Will Ethereum 2.0 Threaten Rise of Cardano? Charles Hoskinson Assesses Odds That ETH 2.0 Is ‘Cardano Killer’

Cardano creator Charles Hoskinson is looking at the protocol’s longevity and whether it can compete with a series of planned upgrades to the smart contract leader, Ethereum.

Cardano Successfully Releases Crucial Update To Begin Smart Contract Era

Input Output Hong Kong (IOHK) is unveiling that the fifth-largest cryptocurrency has reached an important milestone that signals the beginning of Cardano’s smart contract era.

This Emerging Altcoin Is More Exciting Long-Term Bet Than Ethereum, Says Prominent Crypto Trader

A high-profile pseudonymous crypto trader says that one emerging smart contract platform may pose a more enticing long-term investment than top blockchain network, Ethereum.

Cardano Price Analysis: 13 June

Cardano's first smart contract written in a specific Cardano-programmed language named Plutus went live on the Alonzo testnet on Saturday.

Cardano Deploys First Simple Smart Contract On AlonzoBlue Testnet

Cardano (ADA) has maintained part of its profits from the pre-crash weeks.

Cardano: First-ever Plutus smart contract goes live on Alonzo testnet

Cardano, the fifth-largest cryptocurrency in the market, has been one of the most talked-about altcoins of late.

Ripple Proposes Massive XRP Ledger Upgrade To Support DeFi and Smart Contract Capabilities

Ripple is proposing a major XRP ledger upgrade that the company says could unleash decentralized finance (DeFi) and smart contracts across the broader XRP ecosystem without decreasing XRPL’s efficiency.

Is Cardano a Flash in the Pan? Crypto Analyst Benjamin Cowen Looks at Top Altcoin’s Staying Power

Popular crypto analyst Benjamin Cowen is looking at whether the blockchain network Cardano (ADA) has what it takes to become a major smart contract competitor in the long run.

Why 'ADA is only the tip of the Cardano iceberg'

Tokens associated with scaling solutions and smart contract platforms have evidently been outperforming the broader market and that trend has established itself over the past few weeks now.

Flare Network Raises $11.3m in Funding Round With Kenetic and DCG

The funding will go towards advancing Flare's mission to bring smart contract functionality to blockchains that don't natively support them.

Why This Popular Crypto Analyst Bought 1 Million ADA

Cardano (ADA) developer IOG has launched the first testnet for their smart contract platform, “Alonzo Blue”.

Solana Up 48% This Week As Smart Contract Platforms Lead Crypto Recovery

The sixteenth-largest cryptocurrency, which powers dapps on its network, is quickly recovering from the crypto market slump.

New Crypto Projects Are Genuine Threat to Ethereum, Says Synthetix Founder Kain Warwick

The founder of derivatives liquidity protocol Synthetix, Kain Warwick, believes a number of new smart contract blockchains are now legitimate rivals to Ethereum.

Binance Smart Chain's PancakeHunny latest to suffer smart contract exploit

Binance Smart Chain has become a hotspot of sorts for attackers over the past month.

Ethereum 2.0 Gains Momentum As $13,000,000,000 in ETH Staked in Deposit Contract

Interest to stake in the next iteration of the leading smart contract platform continues to skyrocket as millions of ETH are deposited into the ETH 2.0 smart contract.  A look at the deposit contract shows that Ethereum holders who seek to become validators have collectively locked up 5.2 million ETH worth $13.8 billion.

More Than 5 Million in Ethereum Worth $13 Billion Rests in the Eth2 Staking Contract

Statistics now show the Eth2 deposit contract has more than 5.2 million staked ether worth over $13 billion locked into the smart contract.

What is Cardano (ADA)? The Peer-Reviewed Blockchain

Cardano is a blockchain and smart contract platform that's using peer-reviewed research to avoid the pitfalls of its predecessors.

Cardano Successfully Launches Crucial Testnet As Smart Contract Integration Approaches

Cardano developer Input Output Hong Kong (IOHK) reveals that it has successfully rolled out a testnet that will play a key role in the smart contract integration of the fifth-largest crypto asset.

Ethereum Needs to Try Harder To Keep Its Dominance in a Multichain Future

Ethereum (ETH) is not the only smart contract platform in town.

Cardano Begins Countdown to Smart Contracts With Alonzo Testnet

The Alonzo testnet marks the start of the network’s smart contract rollout—culminating in an August launch. 

