The Cosmos Interchain Hackathon, Game of NFTs, was recently concluded, and all five tracks announced their winners. We’re happy to report that EmpowerChain and team members were involved in three out of five 1st places! As EmpowerChain is getting ready for token launch and Zealy campaigns, the Game of NFT…

As announced last week, EmpowerChain launched successfully and airdropped MPWR tokens to more than 100,000 wallets. This week, the community will launch the MPWR tokens as a StreamSwap event and a “gasdrop” to allow everyone to stake their tokens. …

We are very excited to announce the successful launch of the EmpowerChain! After one year of development, two testnets, and four weeks of incentivized testnet, we finally launched the blockchain for the circular economy. Since we started our journey five years ago, we’ve been dreaming about scaling up concepts for…

It’s happening! We’ve been working towards this for a long time, and we are excited to announce that the EmpowerChain incentivized testnet is about to start! On the 31st of May, we spun up the testnet and initiated the bootstrapping and integration phase. …

NFTs with real Impact (and value!) — Empower is launching a limited NFT collection on Stargaze (as a featured project!) on the 30th of September 2022 called Cyber Plastic Heroes. Each NFT minted will clean up plastic waste, get airdrops, and more. Read on to see all the benefits! Tl;dr: 100 NFTs will open for minting on…

“The materials in these shoes have been used seven times before,” the machine blinks at you as you send your old trusty pair of sneakers into the reverse vending machine. You scan your deposit app and see that the payment for the deposit is already in your account. This is…

Originally published at https://www.gjermundbjaanes.com on November 27, 2017. You might have heard the term “smart contract,” and you might even know that they are “code” you can run on a blockchain. But how can you run code on a blockchain? It’s not the easiest concept to wrap your head around. …

Originally published at http://www.gjermundbjaanes.com on September 17, 2017. I recently (or it was, rather, when I wrote this post) held a 20-minute talk at a developer conference here in Norway. The conference was JavaZone, and the talk was titled “Blockchain — what is it good for?” The content of the…

Many people are getting excited about blockchain technology, and for good reasons. Immutability, trustless sharing of data, secure transactions and much more can truly change the way we do business. However, not everybody wants to put their data on a publicly accessible data store. How can you have a private…