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Coinbase (Alpha Photo/Flickr)
Technology
Coinbase
Coinbase Gets Another Upgrade, This Time at Raymond James, as Bears Capitulate
The brokerage firm lifted its rating on the crypto exchange’s shares to market perform from underperform.
Coinbase (Alpha Photo/Flickr)
By Will Canny
Mar 12, 2024 at 9:03 p.m. UTC
Mar 12, 2024
CoinbaseStock MarketAnalysisUpgradesEquitiesRaymond jamesGoldman SachsWall StreetBrokerages
Snippet of code pulled from Bitcoin Improvement Proposal 324, co-authored by Dhruv Mehta. (GitHub)
Technology
Bitcoin core
Bitcoin Core's 'v26.0' Upgrade Aims to Impede Eavesdropping, Tampering
The v26.0 upgrade contains experimental support for the v2 transport protocol as defined by Bitcoin Improvement Proposal 324 (BIP324).
Snippet of code pulled from Bitcoin Improvement Proposal 324, co-authored by Dhruv Mehta. (GitHub)
By Jamie Crawley
Dec 6, 2023 at 5:32 p.m. UTC
Dec 6, 2023
Bitcoin CoreBitcoin NetworkUpgrades
StarkWare co-founders President Eli Ben-Sasson and CEO Uri Kolodny. (StarkWare)
Technology
Starknet
Layer-2 Blockchain Starknet's ‘Quantum Leap’ Upgrade Goes Live, for Speedier Transactions
The upgrade for Starknet, a layer-2 blockchain or "rollup" to the Ethereum blockchain, went live following a community vote that overwhelmingly agreed to deploy it to mainnet.
StarkWare co-founders President Eli Ben-Sasson and CEO Uri Kolodny. (StarkWare)
By Margaux Nijkerk
Jul 12, 2023 at 10:58 a.m. UTC
Jul 12, 2023
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StarkWare co-founders CEO Uri Kolodny and President Eli Ben-Sasson (Natalie Schor/StarkWare)
Technology
Starknet
Starknet Plans ‘Quantum Leap’ Upgrade Next Week After Testnet Version Deployed
The upgrade will increase the number of transactions per second the blockchain can handle as well as reduce the time-to-inclusion.
StarkWare co-founders CEO Uri Kolodny and President Eli Ben-Sasson (Natalie Schor/StarkWare)
By Margaux Nijkerk
Jul 5, 2023 at 4:00 p.m. UTC
Jul 5, 2023
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Mihailo Bjelic has proposed turning the Polygon POS chain into a zkEVM validium. (Polygon)
Technology
Polygon
Polygon Proposes POS Chain To Become ZK Compatible
In a pre-proposal discussion post, Polygon co-founder Mihailo Bjelic argues why the mainchain should go through a major upgrade.
Mihailo Bjelic has proposed turning the Polygon POS chain into a zkEVM validium. (Polygon)
By Margaux Nijkerk
Jun 20, 2023 at 6:28 p.m. UTC
Jun 20, 2023
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MOVING PARTS: How does a whole network smoothly upgrade in a way that's backward-compatible, allowing those with older versions of the software to continue participating? (Image via Library of Congress/Rawpixel)
Tech
Bitcoin core
Bitcoin Coders Confront an Old Quandary: How to Upgrade an Entire Network
An old debate is resurfacing in the bitcoin developer community, underscoring one of the critical challenges confronting decentralized systems.
MOVING PARTS: How does a whole network smoothly upgrade in a way that's backward-compatible, allowing those with older versions of the software to continue participating? (Image via Library of Congress/Rawpixel)
By Alyssa Hertig
Feb 19, 2020 at 9:00 a.m. UTC
Feb 19, 2020
Bitcoin CoreBitcoinSchnorrForksSoft ForksUpgrades
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Markets
Blockchain
In First, Tezos Blockchain Activates Upgrade By Token Holder Voting
Tezos has activated its first ever on-chain upgrade initiated entirely by Tezos bakers during a three months period of both voting and code testing.
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By Christine Kim
May 30, 2019 at 1:27 a.m. UTC
May 30, 2019
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zcash sapling upgrade
Markets
News
Privacy Crypto Zcash Goes Live With 'Sapling' Network Hard Fork
The zcash protocol implemented its Sapling upgrade on Sunday in the hopes of making transactions faster and more secure.
zcash sapling upgrade
By Nikhilesh De
Oct 29, 2018 at 5:00 p.m. UTC
Oct 29, 2018
NewsZcashhard-forksSaplingUpgradesother-public-protocolsTechnology News