Fifth upgrade to Tezos blockchain featuring smart contracts and more is now live

CryptoNinjas » Fifth upgrade to Tezos blockchain featuring smart contracts and more is now live This past weekend, the Tezos blockchain successfully upgraded by adopting Edo at block #1,343,489, making it the fifth Tezos upgrade in the last two years.

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Do it! DGBLabs Token Presale is Live – Liquidity Bootstrap Pool Sale to Kick Off on Balancer Soon

At this point in time, one can accurately predict that blockchain technology is here to stay. In fact, it’s also safe to say that the market is only just getting started, as massive disruption of the digital ecosystem is bound to occur in the years to come.

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Accelerating Financial Inclusion Through Technology

I believe that technology, when built and scaled right, can have a profoundly positive impact on humanity and improve people’s lives. In leading engineering teams at Amazon for 15 years, I witnessed first hand, customer focused innovations at scale that provided people with core necessities essential to how they live.

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Ripple’s “XRP will put up ridiculous numbers in the next few weeks,” pundit asserts amid potential lawsuit from SEC

Ripple’s XRP, the world’s third-largest cryptocurrency by market cap, will have an epic rally in the coming weeks, after failing severally to live up to its investors’ expectations over the years. According to PAC Global founder, David Gokhshtein, “$XRP will put ridiculous numbers in the next few weeks.

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Buterin Wants Ethereum 1.0 Gas Fee Upgrade Despite Beacon Chain Going Live

Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin thanked everyone involved with the beacon chain upgrade, which went live yesterday. After years in the making, Ethereum’s proof-of-stake concept is finally a reality.

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With Ethereum 2.0 About to Launch, Ardor Continues to Thrive

After several years of delays, the much-anticipated Ethereum 2. 0 upgrade is set to kick off. . The eth2 network has achieved almost 1,000,000 ETH staked from, almost double the  524,288 ETH required, and with more than 16,384 validators involved, it is expected to go live any moment.

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Flyp.me, a unique proposal for privacy

Bitcoin was born more than 10 years ago. And one of the main ones I wanted to introduce in the financial system is the privacy and anonymity of the users. As there are not enough services to live entirely with Bitcoin, the exchanges emerged.

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JPMorgan stablecoin goes live, interbank group renamed to “Liink”

JPMorgan, the US bank whose CEO Jamie Dimon once called Bitcoin a scam and held a bearish stance for the cryptocurrency market, today announced the launch of its stablecoin and blockchain protocol after years in the development.

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MicroStrategy CEO Calls Bitcoin The ‘World’s Best Collateral’, Says Company Will HODL Its BTC For 100 Years

Michael Saylor, the CEO of business intelligence firm MicroStrategy, continues to publicly speak about bitcoin after his company made a mega $425 million bitcoin purchase. In a live interview on Wednesday with Real Vision CEO Raoul Pal, Saylor called bitcoin the “world’s best collateral”, and said his company is planning to hold the asset for […]

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$205 Million ICO Project Filecoin Goes Live After 3 Long Years

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$257 Million ICO Project Filecoin Goes Live After 3 Long Years

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Filecoin Confirms Long-Awaited Mainnet Launch for Next Month

Three years after its $257 million ICO, decentralized data storage provider Filecoin has said mainnet will go live in mid-October.

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Uniswap Token UNI Officially Live and Listed by Binance and Coinbase Pro

Coinspeaker Uniswap Token UNI Officially Live and Listed by Binance and Coinbase Pro1 billion Uni Tokens will be made accessible to four groups of people over a period of four years. Interestingly, it took just a few hours after its launch for Coinbase Pro and Binance to list it.

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Hackers Are Desperately Trying To Break Into This $700 Million Bitcoin Wallet

It’s been a decade since the Bitcoin network went live. Over the years, many people have lost access to their BTC stash through various mistakes or misfortunes. Some have forgotten their wallet passwords, some have lost the hard drives containing the wallets, and some have even passed away without having left any clue for their […]

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OneSwap Launches AMM Order Book Hybrid DEX System, Public Beta Now Live

The blockchain technology underlying cryptocurrencies has evolved over the past few years to create a whole new Decentralized Finance (DeFi) movement. In simple words, DeFi is a collection of alternative financial services that are analogues to traditional products like savings, loans, trading, insurance, etc.

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Hawaii: Crypto Exchanges to Pilot Regulatory Sandbox as New Regulations Go Live

The U. S. state of Hawaii has greenlighted 12 exchanges to pilot its crypto regulatory sandbox which is designed to enable bitcoin (BTC)-linked businesses to ply their trade in the area without having to obtain a money transmitter license for two years, according to a report on August 20, 2020.