Where is Moonbeam going? Situation Overview

Moonbeam is a blockchain project built back in January 2020 as a way to tackle cross-chain interoperability challenges, it is an Ethereum compatible smart contract parachain on Polkadot.

Cardano Boosting Manpower To Gear Up for Smart Contract Rollout

Cardano is boosting its workforce as it gears up to introduce smart contract capabilities, according to its creator, Charles Hoskinson.

Ethereum Primed for 500% Explosion, Says Crypto Trader Lark Davis – Here’s Why

Crypto trader Lark Davis says Ethereum’s (ETH) value could erupt over 6x from its current price as he sees the leading smart contract platform’s market cap rising to trillions of dollars.

HashEx: 20 Million Users Might Be Threatened by SafeMoon’s Critical Vulnerabilities

The SafeMoon DeFi protocol is the latest project to have vulnerabilities revealed in its smart contract code.

New Milestone for Cardano As Crypto Asset Hits 1,000,000 Wallets

In a new milestone, smart contract platform Cardano (ADA) has now hit 1 million wallets, according to the Cardano Foundation.

Tether to Launch USDT Natively on Avalanche

The blockchain company Tether has announced it will make available its stablecoin token as a native asset in Avalanche, a smart contract platform that has picked steam in the last year.

Cardano ERC-20 converter nears testnet phase

Cardano’s ERC-20 converter tool with built-in two-way convertibility will soon be open for beta testing. Decentralized finance on the Cardano blockchain is drawing closer to becoming a reality, with a token migration bridge soon to enter the testing phase.According to Francisco Landino, project manager at Input Output Hong Kong, or IOHK — the research and development arm responsible for Cardano — the platform’s ERC-20 migration tool is nearing testnet deployment.In a blog post published on Monday, Landino said that the ERC-20 converter tool will allow the migration of Ethereum-based tokens to the Cardano chain.The planned ERC-20 converter bridge will follow Cardano’s highly anticipated Alonzo hard fork, which is touted to bring smart contract functionality to the network.Arguing for the necessity of the ERC-20 conversion tool, Landino wrote:“Once deployed, users of supported Ethereum tokens will be able to bring them over from Ethereum’s congested network and take advantage of Cardano’s transaction capacity and lower fees, while enjoying enhanced security, reduced cost, and interoperability.”As part of the announcement, the IOHK executive also stated that the ERC-20 conversion tool was an important part of efforts to leverage Cardano’s value proposition over Ethereum in terms of parameters, such as scalability and transaction costs.With only a few clicks, crypto projects will be able to migrate their native tokens to the Cardano chain via the converter tool.

EY invests $100 million to expand blockchain product suite, launches DeFi contract simulator

Ernst & Young is investing $100 million into targeting enterprise DeFi with its latest suite of Blockchain Analyzer products. “Big Four” accounting firm, Ernst & Young Global Limited, or EY, is continuing to invest heavily in blockchain, investing $100 million into engineering and developing distributed ledger technologies for a range of enterprise applications.On May 17, EY revealed its second-generation of Smart Contract & Token Review tools through its EY Blockchain Analyzer product suite, including a testing studio allowing simulated smart contract execution for complex decentralized finance, or DeFi, applications.“The new iteration supports multiple new capabilities that are expected to be used in complex DeFi contract ecosystems,” EY announced, adding:“It offers a blend of compliance testing with traditional code review, and it supports customized smart contract tests and simulation of mainnet transactions.”Yael Tamar, the co-founder of asset tokenization firm, SolidBlock, recounted using the new studio to review smart contracts for property-backed security tokens, stating: “It was very beneficial to simulate how our contracts could perform on the network prior to deployment and test the contracts against widely known attacks in this market.” EY also revealed that Italian beer company, Birra Peroni, is using its Ethereum-based supply chain solution, “EY Opschain Traceability.” Peroni is using the supply train tracker to notarize company information and will mint nonfungible tokens to identify and track data for batches of Peroni beer.EY also announced the contribution of source code to a zero-knowledge-proof prototype compiler in the public domain. The firm’

Ethereum’s Next Move Hinges on This Bitcoin Indicator, Says Crypto Analyst Benjamin Cowen

Closely-followed crypto analyst Benjamin Cowen says Ethereum investors should keep a close watch on one Bitcoin indicator, which he says will likely influence the leading smart contract platform’s performance in the short term.

