Ethereum Watch

In the latest DeFi launch, money market protocol Aave will gather off-chain pricing data via the decentralized oracle services of Chainlink. LINK token holders will also be able to earn interest with Aave. Advertisements Introducing “Flash Loans” On Jan. 8, 2020, Aave protocol launched it’s mainnet and announced “the first attempt in DeFi at uncollateralized […]

Advertisements Decentralized finance (DeFi) is positioned to unite fragmented ecosystems and unlock billions of dollars in idle potential, ushering in another era of crypto innovation. The Promises of the Revolution Blockchain and cryptocurrencies brought promises of a new, decentralized, utopian world free from central banks, government, and censorship. Enthusiasts envisioned a world in which power […]

\n Advertisements Interest is growing in several distributed financial platforms based on Ethereum and other blockchain networks. The growth of the entire sector was around 130% over the last 12 months, with Ethereum-based apps continuing to dominate. According to the website DeFi Pulse, a service tracking the growth of the sector, this time last year, […]

The world of cryptocurrencies is often talked about in the context of future developments, which is why Bitcoin mining has been largely spoken of in the background of the upcoming halving. However, altcoin mining has been fairly unnoticed. Unlike Bitcoin mining, altcoin mining is considered more complex. Thus, it is still at a relatively nascent […]

‘Ethereum 2 is coming’ has been the tagline of the Ethereum community for the past several years. However, the new phase, Serenity, is set to come to fruition soon, with the team outlining 2020 as the year it would start rolling out. Serenity would be launching in three phases – phase zero, phase 1, and […]

Ethereum Foundation, the main non-profit organization that heads the development of Ethereum, recently made an announcement with regard to Vyper Compiler. Vyper is a “contract-oriented, pythonic programming language that targets the EVM” and it includes vyper and vyper-json command-line scripts for compiling contracts, along with an online and Remix IDE compiler. Advertisements In a blog […]

Ethereum, the leading smart contract platform, will be taking the first step towards its most awaited upgrades this year. The platform will initiate its shift from proof-of-work to proof-of-stake with the launch of phase zero of Serenity. The main aspect of this stage is the rollout of Beacon Chain, while the other phases will see […]

Advertisements Critical Ethereum 2.0 smart contract not affected by the bugs, developers argue. A Jan. 8 post published by the Ethereum Foundation (EF) revealed that developers are working on a new implementation of the Vyper compiler, due to “multiple serious bugs” in the existing version. The Vyperlang team responded by noting that existing Vyper smart […]

Given the burgeoning DeFi ecosystem, Tezos Capital CEO Jonas Lamis is launching StakerDAO, a decentralized autonomous organization (DAO) that will decide on which blockchains to stake for. Advertisements Booming DeFi Market the Inspiration Behind StakerDAO According to DeFi Pulse, around $700 million is locked inside DeFi smart contracts. The majority of that is within the […]

Advertisements DappReview published its 2019 report, highlighting DeFi growth on Ethereum and EOS’ congestion struggles. DappReview published its 2019 insights on the decentralized app (DApp) space in a Jan. 8 report. Just three blockchains accounted for 98.65 percent of total transaction volume, though EOS began to struggle in Q4 2019. Decentralized app aggregator DappReview summarized […]