Ethereum Successfully Completes Its Istanbul Hard Fork
By Daria Rud
Istanbul is Ethereum’s eighth hard fork that comes with six Ethereum Improvement Proposals (EIPs), including EIPs 152, 1108, 1344, 1844, 2028 and 2200.
Ethereum Ropsten Testnet Splits After the Early Launch of the Istanbul Upgrade
Ethereum testnet Ropsten has hardforked following an earlier than scheduled release of the Istanbul upgrade of the world’s second most popular blockchain.
Max’s Corner 5: Hard Fork Special
By Max Hasselhoff
With all the buzz going around about hard forks this week we thought it would only be fitting if we dedicated this week’s column to the three biggest hard forks on our radar.
Vitalik Buterin: Ethereum is a Smartphone While Bitcoin is a Calculator
Ethereum is the world’s second largest cryptocurrency in terms of market capitalization and is loved by crypto exchanges and is listed with most crypto pairs, more than any other coin, but Bitcoin.
JPMorgan Tests Ethereum Privacy Tech ‘AZTEC’ with Zero-Knowledge Proofs
Having launched its own digital asset, JPMorgan Chase is now exploring the capacities of a new Ethereum privacy tech AZTEC based on zero-knowledge proofs.
Ethereum’s Constantinople and St. Petersburg Hard Forks Have Been Activated
By Daria Rud
After two delays, the Constantinople and St. Petersburg hard forks have finally gone live. With this release, four different Ethereum improvement proposals (EIPs) have been officially activated.
Ethereum’s Constantinople Hard Fork Goes Live Today
By Daria Rud
In less than 12 hours, Constantinople and St. Petersburg hard forks will go live. But before any network upgrades are applied to the main network, they take place on test networks, such as Ropsten.
Tron Promises to Add Four New Features After Its Hard Fork Goes Live on February 28
This week Tron is going to hard fork its network to its 3.5 version and offer four new features for institutional users.
Ethereum’s Longed-For Constantinople and St. Petersburg Hard Forks to Go Live This Week
Though the Constantinople hard fork has been already postponed twice now it is expected to occur together with the St. Petersburg upgrade this week.
Vitalik Buterin: ‘EOS and Tron are ‘Centralized Piles of Trash’
At a recent blockchain conference that happened in San Franciso, Vitalik Buterin, Ethereum creator, answered a question about whether an Ethereum upgrade would have “any transaction throughput goals.”