Tagged: eth

July 23, 2020 @ 1:44 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Switzerland’s Smart Valor, a company that operates a European crypto-asset trading platform, has revealed that it plans to add support for Kyber Network Crystal (KNC) staking, which will give Kyber Network members the chance to stake their KNC tokens on KyberDAO. Kyber Network is an… Read More

July 18, 2020 @ 10:06 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The first half of 2020 has been negatively impacted by the global COVID-19 outbreak, including the nascent Bitcoin (BTC) and the alternative asset sector. Several blockchain and crypto firms such as TAGZ, an Australian digital currency exchange, and investment company Adaptive Capital have been forced… Read More

July 17, 2020 @ 2:45 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Activate, by ConsenSys Codefi, is reportedly the first platform developed specifically for creating decentralized networks and allowing users to purchase, manage, and use their digital tokens through a single application. Leading Ethereum development studio ConsenSys announced on July 16, 2020, that the SKALE Network’s SKALE… Read More

July 15, 2020 @ 11:15 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Three key events defined the Ethereum (ETH)-dominated decentralized finance (DeFi) space during Q2 2020. As mentioned in ConsenSys’ Q2 2020 DeFi Ecosystem Report, these events included: Bitcoin on Ethereum overtaking BTC on the Lightning Network (LN), three critical security incidents that led to $26 million… Read More

July 13, 2020 @ 9:49 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Although the decentralized crypto-asset exchange (DEX) sector is still in its early stages of development, it can be argued that there are some platforms that are beginning to take the lead when it comes to the number of digital assets they’re supporting. Ethereum (ETH)-based Uniswap,… Read More

July 9, 2020 @ 8:28 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Blockchain infrastructure developer Bison Trails is offering a new tool, called managed controllers, in order to automatically manage Polkadot participation for “large-scale” DOT token holders who are interested in optimizing their participation. DOTs are Polkadot’s native tokens that are used as part of transactions on… Read More

July 6, 2020 @ 8:10 am By Omar Faridi  |  

  Expedia has revealed that it will now allow its 700,000+ accommodations to be booked with digital currency payments via Travala.com, a crypto hotel booking platform. Travala.com’s management confirmed on July 6, 2020 that the company had added Expedia’s accommodations to its crypto-powered travel platform’s… Read More

July 5, 2020 @ 2:07 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Vitalik Buterin, the co-founder of Ethereum (ETH), the world’s largest smart contract platform, recently admitted that he would have approached the ongoing development of Ethereum a lot differently if he started building it now from scratch. Buterin, whose comments came during a recent episode of… Read More

July 4, 2020 @ 3:57 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Ethereum (ETH) currently stands and maintains its position as the world’s most significant blockchain despite the recent surge in gas prices (gas is used to power transactions and other forms of economic activity on Ethereum). The value or market cap of the Ethereum blockchain increased… Read More

July 4, 2020 @ 3:26 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

It has now been a little over a week since Ampleforth (AMPL) introduced decentralized finance (DeFi) liquidity rewards via its new program, called AMPL Geyser. As noted in an update shared with Crowdfund Insider, there’s currently (at time of writing) around $2.34 million in total… Read More

July 4, 2020 @ 3:24 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

ConsenSys Codefi, which provides the blockchain “operating system” for running commerce and finance applications, announced in February 2020 that the SKALE Network became the first “decentralized” network to issue a token on the Activate platform. As explained in a blog post published the ConsenSys Codefi… Read More

July 4, 2020 @ 3:03 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The blockchain-based decentralized applications (dApps) ecosystem appears to have experienced significant growth during Q2 2020. As expected, most of the development involved decentralized finance (DeFi) apps running on Ethereum (ETH), the world’s largest smart contract platform. Decentralized (or non-custodial) crypto exchanges (DEXs) led the way… Read More

June 30, 2020 @ 4:17 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Feyyaz Alingan, the Founder of Blue Alpine Research, a Switzerland-based research firm focused on digital assets, has pointed out several “alternatives” to Bitcoin (BTC). Alingan, an electrical engineering graduate from ETH Zürich, says that Ethereum (ETH) may be considered a Bitcoin alternative. He notes that Ethereum’s… Read More

June 29, 2020 @ 8:49 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Bitcoin and distributed systems expert Andreas Antonopoulos recently acknowledged that decentralized finance (DeFi) platforms allow users to earn passively by using their cryptocurrency holdings. Antonopoulos, who mainly supports developments related to the Bitcoin (BTC) protocol, argued that DeFi is one of the few ways to… Read More

June 20, 2020 @ 4:42 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Eight tech firms in developing and emerging world economies will reportedly receive investments from the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), in order to “solve local and global challenges.” The fund now includes cryptocurrencies. In October 2019, UNICEF created a crypto-asset fund in order to receive,… Read More

June 17, 2020 @ 12:14 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Despite recent volatility in the Bitcoin (BTC) and larger cryptocurrency markets, decentralized or non-custodial digital asset exchanges continue to “maintain their long-term trend lines” according to the team at Bamboo Relay, another project that has integrated Chainlink Oracles for stop-loss order functionalities. A stop-loss order… Read More

June 16, 2020 @ 11:45 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Binance, Crypto.com, DARMA Capital, Huobi Wallet, Matrixport, and Trustology will reportedly join the ConsenSys Codefi Staking Pilot Program, in order to gain early access to the Ethereum 2.0 staking solution. Ethereum 2.0 or Eth2 is a major system-wide upgrade to Ethereum (ETH), the world’s largest… Read More

June 15, 2020 @ 10:23 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The developers at Quantum Resistant Ledger (QRL), an externally audited “enterprise-grade” blockchain platform that claims to be secure against a potential (future) attack from quantum computers, stated that Ethereum (ETH) could go quantum computer resistant through “a unique smart-contract.” The QRL team said that a… 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 13, 2020 @ 5:56 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Jack O’Holleran, CEO and co-founder at SKALE Labs, a company that’s developing solutions to improve blockchain consensus mechanisms, noted that the SKALE Network will go live on June 30, 2020. The SKALE Network is an Ethereum-compatible, permissionless, open-source, “elastic” blockchain network. O’Holleran said that SKALE’s… Read More