A research analyst at the Royal Bank of Canada (RBC) sees cryptocurrency, blockchain technology and decentralization as a potential $10 trillion ecosystem. In a new report released Wednesday, Mitch Steves, an equities analyst with RBC's Capital Markets subsidiary, laid out his bull case for why the future of transactional services will ultimately be decentralized. "While the cryptocurrency […]
Fancy owning the domain name Ethereum.com? Better start counting the pennies. According to Bloomberg, the high-value domain has now been listed for sale on the Uniregistry marketplace for "around $10 million." Commenting on the news, domain investor Ammar Kubba told the news source that cryptocurrency is the "biggest trend" in the domain industry, and that related domains have grown […]
"Grotesque" might not be the word you'd think ethereum developers would ascribe to today's ICO scene. But that's exactly how some of the platform's ardent supporters described the current state of affairs. At Devcon3 in Cancun, Mexico, last week, developers were decidedly unenthusiastic when approached for thoughts about the new funding method, some going so far […]
Despite the booming token market based on its technology, ethereum isn't deviating from its stated goal of becoming a "world computer." In a move that showcases developers are still prioritizing the creation of so-called distributed applications (dapps), a new version of Mist, the original browser designed for ethereum apps, made its debut at Devcon today. Demoed […]
Can the right alignment of incentives encourage better blockchain bug reporting? That's the goal of Hydra, a new effort funded by the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship and designed by a team of researchers including Lorenz Breidenbach, Phil Daian and Ari Juels from Cornell, and Florian Tramer from Stanford. Announced today at ethereum's annual developer […]
Etheruem's blockchain may now be in the process of upgrading to new software – but that doesn't mean notable developers aren't reflecting on the process that was. For example, while the update appears to have been successful, at least one provider of ethereumsoftware notably struggled with preparations for the rollout. As reported by CoinDesk, UK-based Parity Technologies, used […]
New York-based ethereum development startup ConsenSys has revealed a number of new hires, including several IBM employees and the former CEO of South Africa's central securities depository (CSD). ConsenSys announced today that John Wolpert, former global blockchain offering director, will work to advance the startup's product and venture efforts. Monica Singer, who left Strate this summer after working […]
A team of cryptocurrency startup developers is open-sourcing technology that enables trustless trading between the bitcoin and ethereum blockchains. Now available on GitHub, the code has already been used to execute what startup Altcoin Exchange claims is the first so-called "atomic swap" between the largest cryptocurrencies by market value. As a result of the release, a […]
A new white paper has been published detailing a potentially transformative protocol for initial coin offerings (ICOs). The protocol, which would seek to produce an "equilibrium" between capped and uncapped token sales, represents a collaborative effort between ethereum founder Vitalik Buterin and developer Jason Teutsch, the creator of smart contract scalability project TrueBit. In the white paper, released today, the authors […]
The standard that governs how new cryptographic tokens can be launched on top of the ethereum blockchain has been been finalized. Revealed today by the open-source project's developer team, the ERC-20 standard establishes a common set of rules for tokens issued via ethereum smart contracts, and currently serves as the basis for the many tokens that have been released […]
