Ethereum Watch

Air France-KLM is exploring blockchain technology with Winding Tree. Advertisements On Wednesday, October 3, one of the world’s largest airlines, Air France-KLM, announced its partnership with Winding Tree, a “blockchain-powered decentralized travel ecosystem.” Through this agreement, the airline aims to provide customers with “more advantageous travel offer[s],” such as a wide range of flight and […]

It’s not a complete shasper implementation, but it’s a significant move and an opportunity for community feedback. Advertisements Prysmatic Labs has released a demo of its shasper implementation. The team is careful to market the Ethereum client as a work in progress, labeling it Prysm v0.0.0, and clarifying: “There is still work to be done […]

Due to a recently discovered vulnerability in the code of one EIP to be included in Constantinople, the testnet hard fork has been delayed by approximately five days. It should now arrive on (or near to) October 14. Advertisements Péter Szilágyi‏ of the Ethereum Foundation announced on Twitter this morning a delay in the arrival […]

Want that cheat item? It’s going to cost you. Advertisements Gamers are no strangers to scams, malware, and hacks. There are many cases where malicious actors will use people’s love of video games to steal personal information and even money from unsuspecting victims. Even the biggest names in video games are not immune from these […]

Legislators and financial experts in Wyoming have formed a task force and are drafting legislation to enable the creation of a bank-like financial institution to support blockchain companies in the state. Advertisements The Wyoming State Legislature, in a draft bill, has found that the sector’s rapid innovation has resulted in actors being “unable to access […]

A group of European banks led by the Associazione Bancaria Italiana (ABI) have completed the first tests in a blockchain trial for interbank reconciliations. Advertisements In one of a number of inter- and intra-bank blockchain pilots and projects happening around the world, Italy is ready to take the next step in their interbank blockchain reconciliation […]

One year ago today, ETHNews wrote about MediLedger, a blockchain platform developed by pharmaceutical companies Pfizer and Genentech. At that time, we reported that the MediLedger platform would be powered by the Ethereum-based Quorum blockchain and was intended to prevent counterfeit medicine from entering pharmaceutical supply chains. Advertisements ETHNews was curious about the progress of […]

The exchange maintains it has been falsely accused. Regardless, its reputation rests in the balance. Advertisements On Friday, September 28, the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) published an investigative report claiming that almost $90 million worth of suspect funds flowed through various cryptocurrency exchanges over the past two years. The journalists assert that, of this amount, […]

The new requirements should make cryptojacking more difficult. Advertisements In a blog post Monday, Google’s manager of Chrome extensions, James Wagner, outlined some policy changes for extensions offered in the Google Chrome Web Store. He wrote: “We’ve recently taken a number of steps toward improved extension security with the launch of out-of-process iframes, the removal […]

The open-source project and the standards-setting organization want to change the misconception that they’re competitors. We spoke to both about how they’ll work together. Advertisements The Enterprise Ethereum Alliance (EEA), a membership organization dedicated to creating standards that speed the mass adoption of blockchain technology, and Hyperledger, Linux Foundation’s collaborative project for open-source blockchain platforms, […]