Again, for the second time in the year economic turmoil coming out of the Chinese market threatened Bitcoin and other assets prices. Stay away from the FUDs. Despite the bear trend throughout the week, Bitcoin millionaires stay bullish and speculation says BTC price to hit $69k in the next bull run! Interestingly, Bitcoin smart contracts...Read More
With the total value of assets locked in DeFi now worth over $13 billion, many expect this part of the crypto-space to grow at a rapid pace. In fact, in Q3 of 2020 alone, the DeFi ecosystem saw its transaction volume surpass $123 billion, with 96% of the total belonging to Ethereum. However, DeFi’s growth...Read More
In August 2020, Token Market was excited again with the presence of a token that uses the Ethereum ERC20 Protocol which builds self-government in the Smart Contract and the formation of the ecosystem itself in the Smart contract, this token is named YFI. Yearn.finance and the presence of YFI has made Uniswap V2 Exchanger is...Read More
After its initial token launch in June, TrustSwap, a smart contracts payments platform announced in a blog that Chainlink’s Price Reference Data – its decentralized oracle network – had been integrated with TrustSwap’s SmartLock and SmartEscrow products in order to determine fees associated with token-locking services. TrustSwap believed that Chainlink’s ETH/USD price oracle, which sources...Read More
Bitcoin and cryptocurrency research development group, Chaincode Labs has hired developer and co-founder of Blockstream, Pieter Wuille, who will now work on protocol improvements to Bitcoin. The coder and engineer posted a tweet in which he said he would continue to collaborate with the research team at Blockstream. Very excited to announce I’m joining Chaincode...Read More
Daemon Technologies, a firm based in Hong Kong, will now drive the adoption of Stacks technology to support cryptocurrency mining communities in Asia according to its launch tweet. Excited to announce my next chapter in the @blockstack and #stacks ecosystem! https://t.co/JRdZPeDwhi — Xan Ditkoff (@XanDitkoff) August 31, 2020 The firm stated that Asian mining communities were...Read More
Neo, a public blockchain and smart contracts platform announced that it has integrated with the Coinbase-led open-source project Rosetta. Neo integrates with #Rosetta, an open-source project led by Coinbase. We look forward to work together with Rosetta improving protocol integration processes in order to build the next-gen Internet.https://t.co/Nl8nF3OW4G — Neo Smart Economy (@Neo_Blockchain) August 28,...Read More
In brief: The team at Binance has completed one of the largest coin burns of BNB to date. The Binance Chain community recently released a whitepaper outlining plans to enable smart contracts. Binance Coin has its eyes set on erasing all losses experienced in March. In December of 2018, Ethereum World News hinted that Binance...Read More
In summary: Decentralized Finance (DeFi) has blossomed in the last year as more projects utilize the Ethereum blockchain due to its smart-contract capabilities. Currently, there is over 2.7 Million ETH locked up in DeFi DApps. Maker DAO transactions take up 49.36% of the ETH locked up in DeFi platforms. Can Tron (TRX) exceed this with...Read More
Search online for ‘possible creators of Bitcoin’ and Bit Gold creator Nick Szabo will always appear near the top of the list. His long history in the cypherpunk space, his writings on money, digital cash, and smart contracts, and some facts about his past have often been used to create a compelling picture that he...Read More
Telegram’s blockchain project, TON, has entered the last preparation stage before going live. The code for running a blockchain node was released on the test network portal late Friday. Yesterday, Telegram delivered its Telegram Open Network (TON) testnet explorer and node software on its website. Last month, three anonymous investors in Telegram’s $1.7 billion private...Read More
This blockchain projects may stay out of your radars since not all of them were actively advertised. However, we can say with confidence that these projects are worth paying attention to in 2019. It is always necessary to keep abreast of trends that occur in the cryptocurrency world. Many crypto advocates and traders called the...Read More
As Buterin said, Ethereum 2.0 aims to run ‘tens of thousands of transactions per second’ and he is sure that the new network will facilitate a number of on-chain transactions while maintaining key aspects of decentralization and security. At the beginning of next year, the launch of the initial phase of Ethereum 2.0 is taking place....Read More
The number of blockchain-based smart contract development platforms available to crypto developers is now greater than ever. Over the last 18 months, a Cambrian explosion in smart contract platforms has resulted in an embarrassment of riches and a plethora of options. No longer are crypto projects forced to choose between network effects (Ethereum) and scalability...Read More
OneLedger announced a partnership with the Google Cloud Platform (GCP) who will provide cloud computing services that facilitate an on-demand environment for developing software applications. An interoperable blockchain platform OneLedger announced their new partnership with the Google Cloud Platform (GCP). GCP supplies cloud computing services that clear the way to an on-demand territory for developing,...Read More
Hedera Hashgraph has announced the launch of its mainnet in September which will be followed by the release of its native HBAR coins. The platform has called for all interested developers to use its DLT for the creation of diverse DApps. Hedera Hashgraph, an enterprise public distributed ledger platform, has officially announced that it will...Read More
Few technologies garner as much attention and enthusiasm as blockchain technology and artificial intelligence (AI). Both technologies are featured prominently in Deloitte’s 2019’s Tech Trends Report, and they are drawing significant investments at the enterprise level. For instance, PwC’s 2019 Global Blockchain Survey found that 84% of executive-level survey respondents indicated that their companies are...Read More
Software developers Rosco Kalis and Gabriel Cardona have been steadily working on Cashscript, a high-level programming language for Bitcoin Cash. When the language is tied to certain opcodes, specific schemes can be built that allow for autonomous and decision-based transactions. While testing Cashscript’s capabilities, the two engineers recently deployed an oracle, forfeits, an onchain wager,...Read More
Photo: Shutterstock Gartner’s hype cycle methodology provides a means of modeling the evolution of any given technology, and it’s almost scarily accurate. The internet went through it, artificial intelligence went through it, and now blockchain is going through it, too. The timeline says it all. After Satoshi Nakamoto pulled the innovation trigger in launching Bitcoin...Read More
Bitcoin Core developer, Peiter Wuille, has introduced a new programming language called Miniscript, to simplify smart-contract development for Bitcoin. One of the most prolific and respected Core-developers, Wuille is responsible for the creation and implementation of Segregated Witness (SegWit). ‘Miniscript’ Is Like An Enhanced ‘Script’ For Bitcoin Miniscript is built on top of the existing...Read More
Recently Peter Wuille introduced a new smart contract language for the Bitcoin code called Miniscript. Peter, who is known for creating the SegWit code, says he has been working on this for about a year. In recent news, Peter Wuille, the creator of SegWit has come out with a new work. This time it is...Read More
Smart contracts could soon get a boost in bitcoin as prominent programmer Pieter Wuille has unveiled a new coding language designed specifically for their use. Posted to the bitcoin developer mailing list Monday, the ‘Miniscript’ language aims to make it easier for programmers to write up “smart contracts” or conditions for spending bitcoins. Programmers Wuille, Andrew...Read More
The Tron Foundation released its latest DApp Review, with the report revealing its growing dominance in the DApp ecosystem, as well as the increased use of smart contracts which surged to 1362 last week. The report highlighted the addition of two new DApps to the ecosystem; namely, Tron Name Service (TNS) and Zethyr Exchange. Tron...Read More
