Ethereum Watch

September 13, 2018 9:57 PM Advertisements ChainSafe and folks from Parity Technologies are advocating for a new proof of authority testnet that would be easier to use across clients. The algorithm chosen to back it may prove contentious. On September 13, Afri Schoedon of Parity Technologies posted a call for participation to create a more […]

September 13, 2018 9:38 PM Advertisements To cope with demand, the agency has brought on more staff. On September 12, the director-general of the Strategy Development and Management Bureau of Japan’s Financial Services Agency (FSA), Kiyotaka Sasaki, revealed to Reuters the agency has added 12 members to its current staff of 30 to improve the […]

September 12, 2018 8:36 PM Advertisements The agency announced two regulatory “firsts” this week. This week the SEC announced two enforcement actions in the cryptocurrency space. Both Crypto Asset Management LP (CAM), a cryptocurrency hedge fund, and TokenLot, an ICO platform, have been shut down by the regulators. Both actions are being described by the […]

September 12, 2018 9:14 PM Advertisements After an ongoing court battle between Ripple Labs and the R3 Consortium, which initially began over an agreement for R3 to purchase five billion XRP, a settlement has finally been reached. On September 8, 2017, blockchain consortium R3 accused Ripple of breaching an option contract that gave R3 a […]

September 12, 2018 9:32 PM Advertisements Users of the new blockchain platform will not have to change their money at a bank when traveling internationally. Japan-based tech company SoftBank announced the development of a new blockchain-powered cross-carrier mobile payment service in a press release published on the company’s website on September 12. Advertisements The new […]

September 11, 2018 7:37 PM Advertisements A federal judge has ruled against the defendant’s motion, which argued that two allegedly fraudulent ICOs should not be prosecuted as a securities violation. The judge in the case of the United States v. Maksim Zaslavskiy today issued his decision on the defendant’s motion to dismiss. Zaslavskiy is accused […]

September 11, 2018 7:37 PM Advertisements Parity has merged all relevant EIPs to its client software and is ready for testing. Parity has officially implemented Constantinople to its client software and is ready for testing ahead of Ethereum’s October hard fork. Afri Schoedon of Parity Technologies posted a link to the GitHub pull request on […]

September 11, 2018 7:37 PM Advertisements The waves may have crashed, but Ethereum enthusiasts need not be caught in the ticketless undertow. Deva the Devcon4 Unicorn, the official voice of the Ethereum Foundation’s Devcon team, announced yesterday that the third and final wave of ticket sales for the annual developer conference had concluded. Like the […]

September 10, 2018 9:53 PM Advertisements The two investment products seem to need official classification before trading can commence. Investors who use Bitcoin Tracker One and Ether Tracker One will have to wait a few days before they can commence trading. Advertisements According to an official announcement by the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) […]

September 10, 2018 8:53 PM Advertisements The Ethereum Request for Comment, posted today, emphasizes “partially-fungible” tokens. Today, developer Stephane Gosselin posted a new proposal for a security token standard, titled ERC1400, on GitHub. The purpose of this new token standard is to better enable regulatory compliance for parties offering securities on the Ethereum network. Advertisements […]