#Parity Technologies News

Parity Technologies-Guided Pontem Network Launches Its Parachain, Completes Milestone #1

October 25, 2021 by Dalmas Ngetich at Altcoins

Pontem Network, an experimentation platform for Facebook-backed Diem planning to run on Kusama, has completed the first milestone set out under the Substrate Builder's Grant Program by Parity Technologies. Pontem Network Completes the First Milestone under the Substrate Builder's Grant Program As per an update on October 24, in three...

Polkadot Partners With Trace Alliance to Realize Vision of a New Blockchain-Agnostic Internet

September 10, 2020 by Evan Ezquer at Altcoins

Parity Technologies, the parent company behind the popular Web 3.0 Foundation project, Polkadot, has secured a partnership with Trace Alliance, as announced in an official blog post on OriginTrail on September 9. This partnership exhibits a major milestone in achieving the goal of creating a blockchain-agnostic internet. About the Partnership ...

Parity Launches the First Alternative Zcash Client

June 18, 2019 by Ogwu Osaemezu Emmanuel at Development, News

Zcash (ZEC), the privacy-centric distributed ledger technology (DLT) based digital asset created by Zooko Wilcox in 2016, has announced the release of Zebra, the first Zcash client written entirely in the Rust programming language. Rust is developed by Parity Technologies and will function as an alternative to Zcash, allowing developers...

ARK Deployer: Create a Custom Blockchain in Minutes

May 29, 2019 by Ashwath Balakrishnan at Blockchain

The ARK ecosystem is set to be propelled further by the launch of the ARK Deployer's alpha version going live on May 28, 2019. Users can now set up their own fully customized blockchains using a simple graphical interface. The ARK Deployer is a critical piece of the ARK infrastructure...

Polkadot’s New Proof of Concept Could Enhance Decentralized Governance

May 21, 2019 by Ashwath Balakrishnan at Blockchain, Development, Ethereum, News

The Alexander testnet on Polkadot was upgraded with new features of which the most significant is improved staking governance, as per an announcement by the development team on May 20, 2019. Polkadot was created by Ethereum and Parity co-founder Gavin Wood, who also co-invented the Solidity programming language. A New...

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Light Client Launch: Parity Releases Desktop Wallet Beta, v0.3 Fether

April 11, 2019 by Liam J Kelly at Blockchain, Development, Ethereum, wallet

On April 9, 2019, Parity Technologies’ UX lead Thibaut Sardan announced the beta launch of the company’s light client. Instead of downloading the entire Ethereum blockchain, Fether offers users a much quicker experience by relying on full nodes rather than direct interaction with the blockchain. The desktop wallet is still...

Constantinople Hard Fork Offers Ray of Hope Parity’s Frozen Millions

March 5, 2019 by Tom Nyarunda at Altcoins, Blockchain, Commentary, Development, Ethereum, News

Parity Technologies “lost” access to 500,000 ether in a high-profile coding error in November 2017 and has been appealing to Ethereum developers for a software change to bail them out. The successful implementation last month of the Constantinople hard fork has offered Parity Technologies a strong case to begin a...

Parity Technologies Gets a $5 Million Grant from the Ethereum Foundation

January 8, 2019 by Priyeshu Garg at Altcoins, Blockchain, Development, Ethereum, Finance, News

Parity Technologies, the company behind one of the fastest Ethereum clients on the market, has secured a $5 million grant from the Ethereum Foundation to increase scalability, usability, and security of their product, the foundation announced on its website on January 7, 2019. A New Ethereum Foundation Grant Goes to...