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ForkLog 44 01.09.2020

Binance Smart Chain Mainnet Launched for BNB Staking

The Binance Chain platform launched the Binance Smart Chain mainnet, enabling smart-contract creation and staking of the BNB token.

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ForkLog 13 05.08.2020

SEC to expand monitoring of the cryptocurrency market in DeFi

US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) plans to analyse the properties of functioning smart contracts underpinning the decentralized finance (DeFi) space. The tender for the purchase of the relevant analytics tool is posted on the US government contracts portal.

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ForkLog 15 29.07.2020

Vitalik Buterin: Many Underestimate the Risks of Smart Contracts in the DeFi Ecosystem

Vitalik Buterin, Ethereum’s co-founder, says many participants in the DeFi market underestimate the risks associated with smart contracts. He said this on the Unchained podcast.

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ForkLog 49 26.03.2020

What are Ricardian contracts?

1 What are Ricardian contracts? A Ricardian contract is a legally binding digital agreement, cryptographically signed and verified, that sets the terms between two or more parties and is readable by both humans and machines. 2 Who created Ricardian contracts, and when? Creator: financial cryptographer Ian Grigg. Date: In 1995 Grigg proposed the “Ricardo” payment system, a potential use case for Ricardian contracts.

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ForkLog 453 27.06.2019

Waves Breaks into dApps Market Launching Smart Contracts Functionality

Waves Platform, a decentralized blockchain ecosystem for building Web 3.0 solutions, hits another milestone releasing a major update for the Waves blockchain. Waves Node 1.0 release will bring some powerful and long-awaited new functionality and features to the Waves ecosystem, while activation of RIDE for dApps on mainnet will enable dApps implementation on Waves.

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ForkLog 334 06.04.2019

Xether Launches Transparent Gambling Ecosystem on Smart Contracts

Gambling project Xether has announced the launch of an eponymous gambling ecosystem enabling one to play for ETH without signing up while obtaining steady income.

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ForkLog 621 01.09.2018

Dogecoin Soars Over 140% In Three Days as Dogethereum Smart Contracts Launch Nears

Dogecoin moved to the 21st place in CoinMarketCap rankings on Saturday, September 1, following an impressive price run growth which saw this “joke coin” gaining over 140 percent over the last three days and reaching 0.00000085 BTC on several exchanges.

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ForkLog 332 16.07.2018

Exclusive: RSK Labs CEO Diego Gutiérrez Zaldívar on Bitcoin Smart Contracts Sidechain and Crypto Industry Challenges

Formerly known as Rootstock, RSK Labs is an Argentinian startup building the first open-source smart contract platform with a 2-way peg to Bitcoin that also rewards the miners through merge-mining.

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ForkLog 277 01.05.2018

Waves Platform Smart Contracts Launched on Testnet

Waves, a blockchain-based token creation platform, has launched smart contracts on the Waves Testnet.

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ForkLog 359 21.03.2018

RSK Labs Says Smart Contracts and Masternodes to Bring More Value to Bitcoin

The bitcoin community is growing fast, and so does the scaling problem. As Bitfinex and Coinbase added support for Segregated Witness, bitcoin network capabilities remain limited – thousands of unconfirmed transactions are often stuck when there is a new flow of interested users.

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ForkLog 223 20.03.2018

Russia’s New Cryptocurrency Bill Gives Definition to Smart Contracts

Russia’s parliament members Anatoly Aksakov, Igor Divinski, and Oleg Nikolaev, as well as senator Nikolai Zhuravlev have presented a bill on digital financial assets that defines cryptocurrencies and tokens as property while banning their usage as means of payment.

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ForkLog 70 19.10.2017

What is a smart contract?

1 What is a smart contract? A smart contract is a computer algorithm designed to conclude and maintain self-executing agreements run in a blockchain environment. Such contracts are written as code in a distributed ledger — blockchain — maintained by a network of computers. Put simply, smart contracts let parties exchange assets without intermediaries. 2 […]

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