Ethereum Watch

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 […]

MtGox is accepting civil rehabilitation claims until October 22. Advertisements Creditors who lost their bitcoin when Japanese cryptocurrency exchange MtGox went bankrupt in 2014 can start filing civil rehabilitation claims in an attempt to recover their lost virtual currency. An online guide published by MtGox rehabilitation trustee Nobuaki Kobayashi outlines three ways in which users […]

Someone has received a $2.9 million jackpot from the baffling game. How? Advertisements A week ago, the first round of the FOMO3D “long game” seemed like it may never end. In fact, it seemed like it may have been designed to never end. But early Wednesday morning, Team JUST, the group that created the game, […]

The recent appointment of Toshihide Endo may mean that the regulator’s stance on crypto regulations is softening. Advertisements According to an August 22 report in Reuters, the new chief of Japan’s Financial Services Agency (FSA) sees no need for excessive regulations governing the use of cryptocurrency. Toshihide Endo, who was appointed chief of Japan’s FSA […]

The platform’s recent “brand expansion,” as the team calls it, signals a heightened focus on privacy. Advertisements ZenCash, a privacy-driven blockchain and cryptocurrency (ticker symbol ZEN), is donning a new look: Horizen. The brand expansion (not a rebrand, the team notes) zeroes in on the crew’s “refined strategic vision” moving forward. Besides a different name, […]

ProShares, Direxion, and GraniteShares were all denied for the same reason. Advertisements UPDATED | August 23, 2018 (4:40 pm) According to tweets from SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce on August 23, the decision to deny nine ETF proposals from three different companies is under review. In her tweets, Commissioner Peirce stated that it was not the […]

Chinese officials have rolled out a series of bans on cryptocurrency-related activities in recent days. Advertisements Chinese investors no longer have access to 124 cryptocurrency trading platforms, according to the local newspaper and news outlet for Chinese financial authorities, Shanghai Securities News. According to the article, the China National Internet Financial Risk Rectification Office identified […]