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Market Wrap: Here's Why Ether's Price Has Jumped 65% So Far This Year

Ether is outperforming bitcoin in 2020 but has lower liquidity and different technical dynamics than the world’s largest cryptocurrency.

Source: CoinDesk BPI

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Base Layer Blockchain Harmony Adds Staking to Open Up Validator Set

Harmony announced Tuesday that its mainnet has incorporated staking, allowing users to earn ONE tokens for locking in their current holdings.

Harmony is bringing in outside participants to strengthen its chain. (Credit: Pexels)

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IBM Blockchain to Offer Decentralized Smart Contract Option

IBM is implementing the Hyperledger Fabric 2.0 base layer to support smart contract governance on its blockchain platform.

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Tezos Becomes Latest Blockchain to Tap Chainlink for Oracle Services

Chainlink has integrated with yet another blockchain, this time Ethereum rival Tezos.

Chainlink co-founder Sergey Nazarov

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Binance Unveils Smart Contract Blockchain but Claims It's No Ethereum Rival

The new Binance Smart Chain will be compatible with Ethereum, however.

Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao. (Credit: Binance)

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Ready Layer One: Base Layer Protocols Team for Virtual Developer Event

A virtual conference is being organized by a bevy of base-layer protocols – the Web3 Foundation, Near, Cosmos, Tezos, Protocol Labs and Polkadot.

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Overstock's VC Wing Leads $8.2M Funding Round in GrainChain

GrainChain, a blockchain platform for tracing commodities, raised $8.2 million from Medici and Eden Block.

GrainChain's blockchain tracing platform has already made inroads in the Honduran coffee scene. Image via: Roger Johnson/Medici

Tech

Appealing to Normies: Advancing Bitcoin Starts With Better UX

At London's Advancing Bitcoin conference, developers discussed user-experience fixes for the world's leading crypto.

Blockstream's UX director, Selene Jin, speaks at 2020's  Advancing Bitcoin conference in London. (Photo by Alyssa Hertig for CoinDesk)

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Gartner Research: Smart Contract Adoption to Increase Data Quality by 50% Over 3 Years

Research conducted by Gartner is predicting a 50% increase in overall data quality by 2023 for all businesses and organizations using blockchain smart contracts.

Research conducted by Gartner is predicting a 50 percent increase in overall data quality by 2023

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Algorand 2.0's New Non-Turing-Complete Smart Contracts Are a Feature, Not a Bug

Thursday's Algorand 2.0 upgrade adds decentralized finance (DeFi) features and smart contracts to the $108 million blockchain.

Algorand founder Silvio Micali