Tag: technology

IOHK, the company behind the Cardano blockchain, has officially rolled out Marlowe Playground, an application-building platform that allows non- programmers to build financial smart contracts on Cardano. Alongside the news about the new platform, the company also announced the winners of its Wyoming hackathon, listing three projects that presented the best use cases for Cardano that could accelerate the United Nations’ sustainability goals. IOHK...

London-based Coinfirm will now utilize Chainlink’s market-leading oracle service to provide anti-money laundering (AML) tools for DeFi projects, it said in a release...

Darknet marketplaces and their operators have been the focus of authorities since the last decade. But the rise of cryptocurrencies has seemingly borne well for such illicit online shops, with a recent CipherTrace report stating they have...

Though the DeFi hype has cooled off, the niche continues to push Ethereum's adoption among developers and users. And to help sustain the innovation, ecosystem players like ETHGlobal are conducting free hackathons and summits....

Quantstamp has completed its audit of Teku, an Ethereum 2.0 client developed by blockchain firm ConsenSys. Quantstamp Completes ETH 2.0 Audit Quantstamp reports that ConsenSys and several other client teams have spent "countless hours" collaborating with audit firms to ensure that their software works properly...

"No one can spend 1B, it's not useful, it's much better to have a project where people can benefit from it," reads the only explanation that Harvest Finance developers offered to...

Speaking at the third BlockDown conference, Charles Hoskinson, the CEO of IOHK, looked back at the way his company approached designing Cardano. Noting that IOHK, despite what many may think, is first and foremost a research and development company, he explained that they saw Cardano as a blank slate and began by asking the most fundamental questions first and using the answers...

Chainlink is entering Ethereum's gaming ecosystem. It has launched a service called Verifiable Random Function (VRF...

DeFi tracking solution Zerion has recently upgraded its platform, offering users new tools to manage their crypto portfolios rather than simple monitoring services....

Amsterdam-based WordProof announced today it will allow customers to timestamp content on the Ethereum blockchain, it said during the BlockDown Conference 2020 on October 22. Special announcement exclusively on BlockDown 3.0! 🎉https://t.co/xx1EwxpEiQ just announced ETH support! 🎊 Thank...

With Ethereum 2.0 expected to ship in the near future, the values that underlie the world’s second-largest blockchain have become increasingly important. Vitalik Buterin, one of the creators of Ethereum, discussed both the abstract and the technical aspects of the values that went into designing Ethereum over six years ago and how they are going to shape the network’s upcoming iteration. The political...

Waves.tech, an ecosystem of next-generation technologies built on the Waves protocol, has ported its native token WAVES into Ethereum to enhance interoperability between the two networks and introduce Waves functionality to Ethereum users, the firm said in a...

CyberX, an prime brokerage based in Asia, announced a crypto trading terminal called "Prime." The terminal will help traders discover the best arbitrage opportunities and keep them in control of multiple exchange accounts...

The Dash team has recently announced their token's entrance into Ethereum's DeFi ecosystem. DeFi development company StakeHound will lead the initiative by creating Ethereum-wrapped tokens called StakedDASH....

Stafi protocol, a Polkadot parachain, announced it...

IDEX, a popular decentralized trading platform, received a major upgrade that significantly improves user experience. IDEX Gets a Makeover The event signifies another step in improving decentralized trading performance, which brings platforms like IDEX closer to their centralized counterparts....

Rari Capital has launched the second iteration of its DeFi Robo-advisor. No deposit limits, new pools and integrations, and decentralized governance are also included. Rari Capital Lifts Limitations in Latest Launch...

Decentralized file-sharing project Filecoin launched last week after years of development and a jawdropping $200 million ICO. But critics and miners are calling it a failed launch. Its fees are turning out a pain point—data shows miner prices to use Filecoin network cost over $40,000 (with hosting and maintenance), in contrast to...

“Ouroboros: A Provably Secure Proof-of-Stake Blockchain Protocol” has made it to the topmost cited security papers list. According to the latest ranking from Google Scholar, the paper, outlining the proof-of-stake mechanism that underlies Cardano, is the second most cited paper in the cryptocurrencies and blockchain category with 183 citations. Ouroboros among the most cited academic papers about cryptocurrencies and blockchain technology While few...

Following NuCypher's mainnet launch, 222.5 million NU tokens have been distributed to node operators in proportion to the amount of ETH they have locked. WorkLock Distribution & PoS Staking Privacy-preserving blockchain network NuCypher has launched its highly anticipated mainnet. The mainnet will serve as the infrastructure that...