Cardano To Double in Value Amid Huge Breakout, Predicts High-Profile Analyst

A widely-followed crypto strategist and trader is predicting a 100% rise in Cardano’s (ADA) price following the smart contract platform’s ascent to a new all-time high.

New Cardano Accelerator Has Surged 40,000% Since Launch

A Cardano (ADA) launchpad is skyrocketing in price ahead of smart contract integration on the long-awaited blockchain.

Will Cardano Overtake Ethereum? Crypto Trader Alex Saunders Analyzes ETH’s First-Mover Advantage

Prominent crypto analyst Alex Saunders of Nugget’s News is unveiling what Cardano must accomplish to have a shot at dethroning Ethereum and become the number one smart contract platform.

You Can Now Buy Cardano Wine – With Cardano

Cardano Estates Winery is now accepting smart contract platform Cardano’s ADA token as a means of payment for its red wines.

Chance of a price crash increases as Cardano (ADA) futures near $1B

ADA price crashed the last time Cardano futures open interest reached $1B, leading traders to question whether it is about to happen again. Cardano's (ADA) impressive 816% gain in 2021 catapulted the smart-contract platform's market capitalization to $61 billion.

AllianceBlock Announces Decentralized Capital Market on Edgeware with Defi-NFT Approach

[PR – Utrecht, The Netherlands, May 14, 2021] AllianceBlock has announced it will launch a decentralized capital market on the Edgeware smart contract platform.

ETH Can Flip Bitcoin, But It Can't 'Have Its Cake & Eat It Too' - Arthur Hayes

Source: imgflip.com, Cryptonews.com Ethereum (ETH) can’t be a better store of value than bitcoin (BTC) while also being a widely used smart contract platform, according to former BitMEX CEO Arthur Hayes. Writing in a blog post, Hayes considered the possibility of ethereum’s market capitalization overtaking bitcoin’s, warning that a high ETH price would make it difficult for Ethereum to

Smart Contract Platforms Soar As Ethereum Eclipses $4K – eToro Crypto Roundup

EOS adds 50% while Ethereum Classic triples in value.

Ethereum Breaks USD 4,000, Bitcoin Rallies Past USD 59K

The native token of the most popular smart contract platform, Ethereum (ETH), just reached another milestone, hitting USD 4,000 for the first time in its history. At 03:17 UTC, ETH trades at USD 4,006 and is up by 2% in a day and 36% in a week.

Cardano breaks out vs. Bitcoin as ADA price discovery nears $2

The current "alt season" has produced serious returns but remains subdued when viewed in BTC terms. Cardano (ADA), the native token of the smart contract platform of the same name, has joined the altcoins hitting new all-time highs this week. ADA/USD 1-day candle chart (Binance).

Tajik government taps blockchain firm for e-government infrastructure

A new public-private partnership between the Fantom Foundation and the Tajik Ministry of Industry of New Technologies will see the two roll out a range of blockchain-based solutions across nationwide IT infrastructure. President of Tajikistan Emomali Rahmon is pursuing an ambitious integration of blockchain technology into his government's ongoing modernization drive.  According to an announcement from smart contract platform Fantom, a new public-private partnership between the Fantom Foundation and the Tajik Ministry of Industry of New Technologies will see the two roll out a range of blockchain-based solutions across nationwide IT infrastructure. The scope of the partnership is to research, develop and implement various blockchain-enabled data-sharing, transparency and automation solutions.

The First AMM, Integrated with AI-Smart Contract Generator on BSC

Disclaimer: The text below is a press release that was not written by Cryptonews.com. Decentralized finance startup, Artichain.finance, known for being the first automated market makers (AMM) that integrated yield farming with artificial intelligence-smart contract is now running on Binance Smart Chain, with lots of other features that let you earn and win tokens. This artificial

They see ETH rollin’: Why did Ether price reach $3.5K, and what’s next?

Attention is firmly on the short-term future of Ether after Ethereum's native cryptocurrency surged to new all-time highs above $3,500. The next few months promise to be exhilarating and decisive for Ether (ETH), as its recent all-time highs above $3,500 put an even bigger spotlight on the cryptocurrency and its smart contract blockchain, Ethereum. As the cryptocurrency markets continue to grow five months into 2021, both the preeminent Bitcoin (BTC) and a host of other blockchain projects and tokens have soared in value, chief among them being Ether.

