ConsenSys Grants Help Iranian Women Learn Solidity

Recently, Consensys pushed out a press release announcing the support of Ethereum’s high-level programming language, Solidity, within Microsoft’s Visual Studio. Solidity will be supported within Visual Studio as a Decentralized Application project type. Readers will remember other Consensys/ Azure integrations from the not so distant past. Concensys, as you will remember, is part of the Ethereum family. A quick refresher on the gist of the Consensys group: “ConsenSys is a venture production studio that specializes in building core components, decentralized applications (DApps), enterprise....

The employee-led DAO will take charge of issuing grants to external developers building within the MetaMask ecosystem. Blockchain technology firm ConsenSys will spend $2.4 million annually to fund its newly launched MetaMask Grants DAO aimed at driving further development of the Web3 ecosystem.The fund will be led by MetaMask employees who will manage the decentralized autonomous organization (DAO). The DAO will be responsible for issuing grants to developers working outside of ConsenSys that are building products and services within MetaMask’s ecosystem and the wider Web3 space.The....

Last Monday night at the Bitcoin Center of New York City, the room was filled with reverence towards the presenters Roya Mahboob and Fereshteh Forough as they shared their experiences in creating the Women's Annex in Afghanistan and their integration with Bitcoin to facilitate their mission of education and empowering women in their area. What is the Women's Annex Foundation? The Women's Annex Foundation is an organization that seeks to help increase digital literacy and further education using technology. They operate in Afghanistan, Egypt, Pakistan and Mexico and aim to connect women and....

Sunday wasInternational Women's Day, when the Bitcoin community is joined with others around the world to promote awareness of women's issues by launching its firstBitcoin Women's Day. Like International Women's Day, "Bitcoin Women's Day is not just for women," says Sarah Boone Martin of the Digital Currency Council. The issues that women are concerned about - equal access to healthcare, to financial systems, to the world economy, to employment, to education; a sustainable environment, personal safety, security and autonomy - these are all issues that are important to the Bitcoin community....

Students, that demonstrate outstanding technical skills during the course on coding smart contracts, might receive the benefit of being employed by Ethereum Labs and ConsenSys. Exosphe.re, a community of experts involved in Startups, with the support of ConsenSys and Ethereum Labs is opening an EthereumCT r: 26 Stream at the Exosphere Academy 2016 in Chile. Exosphe.re’s Ethereum Curator, Moritz Bierling announces that attendees at the Academy in 2016 will be guided in their learning by Philip Saunders, CEO and Founder of PAX, a civic network built on Ethereum. According to Bierling, the....