Block.One

Blockchain veteran Dan Larimer formed EOS as a social smart contract platform. The EOS white paper, published in 2017, proposed releasing an open-source software system (EOS.IO) to help entrepreneurs and app developers create DApps quickly and easily. Future users' main benefits were server hosting, cloud storage, and user authentication. EOS was marketed, developed, and released by a private institution, block. One, under Dan's leadership. EOS made mainstream headlines when its Initial Coin Offering (ICO) campaign attracted over $4 billion from investors who saw it as…

Last year, EOS parent firm Block.one announced its plans to come up with a blockchain-based social media platform known as Voice. Block.one claimed that it will utilize the EOS blockchain for the platform to make its operation transparent, in the absence of secret algorithms or mechanisms that push content of which the user is unaware. However, the platform’s launch will happen earlier than anticipated as Voice CEO Salah Zalatimo said it will be available to readers on July 4, instead of the…

On April 29, Block.one (the firm in charge of EOS cryptocurrency) issued a $50,000 grant towards the facilitation of anonymous access to coronavirus testing. The company issued the grant to Genobank for its open-source app. The firm issued the grant in collaboration with EOS VC (Block.one’s venture arm), and FinLab EOS VC. A few weeks ago, Genobank noted the development of its app known as Agerona together with the Eos-based blockchain platform, Telos. Agerona helps with anonymous connection of users with test…

Block.one is the software publishing company behind the creation of EOS, and EOS VC, a venture capital firm focused on contributing early-stage capital to future blockchain tech development. The startup maintains that its two primary products are the VC arm and cryptocurrency but specifies that it is working to provide the most powerful infrastructure for decentralized applications available. The block.one team provides “end-to-end solutions” to bring corporations, investors, and institutions onto the blockchain via various services. Here is a beginner’s guide…

Recently, the EOS nation and Attic club block producers proposed a Worker Proposal System (WPS) for the EOS delegated Proof-of-Stake blockchain. The scheme would enable individuals to suggest how the EOS blockchain opt to operate.  To send a proposal, a user must transfer a non-refundable amount of 100 EOS to support the WPS mechanism’s operations. The user has to make 50000 EOS available for 60 days, and currently, the smart contract for this proposal is ready for testing. Eventually, all…

Several perspectives on the role of Bitcoin continue to render many at loggerheads. The joint founder and CEO of Block.One, Brendan Blumer, expressed his thoughts concerning Bitcoin on Twitter. Blummer said the world's largest cryptocurrency is not money and is in no way ever going to be. Responding to a tweet written by Peter Schiff, he added that Bitcoin is the immediate gold generation. He continued to say the purpose of the cryptocurrency is not to get used as everyday…