Ethereum Watch

Ethereum’s moon math is showing signs of coming back to earth. Advertisements Such was the feeling at EthCC, an ethereum developer conference in Paris, Thursday, where a dedicated privacy track struck a somber note compared to years past. Indeed, despite a software upgrade in October that saw improvements built to pave the way for confidentiality, […]

Comcast is banking on a world with multiple blockchains. Advertisements Revealed exclusively to CoinDesk, the venture arm of the telecommunications giant is leading a $3.3 million seed investment in Blockdaemon, a New York City-based startup that creates enterprise software for interacting with a wide range of blockchains. While Blockdaemon has so far allowed its clients […]

At the beach, they say, all your troubles melt away. Advertisements But that’s not entirely the case for researchers who spent part of this week at the Financial Crypto 2018 conference on the Caribbean island of Curacao, discussing the decentralization of the two largest crypto protocols, bitcoin and ethereum – or where they’re lacking in this regard. […]

Is ethereum’s biggest future upgrade “fundamentally vulnerable?” Advertisements That was the claim put forward by distributed systems expert and founding VMware researcher Dahlia Malkhi on Friday, who used those exact words to describe ethereum’s Casper protocol at Financial Cryptography 2018 in Curacao. During a keynote presentation, Malkhi’s covered blockchain through the lens of a long-studied area […]

Yet another ethereum scaling solution is launching a test network. Advertisements Announced Friday, Liquidity.Network is officially joining Raiden Network as the latest ethereum project to attempt to move transactions off the world’s second most valuable blockchain and into payment channels, in turn, allowing the network to support greater adoption and use. Similar to bitcoin’s better-known Lightning Network, Liquidity.Network […]

On November 24, 2015, James Levy received 40,000 ether from the Ethereum Foundation. Advertisements Worth roughly $35,000 at the time (and nearly $35 million today), the grant was an award for Levy’s efforts to create an early smart contracting tool, and one of many meant to encourage work on what was then another nascent cryptocurrency in a […]

Even as Russia stands accused of meddling in the 2016 U.S. presidential election, its national capital is taking a leadership role in making democracy more transparent. Advertisements Using an existing program called Active Citizen, the city of Moscow has been allowing residents to cast votes for measures ranging from the name of their new metro […]

A red-hot ethereum game is off the market, collapsing Tuesday in a complex tale involving crypto-economics, community backlash, and finally, a sudden takeover. Advertisements Launched just earlier this month, Crypto All Stars was an instant hit, with over $2 million in ether passing between users, according to data from dappradar.com. Like CryptoKitties before it, Crypto […]

A cryptocurrency modeled after a dog meme is proving yet again it’s not just a joke. Advertisements Created on a whim in 2013, dogecoin isn’t simply still around, it’s playing a crucial role in the ongoing testing of at least one “serious” technology. In fact, on February 5, it notably factored into an experiment that successfully […]

Some people just aren’t that into digital cats. Advertisements Once the only major ethereum application (or dapp) to see a large number of users trading “crypto collectables,” CryptoKitties is seeing new competition from projects seeking to issue their own tradable code on the blockchain. Zombies, countries – even crypto celebrities – are now creating whole new […]