Grayscale’s Ethereum Trust gains SEC reporting firm status

[ad_2][ad_1] Grayscale Investments states that the registration statement on Form 10 that it filed with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on behalf of the Ethereum Trust has become effective. This means that Ethereum Trust is now an official SEC reporting company and the second digital currency investment …

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Time to launch the Ethereum 2.0 beacon chain

[ad_2][ad_1] It is time for the Ethereum 2.0 beacon chain to be launched. We’ve spent the past nine months testing this thing for life. The year started with huge and long-lived single client testnets: Sapphire, Topaz and Onyx networks operated by Prysmatic Labs. In April, there were small multi-client networks: …

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Securitize is bringing Ethereum-based stocks to the DeFi realm

[ad_2][ad_1] Connecting the worlds of security tokens and decentralized finance (DeFi) is the logical next step for Securitize, a kind of regulatory compliant fixer when it comes to tracking and trading blockchain-based securities. Announced Monday, Securitize is partnering with a protocol called Centrifuge’s Tinlake, which uses an intelligent non-fungible token …

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Aztec launches private smart contracts as an Ethereum rollup

[ad_2][ad_1] Aztec, a privacy protocol that builds on Ethereum, announced on Monday the launch of its second iteration, promising private transactions and smart contracts while being cheaper than standard transfers. The layer two solution adopted by Aztec is based on zkRollups, similar to Loopring or ZkSync. All of these protocols …

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