Monday Markets: Bitcoin at $34,000, Ethereum at $1,000
The dominant cryptocurrency reaches a new all-time high while Ethereum is a few hundred dollars away from its previous ATH.
The dominant cryptocurrency reaches a new all-time high while Ethereum is a few hundred dollars away from its previous ATH.
Axie Infinity has launched a public testnet of its Ethereum sidechain called Ronin, with major companies like Binance and Ubisoft as initial validators.
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While this is a ConsenSys, EY, and Microsoft project, the Baseline Protocol has a technical steering committee that includes the likes of AMD, ChainLink, MakerDAO, and Duke University.
This Istanbul fork is a system upgrade of the Ethereum network that focuses on privacy and scalability improvements, among other code changes. It is also known as the prelude to the forthcoming multi-phase major upgrade, Serenity.
Phase 2 is when the functionality of Serenity comes together. A new virtual machine called eWASM will be introduced, allowing shard chains to become fully-functional transaction chains that can scale the Ethereum blockchain drastically.
FiNANCiE, a new company and project envisioned by gumi Inc founder Hironao Kunimitsu sees the platform as a new type of social network where people can trade personal skills and talents with value.
Constantinople is a 2-part upgrade that will occur on block 7,280,000 to implement improvement proposals that will solve issues on the Ethereum blockchain.
Members of the Ethereum community has voted to postpone the planned Constantinople Hard Fork and set a new target – block 7,280,000.
A security issue forced leaders around the Ethereum community to delay the Constantinople Hard Fork which is supposed to occur at block 7,080,00.