At a conference hosted by the National Bank of Ukraine, several central bankers rejected the need for CBDCs, arguing blockchain technology offered no benefits over other digital alternatives.

Founder of Cosmos, Jae Kwon, has hit back at Zaki Manian’s accusations that Kwon diverted resources and attention away from the development of the IBC protocol and towards Virgo, a side project that runs hand-in-hand with Cosmos. 

Coinbase has published a status update which suggests that the EOS blockchain has been suffering from “degraded performance” and a “major outage” for the past four days.

These problems have affected Coinbase’s services in certain ways, according to the company itself:

Despite bullish price action, it won’t be easy for Bitcoin to break above $10,000 according to these indicators.

Over $10 billion was injected into the crypto market today. Following the massive inflow of capital, most cryptocurrencies saw their price surge significantly, including Bitcoin’s.

In fact, the flagship cryptocurrency climbed up over 3.5% to move above the $10,000 resistance level for a short period of time. This price hurdle, however, rejected BTC from a further advance sending it back down under 1.5%.

Privacy DEX Bisq revealed several metrics related to the platform’s growth. Although trading volume in assets like Bitcoin and Monero have both increased since 2018, the project used the occasion to announce a change in how the project is structured.

A quick glance at Bisq’s activity on CoinGecko reveals a few points of interest. 

1inch Exchange, the leading DEX aggregator in DeFi, accused bZx of withholding information on a bug that put $2.5 million of user funds at risk. bZx hit back, claiming they patched the bug and were ready to disclose it, only to be slandered.

IOTA recently had to shut down its network due to an attack on its official wallet, Trinity. Despite the significance of the outage, a recent poll suggests that investors will not sell their holdings once the network is reinstated. 

EOS may soon offer a solution for on-chain data storage. There’s evidence of a new network resource, called “DISK,” which could give developers a better way to store some types of smart contract and DApp data.

Ethereum core developers are moving forward with ProgPoW, an update for making Ether mining more ASIC resistant. The hardfork is tentatively scheduled for July.

Shopify joined the Libra Association as others like Visa, Mastercard, and PayPal leave in mass. The world’s largest eCommerce platform was motivated by the need for better payment networks.

The independent non-profit Libra Association has just got a new member. Shopify has become the latest major company to join the association, according to an official announcement.