EOS has long been the most legitimate competitor to Ethereum, so what does the upcoming ETH 2.0 implementation hold? When the EOS network launched in 2018, it looked to be one of the biggest contenders to Ethereum (ETH) — not just in terms of providing a scalable development platform for decentralized apps, or DApps, but […]
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The Elrond mainnet is launching today with a new DeFi app and staking opportunities. High performance blockchain project Elrond is launching its mainnet today, July 30, along with a new DeFi app, staking and a raft of new features. Its ERD token has been on fire this month in the lead-up to the long awaited […]
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The popularity of DApps, DeFi tokens and their increasing market share of the Ethereum ecosystem as a result of platform’s evolution? Ethereum’s dominance as the preeminent smart contract blockchain platform has been boosted by the popularity of decentralized finance and decentralized applications tokens in 2020, with ERC-20 tokens now accounting for nearly half of the […]
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Ethereum 2.0 developers formalized the date of the first community-run testnet on August 4. The Ethereum 2.0 team has formalized the launch date of the first full testnet designed to simulate mainnet conditions. Called Medalla, the new multi-client testnet is set to be the last one before mainnet launch occurs. Medalla means “medal” in Spanish, […]
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Polkadot and Ethereum have an intertwined history, but how does the newly launched Polkadot stack up against the plans for Ethereum 2.0? After Ethereum co-founder Gavin Wood left the Ethereum Foundation in 2016, he wrote a white paper for a new kind of blockchain — one that would use an innovative form of sharding and […]
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Self-healing blockchains are the only way to create a truly decentralized world within the decade. The world is eagerly waiting for a next-generation, high-performance, permissionless blockchain, and this blockchain should be able to industrially scale all decentralized applications. So far, the crypto community has witnessed: Peer-to-peer blockchain networks that use all the peers to validate […]
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Stateless clients research promises to make blockchain nodes lighter without sacrificing validation, but there are stumbling blocks in their cryptography. Research into stateless clients for Ethereum is seen as instrumental for the long-term health of the network, but despite all the progress, some fundamental limitations prevent them from being applied in practice for now. At […]
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Ethereum 2.0. is coming, but not soon enough. Could layer-two solutions be the answer? Ethereum has been the center of focus in the cryptosphere for some time now, and for good reasons. As the popularity of the second-largest blockchain network continues to grow, so too does the urgency for improved performance and scalability. The Ethereum […]
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Blockchain firm Quarkchain announced a partnership with the ecological department of Northeastern Chinese province Shanxi. Blockchain firm Quarkchain has announced a partnership with the ecological department of Northeastern Chinese province Shanxi. Quarkchain and the Shanxi province will jointly develop an environmental governance platform on blockchain (EGPB). This platform will be used by the local administration […]
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Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin mentioned looking back at Ethereum’s development. The Hashing It Out podcast recently hosted Ethereum co-founder, Vitalik Buterin. During the show, he explained how he would handle Ethereum’s creation differently if he were building it now. Buterin acknowledged the presence of a number of changes, both large and small, such as putting […]
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