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Hudson Jameson, Ethereum Foundation's community manager, said Istanbul’s hard fork will be activated on the test network on October 2, according to CoinDesk. Initially, the testnet upgrade was planned for September 4. Nevertheless, the update had to be postponed due to the large number of proposals for improving Ethereum (EIP), as well as the unavailability of the Parity team. To date, the developers have already decided on the block number, […]

The developers of the Telegram Open Network reached the final stage before the full-scale launch of the project, introducing software for nodes and a block explorer for a test network. Initially, the release was planned for September 1, but was postponed for several days for unknown reasons. According to Dmitry Goroshevsky, Technical Director of TON Labs, about 100 […]

The blockchain division of the Japanese corporation Line, which owns the eponymous messenger, received a license from a local regulator to launch a cryptocurrency exchange. This is reported by the Cointelegraph. The BitMax platform will allow 80 million Japanese Line users to trade Bitcoin, Ethereum, Bitcoin Cash, Litecoin and XRP. According to the company, more than 187 million people worldwide use the Line instant messenger every month, and its […]

Mark Mobius, a well-known investor in emerging markets and founder of Mobius Capital Partners, expressed fears regarding blockchain technology in a conversation with CNBC and said that the cryptocurrency provided with gold would be “quite interesting”. Mobius considers blockchain a “risky" technology because of the conviction of many that it is completely safe: "People say:" Blockchain cannot be hacked. " No, you can. Everything created by man can be […]

The developers of the New Jersey-based startup Offchain Labs announced the release of an alpha version of the Arbitrum protocol, which, they said, is capable of processing more than 500 transactions per second. This is written by CryptoBriefing. Arbitrum hits over 500 TPS * for each contract *. And it can support thousands of contracts at the same time. https://t.co/VT2Idfoncd https://t.co/uTtpRiVIme – Offchain Labs (@OffchainLabs) September 5, […]