Ethereum 2.0 and Polkadot Offer Alternative Solutions to Scaling Issue
After Ethereum co-founder Gavin Wood left the Ethereum Foundation in 2016, he wrote a white paper for a new kind of blockchain — one that would use an innovative form of sharding and cross-chain communication to achieve the kind of scalability and interoperability that Ethereum 1.0 would never be able to manage. Wood’s new blockchain,…
Waiting for Ethereum 2.0, but Layer-Two Solutions Are Needed Now
Ethereum has been the center of focus in the cryptosphere for some time now, and for good reasons. As the popularity of the second-largest blockchain network continues to grow, so too does the urgency for improved performance and scalability. The Ethereum network has been dealing with some congestion issues, the most recent of which resulted…
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Death of Fat Protocol Thesis Is Bearish for Ethereum | Crypto Briefing
A highly popular crypto-economic theory, which states that base layers are more valuable than the applications built on top of them, may soon fall out of fashion due to the booming DeFi market. In 2016, Joel Monegro, then a member of the blockchain investment team at Union Square Ventures (now a partner at Placeholder VC),…
EOS, Ethereum and Ripple’s XRP – Daily Tech Analysis – July 16th, 2020
EOS fell by 0.63% on Wednesday. Reversing a 0.55% gain from Tuesday, EOS ended the day at $2.5433. It was a bearish day for EOS and the broader market. EOS fell from an early morning intraday high $2.5670 to a late afternoon intraday low $2.5090.
Ethereum 2.0 May Launch By Nov 2020 or Jan 2021, Core Devs Reveal
In an Ask Me Anything (AMA) session hosted by Ethereum core developers on Reddit on Jul 10, it was revealed that Ethereum 2.0 Phase 0 may launch either by Nov 2020 optimistically or Jan 2021 realistically. The timeframe has been revised from earlier given Aug-Sep 2020. The team is now expecting 3-4 production validator clients…
Five Years On, Ethereum Is the ‘Minecraft of Crypto-Finance’ – CoinDesk
Camila Russo is the founder of The Defiant and author of “The Infinite Machine,” the first book on the history of Ethereum, which launches today. Read an extract here. Almost five years ago on July 30, 2015, part of the Ethereum team had gathered in Berlin to see the network they helped build go live.…
10 Promising New Ethereum Projects That Are Here to Stay
In recent years, the Ethereum ecosystem has bloomed in multiple directions — that much is clear. Importantly, this blooming has allowed the smart contract platform to become an early king of the hill regarding DeFi, decentralized exchanges, stablecoins, Layer-2 blockchain scaling solutions, non-fungible tokens, and more.