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Chainlink’s Smart Contract Products Go Live on Fantom
29.6.2022
Two protocols, Keepers and VRF, will allow developers to deploy more sophisticated applications on the Fantom network
Livepeer Announces Bug Bounty Program for Non-Smart Contract Scopes
29.6.2022
The official newsletter from Livepeer announced a Security Disclosure Program on June 29. The program applies to all non-smart contract scopes from the decentralized live-streaming project. Livepeer hopes this step would be integral to providing decentralized video streaming at an efficient price...
Vitalik Buterin Recalls Old Joke About EOS as the Team Claims They are 'Making a Comeback'
28.6.2022
Ethereum (ETH) co-founder Vitalik Buterin has tweeted that EOS, a once-popular blockchain project, stands for “Ethereum on Steroids,” recalling an old joke within the crypto community.
The Ethereum mastermind praised the project, saying that the core team learned from "Ethereum's amateurish...
Value Locked in Defi Jumped 7% in 5 Days — Harmony’s Horizon Bridge Siphoned for $100M
25.6.2022
While crypto prices have seen some healing during the last few days, the total value locked (TVL) across the entire decentralized finance (defi) ecosystem has also improved. The TVL in defi has seen an increase of 7.19% since June 20, and the defi protocol Makerdao’s TVL dominates by 10.37%...
Waves Introduces a New Version of Its Smart Contract SDK
24.6.2022
Waves Enterprise has published a JVM-based smart contract SDK in its new updated version specifically for Java/Kotlin developers, who will now find everything required to build their own Docker smart contract in JVM languages. A step taken to attract more open source developers involves...
Virtual Currency-Based Sale Agreement an Invalid Contract, Chinese Court Rules
18.6.2022
A virtual currency cannot be circulated in the market as a currency, therefore a vehicle sale contract wherein parties agreed that the buyer would pay with a privately issued digital currency is invalid, a Chinese court has ruled. The court asserts that a virtual currency does not have the same...
Value Locked in Defi Slips to $74 Billion, Top Smart Contract Tokens Down Over 70% This Year
18.6.2022
Decentralized finance (defi) has been hit hard by the recent crypto market rout as the total value locked (TVL) across 118 different blockchains has slipped below the $100 billion mark to today’s $74.27 billion. The TVL in defi today is down more than 70% from its December 2, 2021, all-time...
Defi Platforms and Smart Contract Tokens Suffer the Most During the Crypto Market Rout
11.6.2022
While the crypto economy has dropped lower in value against the U.S. dollar, sliding to just under $1.2 trillion, the value of decentralized finance (defi) protocols and smart contract tokens has suffered a great deal. Statistics show that the total value locked in defi has dropped 7.96% since...
Decentralized Autonomous Organization Statistics Show $10 Billion Is Held by DAO Treasuries
10.6.2022
During the early years of the cryptocurrency space, decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs) and smart contracts were discussed in theory. Nowadays many people consider The DAO, launched in 2016 by members of the Slock.it development team, to be the first smart contract-based DAO. In 2022...
Solana price just one breakdown away from a 40% slide in June — here's why
10.6.2022
Network outages and decreasing smart contract reserves add further downside pressure to SOL price
Maiar decentralized crypto exchange goes offline after bug discovery
7.6.2022
The exchange has been taken offline due to the discovery of the bug and the team has implemented an “emergency fix” and updated the decentralized exchange
SHIB Creates Contract for 3% BONE Distribution to Lock LEASH
6.6.2022
In a recent newsletter shared on June 6, the meme-coin Shiba Inu announced why LEASH LOCKER users are yet to receive their rewards. The team cannot initiate the distribution of rewards as the land sale still has not closed. As per the new update, the team is working on a new contract that allows...
Defi Educator Says $22 Billion in ETH 2.0 Funds Won’t Be Liquid Immediately After PoS Transition
4.6.2022
As Ethereum’s transition to proof-of-stake (PoS) gets closer and the network’s hashrate taps another all-time high, the Ethereum 2.0 contract is close to nearing 13 million ether worth $22.6 billion using today’s ether exchange rates. Moreover, according to a decentralized...
CFTC sues Gemini claiming the crypto exchange lied in futures contract evaluation
2.6.2022
The agency says the exchange gave false information in person and in documents in its 2017 bid to be among the first to offer Bitcoin futures contracts
Cardano Spikes as Supporters Anticipate Vasil Hard Fork, Poll Shows ADA Expected to Hit $1 by the End of June
1.6.2022
During the last seven days, the cryptocurrency cardano has increased in value by 17.3% against the U.S. dollar, as the community anticipates the upcoming Vasil hard fork, an upgrade that aims to improve the network’s throughput and enhance smart contract capabilities. Moreover, according...
Gaming Guild’s DAO Proposal to Refund Seed Investment Faces Backlash, Contract Breach Accusations
26.5.2022
After a USD 175,000 seed investment by crypto gaming guild Yield Guild Games (YGG) into the competing guild Merit Circle last year, the latter guild’s community members are now proposing to refund the investment, complaining about a “lack of value” received from the investors. According to...
Saints Row Previews Say Reboot Offers Bonkers Action, Deep Customization
19.5.2022
Volition’s rebooted Saints Row isn’t out yet, but some sites got some time with it via a recent hands-off preview. Impressions of the 40-or-so minutes of gameplay, full of the explosive and wacky hijinks series fans have grown to expect, are making their rounds online and the sentiment seems to...
Smart Contract Platform Chain’s XCN Token Pumps and Dumps
18.5.2022
The little-known smart contract platform Chain (XCN) is attracting attention after its native XCN spiked in price and briefly leaped into the top 40 list of the most valuable cryptoassets by market capitalization. Shortly after, however, the token dumped in the market to trade at its lowest...
Certora Raises $36M for Smart Contract Security Tools
17.5.2022
Jump Crypto led the funding round for the firm, which secures $50 billion of DeFi assets
Commercial smart contract adoption next market driver: Mark Cuban
10.5.2022
“When businesses can use smart contracts to gain a competitive advantage, they will. The chains that realize this will survive,” according to Mark Cuban