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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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Facebook’s Calibra team have published a research paper outlining a new method for Byzantine fault tolerance, or BFT, testing.Dubbed “Twins”, Claibra’s innovation comprises a lightweight method for testing a network’s BFT implementation.Calibra pioneers BFT testing strategyThe paper asserts that while BFT systems “have seen extensive study for more than two
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Rumors are surfacing of an upcoming real-world test of the proposed Chinese digital yuan currency. According to Chinese publication Interchain Pulse, a promotion conference was held on April 22 in the city of Xiong’an, located close to Beijing.Government agencies, digital currency developers and merchants participating in the upcoming pilot were
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Bitcoin may seem as though it moves without rhyme or rhythm, but like all markets, the cryptocurrency’s key levels and directionality can be shown with technical analysis, too. Unfortunately for bulls, the cryptocurrency remains below a key technical analysis level that marked the start of Bitcoin’s 50% crash at the
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Swiss blockchain startup, Nym Technologies, has invited the general public to take part in the next phase of its mixnet platform’s user testing on April 8.The privacy infrastructure promises advanced protection against mass-surveillance, and comes at a time when governments globally are expanding their powers in the name of
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The country of Sweden has begun testing an e-krona, bringing it that much closer to the proper release of a central bank digital currency (CBDC). The pilot program will be in operation for one year, until February 2021.If and when the e-krona formally launches for use by the public,
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Binance’s crypto exchange for United States-based users, Binance.US, has opened beta testing of its iOS application to all users.The exchange announced the news in a Dec. 30 tweet, revealing the successful private beta test and inviting all of its clients to participate in the iOS beta. The private beta
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The Bank of Russia, the country’s central bank, has reportedly started testing stablecoins pegged to real assets in a regulatory sandbox.Elvira Nabiullina, Russia’s central bank head, said that the bank doesn’t assume that those stablecoins will function as a means of payment or become a substitute for money, Russian
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Binance’s cryptocurrency trading platform for United States-based users, Binance.US, is asking its customers to beta test the upcoming Binance.US iOS app.On Dec. 18, Binance.US took to Twitter to announce that the iOS app is now in the beta testing phase. Give the importance of beta testing to a successful
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Accountancy giant Ernst & Young (EY) has made its token and smart contract review service available for public testing. Launched earlier on Wednesday, the public beta version allows users to paste code for analysis, during which it identifies security risks by testing the functionality and efficiency of a smart contract, as
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