ICON partners with LINE in a move that could bring as many as 200 million users to the ICX blockchain. Will ICON (ICX) begin to grow as a result? ICON Partners with LINE The 19th largest cryptocurrency is working with Japan’s biggest social media messaging app to develop dApps on the ICX blockchain, reports CCN. The…
The Corda platform, developed by the R3 banking consortium, tries to balance traits of permissioned and public blockchains within a network. While some aspects were inspired by public blockchains, Corda was designed from scratch based on the needs of R3’s members and leans far more to the permissioned system. Indeed, although R3 still uses the word “blockchain” extensively to help market…
On August 1st last year, Bitcoin Cash forked from Bitcoin. When it launched, its developer community promised to realize a vision for digital cash that they felt Bitcoin itself had failed to deliver: a decentralized, high-volume payment system with low enough fees for anyone to use. In the week from April 17th to April 24th,…
New NEM Protocol: Tech Bureau, a developmental group for blockchain technology software and services, has announced the release of its mijin v.2 blockchain engine, which is also known as Catapult. Catapult Features the New NEM Protocol Catapult will feature an updated version of the NEM protocol and is meant to be available on both public and…
NY Consensus Conference Day 1: Blockchain Week has begun with great enthusiasm for both technology enthusiasts and businesspeople around the world. Expectations have been met, and even exceeded in some cases. One of the main events of this week that seeks to raise awareness about the blockchain world and the benefits it represents for the…
EOS has long been gearing up for the launch of EOSIO 1.0. Today, Block.one, the team behind EOS, released an update on EOSIO 1.0 that explains how developers can use the EOSIO software. The update clears up the confusion about who, or what is launching the EOS blockchain. The EOS blockchain “can only be launched by…
Nick Thompson, editor-in-chief at Wired, in a recent presentation about all things in the future of tech touched upon why there is a backlash against Silicon Valley right now. He put it down to four factors. First, we have become addicted to technology. We live our lives staring at our devices rather than talking to each other…
The IBM made waves in the crypto market today. To top it off, the International Business Machines Corp. took Stellar along with it for the ride. IBM and Stellar have teamed up, with IBM issuing a token using a public blockchain. IBM and Stellar This is IBM’s first time issuing a token using a public…
Litecoin News: Litecoin (LTC) creator Charlie Lee sat down with CoinDesk at Consensus 2018 to talk CryptoKitties, blockchain inefficiencies, and money. Litecoin News: The Problem with Blockchain is… “Blockchains are inefficient by definition,” Lee stated. He explained that a decentralized system requires the replication of data, meaning that a whole bunch of computers have to…
IOTA News: The crypto markets are a sea of red Tuesday. All of the top-ten coins are currently down. That is, with the exception of IOTA (MIOTA). The IOTA Foundation seems to be a platform that cares immensely about creating connections with crypto and blockchain communities. Not only creating connections but also teaching these communities…