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CoinDesk Live Recap: Co-Founders Revisit Ethereum’s Launch Drama

Ethereum was always a wild experiment. Now, five years later, a few early believers explain why they are more bullish than ever.

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Ethereum History in 5 Charts

Five years ago this week, the first general-purpose blockchain went live on mainnet. Here are five charts for understanding Ethereum's evolution.

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Cardano: The Shelley Mainnet Is Live, Daedalus Wallet Upgraded

An excited Charles Hoskinson has officially confirmed the beginning of the Shelley era. This comes after five years of hard work following the launch of Byron. Shelley marks Cardano’s decentralization.

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ETH Network Turns 5, Vitalik Buterin Warns DeFi Users Are ‘Underestimating Smart Contract Risk’

Coinspeaker ETH Network Turns 5, Vitalik Buterin Warns DeFi Users Are ‘Underestimating Smart Contract Risk’Ethereum went live five years ago changing the entire blockchain and crypto sector with developers envisioning a new form of money and social interactions and it has so far revolutionized the nascent industry.

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Cardano Mainnet Goes Live Today, Here’s What to Expect

After five years of development, Cardano will launch the Shelley mainnet today at 21:45 UTC. The weekend saw a frenzy of activity from developers, IOHK, who were busy performing last-minute checks and tests to ensure a smooth transition from the Byron chain.

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Namecheap VPN Review – Does It Live Up To The Hype?

Namecheap is best known as an American domain name registrar and web hosting provider, who have been operating for 20 years since the early days of the internet. With over 11 million users and a highly trusted reputation, Namecheap has grown into one of the largest registrars in the world.

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100x Scaling Solution Launches on Ethereum

An Ethereum Foundation backed PayPal level scaling solution has gone live after close to two years of testing and development. zkSync describes itself as “an L2 scaling solution in which...

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Compound Goes DAO

The world’s first prominent decentralized autonomous organization is now live almost precisely four years after this was first tried on ethereum in 2016. Compound, a financial decentralized app running on.

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Matic Network (MATIC) Mainnet Goes Live

The Matic Network mainnet was launched on May 31, 2020, after 2. 5 years in development.   Marking an important milestone, the release of the first version of the network’s mainnet also triggers the second phase.

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Cardano’s Charles Hoskinson Reveals “Shelley” Roadmap, Speaks on “Systematic” Approach

Cardano’s much-awaited Shelley protocol is going live soon. The protocol has spent years in development, and has been ardently awaited by fans of Cardano and ADA, its native currency.   Steady and Systematic On May 28, Charles Hoskinson, the co-founder of Cardano, revealed the roadmap for Shelley, including code launch date, hard fork, and when theRead MoreRead More.

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Polkadot’s Chain Candidate Goes Live in Anticipation for the Proof of Stake (PoS) Version

Polkadot's initial mainnet has been launched by Web3 Foundation and Parity Technologies according to a blog post on May 26. This much anticipated sharding protocol has been in the works for around three years and is expected to facilitate the integration of blockchain networks.

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Celo Mainnet Goes Live Following $10 Million Dutch Auction

Decentralised blockchain platform, Celo Gold, has launched its mainnet, meaning investors can now transfer their tokens on-chain. The Celo Foundation has announced its mainnet is live, almost two and a half years since the team began working on the project.

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Tron’s (TRX) Bug Bounty Continues to Bear Fruit as the Network Blossoms 2 Years On

In brief: Tron (TRX) and BitTorrent (BTT) community member, pointed out that the Tron network has functioned flawlessly since its launch. For close to two years, the Tron Mainnet has continued to live up to expectations of the community.

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Over 1.4M XRP allegedly stolen via fake 'Ledger Live' Chrome extension

Scammers may have pivoted from the world's largest cryptocurrency, Bitcoin, to other parts of the industry by plaguing inboxes with malware over the years. And as the ecosystem has evolved and become The post Over 1.

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Major Milestone: Cardano Unveils Hydra Sharding Which Is A Crucial Breakthrough In Scalability

Cardano creator Charles Hoskinson recently revealed that researchers at IOHK are a step closer to bringing more scalability to the Cardano blockchain via a second-layer sharding solution, Hydra. Hydra Took Five Years Of Intense Work In a live video yesterday (March 9), IOHK CEO and Cardano creator Charles Hoskinson talked about a ground-breaking achievement for […]

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Bill Gates Predicted Coronavirus-Like Outbreak in 2019 Netflix Documentary

A Netflix documentary described how outbreaks like the coronavirus spread in live animal markets. Bill Gates warned it takes years to find a cure. The post Bill Gates Predicted Coronavirus-Like Outbreak in 2019 Netflix Documentary appeared first on CCN.com

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TronWallet 3 now live with full bitcoin support, swaps and new portfolio feature

TronWallet, the most widely used cryptocurrency mobile wallet in the TRON ecosystem, today announced the release of its latest version, TronWallet 3. After more than two years of continuous development, TronWallet now provides full support for bitcoin (BTC) across all platforms.

