This DEX Is Enabling Merchant Payments in Any Ethereum Token 119,876 – that’s how many ethereum ERC-20 tokens are currently in existence. It’s a number that is growing by the hundreds every day, but the trouble is, according to Loi Luu, the CEO and co-founder of decentralized exchange Kyber Network, …
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Ether Just Erased Half of Last Week’s 35% Rally The price of ether (ETH), the world’s second-largest cryptocurrency by market capitalization, sank nearly $30 today, effectively erasing half of the 35 percent rally recorded last week. At press time, ETH is trading across exchanges at an average price of $196 …
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Ethereum Dapp Bancor Is Expanding to EOS for Fast, Free Transactions Bancor, one of the most popular and valuable decentralized applications on ethereum, is expanding to the EOS blockchain. According to a company announcement, the “decentralized liquidity network,” which allows users to trade a range of ethereum-based tokens without depositing …
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Gas Ain’t Gold: Why Ether’s Price Could Tank Even If Ethereum Succeeds Michael J. Casey is the chairman of CoinDesk’s advisory board and a senior advisor for blockchain research at MIT’s Digital Currency Initiative. The following article originally appeared in CoinDesk Weekly, a custom-curated newsletter delivered every Sunday exclusively to …
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Open Heart Surgery: Inside Ethereum’s Crucial Replacement of the EVM At the heart of ethereum lies a virtual computer. Stored across tens of thousands of nodes that make up the platform, the ethereum virtual machine, or EVM, is responsible for executing the countless tokens, dapps, DAOs and digital kittens of which …
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Ethereum’s Constantinople Hard Fork to Activate on Testnet in October Ethereum’s upcoming hard fork, Constantinople, will activate in a testing environment next month, core developers agreed on Friday. As detailed by CoinDesk, Constantinople features various backward-incompatible changes designed to increase efficiency on the ethereum network, alter its economic policy and …
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Ether Records Highest Daily Trading Volume in 12 Months Ethereum’s ETH token on Thursday saw its highest amount of daily trading volume on Bitfinex. The second-largest cryptocurrency witnessed a 24-hour trading volume of 0.85 million yesterday – the highest level since September 15, according to Bitfinex data. Further, the current …
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Ethereum’s Vlad Zamfir Claims Breakthrough In Blockchain Sharding Ethereum might just be one step closer to sharding its blockchain. At least that’s according to long-time blockchain researcher Vlad Zamfir, who claims to have coded up a successful proof-of-concept of the idea at the ethereum hackathon EthBerlin this week. Built with …
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A New Line of Powerful ASIC Miners Is Coming to Ethereum A chip designer with extensive experience in developing bitcoin mining devices is turning her sights on the ethereum protocol. Chen Min, the former chief chip maker at bitcoin mining chip developer Canaan Creative, launched a new venture to build …
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Back Over $200 Billion: 3 Reasons Crypto Prices Could Be Heading Higher The cryptocurrency market has been making history for all the wrong reasons as of late, most notably by recently surpassing the plunge of the infamous Dot-Com bubble in the early 2000’s. With that said, cryptocurrencies tend to make …
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