Web of Trust: ConsenSys Talks Ethereum Future, Presents uPort Blockchain Project
ConsenSys, a distributed global team building primarily Ethereum tools, has recently travelled to Asia for Ethereum DevCon2 in Shanghai. As the team of 90 travelled Bali for a company retreat, the local Blockchain community had a chance to spend an evening with ConsenSys team and exchange ideas over casual presentations of key projects in development. “Hub and Spoke” structure of ConsenSys. From what I heard most ConsenSys team members only met each other in person for the first time at DevCon2, even after having worked closely for a while on the same projects. It is a truly decentralized....
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The biggest competition of its kind, Demo Day, hosted by ChainB during the International Blockchain Week, featured 17 ethereum based projects, out of 31, with the overall winner Uport, an Ethereum based blockchain identity project. Speaking to CCN, Uport’s co-founder Rouven Heck, stated: We are very excited about the great feedback for uPort over the last days at DevCon2. Winning the demo day event is a great endorsement from the community that we are building something valuable for the ecosystem. We are looking forward to integrating with some of the exciting projects we have seen over....
On February 1, the blockchain infrastructure firm Consensys has revealed it has acquired the Ethereum-based wallet Mycrypto and plans to merge the wallet into Metamask. The price Consensys paid for Mycrypto was not disclosed but the announcement notes that the acquisition will “further improve the security of all the products.”
Consensys Obtains Mycrypto Ethereum Wallet, Plans to Merge With Metamask in the Future
Consensys has acquired the Ethereum-based wallet Mycrypto for an undisclosed sum according to an announcement released on Tuesday. The deal aims to....
ConsenSys has partnered with China’s Blockchain-based Service Network to accelerate the enterprise adoption of Ethereum apps in China. ConsenSys, one of the world’s largest blockchain software companies, has partnered with the Blockchain-based Service Network, a Chinese government-backed nationwide blockchain project,As part of the partnership, ConsenSys’ Ethereum-based distributed ledger protocol ConsenSys Quorum will be featured on the BSN ecosystem, the firm announced on Jan. 25. The protocol will be available in 80 different cities through BSN’s public city nodes across mainland China.....
After being one of the first big multinational companies stepping into bitcoin, Microsoft is now, it taking its first steps into the blockchain technology. Marley Gray, the director of technology strategy for financial services at Microsoft's at Times Square-based technology center revealed there was a growing demand for this kind of blockchain tools among the company's customers and the company was attracted to Ethereum by its flexibility. While bitcoin was designed with the single purpose of being a currency, Ethereum presents a wider range of applications. Microsoft signed a partnership....
ConsenSys is using the funds to expand its enterprise blockchain solutions centered around DeFi and Web 3.0. ConsenSys, a prominent blockchain software company, has raised $65 million in strategic investments from major financial institutions including JPMorgan Chase, Mastercard and UBS, offering yet another sign that traditional finance is entering the crypto space.The investment round will aid ConsenSys in expanding its enterprise blockchain infrastructure solutions to enable more decentralized finance and Web 3.0 applications on Ethereum, the company announced Tuesday. After a year of....