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VPLedger: An All-In-One Blockchain Platform

Since the moment the Bitcoin (BTC) network went live over 10 years…

The post VPLedger: An All-In-One Blockchain Platform appeared first on CCN.com

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Utopia, the complete decentralized toolkit for anonymous digital life is finally live

Have you ever dreamed of being able to express your thoughts completely free? Without control and censorship? Well, now, this image is becoming a reality. After six years of hard work and development,The post Utopia, the complete decentralized toolkit for anonymous digital life is finally live appeared first on AMBCrypto.

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Hard Problems in Cryptocurrency: Five Years Later

Special thanks to Justin Drake and Jinglan Wang for feedback In 2014, I made a post and a presentation with a list of hard problems in math, computer science and economics that I thought were important for the cryptocurrency space (as I then called it) to be able to reach maturity.

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The Ethereum Ecosystem: Still Relevant After All These Years

Ethereum first went live in 2015, and since then, it’s become one of the market’s top coins. And while four years may not be a lot in most markets, in crypto it’s a lifetime. For Ethereum, it has been quite a ride.

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Cardano team reveals details about the incentivized testnet that will bring staking to the network

In a live AMA session led Cardano’s senior product manager David Desser, the company’s team revealed the current status and plans for the launch of the Shelley incentivized testnet. Shelley’s incentivized testnet off to a great start Ambitious research-oriented blockchain Cardano celebrated its second birthday this month, the two years of extensive research culminating in […] The post Cardano team reveals details about the incentivized testnet that will bring staking to the network appeared first on CryptoSlate.

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Kauri ICO

As big fans of cryptocurrency industry, we’re integrating them into our, already working, business model. The main goal is to help whole cryptocurrency industry to generate new usability opportunities, move towards mass adoption and simultaneously give our clients/investors with relatively small amounts of money chance to participate something bigger through tools such as crowd investing.

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Everything Apple announced at its 2019 iPhone event

Apple’s annual iPhone event went down today at Steve Jobs Theater in Cupertino. As you might expect, we heard news about several Apple products, some expected, and a few surprises mixed in for good measure.

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The brutally honest guide to a career in tech journalism

Tech journalism is often regarded as an exciting and attractive career. And you know what? It absolutely is. But it’s also a damn tough business to enter. Getting your foot in the door is hard.

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Meeting Bitcoiners Online When They Live in the Same City

Bitcoin developer Mark "Murch" Erhardt tells CoinDesk about the most surprising interaction he ever had in his years of running the Bitcoin Stack Exchange. Turns out the crypto world *is* that small!

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Google wants to be a ‘good neighbor’ by pledging $1B to Bay Area housing

San Francisco is home to the tech elite, and is one of the most expensive places to live in the world, thanks to scores of tech firms moving in over the past couple of decades. Now, Google wants to make it a little more affordable.

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AXEL Network: Masternodes Content Distribution Network (CDN)?

AXEL. Network is a distributed, decentralized, and secured platform by Masternodes and secured by years of tech experience and innovative products. AXEL believes that decentralization is the future of the internet.

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3 years later, Visa’s blockchain-powered payment network finally goes live

Visa’s blockchain-powered B2B payments product has finally gone live after almost three years in the making. First made public in October 2016, the Visa B2B Connect network is being made available in 30 markets, with plans to expand to as many as 90 territories by the end of the year.

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Ripple: xRapid-powered remittance service to The Philippines will go live this month, confirms SendFriend

After years of being ridiculed an mocked, the world of cryptocurrencies and digital assets is finally getting its due following the growing involvement of several institutional investors. Presently, it’s not just financial and non-financial institutions running the race to get a step ahead in the field, but governments across the world are in the same […] The post Ripple: xRapid-powered remittance service to The Philippines will go live this month, confirms SendFriend appeared first on AMBCrypto.

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New Metrics on SANgraphs: ETH Locked Over Time

Authors and metrics creators: Maxim Odegov and Serge Nedashkovsky. Over the past few years, a number of dAPPs have emerged that require users to lock a certain amount of Ethereum in their smart contracts in order to access their services.

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TNW2019 Daily: Catch the official livestream

Can’t make it to TNW Conference this week? We’re going to miss your face, but don’t you worry! Just like previous years, we’re live streaming on both days. You can catch most of the talks from the comfort of your couch.

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ATRONOCOM DMCC ICO

Built for You and Your Crypto Lifestyle ATRONOCOM is currently conducting an investor SAFT - crowdsale to support the launch of the platform and accelerate development of its decentralized application ecosystem.

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