Over the past two weeks our primary focus has been getting all of the clients updated to PoC5 compatibility, and it definitely has been a long road. Among the changes to the VM include: The new init/code mechanism: basically, when you create a contract, the code provided will execute immediately, and then the return value
Swiss payments lender Arf said on Thursday, October 22, that it is partnering with Ripple to lend the RLUSD stablecoin to licensed cross-border payment companies on the XRP Ledger, giving them working capital while their payments settle. It was the week’s biggest XRP news, yet XRP fell 4% that day, and the onchain lending tools
Michael Saylor has posted a cryptic message about resolving Bitcoin matters behind closed doors after Strategy disclosed a $22.1 million purchase funded largely through common-share sales. Summary Saylor’s “closed doors” post gives no purchase amount, transaction date, or funding details. Strategy bought 517 BTC for $43.6 million across its two latest disclosed weeks. Common-share sales
One of the most popular topics in the digital consensus space (a new term for cryptocurrency 2.0 that I’m beta-testing) is the concept of decentralized autonomous entities. There are now a number of groups rapidly getting involved in the space, including Bitshares (also known as Invictus Innovations) developing “decentralized autonomous companies”, BitAngels’ David Johnston with
Securitize has confirmed that 12 tokenized U.S. stocks, including Apple, Nvidia and Tesla, are live on Solana for eligible investors, with each token backed by a share the company says is never lent out. Summary 12 stock tokens are live on Solana, including Apple, Nvidia, Tesla, Microsoft, and Amazon. Securitize says backing shares are never
What is Ethereum, the Project? The Ethereum Project is an open source, community-driven effort designed to create a next-generation distributed application platform intended to be maximally flexible and powerful in the possibilities that it enables. What is Ethereum, the Platform? The Ethereum Platform combines a generalized peer-to-peer networking platform with next-generation blockchain architecture to deliver
The market has grown from its roots in elections into sports, economic data and short-term price bets. Robinhood entered the business through a partnership with Kalshi, a federally regulated prediction market exchange, and has since made event contracts a growing part of its trading platform. The expansion comes as sports contracts face legal challenges from
Sky has reported $30.8 million in September gross revenue and its first 2.86 million SKY token burn, alongside Galaxy’s $100 million sUSDS treasury allocation. Summary Sky’s September gross revenue reached $30.8 million, up 49.7% from a year earlier. Galaxy allocated $100 million to sUSDS and approved the token as institutional loan collateral. Sky completed its
The Necessity to Build and Launch an Ecosystem on Genesis Day Imagine if Microsoft released the Xbox and there were no games. On the day on which the Ethereum genesis block is created, many of the elements of the ecosystem — core infrastructure, mining network, user app browser and applications — will be in place.
The Bank of Korea plans to draft an amendment to the Foreign Exchange Transactions Act with the government before year-end that would regulate stablecoins as a means of payment, according to a written submission to the National Assembly’s annual audit reported by Korean outlet Digital Asset. The central bank’s October 22 report, a follow-up to
