Tagged: ethereum

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

June 13, 2020 @ 2:06 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

PARSIQ, a blockchain monitoring and workflow automation platform that provides tools for analyzing, detecting, and preventing cryptocurrency-related fraud, and Dash NEXT, the Asia-based business development division supporting Dash (a digital asset platform), are extending their existing partnership. PARISQ and Dash NEXT aim to enable real-time… Read More

June 7, 2020 @ 5:53 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The developers of Ethereum (ETH), the world’s largest smart contract platform, have been working for many years on the ongoing development of Ethereum 2.0 or Eth2, which is a major systemwide upgrade that will involve a transition from the current proof of work (PoW) consensus… Read More

June 6, 2020 @ 2:59 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Martin Best, CMO at Wirex, confirmed in a blog post on June 4, 2020, that the London-based financial services firm will allow users to purchase, hold and exchange New Zealand dollars (NZD) and 19 other currencies including Bitcoin (BTC), Ether (ETH), Singapore dollars (SGD), and… Read More

June 3, 2020 @ 12:17 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Brian Kerr, CEO at Kava Labs, notes during an interview with Alexandre Raffin at GAINS Associates that Cosmos’ value proposition is that “if you make a blockchain and it has a similar consensus mechanism to another blockchain …[then by using] … the inter-blockhain communication protocol… Read More

June 1, 2020 @ 11:30 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Stablecoins are digital assets pegged 1-to-1 (in most cases) to major world currencies like the  US dollar or British pound (GBP), or even gold.  In most cases, stablecoin tokens are based on blockchain or some type of distributed ledger technology (DLT). The largest amount or… Read More

May 31, 2020 @ 10:45 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

San Francisco-based crypto exchange Coinbase has confirmed that on June 8, 2020, it will begin taking inbound transfers of Maker (MKR) to Coinbase Pro, the platform for professional digital asset traders. The exchange operator said that users may start trading MKR via Coinbase “on or… 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

May 30, 2020 @ 7:00 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

  Jon Deane, CEO at InfiniGold,  a company focused on the digitization of physical commodities, recently explained how gold-backed stablecoins can be used to track the spot price of the gold bullion. InfiniGold leverages patented technologies and works with commodity partners to support the wider… Read More

May 30, 2020 @ 4:50 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Fortmatic, a company that aims to improve the user experience, or UX, (which can be poor with digital asset wallets) by allowing users to access their Ethereum (ETH) funds from their app, has secured $4 million in seed funding. The firm’s app aims to allow users… Read More

May 28, 2020 @ 9:10 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

BUSD (Binance USD), a stablecoin pegged 1:1 with the US dollar, will be accessible via the KyberSwap exchange and other decentralized applications (dApps) and platforms that are based on the Kyber Network, a widely-used on-chain liquidity protocol in the decentralized finance (DeFi) space. BUSD has… Read More

May 27, 2020 @ 9:54 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Telos, one of the most active blockchains or distributed ledger technology (DLT)-based platforms according to Blocktivity data, revealed on May 26, 2020, that Transledger will be using its blockchain network to perform cross-chain transactions in a fast and secure manner. As mentioned in a press… Read More

May 27, 2020 @ 8:09 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Delta Exchange, an established cryptocurrency derivatives exchange that maintains offices in Singapore, has received funding from New York-headquartered blockchain investment firm, CoinFund. As mentioned in a release shared with CI, the new investment will provide Delta Exchange with the resources needed to scale its operations… Read More

May 26, 2020 @ 7:38 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Bitcoin (BTC) and other digital currencies can be difficult to spend because most merchants still do not accept them. The Switzerland-based firm, Eidoo, is planning to help consumers easily spend virtual currencies by launching a Visa crypto debit card that will use regulated or compliant… Read More

May 24, 2020 @ 10:48 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

  Ethereum-based anonymization protocol, Tornado.cash, has introduced “completely immutable”smart contracts, which developers claim will make the protocol “unstoppable.” Although the initiative’s developers boldly claim that Tornado.cash is committed to supporting  immutability and the “code is law” principle, Ethereum (ETH) ecosystem developers and community members have… Read More

May 23, 2020 @ 2:54 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

We recently talked to Lex Sokolin, the Global Fintech Co-Head and CMO at ConsenSys, a leading Ethereum (ETH) development studio based in New York. Before joining ConsenSys, Sokolin was the Global Director of Fintech Strategy at Autonomous Research, a firm that was eventually acquired by… Read More

May 22, 2020 @ 12:32 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The cryptocurrency market continues to recover from its mid-March 2020 lows and at the end of last month, Bitcoin (BTC) was up 22% for the year. As reported by Blockchain.com, a block explorer and crypto wallet service provider, Bitcoin has outperformed other major assets that… Read More

May 18, 2020 @ 11:17 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Uniswap, a widely-used non-custodial digital asset exchange, has revealed that the second version of the decentralized protocol has now been launched. The developers of Uniswap had noted in March 2020 that they would be releasing the second iteration of the decentralized finance (DeFi) protocol. Uniswap’s… Read More

May 15, 2020 @ 9:08 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Bitcoin (BTC), the flagship cryptocurrency, may serve as a gateway for investors to consider buying other digital assets or “altcoins” (alternative coins). According to research conducted by San Francisco-based crypto exchange Coinbase, 60% of first-time virtual currency investors purchase Bitcoin at first. However, only 24%… Read More

May 14, 2020 @ 11:28 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Reddit, the popular social news aggregation and discussion website, is currently testing two Ethereum-powered tokens for platform users. The blockchain-based tokens may be earned as rewards for posting content to Reddit’s online forums. The two tokens, $BRICKS and $MOONS, will be awarded to user accounts… Read More