Tagged: smart contracts

April 10, 2025 @ 5:18 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Ethereum, the world’s second largest crypto by market cap and the leading smart contract platform, is gearing up for its next significant milestone: the Pectra upgrade. Initially hampered by configuration hiccups during testnet activations on Holesky and Sepolia, this Ethereum upgrade is now set to… Read More

March 23, 2025 @ 4:34 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Ethereum, the largest smart contract platform in terms of market cap and overall adoption across the DeFi space, has grappled with scalability and performance bottlenecks, but a new development—MegaETH—offers a potential solution to these technical challenges. MegaETH recently debuted its public testnet, which is described… Read More

March 7, 2025 @ 9:08 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The EY organization announces the launch of new artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities to its EY Blockchain Analyzer: Smart Contract and Token Review (SC&TR) tool. The SC&TR tool is designed to help enhance “vulnerability detection in smart contracts through greater code coverage and streamline the contract… Read More

March 1, 2025 @ 11:54 am By Omar Faridi  |  

RedStone, a cross-chain data oracle that’s providing pricing data for smart contracts as well as decentralized finance (DeFi) protocols, is now reporteldy live on Sui. Claiming to be “trusted” by more than 140 DeFi protocols, RedStone ensures pricing integrity and accelerates the “adoption of Bitcoin-backed… Read More

February 4, 2025 @ 10:19 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

TVM Ventures reportedly launched its inaugural fund, a $100 million initiative dedicated to expanding the ecosystem of TON blockchain as a financial network. Led by Steve Yun, the former President of TON Foundation, TVM Ventures will provide startups and enterprises with the “capital, infrastructure, and… Read More

January 11, 2025 @ 11:19 am By Tony Zerucha  |  

As Bitcoin’s price surges, it is attracting more thieves. According to the FBI, in 2022, crypto scams resulted in north of $2.57 billion in losses. The average victim lost $54,000. The increasing intersection of cryptocurrency popularity and evolving fraud tactics highlights the critical need for… Read More

January 2, 2025 @ 10:31 am By Omar Faridi  |  

As the year 2024 came to an end, the team at Polygon said it was clear that the past year was a mix of significant progress as well as challenges. The team at Polygon has provided a quick recap of the key developments from the… Read More

December 4, 2024 @ 4:07 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Circle has introduced Event Monitoring for its Smart Contract Platform. According to Circle, this feature allows developers to: Subscribe to events emitted on Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM) blockchains Receive real-time notifications via webhooks Take programmatic action based on these events. Circle added that with Event… Read More

December 3, 2024 @ 7:26 am By Omar Faridi  |  

21X, which will reportedly launch the EU-regulated financial market infrastructure (FMI) in order to provide order matching, trading, settlement and registry services for tokenized money and securities, announced that it has signed a partnership with Chainlink, which claims to be the standard for onchain finance…. Read More

October 30, 2024 @ 3:19 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

HBAR Foundation is joining Chainlink Scale which now deepens the collaboration between the Chainlink and Hedera ecosystems. As noted in a blog post, the HBAR Foundation, which supports the growth and adoption of the Hedera ecosystem, has joined the Chainlink Scale program. As an initial… Read More

October 4, 2024 @ 8:35 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Visa Tokenized Asset Platform (VTAP) is a product that is designed to help banking service providers issue fiat-backed tokens. BBVA will reportedly be using VTAP in order to create digital tokens on the public Ethereum (ETH) blockchain with expected live pilots in 2025. Visa (NYSE:… Read More

September 17, 2024 @ 9:48 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Chainlink, the industry-standard decentralized computing platform, and ZKsync, an ever expanding verifiable blockchain network secured by math, announced that Chainlink CCIP, the industry-standard cross-chain protocol, is now live on ZKsync’s Era Mainnet. This is the next phase between Chainlink and ZKsync, and is “in line… Read More

August 15, 2024 @ 8:22 am By Omar Faridi  |  

CertiK notes that during the past few months, their team has conducted extensive research on the Bitcoin ecosystem and its developments. CertiK also audited several Bitcoin projects and smart contracts based “on different languages, including OKX’s BRC-20 wallet and MVC DAO’s sCrypt smart contract implementation.”… Read More

April 26, 2024 @ 9:00 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Chainlink is pleased to announce that the Chainlink Cross-Chain Interoperability Protocol (CCIP) has officially entered general availability (GA). Any developer can now permissionlessly use CCIP “to securely transfer onboarded tokens cross-chain, send arbitrary messages to smart contracts on another integrated blockchain, or simultaneously send data… Read More

April 17, 2024 @ 11:18 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Aon plc (NYSE: AON), a global professional services firm, announced the successful completion of an innovative pilot for placing insurance using blockchain and smart contract technology. The pilot was conducted with Nayms SAC Ltd., “a crypto-compatible insurance marketplace, and Copper.co, a digital assets custodian.” Benefits… Read More

April 12, 2024 @ 12:23 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Circle, a global digital financial technology firm and the issuer of USDC, announced new smart contract functionality that would allow holders of the BlackRock USD Institutional Digital Liquidity Fund (BUIDL) to transfer their shares to Circle for USDC. This smart contract reportedly provides BUIDL investors… Read More

February 1, 2024 @ 7:57 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Taurus SA announces it has joined the ERC3643 Association. This move is said to establish Taurus “as one of the first digital asset custody and tokenization infrastructure providers to join the association, marking a significant step in the advancement of smart contract standardization, and reinforcing… Read More

January 20, 2024 @ 12:56 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Michael Nadeau, the founder of The DeFi Report who also helps startups and asset managers, has pointed out that Ethereum (ETH), the world’s largest smart contract platform, reached $10 billion in revenue “faster than any other major software company besides Google.” Although this may be… Read More

January 3, 2024 @ 8:49 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Bitcoin (BTC)  gained 13% in December 2023 (and is trading at over $45,000 to start off the new year). These price moves punctuate a year of strong returns, but the largest crypto asset was, in fact, “outpaced by other market segments last month,” the team… Read More

December 19, 2023 @ 7:39 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

DAML for Azure Database enables customers to “deploy multiparty applications on Microsoft’s powerful cloud infrastructure immediately.” Businesses are using distributed ledger platforms “to deploy multiparty applications even though many wish they could simply leverage familiar infrastructure to improve complex business processes that don’t require overhauling… Read More