Ethereum Foundation and Others Weigh $15 Million Bid to Build 'Randomness' Tech
The Ethereum Foundation may spend $15 million on a project implementing randomness tech called "Verifiable Delay Functions."
Opera Adds Crypto Buying Service to Android Wallet
Opera has teamed up with crypto brokerage Safello to let users buy ether directly from its Android browser-based wallet.
Don't Believe the FUD: Ethereum Can Scale
The narrative that ethereum can't scale is being actively disproved in production environments on a daily basis.
Ethereum Developers Delay Mining Algorithm Change for Code Audit
During a public call Friday, a tentative decision on whether to implement the ethereum network's ProgPoW update was postponed.
Developers Behind Ethereum App Aragon Weigh Launching a Second Network on Polkadot
Developers behind ethereum-based application Aragon are investigating the use of Parity Technologies' Polkadot Network to launch a smart contract framework.
A New Test Network Just Activated and Ethereum 2.0 Will Be Using It
Launched today, the Görli test network wants to help developers build applications across ethereum software clients without restricting their access to developer tools.
A Bitcoin-Backed Stablecoin Has Launched on the Ethereum Blockchain
Wrapped BTC (WBTC), an ERC-20 ethereum token collateralized 1-to-1 with bitcoin, is officially live, with about $250,000 worth in circulation.
Multicoin Capital Leads $2.5 Million Seed Round for Blockchain Data Index
Multicoin's investment in The Graph addresses an underserved layer of the web3 stack: querying data from public blockchains.
Levi Strauss, Harvard Trial Ethereum Tech to Track Factory Workers' Welfare
Harvard University, clothing giant Levi Strauss and a U.S. think-tank are launching a blockchain pilot to improve labor welfare.
Proof-of-Stake Could Lead to Crypto Banking. Let's Avoid That
"Staking as a service" is taking off. We need to think hard about what this means for crypto's evolution, warns Michael J. Casey.