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By: Sam Reynolds
Posted: October 24, 2022, 2:30 am

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Posted: October 21, 2022, 8:48 pm

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Posted: October 21, 2022, 7:40 pm

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Posted: October 21, 2022, 12:56 am

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By: Nikhilesh De
Posted: October 11, 2022, 9:26 pm

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By: Glenn Williams, Jocelyn Yang
Posted: October 11, 2022, 9:15 pm

The Soroban Adoption Fund incentivizes developers to begin building products and tools on the new smart contract platform.

Stellar Development Foundation (SDF), the non-profit organization supporting the development of the Stellar network, has launched a new funding initiative to encourage developers to build on the Soroban smart contract platform, which officially went live on Futurenet Tuesday. 

Soroban brings Turing-complete smart contracts to the Stellar blockchain, enabling developers to build new financial services rails on the network, SDF said. Tomer Weller, SDF’s vice president of technology strategy, said Soroban was developed to overcome the “friction” of other blockchain networks. In an emailed response to Cointelegraph, Weller further explained:

"When we looked at what was out there in the market today, the smart contract landscape is predominantly made up of solutions that are patchworked together, peppered with varying quality of tooling, hard to implement, and to top it all off, pretty expensive. It made us want to build something better."

With Soroban going live on Futurenet, developers can begin testing the smart contract platform and potentially receive rewards for doing so. The foundation has allocated $100 million to support Soroban adoption, with the first incentive program soliciting feedback through code examples, tutorials and identifying Github issues.

Related: Vyper, Solidity and Scrypto: How the smart contract languages compare

SDF said the new funding initiative is designed to attract more builders to the Stellar network at a time when competition for Web3 developers and researchers is far outpacing the available supply. Although several crypto firms have laid off staff amid the bear market, demand for talent remains high and is gradually decoupling from short-term market trends.

As far as blockchain projects are concerned, Stellar is among the oldest and most established, having been founded in 2014 by Jed McCaleb. Before Stellar, McCaleb founded Bitcoin (BTC) exchange Mt. Gox and was the co-creator of Ripple.

Original: https://cointelegraph.com/news/stellar-development-foundation-launches-100m-fund-to-support-native-smart-contract-adoption
By: Sam Bourgi
Posted: October 11, 2022, 9:00 pm

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By: Jason Nelson
Posted: October 11, 2022, 8:47 pm

The upgrade is intended to fix the exploit that drained the platform of $100 million.

A hard fork to the BNB Smart Chain, the blockchain of crypto exchange Binance, will take place as a fix for the exploit that drained the platform of an estimated $100 million on Oct. 6, according to a post on GitHub. 

The release for mainnet and testnet is a "temporary urgent patch to mitigate the cross-chain infrastructure between Beacon Chain and Smart Chain", said the post, aiming to re-enable the cross-chain back.

The BNB hard fork, dubbed Moran, will take place at block height 22,107,423 — estimated to occur on Oct. 12 at 4:00am EST . Changes will include fixing a vulnerability in the iavl hash check, as well as introducing block header in sequence checks.

While the fork does not affect regular users, node operators will have to follow a few steps, such as stopping the actual node if it's still running, and replacing it with a new binary. 

In short, a hard fork is an upgrade meant to improve a blockchain. It's a permanent divergence from a blockchain's most recent version, leading to a separation of the chain. As some nodes no longer meet consensus, two versions of the network are run separately. In this way, a fork on the blockchain is created where one path keeps following its current set of rules, whereas the second path follows a new set.

A vulnerability in the cross-chain bridge on BNB Chain caused its pause on Oct. 6, with attackers making off with $100 million in cryptocurrency. The exploit, which was perpetrated on the BSC Token Hub, created "extra BNB", explained the company.

Original: https://cointelegraph.com/news/bnb-smart-chain-to-hard-fork-following-100m-exploit
By: Ana Paula Pereira
Posted: October 11, 2022, 8:30 pm

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By: Omkar Godbole
Posted: October 11, 2022, 8:11 pm