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On Silos

One of the criticisms that many people have made about the current direction of the cryptocurrency space is the increasing amount of fragmentation that we are seeing. What was earlier perhaps a more tightly bound community centered around developing the common infrastructure of Bitcoin is now increasingly a collection of “silos”, discrete projects all working […]

Secret Sharing DAOs: The Other Crypto 2.0

The crypto 2.0 industry has been making strong progress in the past year developing blockchain technology, including the formalization and in some cases realization of proof of stake designs like Slasher and DPOS, various forms of scalable blockchain algorithms, blockchains using “leader-free consensus” mechanisms derived from traditional Byzantine fault tolerance theory, as well as economic […]

Turn your exchange into a Ripple Gateway

Throughout 2014 we’ve talked to businesses all over the world, both big and small, who are interested in tapping into Ripple’s increasing liquidity and settlement capabilities. For exchanges dealing in bitcoins and other assets, the value proposition is clear – deeper orderbooks and the ability for customers to hop between different assets instantly is a […]

A call to all the bug bounty hunters out there…

Hi, I’m Jutta! As some of you might have read in earlier posts, I’ve recently been busy setting up a security audit prior to the Ethereum genesis block release. Ethereum will launch following a world-class review by experts in IT security, cryptography and blockchain technology. Prior to the launch, we will also complete a bug bounty […]

Building the Internet of Money (Video)

Explaining what Ripple is can be hard. To make things a little easier, we made a video! For Ripple Labs, it’s an opportunity to share our vision of the Internet of money, show how Ripple fits into the equation, and highlight the tools and technology we’re building to make that vision a reality. It’s also […]

Ethereum ÐΞV: What are we doing?

OK so a minor update about what we are (and are not) doing here at Ethereum DEV. We are, first and foremost, developing a robust quasi-Turing-complete blockchain. This is known as Ethereum. Aside from having quasi-Turing-completeness, it delivers on a number of other important considerations, stemming from the fact we are developing entirely new blockchain […]

Gav’s Ethereum ÐΞV Update IV

Time for another update! So quite a bit has happened following ÐΞVcon-0, our internal developer’s conference. The conference itself was a great time to get all the developers together and really get to know each other, dissipate a lot of information (back to back presentations for 5 days!) and chat over a lot of ideas. […]