Tagged: Blockchain Development

October 27, 2024 @ 4:47 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin recently shared a number of ways to cut down on Ethereum’s bloat in the leading smart contract platform’s “Purge” update roadmap. Cutting down the requirement for each network node to have to permanently maintain all history along with unnecessary protocol details… Read More

August 29, 2023 @ 8:54 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Built on Cardano, Mithril prioritizes security while “aiming to enhance the efficiency of chain synchronization and state bootstrapping.” As noted in a blog post by IOG, security is of the utmost importance in “any cryptographic protocol for safeguarding the integrity, confidentiality, and authenticity of transactions… Read More

April 27, 2023 @ 10:12 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Together with its partners, AntChain recently unveiled a series of new Web3 initiatives, including an open-source project featuring its cross-chain technology and AntChain OpenLab, to support Web3 developer community at the 2023 Ant Group Digital Technologies Developer Conference. Web3 is commonly “known as a more… Read More

February 22, 2023 @ 10:22 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The Crypto Incident Response Center (CIRC) of Uppsala Security, a South Korean blockchain virtual asset regulatory technology (RegTech) specialist, has recently released its 2022 CIRC Statistical Report. The report is “based on submissions received directly from victims of virtual asset crimes in South Korea, offering… Read More

December 26, 2022 @ 7:05 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The team at VeChain notes that as we bid goodbye to 2022 and begin settling in for winter (well, half of the world, anyway), what better way to warm our souls than to tap into the “collective wit” and “creativity” of the “VeFam” with a… Read More

November 29, 2022 @ 10:40 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

ChainUp Group, a global blockchain technology solutions provider, announced the launch of the IPFS Infrastructure Flagship Fund I (the Fund) by its subsidiary Bedrock Trust Pte Ltd, a Singapore-based and licensed asset and wealth management firm. Bedrock Trust will “be the manager of the Fund,… Read More

December 20, 2021 @ 11:37 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The NEO blockchain developers noted that they are focused on building on a commitment to support application developers who make meaningful contributions to the Neo blockchain ecosystem. As mentioned in a blog post, Neo has introduced three different grant programs into the Eco Support ecosystem…. Read More

June 5, 2021 @ 6:05 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Nervos, China’s leading public blockchain, and the team at IOHK, a global blockchain engineering firm and creators of the Cardano (ADA) blockchain, recently revealed that they are  forming a cross-chain bridge that will link the Cardano and Nervos networks. As mentioned in a release shared… Read More

June 3, 2021 @ 10:14 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The Solverse Accelerator aims to unite leading blockchain mentors with talented entrepreneurs in order to develop “groundbreaking” Solana projects. Solana is a “high-performance” blockchain or distributed ledger tech (DLT) platform supporting builders across the globe that are creating crypto apps that “scale today.” As mentioned… Read More

May 25, 2021 @ 12:37 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The developers of NEO Blockchain, one of the first enterprise-grade distributed ledger technology (DLT) platforms, recently revealed that they’ve arrived at a new frontier, called N3, the latest version and “most powerful” version of the Neo blockchain development platform. The NEO Blockchain developers explained that it… Read More

May 6, 2021 @ 8:02 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Chainlink (LINK), a provider of decentralized Oracle networks, has teamed up with the UNICEF Innovation Fund in order to support blockchain-powered applications in emerging markets. The Chainlink Community Grant Program offers financial resources to development teams and researchers that are creating a “more functional, accessible,… Read More

February 10, 2021 @ 8:51 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

China’s Nervos, a major public blockchain network, has introduced a $5 million fund that will provide cash grants to blockchain and Fintech entrepreneurs developing new solutions for “the future” of decentralized finance (DeFi). As mentioned in a release shared with CI, the pledge “comes amid… Read More

February 4, 2021 @ 12:10 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Switzerland is currently home to around 130 startups that are actively applying blockchain or distributed ledger tech (DLT) to improve processes in the finance sector, according to new data from Swisscom. The majority of these firms (48%) offer services related to banking infrastructure, with many… Read More

January 26, 2021 @ 10:43 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Leading digital asset exchange Binance has announced the launch of a Hackathon, called The Future Is Now. According to Binance, this event will be a 3-week long virtual hackathon that will be hosted by Binance X and Gitcoin, which serves a place for blockchain developers… Read More

December 23, 2020 @ 8:17 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Digital asset exchange OKCoin recently took a look back at its initiative to support independent Bitcoin Core developers. The crypto trading platform’s developers confirmed that it has now been about a year since they introduced their Open-Source Developer Grant program, an initiative launched to support… Read More

November 30, 2020 @ 8:21 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

NEO, which describes itself as a “rapidly growing and developing” blockchain ecosystem that aims to serve as the foundation for the next generation of the Internet (or Web 3.0), currently has a market cap of over $1.2 billion with each NEO token trading at over… Read More

November 17, 2020 @ 10:00 am By Omar Faridi  |  

New York-based ConsenSys, a company that supports Ethereum (ETH) development and various other blockchain-focused initiatives, has reportedly acquired the team and technology of Truffle. As mentioned in a release shared with Crowdfund Insider, Truffle Suite is one of the most widely used blockchain or distributed… Read More

June 19, 2020 @ 5:59 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Telos, one of the “most active” blockchain platforms (according to Blocktivity), has launched an Ethereum Virtual Machine on an EOSIO blockchain. As noted in a release shared with CI: “With the launch of Telos EVM now in testnet, developers can use Solidity (programming language) to… Read More

June 14, 2020 @ 4:40 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

  The controversial Facebook-led Libra project is reportedly the most active project in terms of developer activity, according to CoinCodeCap data. There are 41 active developers working on Libra, meanwhile, Ethereum (ETH), the world’s largest smart contract platform, has 36 active developers, the data site… Read More

June 5, 2020 @ 9:32 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

ICONLOOP, ICON’s technical partner, has reportedly been chosen to receive funding from K-Growth’s $100 million Fintech Innovation Fund. Markus Jun, founder and CEO of ICON’s Accelerator Partner and Seoul Launchpad of ICXStation, HyperConnector (online accelerator for the ICON ecosystem), noted via Twitter that one of… Read More