The official multi-client testnet for the long-awaited first phase of Ethereum 2.0 is now live. Ethereum developers expect the testnet, named Medalla, to be the final testing stage before the mainnet launch of Ethereum 2.0, barring any setbacks. If no problems arise, the Beacon Chain could arrive as...
Bitcoin continued rocketing upward after last week's break of the bearish trendline, despite the weekend producing a 12% drop. Overall, the price exploded nearly 22% upward to close at $11,071, over 11% higher than the week's open.
Euphoria overwhelmed the altcoin market. The marketcap climbed from $116 billion to nearly $...
Today the Electric Coin Company (ECC) released 3.1.0, which includes the code preparations for its upcoming Network Upgrade 4 (Canopy). The release will deploy:
ZIP 207: Funding Streams (Zcash Developement Fund)
ZIP 211: Disabling Addition of New Value to the Sprout Value Pool
ZIP 212: Allow Recipi...
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30 July 2020
Circle Partners with Genesis Trading for USDC Yield and Lending Services and Raises $25 million from Digital Currency Group
Today Circle announced it is partnering with Digital Currency Group (DCG) subsidiary Genesis Global Trading to develop yield and lending products for USDC. The partnership also includes a $25 million strategic investment from DCG to accelerate investment and growth behind Circle’s new suite of busin...
CoinList, the funding platform behind some of the most substantial token sales in recent years, including Filecoin, Blockstack, and Celo to list a few, is launching Coinlinst Pro a fully-featured spot exchange. CoinList Pro has announced the exchange will be the sole exchange that can guarantee sup...
Cardano completed its long-awaited Shelley hard fork today, transitioning its blockchain from a federated network managed primarily by the Cardano Foundation to a community-run protocol. The new Shelley mainnet introduces Cardano’s proposed Proof-of-Stake (PoS) layer, which allows users to contribut...
Mainframe has acquired Sablier, a “money streaming” protocol built on Ethereum. For Mainframe, this acquisition solidifies the protocol's pivot from a decentralized messaging platform to a DeFi service provider. Mainframe will leverage the Sablier protocol that allows for continuous payments on the ...
Augur, a decentralized prediction market and one of the first ICOs and projects built on Ethereum, launched its v2 protocol today. It will operate in parallel to Augur v1 and will require token holders to manually migrate their REP tokens. The upgrade includes modifications to improve the user exper...
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28 July 2020
OpenSea surpasses 20,000 users, unofficially claims the title: "The Uniswap of NFTs"
This month the popular NFT marketplace, OpenSea crossed 20,000 total users since it first launched in June 2018.
OpenSea has become the go-to website for auctioning rare crypto or token-based assets. The platform currently lists over 10 million assets across 300 types broken down into the following...
The Web3 Foundation and Parity Technologies have raised just shy of 4,000 BTC (totaling $44 million at press time) in a thee day token sale, as first reported by CoinDesk. According to a Reddit conversation, the offering listed DOTs at $125 per token but geo-blocked certain jurisdictions from partic...