Ethereum has successfully completed the Istanbul hard fork. Hitting at block number 9,069,000, the systemwide upgrade is the network’s third in 2019, following February’s St. Petersburg and Constantinople hard…
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Matter Labs Unveils Layer-2 Scaling Solution for Ethereum Payments – CoinDesk
The latest ethereum hard fork, Istanbul, is bringing Layer 2 solutions to the network – this time in the form of a payment channel. Cryptographic research hub Matter Labs…
Freedom Fighter or Fool? Jury’s Out on Arrested Ethereum Developer Virgil Griffith – CoinDesk
Did Virgil Griffith go too far with the idea of ethereum as a “world computer”? The Ethereum Foundation researcher was arrested at Los Angeles International Airport on Thanksgiving for…
Ethereum Devs Reconsider ‘Difficulty Bomb’ Timing as Hard Forks Loom – CoinDesk
A newly proposed ethereum hard fork may punt a key network feature two years down the road to avoid complicating ethereum’s transition to proof-of-stake (PoS). Ethereum improvement proposal (EIP)…
US Arrests Ethereum Developer for Training North Koreans to Evade Sanctions – CoinDesk
Virgil Griffith, who has lately been working at the Ethereum Foundation, has been arrested for allegedly going to a conference in North Korea and sharing his expertise in using…
Ether on Lightning Is the Latest Bridge Crossing Crypto’s Great Divide – CoinDesk
Ethereum developers are using the Lightning payments network to build bridges into the bitcoin ecosystem. The venture-backed crypto startup Radar, best known for its decentralized exchange (DEX) relayers for…
3 Ways Staking Will Upend the Economics of Ethereum – CoinDesk
The Takeaway New analysis of the economic model behind ethereum 2.0 suggests validators can expect to earn 4.6–10.3 percent in annualized rewards at the start. The hardware cost for…
Microsoft, Intel Back Ethereum-Based Token to Reward Consortium Efforts – CoinDesk
The Enterprise Ethereum Alliance (EEA), the consortium charged with creating standards for businesses to build applications using the ethereum blockchain, has created a system of reward tokens to incentivize…
IKEA in ‘World First’ Transaction Using Smart Contracts and Licensed E-Money – CoinDesk
IKEA Iceland has taken part in a commercial transaction on ethereum, using smart contracts and licensed e-money to facilitate the settlement of an order from local retailer Nordic Store. The…
Ethereum Name Service Auction Exploited to Grab Apple Domain – And It Can’t Be Undone – CoinDesk
The “apple.eth” domain has been grabbed with no way to get it back, thanks to an exploit of an auction by the Ethereum Naming Service (ENS), a domain registration…