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Early Adopter

What is an Early Adopter? An early adopter is a person or company that develops an interest in innovative products, assets, or technologies very early…

EIP-1559

EIP-1559 is the name of an important Ethereum upgrade to make the fees in the Ethereum network (gas) more transparent. What is EIP-1559 (London Upgrade)…

Encryption

Encryption describes the process of encrypting something. A blockchain is a special data structure with inherent security features. A blockchain is based on the principles…

Enterprise Blockchains

Blockchain technology offers companies a variety of ways to optimize their business processes. It increases the security, transparency, and traceability of the data exchanged within…

ERC-20 Token

What are ERC-20 Tokens? ERC-20 tokens are those digital currencies that are used in the Ethereum network. ERC-20 is (so far) a kind of gold…

ERC-721 Token

ERC-721 tokens are NFTs (Non-Fungible Tokens). What are ERC-721 Tokens? ERC-721 tokens in the Ethereum blockchain can be assigned to the non-fungible token (NFT) category….

Escrow

The English term Escrow can be translated into German as “Treuhand” (trusteeship). The translation as “Hinterlegung” (deposit) is also used. Accordingly, an escrow account is…

Ether Mining

Until the switch to the Proof-of-Stake consensus mechanism, Ethereum mining was the common method by which users created new coins in the Ethereum blockchain. Miners…

Etherscan

Founded in 2015, the platform is a documentation service that collects data on the number of Ethereum tokens based on the ERC-20 standard. Tokens are…

Exchange

The term “Exchange” is the English translation for the word “Börse” or “Austausch”. When we talk about an exchange, we are talking about a crypto…