#smart contracts

Waves Platform, a decentralized blockchain ecosystem for building Web 3.0 solutions, hits another milestone releasing a major update for the Waves blockchain. Waves Node 1.0 release will bring some powerful and long-awaited new functionality and features to the Waves ecosystem, while activation of RIDE for dApps on mainnet will enable dApps implementation on Waves.

Gambling project Xether has announced the launch of an eponymous gambling ecosystem enabling one to play for ETH without signing up while obtaining steady income.

Dogecoin moved to the 21st place in CoinMarketCap rankings on Saturday, September 1, following an impressive price run growth which saw this “joke coin” gaining over 140 percent over the last three days and reaching 0.00000085 BTC on several exchanges.

Formerly known as Rootstock, RSK Labs is an Argentinian startup building the first open-source smart contract platform with a 2-way peg to Bitcoin that also rewards the miners through merge-mining.

Waves, a blockchain-based token creation platform, has launched smart contracts on the Waves Testnet.

The bitcoin community is growing fast, and so does the scaling problem. As Bitfinex and Coinbase added support for Segregated Witness, bitcoin network capabilities remain limited – thousands of unconfirmed transactions are often stuck when there is a new flow of interested users.

Russia’s parliament members Anatoly Aksakov, Igor Divinski, and Oleg Nikolaev, as well as senator Nikolai Zhuravlev have presented a bill on digital financial assets that defines cryptocurrencies and tokens as property while banning their usage as means of payment.

April 6, Aeternity public pre-sale has ended demonstrating huge support from the community for this new project with over $5 million collected in ETH and BTC.

The feature was written by Alexander Boldachev, a philosopher, the member of Russia’s Futurology Association, and eGaaS analyst exclusively for ForkLog.

1 What is ERC-20? ERC stands for Ethereum Request for Comments. It’s the official protocol for proposing improvements to the Ethereum network. 20 stands for the number of the proposal. Technical specifications for tokens issued on Ethereum have been published in 2015. The tokens that meet those specifications are called ERC-20. In fact, they are […]

Attempts to resolve governance issues with blockchain technology are becoming more frequent these days; however, practical implementation examples are scarce in this regard. Recently launched blockchain platform DayLight is another ambitious project exploring new paths in this area, and hopefully it could arrive at something bigger.

Andrey Zamovsky, Ambisafe CEO and InChain team member, will be moderating the development section of the Blockchain & Bitcoin Conference Kiev 2016, a major event to be held September 23.