Cardano and Ethereum on Track To Print Giant 3x Gains, Says Crypto Trader Lark Davis

Crypto influencer Lark Davis says smart contract platforms Cardano (ADA) and Ethereum (ETH) are gearing up to rally by 300% from their current prices.

TrustSwap launches a lottery-based program to reward Minor Stakers

TrustSwap , a DeFi project offering smart contract services is launching a lottery-based program, called FlashDrop.

Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin becomes billionaire as Ether hits $3K

Vitalik Buterin’s crypto holdings have doubled since January 2021 to surge above $1 billion. Vitalik Buterin, a co-founder of the world’s most popular smart contract platform, the Ethereum blockchain, has officially become a crypto billionaire. Buterin’s public Ether address, which he described as his main wallet back in 2018, has hit $1 billion on its balance following Ether’s meteoric rise above a $3,000 price mark on Monday. At the time of writing, the address holds around 333,500 Ether (ETH) now worth $1.029 billion, according to on-chain data from Etherscan, as ETH more than quadrupled in value from around $700 at the beginning of 2021. At publishing time, the world’s largest altcoin is trading at $3,144, up 8.6% over the past 24 hours, with gains of 36% over the past seven days, according to data from CoinGecko. Ethereum price chart over the past 180 days.

Ethereum Enters the USD 3,000 Era

The native token of the most popular smart contract platform, Ethereum (ETH), just surpassed the USD 3,000 level for the first time in its history.

Ethereum hits $3,000 for the first time, now larger than Bank of America

Further growth may be on the horizon for the world's largest smart contract platform.

Are Cardano Investors in an Echo Chamber? Traders Scrutinize Hype Behind Red-Hot Crypto Asset

A Redditor is taking a closer look at the hype surrounding the Cardano smart contract platform, questioning whether its fanbase is too loyal to remain objective about the project.

Cuban Challenges Investment Star to Smart Contract Crypto vs Stocks Bet

Mark Cuban. Source: A video screenshot, Youtube/Vanity Fair The increasingly bullish former bitcoin (BTC) skeptic Mark Cuban has once again waded into crypto-related waters – setting up a public bet against a high-profile investor who favors conventional stock trading. Cuban, the star of Shark Tank and the owner of the Dallas Mavericks NBA franchise, has decided to pick his latest crypto battle

‘Semi-fungible token’ project launches on Binance Smart Chain

MocktailSwap is reportedly the first ERC-1155 standard token to launch on Binance Smart Chain. MocktailSwap Finance, an up-and-coming DeFi protocol focused on automated market makers, has launched a so-called “semi-fungible token” on the Binance Smart Chain, offering further evidence of innovation in decentralized finance.  The semi-fungible token is based on Ethereum’s ERC-1155 standard, which enables a smart contract to govern an unlimited number of tokens.

Mastercard Investing in Smart Contract Tech to Build on State-Backed Digital Currencies

It’s still early days, but Mastercard is examining how smart contracts can help central banks develop digital cash.

Fantom surges 52% following network upgrade

Dubbed “Go-Opera,” the latest upgrade to Fantom introduces a range of technical changes. The token of smart contract platform Fantom, FTM, was subject to a 52% price increase leading into Thursday morning following the successful implementation of a new network upgrade. Dubbed “Go-Opera,” the latest upgrade to Fantom introduces a range of technical changes that, according to a recent explainer by the Fantom Foundation, makes the network faster, more efficient and more reliable. The upgrade was announced as completed at 5:42 a.m.

Cartesi Labs: Fostering the Future of Smart Contract Development

The Cartesi Foundation will be supporting the research and development of decentralized systems using Cartesi’s products with grants, incubation and academic programs The technology that underpins decentralized systems is disrupting infrastructure across many industries, offering a much-needed upgrade for outdated business models in the healthcare, finance, and telecommunications sectors to name a few.

New digital dispute rules aim to keep crypto disagreements out of court

New digital dispute rules could keep smart contract disagreements out of the courts with the help of an independent arbitration tribunal. A British government-sanctioned task force has proposed a dispute resolution framework that would keep cryptocurrency and smart contract disagreements out of the courts.

Daml smart contract language creator raises $120M in Series D financing

The company behind Daml said it tripled its customer base in 2020, with half of the new business coming from outside the blockchain industry.

