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Filecoin Virtual Machine Brings Smart Contracts to the Network
On Tuesday, March 14, the decentralized storage platform Filecoin announced the launch of the Filecoin Virtual Machine (FVM) on the mainnet blockchain. The launch of FVM will add smart contracts and u...
Europarliament approves Data Act that requires kill switches on smart contracts
The European Parliament passed the Data Act on March 14. The comprehensive bill was intended to “boost innovation by removing barriers obstructing access to industrial data.” Among its provisions is a...
EU Politicians Pass Policy on Smart Contracts Deemed ‘Impossible to Comply’ With
The European Parliament has voted to pass the Data Act, a legislative proposal that will challenge the immutability of smart contracts. 500 lawmakers voted in favor of the proposal, 23 against, and 11...
Bitcoin Targets $27,000 As CME’s Bitcoin Futures Events Contracts Make Their Debut ⋆ ZyCrypto
Advertisement     Bitcoin is gaining significant bullish momentum following a potpourri of multiple tailwinds, including the launch of event contracts on BTC futures b...
Bitcoin surges past $24,000 on CME launch of BTC event contracts
On Mar. 13, American derivatives marketplace CME announced the launch of Bitcoin (BTC) futures event contracts. The exchange, which is fully regulated and has cleared administrative review, will hence...
CME Group opens trading for event contracts on bitcoin futures
Derivatives trading giant CME Group opened trading of event contracts on bitcoin futures on Monday. The new product will add to the firm’s existing suite of 10 event contracts tied to its ...
Diamondbacks, Nationals Begin Long Road Back By Giving Eight-Year Contracts To Blue-Chip Prospects
Corbin Carroll, who retains rookie status, has received an eight-year contract extension from the … [+] rebuilding Arizona Diamondbacks. (Photo by Christian Petersen/Getty Images) Getty Images I...
NFT Platform KnownOrigin Introduces Smart Contracts For Artists
The eBay owned non-fungible tokens (NFT) marketplace KnownOrigin announced the launch of smart contracts for its artists on Thursday, February 16. From February 24 through the next week, all KnownOri...
DPEX Spearheads With Audited Smart Contracts and Fast Polygon Chain
Decentralized exchange on the Polygon chain offers users 50X leverage with more security. DPEX ensures provides more security and transparency by eliminating the middleman. Smart contracts on DPEX hav...
BTC Edges Lower, as US Manufacturing Sector Contracts – Market Updates Bitcoin News
Bitcoin fell into the red on March 2, as markets reacted to further negative data from the United States. The nation’s manufacturing sector contracted for a fourth straight month in February, which co...
Ethereum developers deploy “EntryPoint” to let wallets operate as smart contracts
Ethereum developers have introduced a new software feature known as “EntryPoint” that enables crypto wallet accounts to operate as smart contracts. The primary goal of this release is to i...
January pending home sales show rush of contracts
Saul Loeb | AFP | Getty Images A sharp drop in mortgage interest rates brought homebuyers out in force in January, but rates have bounced back higher again, so the gains may be short-lived. Signed con...
Cardano Wallets Set to Seamlessly Integrate with Ethereum Smart Contracts
Tomiwabold Olajide Feature will allow developers to call Solidity smart contracts directly from any Cardano wallet Sebastien Guillemot, CTO and co-founder of Milkomeda, has unveiled a new feature comi...
KnownOrigin, eBay’s NFT Platform Launches Creator Smart Contracts
eBay bought KnownOriging, the NFT marketplace, last year. It launches Creator Smart Contracts for artists. Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs) have gained a lot of traction in recent times. Almost every major...
CME Group Announces New Bitcoin (BTC) Futures Contracts
Alex Dovbnya CME Group, world’s largest futures exchange, has announced plans to expand its event contracts to include Bitcoin futures, providing more accessible and transparent way for investor...
Explained: Smart Contracts And dApps
Smart Contracts and Decentralized Applications (dApps) are two of the most significant innovations in the world of blockchain technology. The rise of smart contracts and dApps has changed the way that...
Cardano Smart Contracts Hit Record High, Positioning ADA For Resilience Against Market Turbulence ⋆ ZyCrypto
Advertisement     Last year’s Vasil hard fork expanded Cardano’s support for smart contracts. The gains in ADA could also be tied to Cardano’s recently launched stable...
The Future of Money and Contracts Is Public Blockchains: ARK
In the latest “Big Ideas” report by ARK Invest, the popular US asset manager claims blockchain will be one of the most significant technologies to shape an already technological era. The report highli...
Cardano reaches 5,000 smart contracts on its network
The Cardano (ADA) network underwent a substantial upgrade in September 2021, incorporating smart contract functionality and enabling the blockchain to process transactions more efficiently and at a fa...
EU eases regulatory burden for crypto smart contracts in draft legislation
The European Union’s plans to regulate crypto smart contracts, the infrastructural underpinnings of decentralized finance, look to be heading in a less onerous direction. After lawmakers ...
Art Invest: Crypto And Smart Contracts Market Could Hit $20 Trillion
Ark Invest said the crypto market would be worth $20 trillion in the next ten years. Despite FTX collapse, DeFi trading volume relative to crypto trading volume grew by 52%. Goldman Sachs ranked BTC a...
Chicago PMI contracts for a fifth consecutive month; CB consumer confidence flashes recession
The Chicago Purchasing Manager’s Index (PMI), an index of the strength of manufacturing firms based in the Chicago area, saw declines in January 2023 settling at 44.3, from 44.9 in December 2022. A re...
Blackstone Stock Is a Good Investment, Even in a Downbeat Economy
These reports, excerpted and edited by Barron’s, were issued recently by investment and research firms. The reports are a sampling of analysts’ thinking; they should not be considered the views or rec...
What Is the Limit of Smart Contracts?
When Ethereum introduced smart contracts into the blockchain ecosystem, everything changed. Suddenly, the possibility of building an entire financial system built on trustless principles came into vie...
Number of New Smart Contracts Falls 60% in 2023
Ethereum prices might be solid, and bulls are looking to drive the coin toward $1,700, but on-chain data points to dropping activity from developers judging from the number of new smart contracts depl...
CME exchange sees 84,000 BTC or $2B allocated in futures contracts in last 24 hours
Definition Future’s open interest is the total amount of funds (USD Value) allocated in open futures contracts. Quick Take As CryptoSlate has discussed in previous insights, futures open interes...
What are perpetual futures contracts in cryptocurrency?
In 1992, economist Robert Shiller proposed a cash-settled futures market called perpetual futures that don’t expire and don’t provide delivery or coverage of the traded asset in or...
What investors need to know about Pfizer’s latest downgrade
Pfizer’s PFE, -0.92% early-stage pipeline, though promising, is still too premature to make up for the looming loss of billions of dollars from the company’s COVID-19 franchise, which includes the vac...