy actions by big tech companies can open up the opportunities, as MetaMask learned recently.

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With Journalists on Ethereum, Will Fake News Meet Its Match?

The ambitious project thinks token-based governance can tackle not just censorship, but fake news, echo chambers and journalism's other crises.

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Ethereum Accelerator to Offer Crypto Coders Resources and 'Reality Check'

A blockchain company known as a hub of startups is expanding its reach, launching a new San Francisco-based startup accelerator.

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In the Scramble to Fix Digital Identity, uPort Is a Project to Watch

Digital identity is scattered and insecure. ConsenSys' uPort project wants to rework the internet to make "self-sovereign identity" a reality.

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Public or Private? Blockchain Distinctions Are Falling Out of Fashion

"Convergence" means different things to different people in the blockchain space. But it's a word that's cropping up again and again.

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