Daily Archives: 05/01/2021

Blockstream Launches Jade Wireless Hardware Wallet

Blockstream has unveiled its first cryptocurrency hardware wallet, Jade. It allows you to store BTC and tokens on the Bitcoin Liquid sidechain. The developers of the wallet emphasize that the project is completely open – access to documentation on hardware and software is free. Works Blockstream Jade with Blockstream Green software wallet. Currently, Jade supports work exclusively with devices on the Android OS, but in the near future there will be support for Green wallets…

Optimism Ethereum Pre-Launch On January 15th

The developers of the second-tier Optimism scaling solution for Ethereum have announced that a preliminary launch on the mainnet is scheduled for January 15th. As part of the preliminary launch, the Synthetix decentralized exchange will have access to transaction scaling. Smart contracts will be converted to the Optimistic Virtual Machine (OVM) format and launched on the mainnet. Given that OVM is almost fully compatible with the Ethereum Virtual Machine, developers won’t have to rewrite their…