Clearmatics authors have proposed “ZETH, an adaptation of Zerocash that can be deployed on top of Ethereum without making any change to the base layer.” Not only does the cryptography researchers’ study suggest “ZETH could be used to transfer Ether, the base currency of Ethereum,” the paper’s abstract reads, “it could also be used to transfer other types of smart contract-based digital assets.”

ETH holders are probably excited for the Ethereum PoS release date. The Proof of Stake update will allow them to stake their ETH and become validators on the Ethereum Network. However, the Ethereum roadmap changed since the beginning of 2018 which has caused a few delays. This pushes the new Ethereum PoS date back to mid 2019. But it's not all bad news. In fact, for most ETH holders the new ETH PoS date may be a blessing in disguise.

Joseph Lubin, founder of ConsenSys and one of the original co-founders of ethereum, has given a powerful speech at Deconomy where he lays out a vision for ethereum as a global settlement layer that brings down all the walled gardens.

Vitalik Buterin, ethereum’s inventor, attended a session at South Korea’s parliament at the member’s hall of the National Assembly with the theme of “Blockchain and Economic Future” which was also attended by Min Byung Doo, Chairman of the National Policy Committee.

The governors of two central banks endorsed the Ethereum (ETH)-based remittance system developed by blockchain company Everex, the firm reported in a press release shared with Cointelegraph today, April 5. The service is set up to send payments between Thailand and Myanmar.

Liquid Group, a Tokyo-based crypto-currency trading platform, put out a press release Wednesday that it had raised venture funds at a valuation in excess of $1bn, making it one of the rare so-called unicorns in Japan.

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A new startup launched by the former co-founder of Simple Bank wants to provide early-stage fintech startups with traditional banking service functionality.

Sila, founded last year and until now operating in private alpha test phase, unveiled an open beta Thursday, inviting developers of fintech firms – including blockchain and crypto startups – to begin building new tools using its API.

The startup describes itself as an “all-inclusive API platform” for fintechs and other projects looking to modernize the financial space. Specifically, the startup connects existing payment systems, such as automated clearing house (ACH) rails, with smart contract functionality on the ethereum network for businesses that have difficulty receiving banking services on their own.

"We expect the partnerships with our portfolio companies to extend our platform, and we're committed to providing significant value to these early stage startups," said Okta Cofounder and COO Frederic Kerrest in a prepared statement. "Trusted Key is a perfect example of a young company working on a big idea, and we look forward to collaborating to shape the future of identity."

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Fidelity Digital Assets is a company established by Fidelity, a multinational financial services corporation based in Boston, Massachusetts and the fourth largest asset manager with $2.4 trillion in assets under management as of December 2017. The giant spends $2.5 billion per year on technologies like artificial intelligence and blockchain.

Fidelity Digital Asset Services was set up in October last year with the aim to provide cryptocurrency storage and trading services to institutional and enterprise clients. The company targets institutional investors and works on cryptocurrency solutions for commercial space.

In January, Abigail P. Johnson, Chairman and CEO of Fidelity Investments, revealed the company’s plans to launch Bitcoin custody service, with Ethereum next, and said that the date of launch was set for March. The promise has turned out to be true, and the service is now live.

"Ethereum Proof of Stake Testnet Launches

The Beacon replaces that with 32eth accounts voting for effectively the same thing so rather than proving you’re a real person and thus non sybilable by solving useless maths equations, you do so by showing 32eth.

The Proof of Work (PoW) chain will continue operating for some time in parallel with the PoS chain. PoW, however, will be less important to security so block rewards will reduce considerably to 0.6 eth per block.

The stakers in addition will get ◊0.22, so eth will effectively have a halving+ this Autumn if progress continues at the same pace or faster."

https://www.trustnodes.com/2019/03/30/ethereum-proof-of-stake-testnet-launches

Ethereum plans to move towards a proof-of-stake (PoS) model soon where those users who are given the task of validating existing transactions and mining Ether have a vested interest in the Ethereum blockchain. This would allow for only serious parties to participate in mining, and would ensure that only those who actually care about the Ethereum blockchain’s performance are working on it.

But even with those plans, Ethereum does not intend to have an on-chain governance model such as delegated proof of stake (DPoS) present on its platform. This is because Buterin is a vocal opponent of blockchain models such as DPoS which tend to provide administration to those, who by default, have a higher amount of coins to stake.

According to Buterin, this gives those entities the opportunity to hold a larger chunk of the block rewards than an individual user with an average amount of cryptocurrencies, and disrupts the model of decentralization to a great extent.

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It would be nice to see ETH and XRP going up higher in percentage proportion to the rates that Bitcoin goes going up so they close the gap slightly.

I hope the general market mood improves soon.

Wow, even the Twitter followers are fake!

Ethereum is far more developed if compared with coins like TRX and EOS, they don't come anywhere near to Ethereum. Simple!

This statement is particularly contrasting to Justin Sun, CEO of TRON Foundation, saying that TRON performs way better than Bitcoin and Ethereum in terms of decentralization.

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