Ethereum Watch

When life gives you lemons to the tune of nearly $160 million, it’s not so easy to make lemonade. Advertisements But that’s just what ethereum startup Parity Technologies is seeking to do after a rough 2017, a year in which it suffered one of the most high-profile breaches in the history of blockchain. Far from […]

One of Canada’s largest investment funds is hoping to leverage the ethereum ecosystem through a new venture. Advertisements Ethereum Capital, a recently incorporated entity formed primarily by Canadian investment group OMERS, is raising $50 million and preparing for a reverse-takeover procedure. When the funding round is completed on Feb. 16, the company will invest the […]

Ethereum is getting closer to deploying new technology that would allow the network to scale, its founder said. Advertisements “It seems like part one of phase one is getting something like being already done,” Vitalik Buterin said in a developer meeting. The technology, known as sharding, attempts to split the ethereum blockchain’s data into more manageable […]

“We look at ethereum like AOL or Myspace.” Advertisements That’s how Mobius Network co-founder and CEO David Gobaud explains why his startup ran its initial coin offering (ICO) on the Stellar network instead of ethereum, the most popular blockchain for token sales. The comment underscores the growing interest in some corners of the crypto community […]

You can’t have your cake and eat it too, the old saying goes. In the cryptocurrency space, the big question is whether you can have decentralization and scale it too. Advertisements The struggle between these two goals has become more noticeable as a rush of new enthusiasts have entered the space, lured by the technology […]

Ajit Tripathi is a EMEA partner at Consensys Enterprise, and a former director of fintech and digital banking at PwC, where he co-founded its UK blockchain and smart contracts practice. Advertisements The following article is an exclusive contribution to CoinDesk’s 2017 in Review. I have come to trust Vitalik Buterin to ask the most important questions […]

24,270 tokens. 27,358 pending transactions. 463,713 digital kittens. Advertisements Ethereum has hosted a lot of activity recently, and while many crypto enthusiasts see that as a positive sign, as the network’s usage soars, its history gets longer and its blockchain more unruly. And although network congestion leading to transaction backlogs and rising fees has taken […]

What if there were no exchanges to hack? Advertisements As a new generation of crypto users begin to invest in the technology, developers are growing concerned about its infrastructure. They’ve seen this happen before – new users enter the space attracted by big gains, then suddenly, a catastrophic failure, usually at the very exchanges designed […]

The price of ether is shattering all-time highs. Advertisements Rising to more than $1,000 for the first time ever last week, the cryptocurrency has reclaimed its place as the second-largest blockchain by total value, days after being temporarily surpassed by Ripple’s XRP token. However, as with that controversial market move, the massive uptick in value […]

RSK is launching its bitcoin smart contracts platform in beta today. Advertisements Formerly known as Rootstock, the startup has long been lauded for its potential to pave the way for the implementation of ethereum-style smart contracts on bitcoin, something enthusiasts believe will keep the world’s largest cryptocurrency competitive with the platform that arguably pioneered the idea […]