Crypto venture firm Paradigm has committed to leading the investment, according to the report.
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HRF Bitcoin Development Fund Awards $325,000 In New Grants
12 projects across five continents have received $ 325,000 in funding from the Human Rights Foundation.
The Human Rights Foundation’s Bitcoin Development Fund has announced a new set of grants to go out across the globe to support builders in the industry.
According to the announcement sent to Bitcoin Magazine, “Areas of focus include Latin America, Africa, the Middle East, Eastern Europe, and South Asia.” The grants include:
- $ 50,000 to Gleb Naumenko for his work on Bitcoin Core, the release of Coinpool, a concept for scaling Bitcoin and for conducting research on SIGHASH_ANYPREVOUT and Eltoo as potential Bitcoin scaling solutions.
Blockstream Launches BOL2: Community For Bitcoin Development
Along with other bitcoin companies, Blockstream is spearheading a developer community to further Lightning and layer-2 development.
Blockstream, a company focused on scaling bitcoin, is launching a platform to connect developers, entrepreneurs, and Bitcoiners from around the world to build on Core Lightning and the Liquid Network, per a release sent to Bitcoin Magazine.
Build On L2 (BOL2) encourages developers to challenge narratives in the broader cryptocurrency space that suggest blockchain projects need to have utility tokens. Developers will focus on solutions furthering Bitcoin's second layer while building on Core Lightning and the Liquid Network.
Bitcoin Gaming Company ZEBEDEE Launches Open-Source Bitcoin Development Non-Profit
No Big Deal is currently focused on Lightning infrastructure and supporting hosted channels to remove the need of custodial users on Lightning.
ZEBEDEE, a bitcoin gaming company, has announced No Big Deal (NDB), a non-profit dedicated to furthering open source development for Bitcoin and the Lightning Network, per a release sent to Bitcoin Magazine.
“NBD does not sell anything, it does not offer services, it does not support products,'' said Andre Neves, co-founder and CTO of ZEBEDEE. “It just writes code and gives it to the world to do with it as they will.”
GEM Digital Invests $50 Million In ParallelChain Lab’s Mainnet Development
Ahead of ParallelChain mainnet launch, GEM Digital Limited, a digital asset investment, has reportedly invested $ 50 million into the firm. The investment is targeted at the ParallelChain Lab Layer-1 protocol development project.
The blockchain industry keeps growing in strength as more funds enter the industry. The DeFi community is one part of the blockchain industry pulling the most weight.
ParallelChain is an all-in-one decentralized blockchain that handles enterprise-grade and retail use cases. ParallelChain consists of two scalable layer-1 platforms, the Public mainnet, and Private Networks. ParallelChain recently launched its native token XPLL as an Ethereum-based ERC-20 token.
Bitcoin Cash Milestones: Delivered Code, Upgrades and Platform Development
Bitcoin Cash (BCH) platform and protocol development have seen a lot of delivered code and projects over the last two years. The upgrades will help Bitcoin Cash scale to the masses, and many of the added features are protocol developments that are unique to BCH.
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Bitcoin Cash Community on Bitkan’s K-Site Raises Funds for BCH Development
Last year news.Bitcoin.com spoke with the cofounder of Bitkan, Fang Yu, about the company’s K-Site project, which acts as a decentralized media outlet, micro-blog and forum with rewards. Just recently, Bitkan spoke with news.Bitcoin.com about K-Site’s growth and how the platform’s BCH community raised funds for the Bitcoin Cash Development Fund. Bitkan highlighted that the BCH community is one of the most active on the K-Site platform. Bitkan believes open source development is very important and that companies and individuals within the community should support development of innovative blockchain and cryptocurrency solutions.
BCH Development Fund Doubles Its Goal After a Successful Month
In May, a group of Bitcoin Cash (BCH) supporting businesses and individuals launched a fundraiser to support BCH development. Since then the fundraiser has received massive support and so the organizers have decided to double the goal to 1600 BCH by August 1, 2019. Moreover, other projects have been added to the Bitcoin.com/fundraise page in order to include development projects like Bitcoin Verde and Flowee the Hub.
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Bitcoin Cash Development Fund Receives Massive Support
The Bitcoin Cash community has greatly advanced its efforts to support the sustainability of the cryptocurrency with a fundraiser whose contributions are donated to developers. The campaign has already reached the 95% milestone out of an initial goal of raising 800 BCH for the development fund by Aug. 1, 2019.
