Ethereum Watch

Vietnam’s State Securities Commission says good night, cryptocurrency. Advertisements The State Securities Commission (SSC) in Vietnam has reportedly banned financial companies from using cryptocurrency. According to an announcement made by the SSC earlier this week, and reported by the government-affiliated English-language newspaper Viet Nam News, the country’s securities regulator has forbidden public companies, securities companies, […]

The South Carolina attorney general’s office has dropped its enforcement action against ShipChain, the blockchain logistics company that it had previously accused of securities violations. Advertisements In May, the South Carolina securities commissioner served ShipChain, a blockchain logistics company, a cease and desist order as part of Operation Cryptosweep. Apparently, the securities division, which falls under […]

A casual conversation with the ICO Alert Team Welcome to the ninth rendition of the ICO Alert Roundtable: an off-the-cuff discussion covering current events in crypto hosted by Zach Quezada & Evan Schindler. Advertisements Follow us on Twitter: Our guest this episode is REM Loyalty’s Founder — Zdravko Loborec. Some of the topics we covered include: Advertisements Bitcoin […]

Borderless, permissionless and free from coercion. Advertisements That’s the dream underlying web 3.0, in which unstoppable, decentralized applications (dapps) combine with web 2.0 technology, eventually corroding the power structures that traditional infrastructures encode. But that vision hasn’t come as fast as some expected or hoped, and moreover, some ethereum applications seem to even be working against […]

The ERC777 standard would allow token holders more control and easier transactions. Advertisements Move over, ERC20, and make way for ERC777. The new token standard created by Jordi Baylina, Jacques Dafflon, and Thomas Shababi will be finalized soon. The EIP for ERC777 was posted November 20, 2017, and has been open for community feedback and […]

A definitive word may come from the G20 summit in October. Advertisements In addition to the many financial, economic, and technical issues discussed at the G20 summit last weekend in Argentina, assembled finance ministers and central bank governors from the world’s top economies also touched upon cryptocurrency standards and regulations. Members of the G20 summit […]

The blockchain Dapp browser extension has disappeared from the Android and Chrome marketplace. Advertisements UPDATED | 1:42 p.m.: After announcing that its extension had been removed from the Chrome Web Store earlier on Wednesday, MetaMask took to Twitter several hours later to say that it’s back: ORIGINAL | 11:38 a.m.:  Advertisements MetaMask, which enables users […]

The hottest new apps on ethereum resemble an old favorite: the Ponzi scheme. At least that’s the early consensus on FOMO 3D and PoWH3D, two of the platform’s top three apps entering Tuesday. Advertisements According to data website DappRadar, both games have amassed 20,000 ether ($9 million) in trading volume over the last 24 hours, a […]

Michael Novogratz recently stated EOS can process 5,000 transactions per second and will soon handle far more. But it’s hard to find data to support the claim. Advertisements Michael Novogratz recently made headlines with a bold assertion during an interview with TheStreet that the EOS blockchain is, “already doing 5,000 transactions a second. It should […]

The US Securities and Exchange Commission extended the deadline to approve or disapprove a proposed rule change associated with NYSE Arca’s potential listing of Direxion’s bitcoin-tied exchange-traded funds. Advertisements On Tuesday, the Federal Register published a notice from the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) dated July 18, 2018. The agency has postponed by 60 […]