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by Tom Lyons In our Ethereum Business Readiness Report, published last June, we highlighted the ongoing maturation of the public Ethereum ecosystem as a business platform. Recent events show these trends continuing. “Enterprise blockchain is dead, long live blockchain for enterprises.” So said Don Tapscott, noted blockchain influencer and founder…
By Sonal Patel, co-chair of the Ethereum Training Quality Working Group Are you searching for resources to build your expertise in web3 concepts? Do you get frustrated when you’re midway through a course and realize it strongly promotes a product or company, leaving you questioning the accuracy and neutrality of…
Opinion by Vinicius ‘Vini’ Farias Riberiro, EEA Regional Representative for Portugal A brief discussion about blockchain business models. IMHO, definitely yes. But why does it seem that many do not care? First, let’s define what a business model is. Simply put, it is an organization’s plan for making money. But…
By Baseline Outreach Team Recently, the Baseline Core Developer Community announced on the Baseline Show the completion of a major milestone for the third Baseline Reference Implementation (BRI-3), which focuses on simplifying the implementation and use of the Baseline Protocol. The Baseline Protocol is an open-source standard that combines zero-knowledge cryptography, self-sovereign…
Today EEA is proud to publish the QBFT Blockchain Consensus Protocol, a Byzantine Fault-Tolerant Proof-of-Authority consensus algorithm designed for Consortium use. QBFT is an evolution of the “Istanbul BFT Consensus” algorithm (IBFT) described in EIP-650 that provides improvements in reliability and speed, and with as few as 2/3 of validators functioning…
Opinion from Dr. Andreas Freund, EEA Mainnet Interest Group Member Blockchains have a seldom talked about problem which is independent of the ups and downs of crypto markets, and which can hamper longer term Blockchain adoption outside of direct-to-consumer and some B2B use cases: Blockchain cryptographic algorithms are not NIST…
A recent article by Josh Stark sets up a new framework for understanding the utility of blockchains. He summarized it in a tweet thread here, but it’s worth reading the whole article to fully understand the idea. I will attempt to condense it into one paragraph, but please…
By Angela Potter, Lead Product Manager at ConsenSys and EEA member, with input from the EEA Crosschain Interoperability Working Group The future of blockchain is multichain. Layer 2s are a key part of the Ethereum scaling strategy, and we’ve seen significant growth of sidechains and alternative Layer 1s over the past year.
Mark your calendars. Our EEA Ethereum 7th Anniversary Special is fast approaching, and we want to see you there. This 90-minute virtual event will celebrate the Ethereum community and how far it’s come in the seven years since the platform’s launch. We’ll discuss Ethereum’s many milestones and contributors as well…