Ethereum Project Opens Up New 'Frontier' for Developers
You could hear a pin drop at the recent Toronto DEC_TECH conference as Vitalik Buterin told a standing-room-only crowd about his remarkable journey to build Ethereum - a decentralized open source peer-to-peer web-based platform - that he calls "the foundational platform for everything." Buterin has been called a "crypto-anarchist visionary," and at the....
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The first live release of the Ethereum project called “Ethereum Frontier” was released this week, but leaked communications between developers suggest that the project’s future may be under question. The frontier release focuses on command line tools, which allow developers to load and execute contracts and send ethers to each other on the Ethereum blockchain. Users and developers may also create a tradable digital token that could be classified as a currency or an asset. The “currencies” on the Ethereum blockchain utilize a standard coin API, which enables contracts to be automatically....
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....
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....
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....
The Durov brothers fought a long and exhaustive battle with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) over the Telegram Open Network (TON)’s acceptance in the United States, which ended with an official announcement that the further development of the project was abandoned. However, the TON project was fully open-source. Using the TON repositories a group of independent enthusiasts came together, forked the best that has been built by the original Telegram team and ventured into a long journey of building Free TON. The Free TON Community Similar to many other PoS....