Ethereum Watch

Six months after Societe Generale issued its first bond on a public blockchain, it has yet to offer the instrument to clients or to make use of the full capabilities of the smart contract mediating the sale.  Advertisements But the French financial institution insists that it hasn’t forgotten about the €100 million (roughly $110 million) […]

If there’s anywhere in the world where it feels right to believe in magic, it’s Devcon 5 in Osaka, Japan. Advertisements The ethereum community faces a daunting task: scale its blockchain ecosystem to securely support the growing demand for mainstream use cases. Thousands of technologists and passionate fans gathered at Devcon this week to grapple […]

CFTC Chairman Heath Tarbert has said ether, the world’s second-largest cryptocurrency by market capitalization, is a commodity. Advertisements Speaking at the Yahoo! Finance All Markets Summit Thursday, Tarbert said he believes ether is not a security. “We’ve been very clear on bitcoin: bitcoin is a commodity. We haven’t said anything about ether – until now,” […]

Venture studio Consensys is giving $175,000 to seven different open source software projects on the ethereum network. Advertisements Announced on Oct. 10, these projects include a forward-looking ethereum software client called Lighthouse, an oracle network for off-chain data called Tellor, as well as, a mobile decentralized app builder called Alice, among others. About the new […]

[embedded content] Advertisements On location in Tel Aviv at the Ethereal Summit, hosted September 15, CoinDesk’s Daniel Kuhn spoke with some of the major players in the ethereum space about where the second largest blockchain is heading. Billed as “the world’s computer,” ethereum has not lived up to its initial marketing campaign. ConsenSys and a […]

The Takeaway: Advertisements Ethereum’s creators now acknowledge the blockchain wasn’t built to scale as a mainstream transaction platform. A planned reboot meant to address some of those issues, known as Eth 2, is at least two years away. There is no plan for how or when to migrate tokens and smart contracts onto Eth 2, […]

IKEA Iceland has taken part in a commercial transaction on ethereum, using smart contracts and licensed e-money to facilitate the settlement of an order from local retailer Nordic Store. Advertisements The transaction was carried out on a platform provided by supply chain management firm Tradeshift and used “programmable digital cash” from ConsenSys-backed Monerium, according to an […]

The “apple.eth” domain has been grabbed with no way to get it back, thanks to an exploit of an auction by the Ethereum Naming Service (ENS), a domain registration service for the ethereum network. Advertisements The auction kicked off on Sept. 1 and was run by digital collectibles marketplace OpenSea, which disclosed the exploit Monday and […]

Ethereum test network Ropsten has forked into two separate chains following the activation of system-wide upgrade Istanbul. Advertisements “It appears there are two different chains mining the Ropsten test network. There are miners mining on the old [Ropsten] chain and miners mining the new one,” explained Ethereum Foundation community manager Hudson Jameson, adding in a […]

A system-wide upgrade is coming to ethereum’s Ropsten test network on Wednesday. And while “Istanbul” should ultimately introduce network efficiencies, the testnet launch won’t be smooth sailing for everyone. Advertisements For governance platform Aragon, in particular, the code changes are expected to break roughly 680 smart contracts, according to Aragon One CTO Jorge Izquierdo. These […]