The Brazilian National Social Development Bank is to pilot a stablecoin based on ethereum to combat corruption.
Chat logs obtained from a ConsenSys town hall last week reveal a mix of shock and support following the company's announced layoffs.
In a statement shared Thursday, ConsenSys announced that it is letting go 13 percent of its staff.
A strategic shift is in the works at ConsenSys, the sprawling venture studio dedicated to building ethereum-based businesses and products.
Ethereum developers are working on numerous approaches to replacing or enhancing a popular tool for connecting to the network.
ConsenSys Labs has led a $2.1 million seed round for AZTEC, a startup working to make ethereum transactions private.
Civil was supposed to create a more transparent and democratic model for journalism, but so far, journalists working on its platform have yet to receive all of the compensation they say they were promised when hired.
ConsenSys has just acquired an asteroid mining startup called Planetary Resources.
Unlike other enterprise versions of ethereum, ConsenSys' new Pantheon has a less-restrictive software license and uses Java as a programming language.
Blockchain startup Adhara, which aims to bring zero knowledge proofs to central bank systems, has secured $15 million in new funding from Consensys.
The token sale for Civil has brought in $1.34 million toward its $8 million minimum goal.
Gaming giant Ubisoft has become an inaugural member of the new Blockchain Game Alliance, which aims to develop common standards for the technology.
ConsenSys invested $6.5 million into DrumG, the blockchain startup founded by former R3 official Tim Grant.
Amid regulatory uncertainty, the ICO industry has all but cut off retail investors. But will a new model open it up again? Civil is testing it.
The bank wants to use ethereum as a notary, but regulators discourage holding even the tiny bit of ether needed to put data on the public blockchain.