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Blockchains.com, a blockchain incubation and investment firm, announced today the acquisition of slock.it, a German company with roots in the original development of ethereum. Advertisements Blockchains was primarily interested in slock.it’s Incubed project which enables human and machines secure participation in the economy of things through the ethereum blockchain. The merger will allow both companies […]

One of the world’s largest consultancy firms has released a new set of protocols for enabling private transactions atop the ethereum blockchain. Advertisements The project, dubbed “Nightfall,” by Ernst & Young (EY) was released on GitHub Friday. The goal, according to the code’s description on GitHub, is to provide a means for transacting on ethereum […]

Thousands of cheese-shaped cartoon wizards will soon duel online for a grand prize of ether tokens. Advertisements Dapper Labs, the company behind the 2017 CryptoKitties craze, unveiled its newest ethereum-based gaming experience – “Cheeze Wizards” – last Friday. The game has already attracted 973 players who purchased 4,470 fighters, according to Dapper Labs co-founder Bryce […]

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A cryptographic solution called zero-knowledge proofs (ZKP) could help notoriously slow decentralized exchanges (DEXs) reach speeds comparable to more traditional platforms. Advertisements San Francisco-based DEX startup 0x is partnering with the Israeli software-as-service company StarkWare to test a ZKP solution called StarkDEX, which can process roughly 500 transactions per second. StarkWare CEO Uri Kolodny told CoinDesk […]

Ethereum development studio ConsenSys has launched a blockchain “job kit” to guide developers wishing to enter the growing blockchain space. Advertisements Released Friday, the kit provides a variety of resources, including information on the skills needed to find work as an ethereum blockchain and decentralized application (dapp) developer. JavaScript, Python and Solidity programming languages will […]

The core infrastructure behind ethereum 2.0 might be in for a major redesign. Advertisements Dubbed the beacon chain, a new proposal by ethereum founder Vitalik Buterin suggests radically modifying the blockchain’s role in a new iteration of the ethereum network based on proof-of-stake consensus. “The idea here is that basically on the beacon chain, you’re going […]

More than two dozen ethereum improvement proposals (EIPs) have been submitted for review and inclusion in ethereum’s next system-wide upgrade or hard fork, dubbed Istanbul. Advertisements The list – with 28 official EIPs and at least one other set to be added – include changes to the $27 billion network that impact its mining algorithm, […]

“We need a first step toward more privacy,” Vitalik Buterin, founder of the ethereum blockchain network, said Wendesday. Advertisements In a new blog post, Buterin detailed a design to help obscure ethereum user activity on the blockchain. More specifically, Buterin proposed a “minimal mixer design” aimed at obfuscating user addresses when sending fixed quantities of ether […]

Cryptocurrency lending startup BlockFi is almost halving the interest rates it offers on ether (ETH) deposits, while some bitcoin (BTC) rates will increase slightly. Advertisements From June 1, customers with 25–100 ETH balances in a BlockFi Interest Account (BIA) will see the interest rate drop from the current 6.2 percent annual percentage yield (APY) to […]