smart contracts


Tech

Popular Crypto Wallet MetaMask Unveils New Roadmap

Part of their new roadmap includes adding features that make the wallet experience easier for users.

The MetaMask Institutional booth at Paris Blockchain Week 2022 (Helene Braun/CoinDesk)

Markets

Solana’s SOL Could Hit $520 by 2025-End, VanEck Says

VanEck predicts M2 money supply will grow to $22.3 trillion by 2025 from the current $21.5 trillion, boosting crypto markets and top tokens such as SOL.

(VanEck)

Tech

Ethereum Pioneer's New 'Time Machine' Makes Transactions Conditional on Future Events

The new platform, called the “Ethereum time machine,” extends Ethereum’s programming capabilities by allowing smart contracts to execute transactions based on uncertain or not-guaranteed future events.

Vlad Zamfir co-founder of Smart Transactions (STXN)

Markets

Ripple Will Soon Add Ethereum Compatible Smart Contracts to XRP Ledger

The contracts will exist on a sidechain built on XRPL, developers said in a Tuesday post.

Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse (Scott Moore/Shutterstock/CoinDesk)

Tech

Ethereum Set for Overhaul of Crucial Programming Standard With 'EVM Object Format'

The EOF proposal is a series of planned changes aiming to update the ubiquitous Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM) – the programming environment that executes smart contracts on the blockchain, and an evolving industry standard in its own right.

Artistically modified screenshot from code describing new EOF "containers" (Ipsilon/GitHub, modified by CoinDesk using PhotoMosh)

Finance

Squads Labs Raises $10M Series A, Unveils Smart Wallet for Public Testing on iOS

The funding round led by Electric Capital included participation from RockawayX, Coinbase Ventures, L1 Digital and Placeholder.

16:9 Wallet (Prasanta Sahoo/PIxabay)

Tech

Internet Computer-Based 'Bitfinity EVM' Launches as Bitcoin L2, Supports Runes

The Bitfinity EVM is designed to allow developers to Bitcoin-based Solidity smart contracts, allowing them to transfer BTC and Runes.

16:9 Bitfinity team (Bitfinity)

Finance

Bitcoin Layer-2 Builder Botanix Labs Raises $8.5M From Polychain Capital, Others

The New York-based firm built Spiderchain to be compatible with Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM) layers.

Funding (Gerd Altmann/Pixabay)

Tech

OP_CAT Proposal to Bring Smart Contracts to Bitcoin Finally Gets a 'BIP Number'

This marks the first step towards reintroducing functionality removed from Bitcoin by creator Satoshi Nakamoto in 2010.

Screenshot of "Quantum Cats" collection from the project's website. (Quantum Cats/Taproot Wizards)

Opinion

AI Safety for Smart Contracts Is AI Safety for the World

Web3 infrastructure can bring new safety and reliability tools to AI, a cycle that will make the intersection of AI and Web3 massively and mutually beneficial, Chainlink scientist Ari Juels and Google AI lead Laurence Moroney write.

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