Ethereum Watch

More than two dozen ethereum improvement proposals (EIPs) have been submitted for review and inclusion in ethereum’s next system-wide upgrade or hard fork, dubbed Istanbul. Advertisements The list – with 28 official EIPs and at least one other set to be added – include changes to the $27 billion network that impact its mining algorithm, […]

“We need a first step toward more privacy,” Vitalik Buterin, founder of the ethereum blockchain network, said Wendesday. Advertisements In a new blog post, Buterin detailed a design to help obscure ethereum user activity on the blockchain. More specifically, Buterin proposed a “minimal mixer design” aimed at obfuscating user addresses when sending fixed quantities of ether […]

Cryptocurrency lending startup BlockFi is almost halving the interest rates it offers on ether (ETH) deposits, while some bitcoin (BTC) rates will increase slightly. Advertisements From June 1, customers with 25–100 ETH balances in a BlockFi Interest Account (BIA) will see the interest rate drop from the current 6.2 percent annual percentage yield (APY) to […]

The Ethereum Foundation detailed Tuesday how an estimated $30 million will be spent by the organization on key projects within the ethereum ecosystem. Advertisements The group said that $19 million has been earmarked over the next 12 months to be put towards “building the ethereum of tomorrow.” Namely, this includes an ambitious scaling upgrade dubbed […]

The ethereum movement, headed by flagship organizations like the Ethereum Foundation and the Brooklyn-based conglomerate ConsenSys, emerged from Blockchain Week 2019 with a common goal and a newfound sense of urgency. Advertisements In short, building ethereum 2.0 — the blockchain network’s ambitious reinvention plan — will require maturity. “The only people left are those that […]

Weekly trading volume for the world’s second largest cryptocurrency by market value, Ethereum (ETH), reached its highest notional value in over 17-months on the popular exchange Coinbase. Advertisements In Coinbase’s two most popular ETH markets, ETH/BTC and ETH/USD, a combined total of 3,675,570 units of ETH changed hands from May 13 to May 19, which […]

SprinkleXchange, a stock exchange built on ethereum, is reportedly listing its first company next month. Advertisements Sprinkle Group CEO Alexander Wallin told Bloomberg in an interview published Friday, “We have the luxury of being first with this, but we’re aware that it will become a crowded market.” The Bahrain-based platform, operating within a regulatory sandbox created […]

If building decentralized financial applications was the motto topic of Ethereal, the ethereum hackathon ETH New York was all about discussing the social impact of such applications. Advertisements Speaking to a group of high school students at ETH New York, Mariano Conti – head of smart contracts at the MakerDAO Foundation – asked foundational questions […]

Ethereum clients that still haven’t patched known vulnerabilities pose a security risk to the entire network, according to new research. Advertisements A report from Security Research Labs that used ethernodes.org data, indicates that a large number of nodes using the most popular clients Parity and Geth have been left exposed for “extended periods of time” […]

Meme Factory, a blockchain-based marketplace for digital collectibles, goes live today. Advertisements Meme Factory is built on ethereum and allows users to create, issue and trade “provably rare” digital collectibles, according to an announcement. The platform was created by blockchain startup District0x Network, which raised $9 million via an initial coin offering in August 2017. The funding […]