Simple steps to safeguard your wallet from unlimited ERC-20 allowance risks

The funds in your ERC-20 wallet could be at risk if you continue to grant unlimited approvals to decentralized applications. Participating in the decentralized finance space often necessitates the need to grant projects certain permissions to spend tokens from one’s own wallet. These permissions — called ERC-20 allowances — help to simplify the smart contract interaction processes that allow users to send funds to a contract while simultaneously calling a state change function. However, malicious actors can utilize this allowance to drain funds from an unsuspecting trader.

Cardano Development Company Launches Hiring Spree Ahead of Smart Contract Rollout

Input Output Hong Kong (IOHK), the company behind Cardano (ADA), is posting new job openings ahead of the August launch of the Alonzo upgrade that will add smart contracts functionality to the seventh-largest cryptocurrency.  IOHK marketing and communications director Tim Harrison says the company is on a hiring spree amid the soaring interest in the […] The post Cardano Development Company Launches Hiring Spree Ahead of Smart Contract Rollout appeared first on The Daily Hodl.

Cardano’s upcoming Alonzo smart contract update takes ADA to new highs

Cardano continues to cement its place as an Ethereum contender as the upcoming Alonzo update will be a game-changer for the community. Cardano (ADA) has become one of the most prominent upcoming blockchain networks.

Smart contract exploits are more ethical than hacking... or not?

What is certain is that exploits only get points for being less disastrous than their counterpart. There has been a lot of talk about the recent “hacks” in the decentralized finance realm, particularly in the cases of Harvest FInance and Pickle Finance.

Multi-Billion Dollar Product Lines Coming to Cardano, Mass Exodus From Ethereum at Base Layer Likely: Charles Hoskinson

Cardano creator Charles Hoskinson says the smart contract platform will host billions of dollars worth of products and inspire many blockchain developers to migrate away from Ethereum at the base layer.

What is Near Protocol?

NEAR is a smart contract-capable blockchain that's designed to be a next-generation platform for dapps, with its own unique scaling solution.

Five Crypto Platforms Will Increasingly Grab Market Share From Ethereum, Says Trader Lark Davis

Popular crypto analyst Lark Davis thinks five crypto platforms will encroach on Ethereum’s supremacy over the smart-contract marketplace.

Chainlink releases new whitepaper in a shift toward smart contract computations

In its new vision, Chainlink would allow anyone to deploy an arbitrary executable on its network. Chainlink (LINK) has unveiled its new whitepaper on Thursday, which details a planned expansion and pivot into creating oracle networks for computation.

Ethereum Day: Issues in Berlin, Price ATH, Gas Drop, and CME Futures Record

This Thursday has been quite an eventful day for the most popular smart contract platform, Ethereum (ETH), as its Berlin upgrade went live, its native token, ETH, hit a new all-time high, gas dropped lower, and the CME Group revealed the records reached by their ETH futures offering. On April 15, ETH hit another all-time high of USD 2,488 (per Coingecko), as

Cardano Prepares for Plutus Powered Smart Contracts

Blockchain platform Cardano is preparing for its next major upgrade which will usher in smart contract capabilities through its native Plutus language.

Why Cardano Could Be The Next Runner Up To Ethereum

Cardano’s network and community are preparing for Plutus, its smart contract platform, to be implemented.

Cardano Has One Big Edge Over Other Cryptos, Says Coin Bureau

The pseudonymous host of Coin Bureau is sharing his thoughts on some of the advantages Cardano has in the race to beat out Ethereum as the top smart contract platform.

Cardano Launching Smart Contracts in August, Targeting DeFi Boom and Corporate Use Cases

The development team behind the Cardano blockchain is unveiling new details surrounding its smart contract release.

Three Arrows Capital CEO Tells Crypto Newbie Not To Buy Cardano – Here’s Why

Three Arrows Capital chief Su Zhu is advising crypto newbies to stay away from smart contract platform Cardano (ADA).

Bitcoin Spikes Above USD 61K, Ethereum Hits New ATH

The crypto market started this weekend in green, with the most popular cryptocurrency, bitcoin (BTC), jumping above USD 61,000 for the first time in almost a month, while the dominant smart contract platform, ethereum (ETH), reached its new all-time high (ATH) against USD. At 07:12 UTC, BTC trades at USD 60,511, correcting lower from 61,206, reached earlier today.

