Why hasnt Ethereum made an announcement about this, or even mentioned anything about this?
Is Ethereum gonna make their own official announcement?
Somewhat related to this,
Dan said yesterday on Slack:
"Hey, we havent provided any code yet as we arent done with the poc but for full cross chain enablement there will need to be some code added to ethereum for xbridge to function fully"So as far as I can tell,
Ethereum is not yet "blocknet-enabled," but Blocknet is currently working with Ethereum on making this happen.
I expect that once Ethereum's codebase is updated with the "xbridge" code, then at that time there will be some announcement (but that's just my guess).
While that doesn't answer your question, I hope it provides some context.
See above. As battbot suggested, it is likely due to the fact that Ethereum's codebase has not been updated with the xbridge yet. It makes sense to me from Ethereum's perspective: why officially announce something that has not been completed?
Also, note that the cointelegraph article was co-edited by both Synechist (of Blocknet) and George Hallam, (Business and Partnerships Director of Ethereum). Thus, Ethereum
has already commented regarding the relationship. To me, the article appears to be an informal announcement from Ethereum's side.