Homestead Gives Ethereum An Edge to Redefine Blockchain
Homestead, Ethereum’s second release, has moved the cryptocurrency beyond Beta. Experts told Cointelegraph that as a result it has improved its overall performance and encouraged more adoption by exchanges and developers. A step further from the Frontier. Ethereum has shown a pronounced growth within the world of Crypto. The first release of Ethereum named Frontier proved to become a formidable player within the industry, “Probably they will announce lower recommended confirmations for transactions. This is huge!" The release of Homestead has resulted in some significant shake-up. As we....
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On February 29, the Ethereum team announced the release of the second major version of the Ethereum platform, called Homestead. Its first version called Frontier attracted attention of leading financial institutions and banks worldwide. Homestead features several protocol changes including the EIP-2, EIP-7 and EIP-8. The newly released client (1.3.4) will soon be followed by release 1.4 which will finish introducing the new features and functions developed in the past few months. Amid the development and distribution of the remaining features, the teams at Ethereum will collaborate to....
Ethereum is quickly building momentum with its second phase release of the Homestead platform. Meanwhile, as forward-thinking companies are jumping on the chance to study its blockchain technology, the price has been spiking as a result. Bitcoin.com got a chance to speak with Ethereum founder, Vitalik Buterin, about what the current price bull run means....
Next-generation blockchain platform Ethereum has released 'Homestead' the first production release of its software, which was implemented at block 1,150,000 today. The introduction follows Frontier, Ethereum's inaugural release, which was released to developers in July 2015. Further, it comes on the heels of escalating interest in the open, public platform, which is attracting the interest of major financial institutions, in part due to its support for self-executing smart contracts. For example, a private version of the Ethereum network served as the platform for the first major test....
Vitalik Buterin, the key player of cryptocurrency industry who created Ethereum spoke about the future plans for platform at Coinbase meetup. Ethereum is currently one of the most sought after cryptocurrency protocols. The potential to develop and use distributed applications (dapps) on its decentralized blockchain is too attractive to be dismissed. It is relatively a much younger protocol than Bitcoin. However, the demand for ether – the crypto tokens for Ethereum platform – has increased in the recent days following the foundation’s move to sell a certain number of premined token to....
Ethereum, which is a blockchain virtual machine project, is gearing up to launch Frontier. This will be considered the first milestone for the project, which is intended for use for developers, and will be followed by other releases namely Homestead, Metropolis, and Serenity. Although Ethereum is also based on blockchain, it is different from bitcoin or any other kind of cryptocurrency. Instead of providing monetary value for transactions, it consists of a censorship-proof network which can provide user-defined services. Ethereum Blockchain Approach. Ethereum makes use of the underlying....