Amid developer drought, teams turning to hackathons to find talent

If there's not enough developers to go around, why not train up some more? Amid a bull market for decentralized finance (DeFi) that has teams developing new products at a breakneck pace, the demand for smart contract developers couldn’t be higher — but, unfortunately, the amount of available talent couldn’t be lower.  Team members from multiple projects have taken to Twitter in recent weeks to gripe about the shallow hiring pool, including representatives from high-profile mainstays like Yearn.Finance and Sushiswap.

This Under-the-Radar Altcoin Could Be the Next Big Smart Contract Blockchain, According to Coin Bureau

The pseudonymous host of Coin Bureau says that an altcoin that surged by 700% in February could be the next best smart contract platform.

Cardano To Accelerate Significantly, Says Analyst Michaël van de Poppe – Here Are the Crucial Levels To Watch

Crypto trader and analyst Michaël van de Poppe is unveiling the price levels that he’s watching in Cardano (ADA) in preparation for the smart contract platform’s next bull run phase.

Ethereum Smashes All-Time High as Race for Smart Contract Supremacy Accelerates – eToro Crypto Roundup

TRX, EOS and BNB make massive gains as Visa adopts Ethereum.

Red-Hot Crypto Asset That Erupted 1,250% This Year Teams Up With Cardano

A mid-cap crypto asset that is up over 1,250% since the start of the year is now teaming up with smart contract platform Cardano (ADA).

Crypto Traders Are Extremely Skeptical of Ethereum Bull Run – And That’s Highly Bullish, Says Crypto Analytics Firm Santiment

Crypto intelligence firm Santiment says doubt surrounding Ethereum’s recent rally back above $1,800 may indicate that the top smart contract platform is finally breaking out.

‘Wild west’ as developers MacGyver highly popular NFTs on Cardano

Even without smart contract functionality, Cardano developers have found ways to mint and sell NFT collectibles. Despite not yet having functional smart contracts on the layer-one, intrepid Cardano developers have recently hacked together methods to mint bootleg nonfungible tokens.

Is Cardano Overvalued? Trader Lark Davis Analyzes Crypto Asset’s Meteoric Rise

Crypto trader and influencer Lark Davis is analyzing the potential upside of investing in the smart contract platform Cardano (ADA).

Mark Cuban owns 30% ETH because it’s ‘closest to a true currency’

Mark Cuban recently stated that Bitcoin is a better alternative to gold, and compared Ethereum's smart contracts to the internet boom of the late 1990s.

Defi Venture XFai Reveals Liquidity Generation Event, Project Backed by Angel Investor Roger Ver

Decentralized finance (defi) has seen extreme demand and innovative use-cases during the last 12 months.

Minereum Launches Bazarswap OTC DEX With a 6 ETH Promo

Disclaimer: The text below is a press release that was not written by Cryptonews.com. The world’s first self-mining smart contract, Minereum, has just launched the first over-the-counter (OTC) decentralized cryptocurrency exchange for ERC20 tokens called Bazarswap.

The promise of smart contract adoption is held back by crypto silos

Smart contracts present one the most promising tech solutions for business, but there are still barriers that have to be addressed. The internet is buzzing over recent developments in decentralized finance, or DeFi — smart contracts are hotter than ever.

This Experimental NFT Project Is Heading to the Moon, According to Trader Tyler Swope

Crypto trader and analyst Tyler Swope says one experimental NFT (non-fungible token) protocol is gearing up for a set of upgrades that can send it to the moon.   In his new video, the influencer tells his 211,000 YouTube subscribers about Geysers and its implementation on NFTs.  “Geysers as in an Etheruem smart contract.

BTCS Generating Revenue By Securing Smart Contract-Based Proof-Of-Stake Blockchains

Disclaimer: The text below is a press release that was not written by Cryptonews.com. In 2021, companies are enhancing their treasury management strategies to realize improved returns by allocating liquid funds to cryptocurrencies.

Sushi is Expanding to Avalanche While Ethereum Camp Fights High Fees

Major DeFi protocol SushiSwap (SUSHI) has announced its expansion to the Avalanche (AVAX) smart contract platform, while the Ethereum (ETH) camp is looking for new ways to curb its sky-high fees that force its users to look for alternatives.

