Ethereum Watch

Advertisements The top 100 holders of Ethereum have been buying more and more. The ongoing accumulation is a positive indicator that expectations are high. When it comes to cryptocurrencies, it is often useful to look at the movements of top wallets. You can often learn a lot from how many holders a project has—and whether […]

Advertisements Several reports have been released in recent months suggesting that financial institutions are moving towards a cashless society — one built on top of decentralized technologies and central bank digital currencies. In addition to the fact that several countries are releasing their own Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs), banks are also considering simply implementing […]

Advertisements Bitcoin (BTC) represented on Ethereum’s own blockchain has been growing. In fact, the on-chain BTC value on Ethereum is close to surpassing Lightning Network. Lightning Network has been hyped by the Bitcoin community for years now, but we’re still a long way away from it being rolled out for mass adoption. In fact, adoption […]

\n Advertisements The $51.7M stolen from Upbit in late November is still on the move. Today, another $1M worth of ETH was transferred to yet another wallet. It’s January 2020 and the Upbit hackers still haven’t been caught. In late November, around $51.7M in ETH was stolen from the Korean exchange Upbit’s hot wallet. However, […]

\n Advertisements In the past decade, the blockchain and cryptocurrency industry has gone from being the domain of computer engineers and coders to a widely recognized field brimming with potential and promise. However, although the industry has witnessed impressive growth fueled by the success of several cryptocurrencies and the platforms that facilitate their use, it […]

\n Advertisements Ethereum is making progress, but the timeline for a full ETH 2.0 release is not coming any closer. According to a recent official blog post, we can expect “potentially many years before a full ‘Ethereum 2.0’ roll-out.” With the recent Istanbul hard fork update, many in the Ethereum community were enthusiastic about Ethereum […]

Pascal Thellman is CMO at Bounty0x, a simple service for earning crypto, and an advisor at PolyGrowth, a crypto PR firm. Advertisements — As proof-of-stake (PoS) networks gear up in an effort to compete with proof-of-work (PoW) blockchains, significant attention has been placed on their validator mechanisms and incentive structures for maintaining valid consensus. In […]

Swiss Federal Railways (SBB) has completed a proof-of-concept (PoC) of a blockchain-based credentials management system for workers employed at the company’s construction sites. Advertisements The project ran from May to November, and aimed to improve upon the current manual, paper-based processes in an “agile working environment with a digital, audit-proof solution based on blockchain,” Daniele Pallecchi, […]

“If you build it strong enough, the law will follow.” Advertisements That’s how Daniel Nagy, the lead developer behind Swarm – ethereum’s decentralized storage-layer – described his “takeaway lesson” after a seven-year legal battle over his use of an early file-sharing network called Direct Connect (DC). A precursor to peer-to-peer file sharing service Bittorrent, DC is […]

A little-known ethereum project called Lition is quietly helping real German citizens find cheaper energy. Advertisements Launched earlier this year, Lition is already a licensed energy supplier in Germany with clients in 12 major cities (including Berlin, Hamburg and Munich) who are now using its decentralized energy market. Built on top of the ethereum blockchain, […]