April 7, 2020 Italy’s Top News Agency Uses Blockchain to Fight Fake Coronavirus News ANSA, Italy’s main news agency, partnered with Ernst & Young to combat fake coronavirus news with blockchain. Amid the global pandemic crisis, the importance of ensuring trusted information is getting more crucial as fake coronavirus news poses a direct threat to life and health of people worldwide.While…
March 24, 2020 ZenGo Warns of Major Security Flaw Among DApp Wallets ZenGo has identified a major security flaw prevalent among DApp wallets whereby users grant complete access to their tokens by authorizing a single transaction. Cryptocurrency wallet provider ZenGo has built a testnet to demonstrate a major security flaw prevalent among decentralized application (DApp) wallets.On…
March 17, 2020 Bitcoin, Not Governments Will Save the World After Crisis, Tim Draper Says “When the world comes back, it will be Bitcoin, not banks and governments that save the day,” famous investor Tim Draper said. Amid some notable recovery of Bitcoin (BTC) after a number of subsequent market crashes last week, billionaire investor Tim Draper delivered another optimistic forecast about Bitcoin.In…
March 17, 2020 Waves Claims 70x Increase in Smart Contract Speed Amid Enterprise Upgrades Waves has unveiled several upgrades to its enterprise platform, including a drastic increase in smart contract execution speed and licensing fees to operate on the network. Russian blockchain firm Waves has announced updates to its enterprise platform, including accelerated smart contract execution, licensing fees and inter-chain anchoring.On…
March 11, 2020 Chainlink to Partners With Hyundai CEO-Founded Firm for Oracle Problem Chainlink and Hdac Technology are developing a new system to bolster smart contract execution using off-chain data. Chainlink, a major smart contract technology supplier, has tapped a new partnership to streamline one of the biggest issues around smart contracts.According…
March 9, 2020 Noncustodial Smart Wallet Seeks to Widen Access to Crypto and DeFi A noncustodial smart wallet for both cryptocurrencies and DApps has sealed fresh funding as its attempts to challenge existing offerings in the industry. A noncustodial smart wallet for both cryptocurrencies and decentralized applications has sealed fresh funding as its attempts to challenge existing offerings in the industry.Speaking…
March 6, 2020 CryptoKitties Developers Launch Playground for Developers The team behind CryptoKitties, Dapper Labs, has launched an interactive interface for developers to experiment with building smart contracts on the Flow blockchain. On March 5, CryptoKitties creator Dapper Labs announced the launch of Flow Playground — an interactive interface that lets developers experiment with developing applications on the company’s Flow blockchain.Developers…
March 5, 2020 EY, Microsoft and ConsenSys Launch Enterprise Platform on Ethereum Mainnet Microsoft, ConsySys and EY have launched Baseline, an open-source smart contract and tokenization protocol for enterprises on the Ethereum Mainnet. Global taxation and transaction advisory firm EY have announced the launch of their open-source Baseline protocol. Baseline…
March 2, 2020 EOSIO 2.0 Released but Vote-Buying and Centralization Concerns Persist EOSIO says reports of EOS network degradation are inaccurate, blockchain is performing at levels exceeding the capacities of major crypto exchanges. Earlier in January 2020, Block.one…
February 27, 2020 Blockchain Technology Partners Unveil Smart Contracts on Amazon AWS Blockchain Technology Partners launch DAML on Amazon’s Quantum Ledger Database, enabling smart contracts. Customers can now integrate smart contracts on Amazon Web Services’ Quantum Ledger Database, or QLDB, thanks to tech company Blockchain Technology Partners.Blockchain…
February 27, 2020 Certik Launches Demo for Language That Aims to Make Blockchain ‘Hacker-Resistant’ Blockchain security firm CertiK has released a demo and language reference manual for its smart contract security-focused DeepSEA programming language. Blockchain security firm CertiK has released a demo and language reference manual for its smart contract-focused DeepSEA programming language.Both…
February 16, 2020 Binance Set to Launch NEO/USDT Futures With Up to 50x Leverage Major cryptocurrency exchange Binance announced it is about to launch a new futures product tracking crypto asset NEO. Major cryptocurrency exchange Binance announced that it is about to launch a new futures product tracking crypto asset NEO.Per…
