The founder of peer-to-peer lending platform for digital assets, DeFiner, believes the launch of Ethereum 2.0 could be the catalyst for DeFi (or decentralized finance) growth. Jason Wu, who foresees 2020 as the year of DeFi following its birth in 2018 and the further growth it witnessed i...
The projected success of how the crypto space will be stimulated in 2020 by the uptake of decentralized finance (DeFi) based on several industry predictions is now being suggested to be threatened by the ensuing debate over the implementation of ProgPoW on Ethereum. DeFi projects have be...
On February 24, Bitmain’s Antminer E3, the only Ethash algorithm ASIC device and once the most powerful hardware for Ethereum mining, was alleged to stop Ethereum mining in the coming April as a result of DAG file size increase to the upper limit of 4GB which the E3 runs on, acco...
A decentralized exchange aggregator has alleged that Fulcrum, the company behind the bZx exchange, has been aware of vulnerabilities in its code at least a month before it suffered two consecutive hacks that drained $2.5 million from its funds. bZx, an Ethereum-based lending project from Fu...
Ethereum's co-founder, Joe Lubin, may have hinted at an unconfirmed use case for the Digital Currency Electronic Payment (DCEP) project proposed by China different from the control of trades and citizens' flow of money as some insiders have suggested. Keyu Jin, professor of economic...
Bitcoin's 12% sudden rise as China’s President Xi Jinping triggered a blockchain frenzy cemented its grip on the market and strengthened its dominance of the entire crypto industry - at its highest range in almost three years (currently at over 67%). The sustained dominance tells of Ethe...
One of the key highlights of this year's Ethereum developers' conference (DeVCon 5) is a panel discussion on whether it is possible to have a peaceful interoperability of multiple coin communities in the long run or that they have to continue competing against each other until one emerges as th...
As Gartner releases a report on why blockchain may not hit mainstream until about in a decade, the Global Blockchain Leader at EY consulting firm hinted what could be the main challenge hindering the emerging technology from hitting its full potential. EY's Paul Brody says that while a...
There is a new feature on the Bitcoin Cash (BCH) network that would make the fork of Bitcoin a darling for developers working with Ethereum, says Director of Developer Services at Bitcoin.com. BCH's Gabriel Cardona in an interview explains how BCH and Ethereum overlap with token...
The debate over the implementation of the ProgPoW algorithm in an Ethereum upgrade has taken a new turn as the network reportedly expanded its blockchain capacity by 25% without a fork. Support for implementing ProgPoW, which promises to make mining more decentralized by preventing miner...
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