Merkling in Ethereum
Merkle trees are a fundamental part of what makes blockchains tick. Although it is definitely theoretically possible to make a blockchain without Merkle trees, simply by creating giant block headers…
Read More »Eth2 at ETHWaterloo: Prizes for Eth2 education, tooling, and research
For the first time ever, the Ethereum Foundation will be sponsoring a range of hacker prizes related to Eth2 at a major hackathon. With Eth2 development proceeding rapidly, there are…
Read More »Ropsten, Rinkeby & Kiln Deprecation Announcement
Reminder: the Gray Glacier upgrade is scheduled for block 15,050,000, expected June 29, 2022 The Kiln Merge testnet, launched earlier this year, will be shut down shortly after the Ethereum…
Read More »How The Merge Impacts Ethereum’s Application Layer
Note: this post was updated in March 2022 to reflect the latest changes to specifications. These include the renaming of consensus layer specifications to “Bellatrix”, the renaming of the RANDOM…
Read More »Ropsten, Rinkeby & Kiln Deprecation Announcement
Reminder: the Gray Glacier upgrade is scheduled for block 15,050,000, expected June 29, 2022 The Kiln Merge testnet, launched earlier this year, will be shut down shortly after the Ethereum…
Read More »BREAKING TODAY: $403 Trillion XRP Glitch Sparks Mayhem
Earlier today on August 26th, 2022 at approximately 11:00 AM EST the XRP community was going nuts on twitter about a “volume glitch” that happened on the xrpcharts.ripple.com website, and…
Read More »Pressure from Cryptocurrency Exchanges Weakens Darknet Dealers but Doesn’t Stop Them
Cryptocurrency exchanges actively apply KYC regulations to pressure darknet entrepreneurs. Despite the reduction of cryptocurrency transactions on the darknet, criminals are still active in their shadow industry.
Read More »Introducing Crypto.com Exchange V2 API and WebSocket Server
On Monday, June 15 2020 we released V2 of our Exchange REST API and introduced a new V2 Exchange WebSocket API to better serve your trading needs (API Documentation here)….
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