Category: Technology

Here’s everything you must know about Verizon’s new blockchain product that battles fake news

Verizon announced the launch of Full Transparency, a blockchain-based, open-source newsroom product last month as per a release shared with CryptoSlate. It is designed to raise the bar for corporate accountability and seeks to transform how the Verizon Corporate Newsroom publishes news releases by providing an authoritative record of changes to public communications. The Full…

November 20, 2020
This shift in the k-parameter marks the next phase of Cardano’s decentralization

Cardano’s k-parameter is set to increase to 500 on Dec. 6, drastically diminishing rewards for large, oversaturated stake pools. The sharp rise in the parameter will mean that the top 100 stake pools on the network will all become saturated, with IOHK advising users to slowly begin re-delegating their stake to smaller pools to increase…

November 19, 2020
China’s Nervos launches own token standard to compete with Ethereum

Nervos, one of China’s biggest blockchain and crypto projects, announced the launch of its own token standard, the sUDT, today as per a release shared with CryptoSlate. Since its launch last year, Nervos has made significant improvements to its infrastructure to support a wide range of DeFi applications, from payments and lending solutions to decentralized…

November 18, 2020
Bitcoin Unlimited Hosts Week-Long Hackathon to Bolster the Future of Finance

On December 2, 2020, the organization and full node project Bitcoin Unlimited is hosting a week-long hackathon that aims to build the future of finance by leveraging the decentralized crypto network Bitcoin Cash. The event dubbed “Coinparty 2020” aims to get the top crypto talent in the world to compete for $17k worth of bitcoin…

November 17, 2020
ConsenSys acquires Truffle Suite, the world’s most used blockchain developer tools

ConsenSys, the largest Ethereum venture production studio, has acquired Truffle Suite, the company behind one of the most widely used blockchain developer tools. In a press release shared with CryptoSlate, the company said that the addition of Truffle to ConsenSys will provide enterprise customers with a wider array of services and a slew of high-quality,…

November 17, 2020
Cardano’s Goguen update brings native tokens implementation and better dev tools

Cardano’s Goguen team has spent the first two weeks of November working on bringing native token and token locking functionalities to the Ledger hardware wallet. In the latest Goguen rollout development update, the team revealed that they kicked off the Marlowe Alpha grogram and gave the community a glimpse of the work that’s set to…

November 16, 2020
Big Tech Execs and Bitcoin: Skype Cofounder Keeps Personal Wealth in Crypto, Intercom Chairman ‘Firmly Jumps on the Bitcoin Wagon’

This week two well known tech executives revealed they have been dabbling in bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies. In a recent interview, Skype cofounder Jaan Tallinn detailed that he held bitcoin and ethereum in his personal finances, while the Intercom cofounder Eoghan McCabe tweeted on Sunday that he’s “jumped firmly onto the bitcoin wagon.” In 2020…

November 16, 2020
Introducing BeefChain, a rancher-to-retail supply chain traceability solution using Cardano

BeefChain is a Wyoming-based traceability solution on a quest to track the origin of cattle and sheep using Cardano. Aside from its strong Wyoming connections, it was Atala TRACE, a traceability solution built on top of Cardano, that made the blockchain a perfect choice for BeefTrace, which aims to promote more sustainable farming practices by…

November 12, 2020
Tezos “Delphi” upgrade goes live with faster transactions and lower fees

The fourth upgrade to the Tezos network went live earlier today at block 1,212,417, as per a tweet by its foundation and code maintainer. The Tezos blockchain was first announced in 2017 and was one of the biggest initial coin offerings at the time. Its mainnet has been active since mid-2018 and has not faced…

November 12, 2020
Ethereum accidentally “hard forks” after Infura outrage

The decentralized world computer was hit by the reality of having a single point of failure earlier today after an Ethereum client failed to update its software version. Infura, an Ethereum service provider run and maintained by ConsenSys, suffered a service outage this morning causing other services and companies to be temporarily blocked from seeing…

November 11, 2020