Highlights: Clinton to deliver Ripple keynote, Cardano testnet updates, and a new cryptocurrency from a Bitcoin developer.
Source: Ripple
Bill Clinton will be the keynote at Swell, a conference hosted by Ripple. The former U.S. president was selected due to his role in the expansion and adoption of Internet-based technologies in the 90s. The event will be held in San Francisco at the beginning of October 2018.
Source: Ripple
Ripple will be teaming up with Raising Malawi, an African non-profit, to raise money for “orphans and vulnerable children” in the nation. For a one-month period beginning yesterday, July 20th, Ripple will match any public donations received through Facebook (yes, it’s apparently supposed to redirect to Madonna’s page - scroll to her “pinned posts” for details).
Source: Cardano
Cardano has added smart contract support to its testnet. They now support contracts written in Solidity, making a transfer from the Ethereum network easy. They have also implemented a feature called “correct by construction” which aims to catch exploitable errors when compiling. Cardano will look to add support for other languages such as JavaScript in the future.
Source: Twitter
EOS’s RAM limit increase, which was supposed to be at a rate of 1kb per block, skyrocketed to 1.5GB due to a date error in the code. Luckily (?), the error also caused a buffer overflow, without which EOS would have had to vote to roll back a massive change.
Source: Blocktivity | EOS Block Explorer
The EOS blockchain has the highest value, according to Blocktivity, which looks at block activity rather than market cap as an indicator. Just one problem - the activity feeding the current measurement of value is the same ‘blocktwitter’ spam we reported on a few weeks ago.
Source: Medium
Block.one today announced Demux, a new back-end architecture which enables EOS developers to utilize conventional databases in their dapps. Demux updates off-chain databases and allows the front-end of a dapp to interact with the stored data via various APIs.
Source: Binance
Binance announced today that it has acquired Trust Wallet., an open-source mobile wallet for Ethereum. Binance does not plan to disrupt their operations in any way, but will try to integrate it into their upcoming DEX.
Source: Infura | Google Comparison
Infura, which is leveraged by dapps for features such as MetaMask integration, is updating its authentication model. Previously relying on access, the model will now utilize keys and secrets. They also provided some interesting network statistics, claiming a 99.9% uptime with their Ethereum endpoint handling 100,000 requests per second. Compare that to Google above, which reports an average of 40,000 queries per second.
Source: Nation Multimedia
Major Cineplex Group, a Thai entertainment corporation, has announced that it will work with payment processor RapidzPay to allow theater-goers to purchase tickets and concessions with crypto. They have a modest goal of just 1,000,000 active users in the first year.
Source: BitGuru
Swissquote, an online banking service, has seen a 44% increase in profits since it began offering Bitcoin trading last year. To date, Swissquote supports Bitcoin, Bitcoin Cash, Litecoin, Ethereum, and Ripple, with plans add an ETP this year.
Source: CoinDesk
Martti 'Sirius' Malmi, Bitcoin’s second developer, is creating a new cryptocurrency called AXE. AXE will integrate Malmi’s reputation-based Identifi protocol with GUN, a decentralized database system. Identifi works as a web-of-trust for filtering content without resorting to centralized censorship. A decentralized social media platform was cited as a possible use case, but there are as yet no specific plans.
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