Ethereum Watch

After Medium began censoring certain cryptocurrency posts, decentralization advocate Aragon decided to move to a new platform. Will others follow? Advertisements You probably didn’t notice. Sometime between March and June, Medium, a publishing platform ubiquitous in the blockchain sphere, updated a page called “Cryptocurrencies on Medium.” (ETHNews reached out to Medium for this article but […]

The incentive-based software development community has partnered with the Ethereum address-naming provider. Advertisements According to an August 9 announcement, the team behind Gitcoin, which is a community that incentivizes collaboration in open-source software development, is pushing for Ethereum Name Service (ENS) integration into Dapps. To accomplish this, Gitcoin is funding bounties to encourage Dapp developers […]

Participation by big names in a big industry could impact international trade. Advertisements Tech giant IBM and Danish Shipping and logistics company Maersk have announced the creation of a global, blockchain-powered shipping platform, TradeLense, in an official August 9 press release. As of today, 94 organizations have either been early adopters of the program or […]

The US Patent and Trademark Office recently granted the financial software company a patent to create a bitcoin payment processing system. Advertisements On Tuesday, the US Patent and Trademark Office published a patent submitted by Intuit Inc. that enables the company to develop a novel procedure for processing bitcoin transactions. The process described in the […]

After conducting a pilot for a blockchain voting platform during West Virginia’s primary election, Secretary of State Mac Warner wants to further test the technology through a second trial during the state’s general election this November. Advertisements Facilitating the voting process via blockchain technology is a well-known use case. The Swiss city of Zug, for […]

The Ethereum network is experiencing copious transactions all connected to a single account, leading to broad speculation about their purpose. Advertisements A strange series of transactions on the Ethereum network began yesterday, leading to speculation that the network was the victim of a spam attack. The transactions are all connected to a single address, which […]

The network, created by the UK’s Financial Conduct Authority, is intended to create a global sandbox for tech innovators and regulators. Advertisements The UK’s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) announced the creation of the Global Financial Innovation Network (GFIN) in an August 7 press release. According to the statement, the creation of the network is the […]

Minimum Viable Plasma requires users to actively monitor and challenge exit attempts, but many users are offline most of the time. One developer suggests using an on-chain EDCC (or smart contract) to probabilistically verify the plasma chain. Though the proposal does address the concern in a wide range of scenarios, it is not a universal […]

The mobile Dapp browsing provider is teaming up with the crew behind the programming language Nim. Advertisements According to information shared with ETHNews, the team behind Status, a mobile Dapp browser on the Ethereum blockchain, has partnered with the developers of Nim, a “statically typed and compiled” programming language that can run on Windows, macOS, […]

The intergalactic survival game has a new bitcoin Easter egg. Advertisements The crypto and gaming communities overlap – there is no doubt about that. With numerous video games hitting the Ethereum blockchain, people are clearly interested in using the technology to develop novel gaming experiences for diehard players and casual blockchain users alike. But what […]