In today’s edition of Ethereum (available on Coinbase) news, we’ll cover the details of Ethereum (available on Coinbase) Startup Parity Technologies adding Casper code to their blockchain toolbox and why Ethereum (available on Coinbase)’s co-founder, Joe Lubin, invested in a competitor.

Ethereum (available on Coinbase) News: Parity Technologies and Casper

Parity Technologies, an Ethereum (available on Coinbase) startup, has just added an early version of the highly anticipated Casper code to its platform, Substate.

The code was released on GitHub yesterday, and the team behind the implementation at Parity is calling it their ‘Shasper’ upgrade.

“Shasper is combination of Casper and sharding. Once it lands, we should see vast improvements in terms of Ethereum (available on Coinbase)’s transaction throughput,” Wei Tang, the dev leading the Parity integration, told CoinDesk.

This is the biggest Ethereum (available on Coinbase) news that has broken in quite a while and a positive one, at that. While this is only the first step, the proof-of-stake consensus switch on the Ethereum (available on Coinbase) network is closer. Shasper combines Parity’s in-house scaling solution and sharding, along with Ethereum (available on Coinbase)’s proof-of-stake consensus switch, Casper.

ETH has yet to see a price spike since the news though.