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Ethereum’s “Berlin” hard fork remains a few months away at best, according to the All Core Developers bi-weekly call held Friday. A soft target of January is now in the works, following the planned launch of the Ethereum 2.0 beacon chain in December.Berlin is a hard fork of the current
Read MoreFirst announced in September, Monero developers today went live with a network update featuring a new version of its node software, codenamed 'Oxygen Orion.' The product of 30 contributors, the update promises significant improvement across nearly all aspects of the privacy-focused cryptocurrency’s performance. The highlight of the new update is the
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Coinbase is sponsoring at least two Bitcoin Core developers with a new grant program, the San Francisco-based exchange announced Thursday.“We believe helping to connect and grow the cryptoeconomy is essential to building an open financial system for the world,” Manish Gupta, executive vice president of engineering at Coinbase, said in
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Non-fungible tokens (NFTs) are vying for a bigger slice of the crypto pie. In recognition of this, the
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Ethereum 2.0 developers have launched yet another testnet, this time to give on-boarding stakers a dry run before the launch of Eth 2.0 sometime this fall.Called Spadina after a subway stop in Toronto, the testnet follows the official Ethereum Foundation’s Medalla testnet which launched in early August. Developers will only be
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With Ethereum 2.0’s much-anticipated move to Proof-of-Stake getting closer, CryptoX Research Analyst Christine Kim spoke with Ethereum developer Danny Ryan and Liz Steininger, CEO of blockchain security company Least Authority on what users and investors should expect. The highly-anticipated launch of Ethereum 2.0 is expected to have little to no impact
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An Ethereum smart contract feature that offers rebates for fees has developers scratching their heads, wondering if they should toss the old code in light of an exponential rise in transaction costs. Called gas tokens, these smart contract loopholes are a way to send transactions on the cheap by “tokenzing” gas,
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Median fees have spiked nearly 900% since Aug. 2. Source
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The prediction market is getting a facelift through the power of technology by PlotX. The platform was conceived
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Decentralized computing power-sharing network Golem released a new version of its network.Golem announced the alpha release of the new Golem network, which focuses on easing application development.“As we have been mentioning in our communications over the last few months, we have made use of all the experience we had gathered
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