Ethereum Watch

Central Bank Digital Currencies [CBDC] have gained prominence at the 2020 World Economic Forum. ConsenSys released a whitepaper that outlined a practical proposal for central bank digital currencies on the Ethereum blockchain. Advertisements The whitepaper stated, “We propose that central banks issue CBDC on a large-scale, private, permissioned, Ethereum-based network in which central bank appointed […]

Ethereum is making headway, in terms of real-world applications. Especially, with the smart contract feature and in the DeFi sector. As for the price of ETH, it stood at $162 at the time of writing with a market cap of $17.8 million. The coin has witnessed a growth of over 1.59% in the last 24 […]

Decentralized Finance [DeFi] has been making headway in the cryptocurrency market since last year with millions of dollars locked in the ecosystem. While this particular space has been seeing significant growth, some speculators such as TM Lee – CoinGecko Founder – are expecting its debut on other blockchains (apart from Ethereum) in the near future. […]

Central Bank Digital Currencies have taken the world by storm; the landscape of cryptocurrencies has evolved to an extent where central banks of various countries are now analyzing and researching ways to explore digital innovation. Advertisements So much so that the WEF published, what it’s called ‘The Central Bank Digital Currency Policy-Maker Toolkit‘, to assist […]

Over the last decade, the digital assets industry has achieved enormous success; however, its reputation has often been weighed down by major lows. The hack of Mt. Gox was one of the first blows to the industry, raising serious concerns with respect to network security and asset protection. Advertisements When Mt.Gox was in operation, it […]

In a recent interview, CEO of IOHK and Cardano founder, Charles Hoskinson, spoke about proof-of-stake systems, Ethereum smart contracts, and IOHK‘s goals for 2020. According to Hoskinson, there is a large group of people in the cryptocurrency space who either believe PoS is a Ponzi scheme or that Cardano’s particular flavor of it is flawed. […]

“The point of all these cryptocurrencies and blockchains is ultimately the management of assets, information, trust, and data,” said Charles Hoskinson, CEO of IOHK and Founder of Cardano, in a recent interview. During the same, Hoskinson spoke at length about Bitcoin, blockchain security, Ethereum, and about creating a global social operating system. Advertisements According to […]

\n Advertisements The number of new altcoins and stablecoins being offered to the general public continues to increase. This is in spite of the fact that the Initial Coin Offerings (ICOs) that started the altcoin craze have met mostly failure. Sorry, but, what is this garbage? pic.twitter.com/QSx6aTXAGq — snipe(); (@0xSnipe) January 18, 2020 The beginning […]

Bob Summerwill, the Executive Director of ETC Cooperative, recently submitted a proposal to place a hard cap on the gaslimit for the ETC mainnet as an in-protocol consensus rule. Advertisements Submitting a pull request to the Ethereum Classic Github repository, Summerwill asserted that security and decentralization are the two most important factors that have been […]

Ethereum‘s recent encounter with the bulls enabled the world’s 2nd largest crypto-asset to breach its key resistance at $155 for the first time since the end of November 2019. The registered growth since 14 January is effectively upwards of 20 percent, as the valuation stretched from $143.73 to $174.37 in a span of just 3 […]