XDC, the first Corda Network digital currency has been launched today by Cordite Society Ltd, a co-operative society registered in the UK, who have leveraged the existing UK legal structure for mutual societies to operate a digital currency, providing the first onshore legal structure for decentralized finance. XDC, is an exchange token, released onto the Public Corda network, a publicly-available internet of Corda...
Hedera Hashgraph, an enterprise-grade distributed ledger platform, has partnered with digital asset custody provider, Onchain Custodian, to enhance the security of the project's native digital currency, HBAR. Headquartered in Singapore, Onchain is the first and only custodian in Asia currently...
The Centre Consortium, co-founded by Circle and Coinbase, announced that Stellar is now an official blockchain for USD Coin (USDC). USDC is expected to be available on Stellar in Q1 2021. Stellar is the third blockchain with native support for USDC. Support for USDC on Stellar comes as both have reported steady and significant growth. USDC has experienced more than 500 percent growth...
Zilliqa, the high-performance, high-security blockchain platform, has now announced the launch of non-custodial staking services on its mainnet. Enabled through Zillion, a non-custodial staking platform, users will benefit from a staking service distinguished for its simplicity and security....
The NEAR project has reached its most significant milestone since inception by completing the transition to a fully permissionless, decentralized and community-governed network. The platform is now unrestricted and open for developers to deploy apps and users to create accounts and transfer tokens in a fully permissionless manner. “When the Genesis Block occurred in April, NEAR set a goal that developers can actually...
SKALE Network, the Ethereum as a service platform built to help Ethereum Dapps scale, today announced that Phase 2 of its decentralized mainnet is live with over $78 million in Total Value Locked (TVL). A global cohort of roughly 4,000 people and entities from 90 different countries are securing 130 SKALE Network...
SingularityNET, a full-stack AI solution powered by a decentralized protocol, and blockchain research and development company IOHK, today announced that they are planning to port a significant portion of the SingularityNET decentralized protocol and platform from Ethereum to...
The DFINITY Foundation, a not-for-profit organization based in Zurich, Switzerland overseeing the development of the DFINITY cloud computing network, today unveiled the Network Nervous System (NNS), an open algorithmic governance system that controls the Internet Computer and acts as its brain. This milestone, called the Sodium network, reveals the novel algorithmic governance and the token economics needed to build DeFi and dapps, open...
Filecoin, a decentralized storage network, has now entered its penultimate phase of development. The Mainnet Ignition phase affords network participants — including miners, clients, custodians, applications, and network services - time to initialize, learn, set up their systems, and optimize their...
Storj Labs today announced an integration with NEM to accelerate sync times for the NEM Symbol platform, improving the performance of connecting new nodes to the network, and analyzing blockchain data. The solution—which was built by NEM partner IoDLT—leverages the native MongoDB integration that...
Entrust, Australia’s first full-service agricultural supply chain platform, has announced today it will operate on Hedera Hashgraph, the enterprise-grade distributed ledger. Entrust was launched on Sunday by South Australian Premier Steven Marshall. It has an initial focus on...
ICON, the South Korean based blockchain network, today announced the roadmap for its powerful next-generation blockchain software architecture, which is initially being dubbed ICON 2.0, which represents a sweeping upgrade to the current ICON platform. Unlike most new platform overhauls, ICON...
IOHK, the blockchain research and development company, today announced the first funding round of the Cardano blockchain’s decentralized governance component, ‘Project Catalyst’. A $250K funding round, Catalyst is designed to encourage developers and entrepreneurs to build on top of the Cardano...
Hedera Hashgraph, an enterprise-grade distributed ledger platform, announced significant milestones achieved during the first year since Open Access of the network on September 16th, 2019. Applications Driving Meaningful Transaction Volume Hedera saw...
Avalanche is launching its fully-featured mainnet, a highly-scalable, open- source platform for decentralized finance (DeFi) applications and enterprise blockchain deployments in one, interoperable ecosystem, next Monday, September 21. Avalanche is the first smart contracts platform that confirms transactions in under one second, supports the entirety of the...
NEM Group today announced that it has begun the opt-in process to Symbol, its next-generation enterprise-grade blockchain solution. Opt-in represents the first step of the migration process from NEM NIS1, NEM’s original blockchain offering, to the Symbol public chain, a new enterprise-grade...
Conflux Network, a state-endorsed public, permissionless blockchain project out of China, today has announced a strategic technical partnership of its cross-chain protocol with ICON Foundation, the catalyst of the largest blockchain network in South Korea powering numerous decentralized applications...
Running an Ethereum Classic node requires downloading and syncing an entire copy of the blockchain. One of the most demanding requirements to support a copy of the blockchain is storage, and scaling that storage since the blockchain is a continuously growing database. Syncing a new mainnet node can take a few hours, days, or weeks (depending on your setup of course). In the...
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