For decades, Americans await Hollywood’s biggest acting awards gala — not just to find out who wins the coveted gold statue in each category, but also to see the glitterati walk the red carpet in all their finery. One tradition that has endured since the early 2000s has been the…

We’re thrilled to announce the reactivation of our Direct Purchase feature! Dapp users can now sign transactions, even if they don’t have any ETH in their wallets, completing the purchase with their credit card — Starting today, Portis will once again let users complete their transactions within Dapps through a simple e-commerce experience, powered by Banxa. This feature existed before, however, since fiat-to-crypto is still uncharted territory fraught with an evolving AML and KYC regulatory framework, we had to pause the feature temporarily, but now…

This past month, ETHGlobal put on ETHOnline, a virtual Ethereum hackathon. The best way to get a sneak peek at the future of ETH is to pay attention to the hackathons, so let’s take a look at the amazing projects that won the Portis bounties. — We say it every hackathon, but we just can’t help ourselves, simply because it’s true: DApps are becoming more and more ready for mainstream users, as the stockpile of tools and libraries grows every year, compounding good UX.

I am excited to share the news that ShapeShift has just acquired Portis, the startup I co-founded two years ago. How did we get here? Where are we going? All great questions which I will attempt to answer. — Every company has a story, and in the case of Portis, it follows the path of a classic startup. …

You heard of bitcoin, right? I’m gonna assume you did, and that you are familiar with the concept of the ‘blockchain’. Basically, it’s a single global ledger maintained by “miners” and populated with all bitcoin transactions. Besides being able to move money from place to place, bitcoin gave rise to…

In the previous article, I gave a lot of background information about the project Itay and I have been working on during weekends for quite some time now. You can check out the actual code here: client side server side (Bear in mind that it still a work in…

For the past few months we have spent almost every lunch at WatchDox (by BlackBerry) playing “Fibbage”, a party game from JackBox Games. The concept of this type of game isn’t new, and is (probably) based on the 1984 Canadian game Balderdash. The game is presented on a TV screen…