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Cardano has placed the launch of smart contracts capability on September 12th. This gives us only two days until the launch. Ahead of this, crypto exchange giant Binance has made moves to make sure that their platform is compatible with it. The announcement was posted by Binance on its official website. The network upgrade and hard fork […]
As the CoinDesk announced, the hype around ether is also reflected in the derivatives market. Ether (ETH, -2.68%) continued its rally on Thursday after the Berlin hard fork on the Ethereum blockchain went live earlier the day, surpassing $2,500 for the first time in history. The No. 2 cryptocurrency by market capitalization was traded around […]
As Cardano prepares to migrate from the Byron to Shelley era with a planned hard fork, no interruption of service is expected, the Cointelegraph reported. On July 29, Cardano (ADA) will migrate from the Byron to Shelley era with a planned hard fork. The team stated that no interruptions to the Blockchain’s normal operations are expected, elaborating […]
Several hours ago, the Cardano founder Charles Hoskinson conducted a live stream on YouTube, announcing the final stage of preparations for the upcoming Shelley hard fork, saying that after this Cardano is going to be the best crypto platform on the market. Testing the new release candidate The new testnet (and a release candidate for the […]
The Cardano (ADA) network will perform a scheduled upgrade on Feb. 20 to introduce Ouroboros BFT, an improved consensus mechanism. The update is an intermediate step between the current Byron era and Shelley, which will introduce staking on mainnet. Announced by IOHK on Feb. 19, the upgrade will be executed on Thursday at 9:44 PM UTC, […]
The Ethereum network has just completed its Muir Glacier hard fork, with the sole improvement proposal being to delay the difficulty bomb for another 4,000,000 blocks. As of press time, the majority of clients were running in sync, although according to ethernodes, the nethermind client was still having some issues, and had fallen over 150 blocks. […]
China’s state-backed tech workgroup has released its fifteenth blockchain technology assessment, in which it promoted Ethereum to second place after its recent hard fork. The Center for Information and Industry Development (CCID) released the list on Dec. 6, ranking 35 assets in total. In the latest rankings, EOS kept its top spot, Ethereum moved from third to second, trading […]
The Atlantis hard fork for Ethereum Classic (ETC) has been officially set to occur at block 8,772,000 on the blockchain, according to the Ethereum Classic Improvement Protocol (ECIP) finalization call via Discord on June 20, the CoinTelegraph reported. As per the discussions in the call, the developers and contributors had previously considered putting the hard fork at block […]
Ethereum (ETH) core developers are considering implementing more frequent and smaller hard forks, according to the most recent bi-weekly meeting held on April 12, the CoinTelegraph reported. The question of time between hard forks — or network updates — was brought up by the meeting’s moderator, Tim Beiko, who referenced it as an ongoing topic […]
As the CoinTelegraph announced, the Bitcoin Private (BTCP) developers have accused cryptocurrency exchange HitBTC of acting in a fraudulent manner in regards to their delisting from the exchange following a planned coinburn. The accusations are portrayed in a letter written on Feb. 26 to the exchange by the Petros Law Group on behalf of the BTCP community, developers […]