Tagged: smart contract

April 21, 2023 @ 8:23 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Societe Generale–FORGE (SG-FORGE), a “fully” integrated and regulated subsidiary of Societe Generale group dedicated to digital assets, launches the EUR CoinVertible, a digital asset that purports to maintain a stable value (stablecoin). EUR CoinVertible is “deployed in Euro denomination on the Ethereum public blockchain (ticker… Read More

April 17, 2023 @ 10:35 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Exactly Protocol has successfully integrated Chainlink Price Feeds, streamlining the process of connecting smart contracts to asset prices. This integration enables developers at Exactly “to provide a more secure and efficient user pricing mechanism.” At Exactly, they aim “to democratize a new generation of financial… Read More

April 11, 2023 @ 1:27 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Pine Street Labs says they are focused on making blockchains usable for all users. As noted in a blog post, each new blockchain “introduces unique transaction lifecycles, encoding schemes, consensus engines, architectures, and more.” As explained in an update from Pine Street Labs, the technical… Read More

April 9, 2023 @ 3:03 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The team at TwoX Protocol, which claims to be a decentralized finance protocol issuing yield generative stablecoin, is pleased to announce that TwoX protocol will be “launched on Arbitrum.” Their team have been “researching & discussing which infrastructure is great fit to deploy TwoX primarily since… Read More

April 7, 2023 @ 4:05 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Ocean Protocol, the decentralized smart-contract platform for data sharing and monetization, has integrated with Orbis, the Web3 social protocol allowing end-to-end encrypted communication between users. This integration “provides all users of the Ocean Market with the right tools to engage and communicate with data buyers… Read More

March 31, 2023 @ 6:49 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

IOTA, the non-profit organization driving the development of an open, feeless, and highly scalable distributed ledger technology (DLT) for Web3 applications and digital economies, announces the launch of the ShimmerEVM test chain on the Shimmer testnet. With IOTA launching its incentivized staging network Shimmer last… Read More

March 30, 2023 @ 8:47 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Smart contracts will reportedly have to include a “kill switch” under an update of the European Union’s (EU) Data Act which was recently released by the bloc’s member states on Monday (March 27, 2023). The European Union’s Council, which is focused on representing national governments,… Read More

March 18, 2023 @ 2:57 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

National Australia Bank (NAB) has completed an intra-bank cross-border transaction using NAB-issued stablecoin, which represents a “world-first” by a major financial institution on a layer-one public blockchain. This pilot transaction on the public and permissionless Ethereum blockchain “involved deployment of stablecoin smart contracts for seven… Read More

March 3, 2023 @ 9:17 am By Omar Faridi  |  

EquiLend announces that it has selected Digital Asset in order “to provide the distributed ledger technology underpinning the EquiLend 1Source initiative.” Unveiled in July 2022 as part of EquiLend’s Digital Transformation Working Group, which consists of many of the world’s largest banks and broker-dealers, 1Source… Read More

February 22, 2023 @ 4:07 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Sentio has raised $6.4 million to bring modern observability to decentralized applications. The investment round was “led by Lightspeed Venture Partners with participation from industry leaders Hashkey Capital, Canonical Crypto, Essence VC and GSR Ventures.” The Sentio team “consists of veteran engineers from Google, Linkedin,… Read More

January 29, 2023 @ 6:05 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Astroport, which claims to be one of the most “popular” decentralized exchanges, launched its beta on the Injective testnet. Injective is described as a fast blockchain built for finance. As the “first” smart contracts platform optimized for building decentralized finance applications, dApps such as Astroport… Read More

January 23, 2023 @ 10:09 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Tenderly, creators of a Web3 development platform, and Cronos, a decentralized, open-source, energy-efficient public blockchain with high speed and low transaction fees,  announced the integration between Tenderly and Cronos as well as its testnet. Cronos is an Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM)-compatible Layer-1 blockchain network built… Read More

January 8, 2023 @ 11:17 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Beam celebrated its 4th anniversary on January 3rd 2023. During that time, Beam claims it has “cemented its place as the top confidential cryptocurrency in terms of features, stability and confidentiality, constantly evolving and improving in all categories.” Launched in 2019, Beam is described as… Read More

December 4, 2022 @ 4:21 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The DFINITY Foundation, the “not-for-profit” contributing to the development of the Internet Computer (IC) — the “world’s first” web-speed, internet-scale public blockchain — has announced the Internet Computer’s mainnet “integration with Bitcoin, bringing advanced smart contract functionality to the world’s largest cryptocurrency.” The Internet Computer… Read More

December 3, 2022 @ 5:02 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

CyVers claims it is a leading provider of “proactive” Web3 Security for the centralized, decentralized finance and smart contract applications “via detection and interception of crypto attacks across blockchains.” The company has announced an $8 million investment round “led by Elron Ventures.” This funding is… Read More

October 19, 2022 @ 9:05 am By Omar Faridi  |  

We recently connected with Li Jun, Founder of Ontology, the project that claims it is bringing trust, privacy, and security to Web3 through decentralized identity and data solutions. Li Jun has commented on the key developments in the crypto and blockchain space following the Ethereum… Read More

October 10, 2022 @ 10:37 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

THORChain, a non-custodial decentralized liquidity protocol that enables decentralized exchanges (DEXs) and users to seamlessly transfer their digital assets across blockchains, has integrated support for Avalanche, which claims to be the fastest smart contracts platform in the blockchain industry, “as measured by time-to-finality.” Avalanche considers… Read More

September 18, 2022 @ 3:42 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Now that Ethereum (ETH), the world’s largest smart contract platform, has completed the Merge, it’s time to get ready for the next set of Ethereum upgrades – “the Surge, Verge, Purge, and Splurge.” As noted in an update released via an OKX – Okcoin research… Read More

September 1, 2022 @ 10:01 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Fireblocks, the provider of digital asset and crypto custody technology, and Tokeny, the tokenization solution provider, announced their partnership “to provide a turnkey and enterprise-grade solution for tokenization using the ERC-3643 market standard on Polygon.” Institutions seeking to mint and manage permissioned tokens such as… Read More

August 31, 2022 @ 8:12 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The team at RedStone is pleased to announce that in August 2022, they successfully raised a $7M seed round led by Lemniscap in order “to pursue [their] mission of powering Web3 innovation with a novel approach to on-chain data storage.” The funds will play a… Read More