Business News
ConsenSys Spin-Off BlockApps Inks Deal With Bayer’s Monsanto Arm
BlockApps is working with Bayer Crop Science, the agtech giant formerly known as Monsanto, on custom blockchain solutions.
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Business News
Sirin Labs, MyEtherWallet Team Up for Finney Phone Integration
Sirin Labs, developer of the Finney blockchain phone, has teamed up with MyEtherWallet for an integration aimed to benefit both companies.
Business News
Numerai Token Sale Raises $11 Million From VC Firms Paradigm, Placeholder
Hedge fund and predictions market startup Numerai just closed an $11 million round led by Paradigm and Placeholder.
DApps
How Ethereum Applications Earn A+ Security Ratings
More than 1.2 million ethereum applications have used a little-known security tool from Amberdata to help avoid costly errors from smart contracts.
Ethereum
Ethereum’s ProgPow Mining Change Approved Again, But Timeline Unclear
Ethereum core developers reaffirmed during a meeting today that mining algorithm change “ProgPoW” would be added to a coming hard fork.
Ethereum
Don’t Count on Decentralization to Rule Crypto Out as Security: VanEck Exec
VanEck’s Gabor Gurbacs has questioned whether being “sufficiently decentralized” means a crypto is not a security, as suggested by SEC execs.
Abra
Abra Crypto Wallet Now Stores Real Ether, Not Just ‘Synthetic’ Version
Cryptocurrency wallet provider Abra is now letting users deposit and withdraw ether directly from its app.
Constantinople
Ethereum’s ProgPoW Mining Change to Be Considered for Istanbul Upgrade
The code designed to enact ethereum’s next system-wide upgrade, Istanbul, may feature the inclusion of a controversial mining algorithm said to allow for broader participation in its network. Discussed Tuesday during a meeting of project managers working on the world’s second-largest blockchain, Ethereum Improvement Proposal (EIP) 1057, also known as Progressive Read more…
Ethereum
Mining Pool Splits $300K Ether Fee With Accidental Sender
Ethereum mining pool Sparkpool has verified the accidental sender of an unusually high miners’ fee and agreed to split the amount.
ASICs
Ethereum’s ProgPoW Proposal: An Expensive Game of Whack-a-Mole
Ethereum’s ProgPoW proposal may appear to minimize the ASIC advantage, but it isn’t as democratizing as claimed, argue Dovey Wan and Martina Long.