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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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Economic Strategy Game “Prospectors” to be Released on EOS Mainnet

June 30, 2019 by Edoardo Vecchio at Altcoins, News

On June 29, 2019, the first Massive Multiplayer Real Time Economic Strategy (MMRTES) game called Prospectors.io will be launched on the EOS Blockchain. The game is completely developed on the EOS blockchain and all the activities within the game are linked with smart contracts. Hunting Crypto Gold Prospectors.io, the first...

Waves (WAVES) Decentralized Exchange Announces ERC-20 Support

Waves Brings the Heat to Ethereum and EOS with Smart Contracts

June 27, 2019 by Ashwath Balakrishnan at Altcoins

Waves (WAVES) has finally added functionality for smart contracts to its network, deployable through the RIDE programming language. This will enable global developers to harness and utilize a fully-powered decentralized ecosystem to build dApps, as per a press release, June 25, 2019. More Focus on Smart Contracts The decentralized network...

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