Ethereum is quickly becoming an integral part of the enterprise blockchain ecosystem. As more companies begin to leverage public networks for business, it’s important to keep in mind that the enterprise Ethereum space is still relatively new. Therefore, a number of developments are required before organizations can fully take advantage of the Ethereum blockchain. For example, Dan Burnett, executive director of the Enterprise Ethereum Alliance — an initiative enabling organizations to adopt and use Ethereum technology in their daily business operations — told Cointelegraph that Ethereum is increasing in usage, deployment, application and more. As such, Ethereum is transforming into …

An open-source, decentralized, interoperable platform has announced that it will be the home of a multichain decentralized finance protocol. Gene Finance launched on Metaverse on Friday and is designed to help cryptocurrency enthusiasts “easily deploy and optimize their digital assets within the DeFi space.” An intuitive dashboard has been built that enables users to manage their DeFi portfolio across a plethora of products — including yield farming, algorithmic stablecoins and liquidity mining. Metaverse, which recently launched its mainnet, is providing an all-important infrastructure layer that results in a faster, cheaper, more efficient transaction experience for DeFi’s ever-expanding user base. According …

IOHK, the development company behind Cardano, has named a DeFi lending protocol as one of its so-called Project Catalyst ideas — sending a strong message that decentralized finance applications could be coming to the project's blockchain. In a series of Twitter posts, IOHK said Tuesday that several promising ideas tied to Project Catalyst will be revealed in the coming days. Project Catalyst is a public fund that is intended to bring “research, social experiments and community consent to establish an open, democratic culture within the Cardano community.” The first Project Catalyst candidate to be announced is Liqwid, a DeFi lending …

Blockchain browser formerly known as ‘Braver’, which originally forked from the open-source Brave browser, rebranded itself to ‘Bold Browser’ earlier today citing legal threats from a ‘certain party.’ Anti-adware fork Braver Browser launched in June following reports of Brave auto-filling the company’s affiliate link into searches for certain crypto exchanges like Binance and Coinbase. Announcing the project in a now-deleted tweet on June 6, the Braver team said it had removed Brave's referral link injection, adding that the full release was going to delete “all adware”, including the Basic Attention Token (BAT) — in-house ERC-20 utility tokens that are awarded …

Major Bitcoin (BTC) derivatives exchange BitMEX has started accepting grant applications from open source developers. The initiative follows $650,000 in developer grants that the exchange has issued to Bitcoin Core contributor Michael Ford and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. BitMEX expands open-source development funding BitMEX’s parent company, HDR Global Trading Limited, has opened its open-source development grants to applications from developers contributing to Bitcoin, Java, NodeJS, and Kubernetes. The application form also indicates that HDR is open to considering supporting open source development not relating to the four stated technologies, in addition to “smaller non-developer” grants for specific contributions such …

Economic Data Science Theme researcher, Andrea Baronchelli, told Cointelegraph more research on the topic of crypto code / price correlation may be on the horizon following the recent release of her team's preprint report. "This is really the first step," Baronchelli said of the recent preprint report, titled, From code to market: Network of developers and correlated returns of cryptocurrencies. "We plan to look at what happens when multiple developers work on the same two projects, and at the semantics of the edits they make," he noted, adding: "Our analysis has concerned pairs of cryptos so far but we plan …

Speaking at the Hyperledger Global Forum 2020 in Phoenix, Arizona on March 3, Walmart’s director of software engineering for blockchain platforms, Archana Sristy, briefly discussed why the company joined Hyperledger. During a panel entitled “Blockchain in Action: The Latest in Production Deployments,” Sristy said: “One of the reasons we are now a member of Hyperledger is to show the open-source community the importance of interoperability. It’s presumptive to think that everyone will be on the same blockchain network and will use the same framework. We have developers at Walmart participating in the open-source community and we look forward to more …

Cameron Winklevoss — one half of the eponymous family office Winklevoss Capital and co-founder of the Gemini crypto exchange — says Bitcoin’s (BTC) possibilities go beyond digital gold. In a tweet posted on Oct. 23, Cameron argued that: “Because Bitcoin is open source software, its possibilities are boundless. I often talk about gold as a target market cap, but that's really just the beginning...it's digital gold, source of truth, etc…” A shared, single “source of truth” Cameron’s argument aims at going beyond the commonplace analogy of Bitcoin with gold, whose proponents compare the scarcity of the precious metal with Bitcoin’s …

An open-source network says it is cultivating exciting partnerships that will help build the next generation of the internet — as well as creating solutions to tackle the current roadblocks to mass adoption of blockchain. Neo says its goal is to bring digital identities, digital assets and smart contracts in one place, leading to the creation of a smart economy. A big milestone is looming for the project as the finishing touches are added to the third iteration of its blockchain network — and as reported by Cointelegraph back in August, a detailed roadmap has been outlined as Neo vies …

More details are now emerging regarding high-level executives for social media giant Facebook’s crypto project, according to a report by CNBC on June 6. According to the report, there are now 100 people known to be working on the crypto project via profiles on professional networking platform LinkedIn. Facebook is also reportedly not done hiring, with over 40 openings still available in the team’s business unit, as per its website listing. The aim of Facebook’s new crypto project, according to advertising on its career descriptions, is to provide a public service centered on accessibility: “Our ultimate goal is to help …