Ethereum Watch

Chainlink CEO Sergey Nazarov says there’s one big thing holding back corporate adoption of blockchain technology: reliable oracle services that connect blockchain systems to real-world events, and vice versa. Advertisements In his mind, making blockchain-based contracts pegged to real-world events – in a reliable and secure manner – is the next “leap forward” that will […]

Although most developers use GitHub to organize and share open-source code, funds like Coinbase Ventures, Distributed Global and Digital Currency Group are betting on a crypto-native alternative. Advertisements Former ConsenSys token guru Harrison Hines is now CEO of his own startup, Terminal, which closed a $3.7 million seed round in late 2018 for a developer […]

In a move that could compromise ethereum’s long-held dominance as the world’s top platform for smart-contract development, blockchain interoperability project Cosmos will offer users the choice to code in at least three different programming languages. Advertisements The first language to be supported on Cosmos is called Ethermint, a direct replica of ethereum’s smart contract language […]

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, […]

Ethereum dominated the crypto market in 2017 as the smart contract platform of choice for ICOs and blockchain projects. In 2017, over 95% of projects decided to run their token sale and/or build their decentralized application using Ethereum’s ERC20 standard (or some form of it). Advertisements While Ethereum clearly has first mover advantage, it seems […]

On this week’s episode, Mike Finch and I interview Jimmy Zhong of the IOS Foundation, building the Internet of Services (IOST). Advertisements We discuss the tech behind IOST, how Proof of Believability and Servi — a non-tradable token that IOST nodes accumulate by contributing to the network — makes the network more fair and decentralized, and what initiatives IOST […]

Here are what I find to be the most significant Tritium features described in the whitepaper. Advertisements We’ll go one layer at a time. 1) Network Layer Nexus points out that scalability doesn’t just depend on ledger size (read: the size of messages, and by extension block size) but on how messages are routed among nodes. […]

The original Ethereum chain, with a commitment to immutability, sidechains, and aspirations in the IoT space. Confusing newcomers is something cryptocurrency does particularly well. Advertisements Bitcoin. Bitcoin Cash. Ethereum. Ethereum Classic. …Bitcoin Gold, Bitcoin Diamond, Bitcoin God, Ethereum Fog… Ethereum originally hard-forked to undo the damage caused by a bad actor, as we’ll explore below, but […]

Even Pokemon Go might need a blockchain. Advertisements While an augmented reality mobile app used to collect funny-looking, digital critters might sound like a silly (or useless) service to re-architect with blockchain, the developers at ethereum startup FOAM make a compelling case. “The problem is that people lie about their location,” said Ryan John King, the […]

Ripple’s former CTO Stefan Thomas is going up against Ethereum with the launch of a new smart contracts platform. Advertisements Well, “new” isn’t quite right – the platform Thomas released implementations for today is Codius, an open-source project that Ripple released in beta in 2014 but shelved the following year. Now, though, having announced his departure […]