How Marlowe Playground rounds up all of the work being done on Cardano’s Goguen
Today’s release of Marlowe Playground marks an important milestone for Cardano—the beginning of its Goguen era. Charles Hoskinson, the CEO of IOHK, looked back at why introducing semantic clarity between various users of a blockchain’s infrastructure took so long and the impact it will...
IOHK rolls out Marlowe Playground and announces winners of $10,000 Cardano hackathon
IOHK, the company behind the Cardano blockchain, has officially rolled out Marlowe Playground, an application-building platform that allows non-programmers to build financial smart contracts on Cardano. Alongside the news about the new platform, the company also announced the winners of its Wyoming hackathon, listing...
Chainlink oracles to bolster AML measures for Coinfirm’s DeFi solution
London-based Coinfirm will now utilize Chainlink’s market-leading oracle service to provide anti-money laundering (AML) tools for DeFi projects, it said in a release Wednesday.The firm will use Chainlink’s oracle network to bring their AMLT Oracle, an AML solution for DeFi, to the rapidly expanding...
Bitcoin allure has darknet markets jumping to record highs (and scams)
Darknet marketplaces and their operators have been the focus of authorities since the last decade. But the rise of cryptocurrencies has seemingly borne well for such illicit online shops, with a recent CipherTrace report stating they have hit record highs (both number of shops...
How IOHK built Cardano from the ground up
Speaking at the third BlockDown conference, Charles Hoskinson, the CEO of IOHK, looked back at the way his company approached designing Cardano. Noting that IOHK, despite what many may think, is first and foremost a research and development company, he explained that they saw...
This WordPress plugin will allow authors to timestamp content on the Ethereum blockchain
Amsterdam-based WordProof announced today it will allow customers to timestamp content on the Ethereum blockchain, it said during the BlockDown Conference 2020 on October 22.
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Vitalik Buterin discusses the values and ideas that formed Ethereum 2.0
With Ethereum 2.0 expected to ship in the near future, the values that underlie the world’s second-largest blockchain have become increasingly important. Vitalik Buterin, one of the creators of Ethereum, discussed both the abstract and the technical aspects of the values that went into...
Waves announces ERC20 interoperability with Ethereum network
Waves.tech, an ecosystem of next-generation technologies built on the Waves protocol, has ported its native token WAVES into Ethereum to enhance interoperability between the two networks and introduce Waves functionality to Ethereum users, the firm said in a release shared with CryptoSlate.The Waves network...
Why Filecoin’s hyped token launch was a multimillion “failure”
Decentralized file-sharing project Filecoin launched last week after years of development and a jawdropping $200 million ICO.To read the rest of this article, join CryptoSlate Edge. Have an account? Sign In.
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Cardano’s Ouroboros paper is the 2nd most cited academic paper about cryptocurrencies and blockchain
“Ouroboros: A Provably Secure Proof-of-Stake Blockchain Protocol” has made it to the topmost cited security papers list. According to the latest ranking from Google Scholar, the paper, outlining the proof-of-stake mechanism that underlies Cardano, is the second most cited paper in the cryptocurrencies and...
