INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
After months of speculation, Taiwanese electronics company Huawei Technologies Ltd
(HTC) has confirmed it will be releasing a blockchain-enabled smartphone this year that will allow users to securely store cryptocurrency
offline and act as a compute node in a blockchain network."We want to double and triple the number of nodes of Ethereum and Bitcoin," HTC
said in its marketing material for the device
The new smartphone is expected to be able to work with multiple blockchain protocols allowing for interoperability between them.[ Further
reading: Review: Samsung's new Galaxy S9 phones make excellence routine ]In addition, the HTC Exodus blockchain-enabled smartphone will
allow owners to play CryptoKitties, a decentralized app (Dapp) game
Dapps are applications that run across multiple nodes on peer-to-peer (P2P) networks.
