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More Than 5 Million in Ethereum Worth $13 Billion Rests in the Eth2 Staking Contract
1.6.2021
Statistics now show the Eth2 deposit contract has more than 5.2 million staked ether worth over $13 billion locked into the smart contract. The contract launched on November 4, 2020, and three weeks later, the contract met the required threshold to initiate the Beacon Chain. It’s not cheap...
Binance Smart Chain Faces yet Another Flash Loan Attack: Belt Finance Loses $6.3 Million
31.5.2021
Belt Finance, a Binance Smart Chain-based decentralized lending protocol, lost $6.3 million in a flash loan attack last week. The attackers took advantage of a series of inefficiencies in the smart contract to manipulate the price of the set and obtain profit from a series of transactions. This...
Critical $20M SafeMoon vulnerability? Project devs say no cause for alarm
25.5.2021
One blockchain security firm says its audit of the SafeMoon smart contract has unearthed a potential $20 million vulnerability within the viral meme coin
Tether to Launch USDT Natively on Avalanche
18.5.2021
The blockchain company Tether has announced it will make available its stablecoin token as a native asset in Avalanche, a smart contract platform that has picked steam in the last year. Avalanche has a growing decentralized finance (defi) ecosystem, so this launch will most likely improve...
Cardano ERC-20 converter nears testnet phase
18.5.2021
Cardano’s ERC-20 converter tool with built-in two-way convertibility will soon be open for beta testing
The First AMM, Integrated with AI-Smart Contract Generator on BSC
7.5.2021
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Decentralized finance startup, Artichain.finance, known for being the first automated market makers (AMM) that integrated yield farming with artificial intelligence-smart contract is now running on Binance Smart...
Billionaire Mark Cuban’s Million-Dollar Bet: BTC or ETH to Outpace the S&P 500 in 10 Years
1.5.2021
The American billionaire entrepreneur and television personality, Mark Cuban, has waged a bet with Creative Planning’s founder Peter Mallouk over the performance of cryptocurrencies versus the S&P 500. Cuban said on Twitter that the two should put $1 million into a stablecoin-based smart...
Cuban Challenges Investment Star to Smart Contract Crypto vs Stocks Bet
30.4.2021
Mark Cuban. Source: A video screenshot, Youtube/Vanity Fair
The increasingly bullish former bitcoin (BTC) skeptic Mark Cuban has once again waded into crypto-related waters – setting up a public bet against a high-profile investor who favors conventional stock trading.
Cuban, the star of Shark Tank...
Daml smart contract language creator raises $120M in Series D financing
21.4.2021
The company behind Daml said it tripled its customer base in 2020, with half of the new business coming from outside the blockchain industry
Cardano’s upcoming Alonzo smart contract update takes ADA to new highs
19.4.2021
Cardano continues to cement its place as an Ethereum contender as the upcoming Alonzo update will be a game-changer for the community
Smart contract exploits are more ethical than hacking... or not?
18.4.2021
What is certain is that exploits only get points for being less disastrous than their counterpart
Chainlink releases new whitepaper in a shift toward smart contract computations
15.4.2021
In its new vision, Chainlink would allow anyone to deploy an arbitrary executable on its network
The Missing Link: How Chainlink’s Pallet Aims to Deliver Greater Informational Access
8.4.2021
As demand for smart contracts climbs, Chainlink’s modular oracle for the Substrate framework aims to power developers and defi applications with trusted off-chain information and pricing data needed to attract projects to Polkadot and Kusama. Blistering Growth in Defi and Smart Contracts...
Mark Cuban owns 30% ETH because it’s ‘closest to a true currency’
2.4.2021
Mark Cuban recently stated that Bitcoin is a better alternative to gold, and compared Ethereum's smart contracts to the internet boom of the late 1990s
Moonbeam Network Receives Fresh Capital Injection After Purestake Fundraising Success
31.3.2021
Following an initial seed capital round of $1.4 million, Purestake has raised a $6 million strategic round of financing from a consortium of investors to accelerate development, as the team aims to bring the Moonbeam network live in the second half of the year. Ethereum-Compatible Smart Contract...
Defi Venture XFai Reveals Liquidity Generation Event, Project Backed by Angel Investor Roger Ver
30.3.2021
Decentralized finance (defi) has seen extreme demand and innovative use-cases during the last 12 months. Defi oracles, decentralized exchange (dex) platforms and automated money makers (AMM) have swelled in value, as statistics show over $43 billion is locked into defi protocols today. Meanwhile,...
The promise of smart contract adoption is held back by crypto silos
29.3.2021
Smart contracts present one the most promising tech solutions for business, but there are still barriers that have to be addressed
BTCS Generating Revenue By Securing Smart Contract-Based Proof-Of-Stake Blockchains
17.3.2021
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In 2021, companies are enhancing their treasury management strategies to realize improved returns by allocating liquid funds to cryptocurrencies. This shift marks a significant advance in the institutionalization...
Blockchain can stamp out fake news and rebuild trust in mass media
13.3.2021
Blockchain technology implemented in the media industry will help to prevent fake news from spreading
Tezos Ties-Up with Wolfram Blockchain Labs to Simplify Smart Contract Deployment
2.3.2021
Wolfram Blockchain Labs (WBL) and Tezos are forging a full integration of Tezos into Wolfram Language and Wolframalpha. The integration gives easy access to developers that want to interact with the Tezos blockchain and their smart contracts. WBL-Designed Oracle Expands Tezos Developers’...