Ethereum Watch

AWS launched Ethereum and Hyperledger Fabric BaaS templates, targeted toward small to medium-sized businesses. Advertisements Amazon Web Services (AWS) officially released AWS Blockchain Templates on Thursday. The service is intended to make it easier for developers to create projects based on Ethereum and the Linux Foundation’s Hyperledger Fabric. The product, which positions AWS to compete with […]

X-Road, a blockchain-integrated data sharing platform that is one of the Estonian government’s digital pet projects, will facilitate the transfer of information between some institutions in its home country and others in Finland. Advertisements Estonia’s X-Road platform for secure online data transfers, which first launched in 2000, will soon support the transmission of data between […]

Ex-CFTC chairman Gary Gensler believes that Ether and Ripple’s XRP might be ‘noncompliant securities.’ Bitcoin, he anticipates, may remain exempt from that classification. Advertisements This afternoon, former Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) chairman Gary Gensler is slated to deliver a speech at MIT’s Business of Blockchain Conference. In remarks entitled “A Global View: Regulations for […]

Developers of Ethereum (ETH), the largest altcoin by market capitalization, have published Ethereum Improvement Proposal (EIP) #1011 on Friday, April 20, to create a hybrid system of consensus that seeks to push the network away from issues associated with crypto mining. Advertisements The proposal consists of specifications for implementing the Hybrid Casper the Friendly Finality […]

As the Ethereum community debated a proposal to fork the network in order to unfreeze Ether tokens locked in some Parity wallets, developer Alex Van De Sande wrote a blog post arguing that any contentious hard fork would hurt the network. Along those lines, he advocates for finding a solution to the problem of the […]

The European Parliament voted strongly in favor of regulations, which would deter cryptocurrency-based money laundering and terrorism financing. Advertisements On April 19, 2018, members of the European Parliament approved a December agreement with the European Council, which calls for “closer regulation of virtual currencies, like Bitcoin, to prevent them being used for money laundering and […]

Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin has hit out at Blockchain platform Tron, among others, telling mainstream media April 18 it was an example of “projects that never had a soul.” Advertisements Speaking to the Financial Times along with comments which ranged from Ethereum’s success to his views of “the Establishment,” Buterin focused on the rapid rise […]

Less than a week after acquiring a major Japanese crypto-exchange, the chief executive at Monex is appealing to regulators to employ incumbent banking standards at cryptocurrency exchanges. Advertisements After its April 16 purchase of the Coincheck cryptocurrency exchange that was reported earlier this month, the CEO of online Japanese brokerage firm Monex closed out what […]

In the latest setback to befall the Tezos project, co-founder Arthur Breitman has been sanctioned by FINRA. Breitman is barred from contact with broker-dealers for two years and has been fined $20,000. Advertisements In a settlement agreement dated April 18, the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) suspended Tezos co-founder Arthur Breitman from associating with broker-dealers […]

When you’re going into business, it’s good to have the regulators on your side. Advertisements Late last month, venture capital firms Andreessen Horowitz and Union Square Ventures (USV) reportedly met with officials from the SEC’s Division of Corporation Finance to discuss potential regulatory exemptions for innovations related to blockchain and cryptocurrency. Andreessen was represented by […]