Blockchain can stamp out fake news and rebuild trust in mass media

Blockchain technology implemented in the media industry will help to prevent fake news from spreading. Fact-checking agencies are in charge of verifying facts and claims in the news that may be distorted in the process of rewriting or for any political purposes.

StakeWise Raises $2 Million To Make Ethereum 2.0 Staking Easier

The DeFi DAO tokenizes Ethereum 2.0 ETH deposits, enabling owners to make use of their staked Ether ahead of the smart contract platform's upgrade.

Ethereum Poised To Become a Deflationary Asset As EIP 1559 Gets Approved for July

A highly-anticipated update that overhauls the controversial Ethereum fee market gets the green light as it is now included in the leading smart contract platform’s next major hard fork.

What Ethereum killer? On-chain data shows competitor networks are still behind

Critics say Ethereum’s soaring gas fees will cause the project to fall victim to its competitor blockchains but on-chain data suggests otherwise. Ether (ETH) remains the second-largest cryptocurrency and it absolutely dominates the smart contract industry according to an array of network usage metrics.

Binance Smart Chain 'copykat' project loses $31 million in possible rugpull

Users now need to ask: how many more protocols are at risk? At roughly 9 am UTC today Meerkat, a decentralized finance (DeFi) protocol on Binance’s smart contract platform, lost $31 million worth of BNB tokens.

Iota releases Smart Contracts Protocol alpha ahead of Coordicide rollout

Developers can now try out the upcoming WebAssembly smart contract platform. The Iota protocol (MIOTA) is continuing its pivot toward implementing smart contracts with an alpha release of IOTA Smart Contracts Protocol, or ISCP. As announced on Thursday, the project has released a more stable iteration of its smart contracts platform, which was previously in the pre-alpha stage.

Tezos Ties-Up with Wolfram Blockchain Labs to Simplify Smart Contract Deployment

Wolfram Blockchain Labs (WBL) and Tezos are forging a full integration of Tezos into Wolfram Language and Wolframalpha.

Ex-WallStreetBets Mods Aim to Turn WBS 2.0 Decentralized & Tokenized

Source: Adobe/Игорь Головнёв A group of moderators from the subreddit behind GameStop (GME) short squeeze, which made the headlines across the globe, WallStreetBets (WBS), is now planning to take a path of decentralization and build a smart contract-based pool. "It's time to decentralize WallStreetBets [and] build WallStreetBets 2.0," said the group which claims to be

Ethereum and DeFi are forcing smart contract platforms to evolve

Smart contract platforms are evolving, with DeFi at the center of it all — but the Ethereum factor is impossible to ignore. The decentralized finance movement was a ticking time bomb waiting to detonate when it finally exploded in 2020.

After Cardano: Wolfram Blockchain Labs Teams Up With Tezos

Wolfram Research's blockchain subsidiary has teamed up with Tezos to facilitate smart contract developments in a more secure way.

Fantom brushes off network outage with another 30% price surge

With over 3,000% growth since the turn of the year, even a recent network outage couldn't stop Fantom's bullish surge. The decentralized smart contract platform Fantom (FTM) continued its resurgent rally to the tune of 32% on Monday, despite a temporary network outage that saw the blockchain stop producing blocks for seven hours.

After XRP and Litecoin, Flare Plans To Bring Smart Contract Functionality to Stellar

Ripple-backed blockchain startup Flare Networks is announcing its plans to integrate Stellar Lumens (XLM) into its smart contract platform.

Here's how IOHK's glow will simplify smart contract writing for Cardano

Blockchain research firm IOHK recently announced the launch of Glow, an open-source programming language on the Cardano blockchain, which will allow anyone to write blockchain-based applications and d The post Here's how IOHK's glow will simplify smart contract writing for Cardano appeared first on AMBCrypto.

Ethereum, Polkadot and Cardano can all co-exist says Hoskinson

According to Cardano Founder Charles Hoskinson, there is room for more than one smart contract platform in the market. In a recent interview, Hoskinson said, “ I think there’s definitely room i The post Ethereum, Polkadot and Cardano can all co-exist says Hoskinson appeared first on AMBCrypto.

ETH mining still highly profitable despite upcoming Eth2 upgrade

Miners weigh in on lucrative ETH mining payouts as the blockchain eyes a transition away from its proof-of-work consensus in 2021. Ethereum miners continue to enjoy lucrative payouts for their efforts in 2021, while the smart contract blockchain platform edges closer to a move away from its proof-of-work consensus.