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Arcblock Releases Dapp and Decentralized Identity Developer Testing Tool to Simplify Development of Blockchain Apps
ArcBlock, a leading blockchain application platform, and ecosystem has released the DApps Workshop, an easy to use developer tool that gives developers, businesses and product managers an easy way to build prototypes and POCs to validate different DApp and decentralized identity scenarios. Before writing a single line of code, developers can simulate an application that includes different authentication standards, use of a mobile wallet to log in or easily build transaction models to simulate different transfer scenarios that help validate a specific use case. With this launch, the new DApps Workshop solves a very important problem for blockchain developers –
‘Fortnite’ Maker Teams Up With Crypto’s Steam Competitor to Boost Game Development
The Abyss, a gaming platform built on crypto, is teaming up with “Fortnite” creator Epic Games in a bid to incentivize developers.
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NEO (NEO) Releases Version 3.0 Development Roadmap
The team behind NEO (NEO) has finally published the long-awaited roadmap for the development of version 3.0 of its blockchain platform. The mass adoption of blockchain tech is imminent. NEO 3.0 will be a large scale commercial application ready implementation with high throughput, enhanced stability, an optimized smart contract system, and a feature-packed infrastructure set. #ROADMAP:https://t.co/i0ic2NKcXh […]
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Oops: Voice Actor Leaks Horizon Zero Dawn Sequel Development
Voice actor Janina Gavankar made waves in the gaming community this week after accidentally leaking that a sequel to Horizon Zero Dawn, an action role-playing game developed by Guerrilla Games and published by Sony Interactive Entertainment (SNE), is in the works. While speaking to fans at a Star Wars celebration in full cosplay as her […]
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Brunch Staking Pool Plans to Support Cardano (ADA) Development via Higher Fees
Earlier this month, Brunch Pool announced that it plans to offer investors the opportunity to join likeminded stakers who want to help build the Cardano (ADA) ecosystem by paying a percentage of staking rewards to the foundation driving its development. Introducing Brunch Pool.https://t.co/6cfsnwmEdW — Brunch Pool | Cardano Stake Pool (@brunchpool) March 9, 2019 Cardano leverages […]
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Token Development Using the Bitcoin Cash Network Kicks Into High Gear
Ever since various token implementations were introduced to the Bitcoin Cash (BCH) network, the infrastructure has been significantly developed in order to advance the BCH-fueled token ecosystem. In the last few weeks, projects like Wormhole and the Simple Ledger Protocol (SLP) have seen a significant amount of token creation, alongside a variety of wallet support for the many tokens the community has already created.
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Blockstream Open Sources Development of Its Proof of Reserves Tool
On February 4, 2019, blockchain tech company Blockstream announced the development of a “proof of reserves” tool to standardize the authenticity of exchanges’ crypto reserves. The Bitcoin development company has submitted a Bitcoin Improvement Proposal (BIP) to the bitcoin-dev mailing list for consideration.
Blockstream stated that it is “open-sourcing the development of the tool for feedback from the industry.” Citing high-profile hacks as a reason why such services would be in demand, Blockstream is hoping to create a “best-practice standard Proof of Reserves for the industry, that offers broad compatibility with the way most Bitcoin exchanges are storing their users’ funds.”
Snapparazzi – Post-ICO Journey – The Latest Announcements (CoinMarketCap, Exclusive Stack Bonus Incentive, Recruitment and App Development)
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Jason Cox Extends Open Invitation for Assistance With Development and Review of Bitcoin Cash Code
BCH developer conversations have been taking place ahead of the upcoming May 2019 upgrade. In their latest video meeting, devs agreed that they need to know how much BCH is locked up in p2sh segwit addresses. It was also agreed that Andrea Suisani will take charge of the byte transaction size limit and Mark Lundeberg will review Amaury Sechet’s code on Schnorr signatures. Lastly, Jason Cox extended an open invitation for the qualified to assist with the development and review of BCH code.
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TRON Cryptocurrency’s Development Team Grows From 2 to Over 40
The TRON Foundation and the TRON blockchain is going from strength to strength, after beginning this year’s march to success with a development team of just two engineers, TRON now has over 40. The growth of TRON’s core development team has allowed its blockchain engineers to specialize and has enabled them to stabilize the TRON
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Blockchain Development Is Linkedin’s Biggest Growing Job Sector
Today, Microsoft-owned LinkedIn released its top 5 emerging careers, where it listed “Blockchain Developer” as its biggest growing job sector for 2018. According to LinkedIn’s 2018 U.S. Emerging Jobs Report, job listings for engineers who can develop distributed ledgers with P2P technology have grown 33 times this year. In the second place, and by quite
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