Nexus Mutual was created to protect DeFi investors against hacks. Now the CEO of the platform himself has fallen victim to an attack.

The CMS provider WordPress has integrated an Ethereum plugin, which allows users to place automated advertising. The income automatically flows into your own Ethereum wallet.

Ethereum Classic Labs and the UNICEF Innovation Fund are working together to develop blockchain-based solutions to some of the world’s most pressing problems. Here’s a look at the first three projects selected to receive funding and other support – and how they aim to improve people’s lives.

thereum has become the blockchain of choice for many developers of decentralized applications (dApp). Ethereum has by far the largest developer community, even surpassing Bitcoin’s. Still, there have been more and more serious projects recently that could erode Ethereum. The three most promising Ethereum competitors under the microscope.

After several years of development, the first phase of Ethereum 2.0 has started. The major upgrade has been in the planning stage since 2015 and the fact that it is far more difficult to change the engine in a moving vehicle than to build from scratch speaks for itself. That is why many former ETH developers took the opportunity and developed their own blockchain. Will Ethereum lose its first mover advantage?

The Ethereum Network successfully “focussed” on February 28th. The implementation of the updates Constantinople and St. Petersburg went smoothly. The most tangible innovation for ordinary consumers is the reduction of the block rewards from three to now two ETH. The ETH Zurich course has not been impressed by this deflationary signal so far.

Good things will take a while: After the last hard-fork date for the Ethereum network was postponed at the last minute, the Constantinople update ran without incident this time. Not least because this time the developers did not integrate the Ethereum Improvement Proposal EIP 1283. The latter included the potential security flaw that was responsible for the January 15 Constantinople cancellation. Test networks incorporating EIP 1283 underwent the St. Petersburg update, which was synchronized with Constantinople and just as successful.