Tagged: decentralization

September 6, 2020 @ 2:37 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Brendan Blumer, CEO at Block.one, the company behind the development of EOS, one of the largest platforms for building decentralized applications (dApps) that’s funded by a record $4.1 billion+ token sale from 2018, points out that Ethereum (ETH) is too slow. Blumer notes that conducting… Read More

September 3, 2020 @ 11:18 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Lex Sokolin, the Global Fintech Co-Head and CMO at ConsenSys, confirms that the organization recently acquired Quorum from J.P. Morgan. Quorum is a platform that serves as a private, enterprise version of Ethereum (ETH). As covered, ConsenSys has also received an investment from J.P. Morgan…. Read More

September 3, 2020 @ 8:11 am By Omar Faridi  |  

StakeHound, which issues crypto tokens that allow users to access decentralized finance (DeFi) while being able to earn staking rewards, claims that it has developed “stake-backed” tokens so that digital currency traders can enjoy “the best of both worlds: liquidity and yield.” StakeHound’s management noted… Read More

August 30, 2020 @ 5:00 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

David Dias, research engineer at Protocol Labs and the drand project lead, along with Nicolas Gailly, research scientist at Protocol Labs and the original author of drand, recently explained how they’re developing randomness solutions that are able to generate random numbers. This is important because… Read More

August 25, 2020 @ 10:56 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The developers of Ontology (ONT) have noted that they’re focused on establishing trust in the automotive industry through the implementation of a blockchain-enabled, decentralized digital identity solution that allows driving data to be recorded, stored, and verified in “a safe and secure” manner. The developers… Read More

August 25, 2020 @ 7:38 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The team at Messari, an online database for the digital asset sector that offers key data insights, pricing, and research on cryptocurrencies, has argued that Yearn.Finance’s YFI token is one of the least costly or reasonably priced assets in the emerging decentralized finance (DeFi) sector…. Read More

August 25, 2020 @ 6:37 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The Aave protocol, an open-source and non-custodial DeFi protocol to earn interest on digital asset deposits while also being able to borrow assets, has been awarded an Electronic Money Institution (EMI) license by the UK’s financial regulator, the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA). Aave Ltd received… Read More

August 22, 2020 @ 5:33 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The Qtum Foundation, which supports the ongoing development of Qtum (QTUM) (an open-source public blockchain-enabled platform that leverages the security of UTXO while enabling several virtual machines including the Ethereum Virtual Machine), has announced a special grant program for DeFi (decentralized finance) developers. The Qtum… Read More

August 17, 2020 @ 10:44 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Blockfolio, which provides blockchain and crypto industry updates with detailed pricing, market data, news, and direct updates from key players, reveals that 32% of people responding to a survey said they do not know anything about decentralized finance or DeFi. The Blockfolio online survey, which… Read More

August 16, 2020 @ 6:24 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Ontology (ONT), a high-performance or “high-throughput” blockchain platform with a market cap of over $510 million according to CoinGecko data, revealed on August 14, 2020 that it has completed the development of the next stage of its open-source DID smart contract – which has been… Read More

August 3, 2020 @ 11:13 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The decentralized finance (DeFi) sector continues to experience significant growth, as the total value locked in its markets has surpassed $4 billion, according to DeFi Pulse data. DeFi markets leverage blockchain or distributed ledger technology (DLT), crypto-assets, and smart contracts (automated business logic), in order… Read More

August 1, 2020 @ 12:13 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The Cardano blockchain completed a “historic” hard fork (backwards incompatible upgrade) on July 29, 2020 – which initiated the launch of the highly-anticipated Shelley mainnet (main or production ready network). The open-source blockchain-based development platform will try to compete with Ethereum, EOS, and Tron (TRX)… Read More

July 30, 2020 @ 8:00 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Bluzelle, which aims to serve as s “decentralized” data network, revealed on July 30, 2020, that it will be launching Phase 1 of its mainnet. The network is scheduled to officially go live on August 8, 2020. Once the network is live, Bluzelle’s BLZ token… Read More

July 29, 2020 @ 8:43 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The developers of Injective Protocol, a “decentralized” derivatives exchange, have acquired $2.6 million through a seed funding round that was led by Pantera Capital. Injective Protocol has been incubated by Binance, the world’s largest digital asset exchange. Injective’s developers have also acquired investments from Axia8… Read More

July 22, 2020 @ 11:45 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

During the past few years, initial coin offerings (ICOs) and initial exchange offerings (IEOs) have raised billions of dollars in funding for various so-called “decentralized” blockchain initiatives. Most of these projects have been scams or have just been really bad ideas that never really materialized…. Read More

July 19, 2020 @ 1:14 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

San Francisco-based Cloudflare, a web-infrastructure and website-security firm, offering content-delivery-network services, DDoS mitigation, Internet security, and distributed DNS services, experienced downtime again on July 17, 2020. Whenever Cloudflare goes down or has some other type of technical difficulties, it immediately affects millions of websites that… Read More

July 6, 2020 @ 7:04 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Li Jun, the founder of Ontology, a “high-performance” enterprise blockchain platform, recently noted that the Ontology development team has been working cooperatively with Binance and Binance.US on various ONT trading campaigns. The Ontology team members, whose comments came during a recent AMA session which aimed… Read More

July 1, 2020 @ 10:57 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Dr. Joshua Ellul, the Chairman of Malta Digital Innovation Authority and Director of Centre for DLTs, University of Malta, has noted that he has published a paper (with Jonathan Galea, Max Ganado, Stephen McCarthy and Gordon Pace) titled “Regulating Blockchain, DLT and Smart Contracts: a… Read More

June 26, 2020 @ 10:21 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Lars Brünjes, the Director of Education at InputOutputHK, an organization that supports the ongoing development of Cardano (ADA), a blockchain-enabled solution for building and deploying decentralized applications (dApps), says that establishing solid parameter values and maintaining flexibility will be “key to the growth and ongoing… Read More

May 30, 2020 @ 10:37 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

  Hayden Adams, the inventor of Uniswap, a widely-used non-custodial digital asset exchange, claims that decentralized trading platforms are “already beating centralized ones for a ton of ETH/ERC-20 pairs.” Adams acknowledges that trades involving fiat and cross-chain cryptocurrency pairs are still mostly being done on… Read More