ConsenSys to lay off 100 or more employees: Coindesk

ConsenSys will let go of as many as 100 or more employee,  CoinDesk reported, citing a person familiar with the matter. The exact number of employees that could be laid off is not clear, as the ...

ConsenSys launches private beta testnet for zkEVM scaling technology

ConsenSys, the blockchain infrastructure platform behind Metamask and Infura, opened a private beta testnet for a new scaling and privacy technology called zkEVM that’s built on top of Ethereum. ...

ConsenSys introduces new experiment for sharing goods and wishes

ConsenSys has announced an innovation dubbed Soulflake xyz. The creation will enable users to share good wishes, gratitude, gifts, and love during this holiday season. Unveiling of Soulflake xyz for u...

ConsenSys Shareholders Win Battle in War for Critical Ethereum Infrastructure

A Swiss court judge has granted shareholders of Ethereum development studio ConsenSys the ability to vote on a transfer of assets — including MetaMask — they allege was illegal.  The decision cam...

ConsenSys Shareholders Win Court Ruling on Asset Transfers – Trustnodes

ConsenSys will hold a resolution on the transfer of assets from a Zug based entity to a Delaware entity following a court ruling in Switzerland. Individuals holding 11% of the shares of ConsenSys AG, ...

PayPal Partners With Crypto Firm ConsenSys To Create Convenient Way To Buy Ethereum (ETH)

Crypto firm ConsenSys is announcing a new partnership with payments giant PayPal to create a convenient way for investors to purchase Ethereum (ETH). According to a recent company announcement, MetaMa...

ConsenSys partners with PayPal & eases the purchase of Ethereum in MetaMask

ConsenSys recently announced a strategic partnership with PayPal to integrate it within the MetaMask wallet. The integration will offer users a simple way to buy Ethereum with PayPal. The well-known W...

Software Firm Consensys Partners With Paypal, Metamask Users Can Use Payment Processor to Buy ETH – Bitcoin News

On Dec. 14, the Ethereum software firm Consensys announced that the company has teamed up with the payment processing giant Paypal. The integration allows Metamask wallet users to purchase ethereum vi...

ConsenSys to start internal ZKEVM beta testing by 2022 end 

ConsenSys has created a private beta testnet for its zero-knowledge Ethereum Virtual Machine (zkEVM) to help Ethereum scale (ETH). The New York-based blockchain software development business Consensys...

ConsenSys Integrates PayPal to MetaMask For Buying Crypto

On Wednesday, December 14, Web3 ecosystem developer and blockchain engineering firm ConsenSys announced that they have joined hands with PayPal in a new way for users to purchase crypto in MetaMask. T...

MetaMask and PayPal join forces to offer crypto onramp to select users

MetaMask and PayPal are joining forces to offer an ETH onramp to the web3 application, ConsenSys announced today. “Buying crypto is riddled with friction, and there isn’t a one-size-fits-a...

ConsenSys zkEVM Private Beta Testnet accessible on Infura

It is the freshly introduced ConsenSys zkEVM private beta testnet, which happens to be akin to the EVM, and can, from this moment on, be fully accessed on Infura. However, this is only in the case of ...

ConsenSys launches zkEVM private beta testnet

Web3 ecosystem developer ConsenSys unveiled its zero-knowledge Ethereum Virtual Machine (zkEVM) network for private beta testing via a blog post on Dec. 13. Designed and operated by ConsenSys, develop...

ConsenSys Updates Privacy Policy for MetaMask, Infura After Community Pushback

ConsenSys has issued several updates and clarifications to how it stores user data after the crypto community pushed back against the firm’s privacy policy last month. The crypto industry was up...

ConsenSys updates MetaMask privacy policies after backlash

MetaMask’s creators, ConsenSys, announced they would modify their system as consumers complained over the data-gathering policies. In a recent statement, ConsenSys explained how it shared Internet pro...

ConsenSys will shorten MetaMask data retention to 7 days following privacy discourse

In a privacy update published on Dec. 6, ConsenSys, the developer of the popular MetaMask browser wallet, said it would reduce its retention of user data such as wallet addresses and IP addresses to s...

