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MLB Team Washington Nationals Partners With Terra Blockchain Community, Ballpark Plans to Accept UST

On February 9, the American professional baseball team based in Washington, D.C., the Washington Nationals, announced the team has partnered with Terra, the open-source blockchain platform and decentralized autonomous organization (DAO). The Washington Nationals detail that the team is a “leading innovator” and is “consistently introducing new technologies to enhance the fan experience.” Washington Nationals Ink Long-Term Deal With Terra Major League Baseball (MLB) team the Washington Nationals has partnered with the blockchain platform and DAO Terra, according to an announcement published by the team on Wednesday. The deal with Terra follows a slew of sports-related deals with crypto firms, but the MLB team will be the first to partner with an open-source blockchain project. In addition to the partnership, the algorithmic stablecoin UST that’s issued on the Terra blockchain will be “accepted as a payment method at Nationals Park as early as next season.” “The Nationals continue t...

Dash announces new update, social payment wallet enters testnet

Dash Core Group has announced the release of new updates for the Dash platform as well as the DashPay smartphone wallet app.

Dash has moved development work on the v0.17 of its platform to the testnet phase according to an announcement released on Wednesday. Back in July, Cointelegraph reported that the Dash Core Group was looking to release the platform testnet before the end of the year.

As part of the announcement, Dash revealed that the testnet environment being five times larger than Evonet which is almost exclusively owned by the Dash Core Group. According to Dana Alibrandi, the head of product at Dash:

“This is the biggest deployment of Dash Platform, and consequently, this release marks the most significant milestone in the realization of Dash’s long term vision for mainstream adoption.”

Detailing the protocol upgrades contained in the v0.17 update, Dash revealed that it has patched an infinite credit minting vulnerability. The v0.17 release also includes features to improve full light client support.

With v0.17 now in testnet, Dash says the release of v0.18 is the next item on the agenda. This new upgrade slated for late January or early February will feature more protocol improvements for light clients as well as enhanced functionality for iOS and Android apps within the Dash platform.

Dash also announced the release of DashPay to the public alpha phase. DashPay is a social crypto payments wallet with human-readable addresses via the Dash Platform Name Service layer.

While some other crypto businesses offer human-readable usernames for transactions within a closed wallet ecosystem, Dash has previously claimed that its service is native to the blockchain itself.

Other features also include contact lists and avatars which the company says will improve payment convenience. The full public launch of the social payment wallet is scheduled for later in 2021.

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