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Block.one, the company behind the EOSIO protocol (EOS), has been awarded a patent for a blockchain-based bidding system for promotional exposure tied to popular social media posts.The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office approved the patent on April 28. Block.one filed with the office during May 2019.The patent, which Block.one describes
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Block.one, the company behind EOSIO (EOS), issued a $50,000 grant to Genobank for its open-source app on April 29. The grant is designed to facilitate anonymous access to COVID-19 testing.Genobank announced at the start of April that its app, Agerona, was being developed alongside the Eos-based blockchain platform, Telos.Block.one issued
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In an unprecedented move, Block.One announced on April 8 that it would begin voting for block producers, or BPs. This marks a clear change in the company’s policies, which previously went to great lengths to dissociate itself from EOS. Block.One’s stake amounts to slightly less than 10% of all EOS, which
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Block.one, the company that developed the backend of the EOS network, is now taking a much more active role in it. Its stake of EOS tokens, previously left unused, will be used to vote for block producers (BP), according to an April 8 announcement.The EOS network runs on EOSIO,
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Block.one announced a smart contract blockchain puzzle, touting a $200,000 prize for whoever figures it out. “In this challenge, participants must create an EOSIO Smart Contract which can store and invoke EVM (Solidity) Smart Contracts in a virtual Ethereum-like environment,” a Feb. 3 announcement on EOSIO’s DevPost detailed. EOSIO platformBuilt by
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Blockchain software development firm Block.One released EOS.io 2.0, the software underlying the EOS blockchain.In the release announcement published on Twitter on Jan. 10, Block.One claimed that the update makes the blockchain “faster, simpler, and even more secure.”Major changes to the smart contract virtual machineThe official blog post on new
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It has been almost a year since the Republic of the Marshall Islands (RMI) unveiled the development of its national digital currency dubbed Sovereign (SOV). The cryptocurrency is set to tackle some issues the RMI struggles with, including high costs of remittances. A crypto legal tender could purportedly create
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The centralization of EOS has again emerged as a contentious issue within the cryptocurrency community, with the firm that created the EOSIO software, Block.One, participating in electoral procedures to choose the Block Producers for the EOS blockchain.On Nov. 28, EOS Block Producer EOS New York tweeted screenshots of Whois
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Popularly known for its industry-leading transaction speed and flexible utility with its EOS (EOS)trade cryptocurrency, Block.one has again broken its record by debuting a better version of its EOSIO 1.0 protocol.The firm asserts that the new protocol, simply dubbed EOSIO 2, was built with developers in mind and we have
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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 inexpensive technique that allows hackers to “congest” the network — or put
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