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ETHNews sat down with Merit founder and CEO Adil Wali to learn about the connection between the eSports and cryptocurrency communities. Advertisements Multiplayer video game competitions, or eSports, are huge. Starting with the Space Invaders Championship of 1980, which saw 10,000 gamers compete for glory and intergalactic domination, contests and tournaments have long been a […]

The duo found that digital currencies don’t behave like stocks or other currencies when it comes to price movements. Advertisements On August 6, Yale economist Yukun Liu and PhD candidate Aleh Tsyvinski published a working paper titled Risks and Returns of Cryptocurrency. In it, they argue that there are several factors that predict price trends […]

The Commonwealth Bank of Australia has announced it is creating what it claims is the first bond entirely transferred and managed on the blockchain. Advertisements The Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CBA) has announced that it has partnered with the World Bank to issue a bond on a blockchain platform. According to the announcement, the bond, […]

Giveth and Aragon are joining to create a decentralized organization structure by fusing transparent, independent governance and altruistic purpose. Advertisements On August 9, Aragon One and Giveth, two blockchain enterprises aiming to revolutionize organizational structure through blockchain technology, announced a joint project to develop the Aragon stack. Aragon is a project aiming to decentralize and […]

The Fellowship of Ethereum Magicians plans to hold its Council of Prague prior to the global Ethereum developer conference. Advertisements According to an August 10 announcement from the Fellowship of Ethereum Magicians, a self-organized gaggle of Ethereum developers, the group will meet up for its Council of Prague in the days leading up to the […]

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 […]