Daily Archives: 29/07/2020

Chinese Community Launches TON Community Testnet

The Chinese TON community announced the launch of the TON Community blockchain test network, created on the basis of Telegram developments, and the distribution of 10 million TONcoins. Chinese TON Community project founder Tooz Wu said the testnet is called “testnet3” and is based on the official Telegram Open Network (TON) test network, often called “testnet2”. Since the developer of TON said that the platform’s testnet would be closed by August 1, 2020, the Chinese…

R3 Corda Platform will implement DAML Smart Contract Language

R3’s Corda Enterprise platform integrates the Digital Asset Modeling Language (DAML) smart contract language developed by American startup Digital Asset. Currently, Corda developers can only create applications using the Kotlin language created by JetBrains. The code of this programming language is executed in Javascript and the Java virtual machine. DAML was created in 2016. It is intended for financial institutions, and is used to draw up and execute agreements using distributed ledger technology. Digital Asset…

Chainalysis: 892,000 BTC linked to illegal activities

According to analysts, 892,000 BTC are associated with illegal activities and are in the darknet markets, in the hands of scammers or hackers. That being said, most of these BTC end up on cryptocurrency exchanges. According to the analytical company Chainalysis, there are about 585,000 BTC on the darknet markets, cryptocurrency scammers control about 99,000 BTC, and 205,000 BTC were stolen by cybercriminals. Another 3,000 BTC is controlled by other users associated with criminal activity.…