Ethereum Watch

September 19, 2018 11:58 PM Advertisements Commodity traders, including Shell and Mercuria, are collaborating with a number of international banks to create a blockchain-based trade finance platform they hope will become the standard for the commodity trading industry. Based in Geneva, komgo SA is an Ethereum-based ConsenSys development that has grown out of the Easy Trading […]

September 19, 2018 7:16 PM Advertisements The slouch toward acceptance of the ERC777 token standard creeps on. ERC820, the registry that ERC777 standard-based tokens will rely upon, has entered the “last call” stage of development. Back in July, Jordi Baylina, Jacques Dafflon, and Thomas Shababi made waves when they announced their EIP for a new […]

September 19, 2018 5:30 PM Advertisements A watchdog agency is looking into six banks after the Brazilian Association for Cryptocurrency and Blockchain filed a complaint. Brazil’s Administrative Council for Economic Defence (CADE) has opened an investigation into several of the country’s largest banks over monopolistic practices that may restrict the operation of local cryptocurrency brokers. […]

September 19, 2018 6:04 PM Advertisements Europol yesterday published its fifth annual Internet Organised Crime Threat Assessment (IOCTA), in which it highlights some common cyber attacks and criminal activities related to cryptocurrency. The 2018 Internet Organised Crime Threat Assessment (IOCTA) was presented at the joint Interpol-Europol Cybercrime Conference in Singapore. 5 Types of Threat Many […]