XRP Ledger Adds Military-Grade Security Via Payments Engine Standard
Ripple has published the first formal specification of the XRP Ledger’s Payment Engine, positioning it as a foundational upgrade for protocol safety as XRPL moves into a more feature-dense era. The document was released in partnership with formal methods firm Common Prefix and is intended to become a canonical reference for how payments and cross-asset […]
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Ledger, a blockchain security provider that offers products for the blockchain market, including service appliances for enterprise, bitcoin hardware wallets for consumers and embedded solutions for connected objects, has raised $7 million in Series A funding led by MAIF Avenir, bringing total funding to $8.5 million, according to a company blog. Participating in the round were Digital Currency Group, Xange, Libertus Capital, Wicklow Capital, GDTRE, BHB Network, The Whittemore Collection, Kima Ventures and Nicolas Pinto. The new funding, which follows a $1.5 million round in 2015, will be....
Gem has just announced that they’re deploying custom Hardware Security Modules (HSMs) from Thales e-Security as part of their wallet. The Venice-based bitcoin security platform harnessing lightweight code and multi-signature technology will utilize HSMs in a similar way as the military. The devices are used to protect military encryption keys along with mission secrets. If the military trusts the technology, it might just be good enough to store bitcoins. “Our engineers worked closely with the hardware team at Thales for months to develop a custom solution specifically for the Bitcoin....
The Smartcard based bitcoin hardware wallet Ledger has become the only bitcoin startup to participate in the International Consumer Electronics Show (international CES) 2016, an event which showcases more than 3,600 exhibiting companies including developers of technology hardware and systems. The Ledger Wallet team will demonstrate their bank and enterprise-grade blockchain-based products, including the original Ledger Bitcoin Wallet, Ledger BLUE and Ledger FIDO. Since 2015, hardware products produced by Ledger Wallet such as Ledger Nano have begun to allure mainstream users, by providing....
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