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Veteran open source Bitcoin developer John Newbery just launched Brink, an independent organization for funding Bitcoin’s open source developer community, a key component driving the global currency and making it work.Tuesday, Newbery and fellow Bitcoin Optech associate Mike Schmidt unveiled Brink, with prolific Bitcoin technical writer Dave Harding joining the
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CryptoX just snagged a front-row seat to a seminal event in the crypto industry. Ticket price: 32 ETH.As a media outlet covering nascent technologies, we believe we can sometimes chronicle their development more effectively by participating in them. To that end, we’re spinning up a validator for the upcoming launch
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The smart contract required for triggering Ethereum 2.0 has enough funds to begin activation of its most ambitious upgrade yet.The Ethereum 2.0 deposit contract secured more than 525,000 ETH ($323 million) late Monday night, ensuring that the new network will launch next week, formally beginning the second-largest cryptocurrency’s shift from
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ETH 2.0’s beacon chain genesis has been confirmed for Dec. 1, following the transfer of 524,288 Ether from 16,384 validators into the ETH 2.0 deposit contract since it went live on Nov. 4.Despite early concerns stemming from low staking participation, transfers to the deposit contract rapidly increased over the past
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The smart contract that will trigger the first phase of Ethereum’s most ambitious upgrade yet has nearly accrued enough funds to activate.The Ethereum 2.0 deposit contract currently holds 385,440 ($231 million) of the requisite 524,288 ETH required to activate Ethereum 2.0’s beacon chain, the central nervous system of the completely
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The continuous delay in the launch of Ethereum 2.0 threatens its dominance as market analysts question whether its development will be able to keep pace with the DeFi growth. Some new DeFi projects have already started looking for alternatives in the meanwhile.The Ethereum community and the DeFi world has been
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The launch of OPEN tokens on November 26 may be in time for investors. Moreover, there are specific fundamentals that may support prices. In less than a week, OPEN, the governance tokens of the OpenDAO protocol, will launch as per an update on Nov 12. The release will allow users to
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Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (MUFG), one of the largest banking institutions in Japan, is set to launch its high-speed blockchain payment network with the U.S.-based tech firm Akamai in 2021. MUFG and Akamai aim to provide cheaper and more efficient payment services via their joint venture Global Open Network (GO-NET). The
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The debut of QiSwap, its current partnership with Qtum, and its proposed future alliances may serve as one of the game-changers of the DeFi ecosystem.Emerging decentralized protocol QiSwap is set to launch its mainnet, three months after its public testnet went live. According to a press release shared with Coinspeaker,
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One of the biggest stories in the crypto space right now is the upcoming launch of Ethereum 2.0
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