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...
Supply chain management platform hits blockchain milestone as major consensus upgrade nears.
Supply chain platform VeChain has reached a milestone in terms of uptime and processed blocks on the VeChain Thor mainnet.
The VeChain Foundation posted the achievement on its Twitter feed on Sept. 1, adding that it was “a major milestone that is testament to our public blockchain's scalability, security, and rock-solid stability.”
The VeChain Thor network has now surpassed 10 million blocks and was currently processing block number 10,004,141 at the time of writing. Comparatively, Bitcoin has recorded a 99.98% uptime since January 2009 according to this tracker.
The Foundation noted it has seen con enterprise usage from commerce giant Walmart and governmental adoption from both San Marino and China, where the project has close ties. VeChain partnered with a Walmart subsidiary in China to track food products in June 2020.
According to the Foundation there are some major infrastructural updates in the pipeline such as Proof of Authority 2.0 alongside “more partnerships and use cases, community dApps, growth and more.”
VeChain uses a Proof-of-Authority consensus mechanism which enables the network to process high-speed transactions based on identity and reputation as a stake, using just 101 authority nodes.
The enterprise supply chain management platform plans to upgrade to a next-generation consensus mechanism called PoA 2.0-SURFACE, which it describes as a “secure, use-case adaptive, and relatively fork-free approach of chain extension.”
The upgrade will enable higher on-chain throughput and reduced forking probability with the “highest level of data security unfound in any other blockchain platforms,” according to VeChain.
VeChain launched its public testnet with the first two components of the consensus upgrade in late July, however, did not specify a launch date for the final mainnet.
More recently, VeChain announced a partnership with global commercial real estate services firm Jones Lang LaSalle Incorporated. The firm is working with VeChain to explore sustainable blockchain adoption with a view to expanding its operations in China.
Related: Enterprise-level partnerships send VeChain (VET) price to new highs
On Aug. 26, Cointelegraph reported that VeChain had unveiled a new initiative that will assist businesses in tracking and reporting their carbon footprint data. It touted the new Digital Carbon Footprint SaaS Service as a “rapidly deployable tool, enabling enterprises of all sizes to re-engineer their carbon footprint data management practices.”
VeChain’s native token, VET, has been making solid gains on the back of recent project developments. VET has gained 14% over the past 24 hours to trade at $0.138 according to CoinGecko and is now up 60% over the past month — but still 51% down from its Apr. 19 all-time high of $0.28.
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