Ethereum Watch

The Australian National Blockchain aims to allow the nation’s companies to more easily share legal contracts. Advertisements When looking for a public blockchain that could run EDCCs, Australia just decided to build its own. The Australian National Blockchain, announced today, will apparently enable “companies nationwide to join the network to use digitized contracts, exchange data […]

The collectibles game makes its way to the ZKM Center for Art and Media. Advertisements CryptoKitties as art is not a new concept. Remember when somebody paid $140,000 for an art piece coupled with a CryptoKitty? Folks love their fuzzy, collectible, and sometimes hideously cute virtual cats. This time around, the litter of digital kitties […]

A report from the Blockchain Transparency Institute determines that billions of dollars’ worth of cryptocurrency trading volume is fake. But who is the Blockchain Transparency Institute? Advertisements A recently released report on cryptocurrency exchanges asserting widespread falsification has gotten a lot of attention this week. The report claims that billions of dollars’ worth of volume […]

ETHNews looks at Swarm Fund and the project’s recent progress. Advertisements Swarm intelligence refers to the phenomenon of self-organizing systems. Although this concept is largely employed in artificial intelligence and interfacing research, swarm behavior has long been observed in biological communities, for example, bird flocking, fish schooling, and even bacterial growth. In considering the swarm […]

The show cause orders are part of a larger effort by North American securities regulators to crack down on fraudulent ICOs. Advertisements Gerald Rome, Colorado’s securities commissioner signed orders requiring three cryptocurrency companies to show cause for allegedly promoting unregistered initial coin offerings (ICOs), according to an announcement published by Colorado’s Department of Regulatory Agencies. […]

The latest core devs’ meeting centered around various Ethereum Improvement Proposals to reduce or maintain block rewards distributed to miners. ETHNews attempts to clear up the mud surrounding the discussion. Advertisements On Friday, August 24, Ethereum’s core devs and other stakeholders within the community gathered for meeting 45. Aside from updates related to testing, clients, […]

23andMe’s developer partners recently received an email notifying them that they would no longer have access to customers’ raw genomic data. Timicoin, a blockchain-based healthcare data platform, spoke out about the change. Advertisements Last Thursday, personal genomics and biotechnology company 23andMe notified outside app developers via email that it would disable their access to its […]

The new unit is intended to boost the bank’s intellectual capital concerning emerging technologies. Advertisements The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has formed a new unit to research use cases for blockchain, cryptocurrency, and artificial intelligence (AI) technology, according to reporting from Indian newspaper The Economic Times. The unit will be responsible for researching how […]

The blockchain network now has PlasmaChain, GameChain, and SocialChain in production. Advertisements Known for its “truly scalable” blockchain trading card game Zombie Battleground, the Loom Network has been making headway in the Ethereum scaling space. Loom’s software development kit apparently enables developers to build scalable blockchain games and social networks. Most recently, though, the team […]

The bounty-issuing software improvement community’s new offering allows individuals to make bounty suggestions for GitHub issues. Advertisements Vivek Singh, community builder at Gitcoin, recently announced the alpha release of Gitcoin Requests. This feature will allow members in the community to request bounties for certain GitHub issues and propose how much they should be funded, though […]