Are blockchain-based voting systems really trustworthy or do we need to reevaluate the potency of this technology? At the beginning of October, a story released by CNN claimed that a student affiliated with the University of Michigan attempted to hack into West Virginia’s blockchain-based voting system called Voatz. As per the report, the FBI is […]
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LiquidApps has introduced a new blockchain scalability solution that can increase the decentralized processing power and capacity available to DApps developers. Blockchain development firm LiquidApps has introduced a new blockchain scalability solution for decentralized application (DApps) developers. The new service called vCPU aims to scale blockchain processing power horizontally, which provides more computing power per […]
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Ethereum-based stablecoins are declining as teams increasingly use other blockchains to facilitate price-stable currencies. Just a few years ago, it was hard to imagine that a stablecoin would come to represent a significant portion of the cryptocurrency industry. Market players tended to base their money-making strategies on a cryptocurrency’s volatility rather than its stability. There […]
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Programming languages are crucial for blockchain — for usability, security and durability. And what does Ride run on? Ride has been specifically designed for Waves — a leased proof-of-stake protocol. Waves says its aim is to build an environment in which developers can program in chunks — all with a view to ensuring that the […]
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Decentralized application transaction volume and user activity have slumped in the third quarter of 2019, a new study from Dapp.com shows. Decentralized applications’ (DApps) transaction volume and user activity have slumped in the third quarter of 2019, a new study shows. DApp.com — an analytics platform for DApps built on Ethereum, EOS, Steem, Tron, TomoChain, […]
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Cryptocurrency exchanges Bitfinex and EOSFinex announce that they successfully “chainswapped” 5 million USDT onto the EOS protocol. Cryptocurrency exchange Bitfinex in conjunction with EOSFinex, its decentralized trading platform, have announced that they had successfully completed a “chainswap” to convert $5 million worth of Tether (USDT) stablecoins onto the EOS blockchain protocol. According to a press […]
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Following cannabis supply chains, Æternity blockchain will also be applied to Uruguay’s internal democratic processes and voting. Open source decentralized application (DApp)-focused blockchain Æternity will team up with the Uruguay Digital Party to optimize the country’s democratic processes and internal voting. According to a press release shared with Cointelegraph on Oct. 3, the partnership aims […]
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EOS users have been experiencing periodic problems with the network access, developers reassure that everything is “operating correctly.” Within the past few weeks, EOS blockchain protocol users have been experiencing periodic problems with network access. A recent article written by pseudonymous smart-contract developer and security engineer Dexaran described the apparent root of the problem: an […]
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Sequoia-backed startup Band Protocol launches its fully decentralized BTC binary options app BitSwing on Ethereum’s mainnet. Decentralized data governance startup Band Protocol launched its fully decentralized binary options trading app BitSwing on Ethereum’s (ETH) mainnet. Band Protocol — which closed a $3 million seed round led by Sequoia Capital India this February — announced the […]
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Countries around the world take varying approaches to the crypto gambling and betting, with Japan perhaps having the most defined stance. The Japanese House of Representatives recently passed new crypto asset regulation affecting exchanges and custodians — the Payment Services Act and the Financial Instruments and Exchange Act. However, the country’s crypto gambling industry still […]
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