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PortuguêsSeven weeks after the launch of Ethereum 2.0’s beacon chain and 2.25 million ETH has been deposited into the ETH2 contract address, signaling growing confidence in the long-awaited rollout of…
Continue ReadingStacks, an open-source network for building smart-contract and DeFi bridges to Bitcoin (BTC), has secured several major partnerships in the wake of its mainnet launch — sending a strong signal…
Continue ReadingStacks, an open-source network for building smart-contract and DeFi bridges to Bitcoin (BTC), has secured several major partnerships in the wake of its mainnet launch — sending a strong signal…
Continue ReadingRIF, the utility token for smart contract network RSK, shot up over 30% in price after an appearance by its founder on the Jan. 13 edition of The Pomp Podcast.…
Continue ReadingTaproot is currently the most likely next upgrade for Bitcoin. It is one of a few upgrades that are currently being worked on that users and developers would hope to…
Continue ReadingWith the crypto market making a crazy comeback this year, an increasing number of casual investors all over the world are beginning to understand the potential that blockchain technology possesses.…
Continue ReadingOn December 30, the decentralized finance (defi) platform Detoken and the firm General Protocols announced the launch of Anyhedge, the first public defi product built on the Bitcoin Cash network.…
Continue ReadingA crypto user who lost roughly $50,000 from a smart contract mistake before the holidays is thanking the crypto community for donating $11,000 to help recover the loss. Earlier this…
Continue ReadingAn “oracle” sends data from the outside world, such as the daily temperature or the number of votes a political candidate received, to a blockchain such as Ethereum. A smart…
Continue ReadingInsurance startup Tidal Finance has raised a $1.95 million seed round for its TIDAL token, led by European digital asset company KR1. New York-based Tidal will use the Polkadot blockchain…
Continue ReadingSolidity, a major programming language for writing smart contracts, will soon become compatible with the Cardano (ADA) blockchain. According to a Dec. 17 announcement on Cardano Developers website, Cardano devs…
Continue ReadingWolfram Alpha, a major computational knowledge engine providing technology for major services like Apple’s Siri assistant, is integrating data from Cardano blockchain. According to a Dec. 17 announcement, Wolfram Blockchain…
Continue ReadingAccording to a Github post made today, user dawidkabani13 claims to have accidentally sent 4,005 Chainlink (LINK) — $53,226 at the time of publication — to an Aavegotchi (GHST) smart…
Continue ReadingPublic chain projects Nervos and Cardano have jointly launched a research initiative to enhance the security of smart contracts by improving Unspent Transaction Outputs (UTXOs), one of the most common…
Continue ReadingA new crypto plugin will allow WordPress publishers to receive ad earnings directly into their Ether (ETH) wallets, according to a Dec. 10 plugin description posted on the WordPress’ official…
Continue ReadingA November report by data and research company BraveNewCoin has highlighted a number of serious ‘non-financial’ risks in decentralized finance. The financial risks involved with DeFi have been well documented,…
Continue ReadingIOHK, the development team behind public blockchain project Cardano, said it is set to launch a hard fork in December as part of the transition to the third development phase…
Continue ReadingAnother decentralized finance (DeFi) project was rug-pulled Tuesday, with some $10.8 million in investor funds being stolen due to a hidden backdoor in the project smart contracts. Compounder Finance –…
Continue ReadingCurve Finance, a decentralized exchange, will distribute nearly $3 million in accrued fees to the platform’s governance token holders, following a community vote. On Friday, a week-long voting period seeking…
Continue ReadingOlsztyn, Poland is reportedly the first city in the world to leverage Ethereum’s blockchain to aid the provision of emergency services, offering yet another tangible use case for distributed ledger…
Continue ReadingDecentralized finance continues to make its impact on the crypto market, and with over $13 billion of total value of assets locked, DeFi projects are clearly resonating with eager crypto investors. Yet…
Continue ReadingTop-20 crypto asset by market cap Tezos (XTZ) has successfully completed its latest upgrade, “Delphi,” which aims to reduce smart contract gas fees by 75% to attract decentralized finance (DeFi)…
Continue ReadingSecurity company CertiK announced on Thursday the launch of QuickScan, an automated tool for scanning smart contracts for vulnerabilities. While it will not be a stand-alone tool, the suite is…
Continue ReadingThe MoonBeam project is planning on setting up a custom parachain that emulates the Ethereum Virtual Machine environment, effectively recreating Ethereum (ETH) on Polkadot (DOT). Developers on Polkadot and some…
Continue ReadingBlockchain developers can’t be accused of failing to keep up with the times. The unprecedented shake-up in the world’s labor markets during the COVID-19 pandemic is accelerating the underemployment trends…
Continue ReadingOpenZeppelin, a blockchain software company known for developing one of the most used implementations of the Ethereum ERC-20 contract, announced on Tuesday the release of a developer suite called Defender.…
Continue ReadingAn astonishing 80% of central banks are engaging in work around central bank digital currencies, from research to experimentation and pilot programs. A recent Bank for International Settlements, or BIS,…
Continue ReadingCertiK, a software security company active in the blockchain sector, announced the mainnet release of its own custom blockchain, the CertiK Chain. The new blockchain places a heavy focus on…
Continue ReadingBinance, the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange, is funding a major decentralized audio streaming service through its investment and incubation arm. According to an Oct. 23 announcement, Binance Labs led a…
Continue ReadingBlockchain software firm Blockstack PBC announced that it will be changing its name to “Hiro Systems PBC.” Muneeb Ali, co-founder and CEO of Blockstack, told Cointelegraph that the team plans…
Continue ReadingA report called “Encryption Trends in Mexico 2020/2021” surveyed a total of 353 representatives from companies throughout Mexico. The study, published by privacy research center the Ponemon Institute, indicated that…
Continue ReadingOn October 6, 2020, the RIF (RSK Infrastructure Framework) development team announced that the Makerdao project’s DAI stablecoin is now available via the smart contract protocol RSK. According to the…
Continue ReadingThe Port of Rotterdam’s blockchain subsidiary, Blocklab, has been trialing a decentralized electricity trading system to help lower costs and optimize the use of renewables on its microgrid. The system,…
Continue ReadingThe market dip has hit DeFi tokens particularly hard. @cryptopigmedia noted that the biggest loser to date is Curve Finance, whose CRV token has dropped 93% since its peak. “DeFi…
Continue ReadingRepublican Congressman David Schweikert (R-AZ) has referred a new bill to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce that, if passed, would recognize digital signatures on the blockchain as enforceable by law. This…
Continue ReadingTitanSwap is using the renBTC protocol to implement cross-chain operations. Compared with the currently more common custodial cross-chain solutions wBTC and tBTC, the renBTC smart contract is a non-custodial access…
Continue ReadingHigh gas prices have become a problem for non-fungible token (NFT) marketplaces, especially as they look to mint at scale, the founder of a start-up said. Sean Papanikolas, founder of…
Continue ReadingA new Coingecko survey has found that a large number of yield farmers do not know how to read smart contracts despite claiming they understand the risks that come with…
Continue ReadingBitcoin stuck around $10,400 for most of Tuesday. Meanwhile, ether holders are increasingly choosing smart contracts to park the cryptocurrency. Bitcoin (BTC) trading around $10,494 as of 20:00 UTC (4…
Continue ReadingSmart Contract Oracle Solutions: the New Herald of Crypto Fundraising With smart contracts and DeFi gaining traction in droves, and the numbers of new entrants into the ecosystem growing, the…
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