Ethereum-powered software developer ConsenSys has raised a massive $450 million in capital from its latest Series D funding round.
As regulators and politicians aim to prevent cryptocurrency usage by sanctioned individuals, Bitcoin alternatives display a lack of resistance.Amid the growing momentum to bar Russia from international payment rails, the potential usage of bitcoin and cryptocurrency by the country and its citizens to bypass sanctions from...
The crypto community heavily attacked Infura, the main Ethereum infrastructure provider, and MetaMask, the crypto browser wallet, for allegedly blocking access to users in Venezuela. Per the complaints, and an official post, users in the Latin American country were cut off from the wallet “due to compliance with laws”....
MetaMask has blocked users from certain jurisdictions from accessing its services and interacting with Ethereum. Users from Venezuela and Iran have begun reporting problems with accessing their digital wallets earlier today, with hundreds of users saying none of their transactions sent through MetaMask were realized. First instances of bans were noticed on OpenSea,...
Infura, a ConsenSys service that provides a suite of blockchain developer tools, today announced the public release of its Ethereum transaction relaying service, Infura Transactions (ITX). ITX makes sending...
Infura, an Ethereum infrastructure provider, faced a service outage for a short time recently. On the 11th of November, the Infura status page stated that, "We are currently experiencing a service outage for our Ethereum Mainnet API. Our on-call team is investigating and working to restore service functionality." The challenge experienced by...
Earlier today, a change to the underlying Ethereum code made by developers some time ago resulted in an unannounced hard fork, effectively splitting the Ethereum blockchain and creating a new version that is valid for upgraded nodes but seen as invalid by ones that did not upgrade. Obviously, this was a major issue for Ethereum users, but it also offered some lessons in...
Infura, one of the key service providers for the Ethereum network, is down. The problem was first reported via Infura's website, where it was confirmed that the service was "experiencing a service outage" at around 08:12 UTC...
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