Cross-chain isn’t democratizing crypto, it’s rewarding a few
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Ethereum Dev Update 2015 / Week 44
With DEVCON1 a mere week away, the teams are excited and preparing to share all the great tools and technology the ecosystem has to offer. There will be hundreds of developers and dozens of talks including Nick Szabo, Vitalik Buterin, and Marley Gray from Microsoft. Tickets are limited and we anticipate selling out, so if you haven't already...
Crypto ally Rick Rieder emerges front‑runner for Fed Chair on Polymarket
Rick Rieder, a senior BlackRock executive overseeing over $2.4 trillion in assets, has become the front-runner to become the next head of the Federal Reserve after impressing Donald Trump in his recent interview. Summary ...
Stateful Turing-Complete Policies | Ethereum Foundation Blog
One of the major security challenges of the internet over the last twenty years has consistently been the rather simple problem of securing user accounts. Right now, users have accounts with hundreds of websites, and dozens of passwords, leading to large numbers of hacks as individual websites, often run by people not particularly skilled in the finer points...
GameStop transfers Bitcoin to Coinbase, Senate Democrats amend crypto bill, UK finalizes regulation consultation
In this week’s edition of the weekly recap, GameStop transferred its entire 4,710 Bitcoin holdings worth $420 million to Coinbase Prime. Summary ...
Merkling in Ethereum | Ethereum Foundation Blog
Merkle trees are a fundamental part of what makes blockchains tick. Although it is definitely theoretically possible to make a blockchain without Merkle trees, simply by creating giant block headers that directly contain every transaction, doing so poses large scalability challenges that arguably puts the ability to trustlessly use blockchains out of the reach of all but the...
Binance Coin price forms a risky pattern as Grayscale files S-1 for BNB ETF
Binance Coin price remained in a narrow range on Friday despite major progress on the listing of the first BNB ETF by Grayscale. Summary ...
Applications of Security Deposits and Prediction Markets You Might Not Have Thought About
Special thanks to Vlad Zamfir for his work in developing many of the ideas behind prediction markets for content curation. For the past six years, people have been searching to try to find those elusive applications of blockchain technology that could finally break out into the mainstream. For cryptocurrency, the applications are largely already known - though it of...
Crypto market dips amid trade war fears ahead of FOMC decision and earnings
The crypto market dipped while the Fear and Greed Index remained in the fear zone amid renewed trade war fears and as traders waited for key corporate earnings and the Federal Reserve decision. Summary ...
Ethereum in practice part 1: how to build your own cryptocurrency without touching a line of code
A lot of things have happened in the past few weeks in the Ethereum ecosystem, so many that it might be hard for a casual observer to understand where we are and what's available out there. So I would like to use my first post here to give you an overview of the tools we've built and how...
