The Hedera Governing Council has officially voted to purchase the intellectual property rights to the hashgraph consensus algorithm from founding architect and inaugural member of the council, Swirlds Inc, for an undisclosed fee.A Wednesday announcement also details plans to transition their code to an open-source model this year under Apache 2.0 license, in addition to … [Read more...] about Hedera Governing Council to buy hashgraph IP, and open-source projects code
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ShapeShift open-sources its upcoming version 2 platform code
As part of its ongoing decentralization efforts, non-custodial cryptocurrency exchange ShapeShift announced Thursday that it has open-sourced the code of its upcoming version two platform, giving developers the opportunity to contribute to the iteration process. ShapeShift’s v2 code repository is now available on Github, making it easier for developers to download it to their … [Read more...] about ShapeShift open-sources its upcoming version 2 platform code
Bargain? World Wide Web’s source code NFT sells for $5.4M at Sotheby’s
The inventor of the World Wide Web, Sir Tim Berners-Lee, has sold an NFT of the web's source code for $5.4 million at fine art auction house Sotheby’s. The piece titled ‘This Changed Everything’ includes a time-stamped file of the source code's 9,555 lines, a high-fidelity image, a 30-minute animation of the code being written, along with a letter written by Berners-Lee.While … [Read more...] about Bargain? World Wide Web’s source code NFT sells for $5.4M at Sotheby’s
IBM opens Hyperledger Fabric source code to drive enterprise blockchain adoption
The global blockchain technology market size is projected to reach $72 billion in the next five years. In order to ensure this growth, however, blockchain solution providers must continue to advance and innovate. For example, public enterprise blockchain use has become an ongoing trend this year as companies like ConsenSys aim to drive adoption for open, permissionless … [Read more...] about IBM opens Hyperledger Fabric source code to drive enterprise blockchain adoption
The most recently hacked DeFi project couldn’t even copy and paste Uniswap and Sushiswap’s code
Earlier this week, Uranium Finance, a Binance Smart Chain-based DeFi project, claimed to have lost $50 million dollars in an exploit of its platform, which had borrowed code extensively from Uniswap, a leading decentralized crypto exchange that runs on the Ethereum blockchain.An automated market maker (AMM) protocol, it is a fork of Uniswap V2, with the added bonus of providing … [Read more...] about The most recently hacked DeFi project couldn’t even copy and paste Uniswap and Sushiswap’s code