Ethereum Watch

Spanish banking giant BBVA has completed a pilot that issued a €75 million ($91 million) corporate loan using two different blockchain technologies. Advertisements According to a report from the Financial Times on Thursday, the bank’s latest exploration of the technology focuses on the entire issuance process, including negotiation of terms and signing the corporate loan. […]

Parity Technologies issued a statement Thursday stating it has no plans to move forward with a code change that would result in an ethereum blockchain split. Advertisements Named EIP-999, the contentious code change would recover the $264 million lost due to a code fault in Parity wallets in November 2017. Signed by co-founder of the […]

Many blockchain enthusiasts like to describe the technology as a tool that will allow users to seize self-determination. Meanwhile, one blockchain firm appears poised to play ball with Faure Gnassingbé, who is widely considered to be a dictator. Advertisements Two days after announcing that cryptocurrency exchange Binance would, along with partners, “support Uganda’s economic transformation […]

Regional authorities have joined the effort to bring cryptocurrency exchanges into compliance with Japanese law. Advertisements On April 25, 2018, cryptocurrency exchange platform “Everyone’s Bitcoin” (みんなのビットコイン) published a notice (Japanese) regarding a business improvement order, which it recently received from the Kanto Local Finance Bureau (a regional department of Japan’s Ministry of Finance). “We take […]

Germany’s VPE bank, in a partnership with FinTech firm solarisBank, has become the first in the country to offer cryptocurrency trading to institutional investors. Advertisements WertpapierhandelsBank AG (VPE) a traditional securities trader headquartered in Germany, has announced the expansion of its brokerage offerings to include cryptocurrencies for institutional investors. The BaFin-regulated bank is the first […]

NEM is a decentralized cryptocurrency based on the blockchain network. The project was written in Java, a newer version to be coded in another language is being developed. According to the team, they wanted to come up with a blockchain with more features ahead of what have been obtainable in the industry. The open source […]

General Idea Sharpay came up with a very unique idea of creating a “multi-share” button aimed for projects and sites that reward the users with cryptocurrency for promoting the content. The sole idea is very simple. An user shares the content like he would do with any other regular plugin or add-on for sites. However, […]