The Open Ordinals Institute aims to bolster the protocol’s future development as Ordinals inscriptions hit a milestone of 21 million. A non-profit organization dedicated to growing the development of nonfungible tokens (NFTs) on Bitcoin has been launched by the team behind the Bitcoin Ordinals protocol. The California-based nonprofit called the Open Ordinals Institute will bolster the…

Diligence Fuzzing lets developers introduce random and invalid data points to find security flaws. Blockchain technology firm ConsenSys publicly released its “Diligence Fuzzing” tool for smart contract testing, according to an Aug. 1 announcement. The new tool produces “random and invalid data points” to find vulnerabilities in contracts before they are launched. Over $2.8 billion…

SushiSwap brings liquidity pools, cross-chain swaps and its DEX aggregator to the Core blockchain ecosystem. Decentralized finance (DeFi) platform SushiSwap is set to integrate with the growing blockchain protocol, Core, tapping into the protocol’s unique consensus mechanism to provide a broad set of DeFi services to its cross-chain functionality. The integration is touted to increase the possibilities for…

BTC price dips to six-week lows, but worse could be to come for Bitcoin, says Capriole Investments. Bitcoin faces a “breakdown” and distribution despite a new macroeconomic paradigm being around the corner. That was one of the conclusions of quantitative Bitcoin and digital asset fund Capriole Investments, which, in its latest update, warned that Bitcoin was “not yet”…