Ethereum News

Austrian Government to Notarize $1.3 Billion Bond Auction Using Ethereum
The Austrian government is planning to use the ethereum blockchain to notarize the auction of a bond worth around $1.3 billion.

Blockchain Startups Aim to Kill the Captcha With a New Anti-Bot Protocol
Datawallet and Enigma have partnered to create an alternative to all those annoying captchas – and hopefully reduce the prevalence of bot nets.

You Won't Have to Wait for This Ethereum Scaling Solution, It Works Now
Most ethereum scaling technologies are a far from completed, but OpenST says it's got a solution that's ready for the "here and now."

'500 Transactions a Second': Vitalik Says Zk-Snarks Could Scale Ethereum
A form of cryptography pioneered by zcash might help scale ethereum "by a huge amount," says founder Vitalik Buterin.

When Blockchains Go Down: Why Crypto Outages Are on the Rise
It used to be that downtime was unheard of on blockchain networks. As new protocols and new trade-offs emerge, that’s no longer the case.

Momentum Is Building to Block Big Miners from Ethereum's Blockchain
Several ethereum miners and developers have come forward in the hope of halting ASICs from effectively operating on the ethereum network.

'Turbo Geth' Seeks to Scale Ethereum – And It's Already in Beta
Instead of tackling ethereum's transaction costs, developer Alexey Akhunov focused on the blockchain's state, and the software is ready.

Enigma Delays Release of 'Discovery' Protocol on Ethereum Mainnet
The next stage in the privacy protocol's roadmap will no longer occur in Q3, according to the company.

R3's Hearn and Brown Say Enterprise Blockchain's Day of Reckoning Is Here
Bitcoin apostate Mike Hearn and his R3 colleague Richard Gendal Brown view the enterprise blockchain game as, if not quite zero-sum, something close.

This DEX Is Enabling Merchant Payments in Any Ethereum Token
Kyber Network is adapting the liquidity tool it uses within its decentralized exchange to allow businesses to accept payments in any ethereum token.
