Category: Technology

This analyst thinks EIP-1559 could send Ethereum past $1,000 in 2021

Ethereum has been seeing immense underlying strength as of late due to the progress towards the ETH 2.0 network upgrade, which is expected to help drive further development activity and usage to the platform. Investors are already in the process of gearing up for the transition to 2.0, with tens of thousands of tokens already…

November 10, 2020
Bitcoin Cash-Fueled Onchain Social Media Platform Memo Launches iOS App

Two years ago, an onchain social network called memo.cash was launched and the application has developed quite a bit since then. On Tuesday, the Memo team revealed that the platform is now available for iOS phones via the App Store. Apple users can now connect to the social network that etches a user’s content to…

November 5, 2020
Binance could be behind over a dozen stake pools on the Cardano blockchain

Binance, one of the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchanges, might be behind around a dozen stake pools on the Cardano network. The latest information from the Daedalus wallet shows that there are 18 stake pools whose metadata pages indicate that they may have been founded by the exchange. While some members of the Cardano community celebrated…

November 3, 2020
ECB’s Christine Lagarde is “prepared” for digital Euro as crypto interest rises

Christine Lagarde — the former Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund and the current President of the European Central Bank (ECB) — invited public reactions and commentary on the topic of a potential Euro-backed digital currency via a Twitter post this weekend. Public opinions on the digital Euro Lagarde’s comments on the possible CBDC,…

November 2, 2020
How Marlowe Playground rounds up all of the work being done on Cardano’s Goguen

Today’s release of Marlowe Playground marks an important milestone for Cardano—the beginning of its Goguen era. Charles Hoskinson, the CEO of IOHK, looked back at why introducing semantic clarity between various users of a blockchain’s infrastructure took so long and the impact it will have on the future—both Cardano’s and the global one. Cardano’s complexity…

October 31, 2020
IOHK rolls out Marlowe Playground and announces winners of $10,000 Cardano hackathon

IOHK, the company behind the Cardano blockchain, has officially rolled out Marlowe Playground, an application-building platform that allows non-programmers to build financial smart contracts on Cardano. Alongside the news about the new platform, the company also announced the winners of its Wyoming hackathon, listing three projects that presented the best use cases for Cardano that…

October 30, 2020
Chainlink oracles to bolster AML measures for Coinfirm’s DeFi solution

London-based Coinfirm will now utilize Chainlink’s market-leading oracle service to provide anti-money laundering (AML) tools for DeFi projects, it said in a release Wednesday. The firm will use Chainlink’s oracle network to bring their AMLT Oracle, an AML solution for DeFi, to the rapidly expanding smart contract and the DeFi economy. This would make Coinfirm’s…

October 29, 2020
Bitcoin allure has darknet markets jumping to record highs (and scams)

Darknet marketplaces and their operators have been the focus of authorities since the last decade. But the rise of cryptocurrencies has seemingly borne well for such illicit online shops, with a recent CipherTrace report stating they have hit record highs (both number of shops and scams) in the past year. Crypto rise buoys darknet markets…

October 27, 2020
How IOHK built Cardano from the ground up

Speaking at the third BlockDown conference, Charles Hoskinson, the CEO of IOHK, looked back at the way his company approached designing Cardano. Noting that IOHK, despite what many may think, is first and foremost a research and development company, he explained that they saw Cardano as a blank slate and began by asking the most…

October 24, 2020
Why low latency is important for cryptocurrency exchanges, explained

Low latency is essential for high-end cryptocurrency traders, but not all exchanges can offer it. We’ll explore why it’s important and where to find it.

October 23, 2020