Ethereum Watch

Committee on Science, Space, & Technology subcommittees will hold a hearing on a popular blockchain use case. Advertisements On May 8, at the Rayburn House Office Building in Washington, DC, two US House subcommittees will gather for a hearing titled Leveraging Blockchain Technology to Improve Supply Chain Management and Combat Counterfeit Goods. The Subcommittee on […]

Telegram’s plans to launch a multi-billion-dollar initial coin offering for its Telegram Open Network project hit the skids upon news that early-accredited investments met Telegram’s fundraising goal. Advertisements Per a report by The Wall Street Journal, a “person familiar with the matter” of Telegram’s fundraising exploits said the company canceled the public portion of its […]

Parity’s recent call for a vote on their submitted EIP-999, which would allow for affected users to regain access to their assets stored in the multisig wallet, caused a stir within the Ethereum community, even prompting Vitalik Buterin himself to call for a boycott of Consensus 2018, stating “sensationalist” coverage of EIP-999 as part of […]

Alexis Ohanian, a co-founder of Reddit, said that he predicts the price of Ethereum (ETH) will reach $15,000 in 2018, Fortune reports May 2. Advertisements Ohanian, who now works full-time at a venture capital (VC) firm Initialized Capital, said in an interview, “At the end of the year, Bitcoin will be at $20,000. And Ethereum […]

Since its formation nearly a year and a half ago, it’s safe to say that the Enterprise Ethereum Alliance (EEA) has been quiet. Advertisements Apart from a steady stream of new members, there has been a lull of live projects, one that has led some to theorize the consortium might not deliver on standards for enterprise […]

The historical moment when leaders from South and North Korea met on April 27 and signed an agreement for peace between the two nations has now been permanently recorded on the ethereum blockchain. Advertisements According to a report from CoinDesk Korea, Ryu Gi-hyeok, a 27-year-old game developer from South Korea, has coded the Panmunjom Declaration, which […]

The Enterprise Ethereum Alliance corporate consortium is releasing common business standards for organizations that use Ethereum. Advertisements After being teased in mid-April from a London blockchain event, the day has finally arrived for the Enterprise Ethereum Alliance (EEA) to officially announce its highly anticipated Ethereum business standards. The Enterprise Ethereum Architecture Stack (EEAS) will serve […]

Australian regulators are cracking down on “misleading or deceptive conduct” among initial coin offerings. Advertisements In an announcement released May 1, the Australian Securities & Investments Commission (ASIC) revealed that it is issuing inquiries to ICO holders suspected of conduct or statements that may be misleading to Australian investors, in addition to inquiries regarding unlicensed […]

In the space of three hours on Wednesday, BitGrail announced its re-opening and then promptly disabled operations once again. Advertisements On May 2, 2018, BitGrail – a cryptocurrency exchange based in Italy – announced to its customers that the exchange was resuming services after a several-week hiatus. “Given the probable overload of servers, it is […]

In a remarkably detailed hearing on digital currencies, members of the United Kingdom’s Parliament asked industry stakeholders and experts about the possible advantages and disadvantages of blockchain. Advertisements On May 1, 2018, the United Kingdom Parliament’s Treasury Committee heard testimony on blockchain from the director of the Centre for Evidence-Based Management, Martin Walker, as well […]