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Ethereum’s Mui Glacier Hard Fork Goes Live with 90 Percent Community Support

January 2, 2020 by Aisshwarya Tiwari at Ethereum

Smart contract platform Ethereum (ETH) has successfully implemented the Muir Glacier hard fork to delay the controversial “difficulty bomb” for another four million blocks, The Block reports, January 2, 2020. Ethereum Mainnet Undergoes Muir Glacier Hard Fork The second-largest digital currency project by market cap, Ethereum, has successfully completed the...

Ontology Partners Chainlink to Leverage Smart Contract Functions

November 26, 2019 by Aisshwarya 2 at Blockchain

In a Medium post published on November 25, 2019, blockchain project Ontology announced that it had partnered with data-driven smart contracts platform Chainlink to leverage its distributed ledger technology-based (DLT) market offerings. The Oracle Problem Per sources close to the matter, the newly christened partnership will look to solve what...

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Banco Santander Transforming Madrid with DLT

October 18, 2019 by Ogwu Osaemezu Emmanuel at Ethereum

Spanish bank Banco Santander has launched a $20 million bond on the blockchain. The financial institution has also partnered with the Madrid City Council to develop a blockchain-powered application that will enable citizens to pay transport fare from a unified platform, according to an EnterpriseTimes report on October 18, 2019....

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IOTA Foundation and Dell Amongst Participants for Industrial IoT Challenge

October 9, 2019 by Ashwath Balakrishnan at Blockchain

The Industrial Internet Consortium (IIC) is holding a smart building challenge for blockchain and IoT projects, with the goal of integrating tech partners and suppliers to build smart complexes. This challenge, launched in tandem with Trusted IoT Alliance, revolves around participants solving crucial problems in a particular sector with a...

FairWin Reponds to Accusations of Ethereum Consuming ‘Ponzi Scheme’

September 30, 2019 by Ashwath Balakrishnan at Ethereum

A few days ago, it was revealed that a gambling dApp, FairWin, had created a smart contract with a number of vulnerabilities. FairWin had given themselves the ability to drain a smart contract of all the ETH it contained. This vulnerability was spotted only after the project gained popularity, and...

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EOS: Ethereum Killer or Hype Beast?

September 18, 2019 by Ashwath Balakrishnan at Altcoins

EOS first mustered attention in the crypto space when they claimed they could process nearly 4,000 transactions per second, which would eventually scale up millions. Moreover, it was the third network set up by Dan Larimer, who has developed a reputation for launching initial coin offerings (ICOs) and moving on...

The Legitimate Advantages of Ethereum Above Other Smart Contract Platforms

August 28, 2019 by Ashwath Balakrishnan at Ethereum

Kain Warwick, founder of decentralized investment platform Synthetix, has succinctly organized his views on why Synthetix chose Ethereum over EOS, and what advantages Ethereum has accrued in the last 5 years of its existence, August 27, 2019. Ethereum's Monopolistic Advantages Synthetix initially looked into EOS as a way to deploy...

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Blockchain Solution Prevents Electric Cars Drivers from Being Overcharged

August 27, 2019 by Edoardo Vecchio at Blockchain

According to a press release, August 25, researchers from the University of Waterloo have developed an open system based on blockchain to mitigate trust issues in electric charging stations trades. The platform allows users to check whether they have been overcharged by means of a distributed ledger technology. Blockchain for...

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Chainlink to Integrate COTI Network’s Trust Score

August 13, 2019 by Ashwath Balakrishnan at Blockchain

COTI Network has revealed their Global Trust System (GTS) will be deployed on the Chainlink mainnet to help solve the reputational issue on the platform, as per a blog post, August 12, 2019. Chainlink has the potential to truly decentralize data collection for smart contract execution and COTI will play...

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DocuSign Wants to Bring Blockchain to the Mainstream

July 2, 2019 by Edoardo Vecchio at Blockchain

DocuSign, an American company headquartered in San Francisco that helps organizations connect and automate agreements, has invested in the smart contract provider Clause to make contracts on their DocuSign Agreement Cloud “self-executing” and “self-aware”. Early Adopter Founded in 2003, DocuSign has gone on to establish a user base of more...

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