Ethereum Watch

When cryptocurrency fans gathered in Osaka, Japan, this week for the Devcon developer conference, the halls were filled with buzz about smaller projects seeking access to ethereum’s decentralized finance smorgasbord, especially loans and financial products, via interoperability. Advertisements “Connecting to other chains doesn’t seem to be an ethereum developer’s priority,” Summa co-founder James Prestwich told […]

Jemina Joseph, 18, is working a summer job as a social media manager for a crypto startup after graduating from high school in the Bronx. And she learned how to make her first cryptocurrency transaction, a purchase using zcash, with the Flexa mobile app.  Advertisements It was a summer day, so hot the air outside […]

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In Today’s Crypto Minute: Gemini exchange integrates Zcash, Bezant ICO raises $16.8 million in hours with little marketing effort, China moves to standardize analysis of cryptocurrencies. Gemini Is Now the World’s First Licensed Zcash Exchange Gemini continues to be a trailblazer by expanding the breadth of accessibility to the crypto market. Furthermore, the NYSDFS in conjunction […]

Can public cryptocurrencies stay public? Advertisements That’s the simple question that lies at the heart of a complex debate happening across major cryptocurrencies, where developers from projects as diverse as ethereum, monero and zcash are up in arms over what to do about the arrival of a new form of hardware that could upend the delicate […]

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, […]

Lightning is spreading across the cryptocurrency landscape. Advertisements Originally designed for use on bitcoin, the world’s largest cryptocurrency by market size was also the first to implement the concept, touted as a way to make transactions faster and cheaper by moving them to a layer above the blockchain. But with scalability emerging as a pressing issue across the […]

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 […]