Tag: sharding

Elrond Network Will Pay You Up To $60,000 To Break The Blockchain

BlockchainJune 10, 2020

ADVERTISEMENT The CEO and founder of the Elrond Network, Beniamin Mincu launched a 15-day campaign offering $60,000 for the person that will break...

Blockchain Bites: Avanti’s Angel Round, Civil’s Closure and a Data Breach

BlockchainJune 3, 2020

Data BreachCoincheck has fallen victim to a data breach after attackers accessed one of its domain name accounts and used it to impersonate the cryptocurrency...

Ethereum 2.0 Is Still Going Strong, Developer Danny Ryan Suggests

BlockchainJune 3, 2020

Developers have gathered information on Ethereum 2.0 into one comprehensive blog post. Key Takeaways Ethereum 2.0 will introduce staking and sharding. Several testnets and tools...

Hard Fork Sets Stage for Ethereum Classic’s Second Major Departure From Ethereum

BlockchainJune 3, 2020

Trail partners Ethereum and Ethereum Classic are soon to split ways, highlighted by the latter’s successful “Phoenix” hard fork Sunday night. Executed at block...

Are ETH’s Scalability Issues Finally Over? Buterin Says Ethereum’s Layer 2 Scaling Strategy Has ‘Basically Succeeded’

BlockchainJune 2, 2020

Advertisement The ethereum network has been plagued with bottleneck scalability issues for the longest time due to increased usage. As a...

Blockchain project FLETA partners with Oracle to build high-performance cloud server

BlockchainMay 30, 2020

Blockchain project FLETA recently announced an agreement with the software giant Oracle. The partnership focuses on FLETA’s use of Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI)....

Ethereum 2.0 Release Date Set for the Eleventh Hour as Issues Persist

BlockchainMay 23, 2020

The launch of Ethereum (ETH) 2.0 may be delayed yet again after developers rescheduled the network’s proof-of-stake algorithm upgrade for June 2020, as...

Ethereum 2.0 Is Casting Big Doubts on ETH’s Value as an Investment: Fund Manager

BlockchainMay 22, 2020

Over the past few weeks, there’s been a strong uptick in excitement about the Ethereum 2.0 upgrade. The excitement is surrounding the improvements the upgrade is expected to have on the Ethereum blockchain. At Token2049’s Ethereum Asia Supermeetup in March 2019, the blockchain’s enigmatic founder Vitalik Buterin told a crowd on the upgrade: “[It is] a way to bring technical improvements, like PoS and sharding, together to improve the Virtual Machine, Merkle Trees, the efficiency […]

Mainnet Upgrade Makes Harmony The First Sharded PoS Blockchain To Debut Staking

BlockchainMay 21, 2020

Harmony, a secure proof-of-stake blockchain designed for fast, large-scale settlement of millions of transactions has revealed a successful upgrade of its main net. The latest upgrade has in-built support for staking, making the project the first blockchain to combine proof-of-stake with sharding. Binance, Huobi, Other Major Crypto Players Support Harmony Staking Launch On May 19, 2020, Harmony revealed that it has successfully combined proof-of-stake and sharding following an upgrade to its unique, 4-shard network to […]