Consensys Announces Update to Metamask Wallet Post Policy Criticism

MetaMask and Infura, had been collecting users’ wallet and IP addresses. ConsenSys said today that it intends to destroy user data after one week. Since the cryptocurrency community fought back agains...

MetaMask privacy concerns, ConsenSys responds to the backlash

On Dec. 5, CryptoSlate ran an article on privacy concerns related to the use of MetaMask wallet, specifically how a recent public disclosure revealed the logging of user IP addresses. In response to t...

ConsenSys Says It Does Not Sell Any MetaMask User Data, Plans To Store It for Only Seven Days

Ethereum (ETH) software company ConsenSys is once again responding to the controversy sparked by its recent update to its terms of service. Last month, ConsenSys updated its term of service to collect...

ConsenSys to Update MetaMask Crypto Wallet in Response to Privacy Backlash

Finlay said MetaMask cannot stop logging IP addresses entirely; if a user interacts with an RPC service like Infura, their IP address will always be visible. ConsenSys, however, will stop logging user...

ConsenSys Clears the Air on MetaMask Privacy Policy After Community Backlash

Ethereum infrastructure provider ConsenSys has issued a follow-up statement to its privacy policy update that rattled the MetaMask community last month.  The firm clarified that it does, in fact, coll...

ConsenSys Promises To Update Data Practices After Privacy Backlash

ConsenSys has updated its privacy policy for two of its core products — MetaMask and Infura — in response to community pushback about how the company managed user data.  ConsenSys said that it will at...

ConsenSys intends to store MetaMask user data for only seven days

Blockchain software company ConsenSys clarified that it plans to only store and retain user IP addresses and wallet data for up to seven days. This is an attempt to reassure users that their personal ...

Blockchain Tech Firm ConsenSys Accepts Data Collection Of Metamask  Users’ 

ConsenSys Reveals That……. Blockchain software technology company behind the Ethereum merge, ConsenSys, said that they collect IP addresses and other pieces of information of Metamask wallet users via ...

Web3.0 Staking Platform Kiln Raises $17.6M from ConsenSys, Others

The Kiln staking platform plans to use the accrued funding to add new features to its products in order to serve more users in the industry. Kiln, a Web3.0 startup with a broad focus on bringing staki...

MetaMask Creator Consensys Facing Backlashes on New Privacy Policy 

Crypto and blockchain industry is meant to have privacy as one of its core features. Most crypto companies also make sure of keeping the users privacy at their utmost priority. Amidst this, a recent a...

Kraken and ConsenSys back staking platform Kiln in $17 million round

ConsenSys and the venture arm of crypto exchange Kraken have backed institutional staking platform Kiln in a €17 million ($17.6 million) round. Blockdaemon and Illuminate Financial led the equity roun...

Alchemy joins ConsenSys and Infura in collecting user’s private information – crypto.news

Other RPC providers, such as Alchemy, Moralis, and QuickNode, have also stated that they collect personal information from users, such as IP addresses. This appears to be an unspoken rule among RPC pr...

Ethereum Software Firm ConsenSys Addresses Concerns Over Plans To Collect MetaMask Wallet Users’ Data

Blockchain software firm ConsenSys is clarifying a recent update to its terms of service about the collection of data from users of MetaMask, the flagship non-custodial wallet for Ethereum (ETH). The ...

ConsenSys CEO Refutes Claim That MetaMask Collects User IPs

ConsenSys CEO and Ethereum co-founder Joseph Lubin claims that the self-custodial MetaMask wallet ConsenSys develops does not collect IP addresses. This comes after privacy enthusiasts slammed ConsenS...

MetaMask Users’ Data Will Be Collected in New Policy Update From Ethereum Software Firm Consensys

Users of MetaMask will have their data collected as Consensys, the team behind the popular crypto wallet, updates its privacy policy. In a new company announcement, Consensys says it is updating its t...

Ethereum Software Company Consensys Collects User Data, Privacy Policy Discloses – Privacy Bitcoin News

Crypto users have been complaining about a recent Consensys privacy policy update that says when Infura is leveraged as a remote procedure call (RPC) via Metamask, wallet and IP address data is collec...