After securing millions of dollars via an initial coin offering in 2017, decentralized data housing platform Filecoin now aims to launch its mainnet. Filecoin will move over to its own blockchain in stages, rather than all at once, according to a Sept. 27 blog post. "Launching a blockchain is an involved and lengthy process," the post said. "Like many other networks (including Polkadot, NEAR, and others), Filecoin is taking a phased approach to launching mainnet, with different groups and communities onboarding onto the network over a period of time, leading up to Mainnet Liftoff." Currently heading into its initial stage, …
iXledger, a company founded in early 2017 in London, U.K., has launched Blockchain Insurance, a platform that enables blockchain companies to obtain business insurance quotes based on a risk assessment. The platform presents exposures in metrics relevant to the underwriters, insurers and reinsurers. The company says that the team has launched the platform in partnership with experts in London's insurance markets. It is specifically tailored to protect blockchain businesses from risks associated with legal threats, financial exposure, cyber risk and crime. The iXledger platform provides a number of features that support brokers and underwriters through the insurance process. The risk …
PROOF, the private community behind the Moonbirds NFT collection, has announced it is shifting its blue-chip collection completely “in chain” — allowing images to be fully contained within the underlying smart contract. In a community live stream named “Future PROOF” on Aug. 30, Harri Thomas, director of products at PROOF explained that the new approach will mean that in the future, the viewable image of a Moonbird NFT will be “constructed from the contract itself from art layers, which are going to be stored on the blockchain.” “We’ve talked about putting the birds ‘on chain’, so what I’m here to …
The Cardano Vasil upgrade is set to take place in less than 24 hours on Sept. 22, with the Cardano team noting all three “critical mass indicators” needed to trigger the upgrade are now met. A Sept. 21 update on Twitter by the company behind Cardano, Input Output Hong Kong (IOHK) states within the last 48 hours 13 cryptocurrency exchanges had confirmed their readiness for the hard fork, representing over 87% of Cardano’s (ADA) liquidity. With this latest addition we have met all 3 critical mass indicators: 39 exchanges upgraded (87,59% by liquidity) Over 98% of mainnet blocks are now …
After four years of development and millions in funding, the layer-1 blockchain Aptos (APT) has finally launched its mainnet, though it has been marred by mixed reception. The much-anticipated proof-of-stake blockchain, dubbed by some as a “Solana killer” due to its claimed 160,000 transactions per second (TPS) has launched its mainnet on Oct. 17. However, some members of the community have pointed out that the previously claimed TPS is falling far short of expectations on the mainnet. According to Aptos’ blockchain explorer the network is seeing around 4 TPS at the time of writing, while some users on Twitter have …