Blockchain News

At Web 3 event SmartCon 2022, Chainlink Chief Executive Officer Sergey Nazarov and SWIFT Strategy Head Jonathan Ehrenfeld Solé revealed a new collaboration. SWIFT, a network for international payments and blockchain oracle network Chainlink aim to bring traditional finance closer with blockchains....

Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin informed people about the launch of his book "Proof of Stake." Before Ethereum’s launch, the Russian-Canadian writer and programmer has been involved in the Bitcoin community since 2011. He co-founded Bitcoin magazine and wrote articles for the news...

Cosmos, a blockchain platform focused on interoperability solutions released a new white paper aiming to update the tokenomics of its native cryptocurrency ATOM. According to the paper, Cosmos Hub will be the center of a new feature, known as interchain security. This means that other chains will...

The Cardano blockchain finalized its Vasil hard fork which is supposed to level up the network performance. Input Output Hong Kong (IOHK), the company standing behind the development of Cardano tweeted that Vasil is the most important update of the protocol. According to IOHK, the update will...

Blockchain development infrastructure provider Infura plans to deploy a decentralized protocol next year to offer developers a new model for building and launching Web3 products. The team announced the news at the ETHBerlin hackathon on Friday. With the step, Infura will decentralize its Web3 API...

Ethereum Merge happened on September 15, Google says. The big update was finalized a few hours ago. Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin congratulated the community on Twitter, saying everyone who helped the process to come true should feel very proud today. And we finalized!Happy merge all. This is...

Leading NFT marketplace OpenSea announced integrating Ethereum Layer 2 scaling solution Polygon into its web3 marketplace protocol Seaport. OpenSea introduced Seaport in June to allow users to buy and sell NFTs efficiently. The platform was launched on Ethereum with the aim to reduce the costs of...

Crypto custody provider Fireblocks revealed support for Solana-based DeFi and apps through its Web3 engine. For the customers, this means that they will have access to lending, borrowing, staking and Web3 products. In a blog post, Fireblocks noted that they are the first gateway for institutions to...

Ripple officially partners with the WEF, according to the website of the international NGO. Previously, the organization said Ripple provides the value of what the internet did for information. WEF finds that Ripple is committed to monetary parity and efficiency. Previously, Ripple Chief Executive...

The Ethereum Foundation released a new blog post ahead of the major network upgrade scheduled for the next month. The team said all bounties for vulnerabilities related to the merge go up 4 times between now and September 8. Crucial bugs now worth up to $1 M. With the merge, Ethereum will move to...

Crypto exchange ByBit released a report on the Solana blockchain and its growth in the second quarter of this year. The report says although Solana saw major challenges, including two outages, the network upgrades in late Q2 have shown notable improvements related to speed and reliability. In Q2...

New research by the intelligence platform Blockdata shows that from Sept. 2021 to mid-June 2022, crypto startups received investments from forty public companies. Together investments reached $6 bln. Based on the analysis, Google is the number one by the amount invested in blockchain/crypto. The...

The Ethereum team executed a final test ahead of the merge event, after which the network will move to the Proof-of-Stake consensus mechanism. The upgrade is supposed to scale Ethereum and consume less energy than Proof-of-Work. Ethereum core developer and researcher Ansgar Dietrichs announced that...

Crypto financial services and payments company Circle released a blog post about the company's approach toward the expected update of Ethereum. The team said since the release of the USDC stablecoin on Ethereum in Sept. 2018, they have collaborated closely with the ecosystem and have seen essential...

As Ethereum's move from Proof-of-Work Consensus mechanism to Proof-of-Stake is nearing, many miners consider going back to Ethereum Classic, a fork of Ethereum that uses PoW. Talking about the expected event, and its impact on the network at the ETHSeoul festival, Buterin said he doesn't think that...

According to White Rock CEO Andy Long, during the dominance of bearish sentiment in the market, companies need to focus on infrastructure development. Now there are excellent opportunities for new acquisitions and partnerships between industry participants, the expert told CoinTelegraph. Many...

Co-founder of Binance Yi He will take over as the organization's venture capital and incubator division's chief. The CEO of Binance Labs will be in charge of overseeing the company's overall strategy and operations. Her emphasis will include advancing the utility of cutting-edge cryptocurrency and...

At a recent European Ethereum Conference, Vitalik Buterin shared his vision about the expected merge, the difference between Ethereum and Bitcoin, the future of Ethereum, etc. Buterin mentioned that while Bitcoiners think BTC is 80% complete, Etherum supporters consider the system to be complete...