The play-to-earn revolution is picking up speed and even though most GameFi platforms are native to Ethereum’s network, Solana is also rising just as fast to become a go-to blockchain network for scalable games. Compared to Ethereum, Solana offers a much faster transaction speed. This makes it an ideal candidate…

Proof-of-Stake, staking and validating are all important concepts to understand when it comes to cryptocurrencies. The debate over which system is more secure and which one will eventually dominate rages on. …

Aleph Zero is a PoS (Proof-of-Stake) public blockchain equipped with DAG (Directed Acyclic Graph) consensus mechanism (as an intermediary data structure). It was co-founded by Adam Gągol, Matthew Niemerg, Michał Świętek, and Antoni Żółciak in early 2018 and went live on November 10, 2021. …

Solana is one of the most popular and fast-growing programmable blockchain platforms with a strong focus on scalability. Compared to Ethereum, Solana has a much better transaction speed set to scale at a whooping 710,000 transactions per second and is, therefore, touted as a more suitable platform for DeFi applications. …

Private smart contracts are growing in popularity, especially in DeFi. So, what exactly are private smart contracts, and what benefits do they confer to investors over ordinary smart contracts? A private smart contract is basically smart contracts whose source code is hidden. Essentially, an outsider has no idea about how…

Decentralization of the internet is inevitable. With advancements in technology and the ongoing digital revolution, we can now create decentralized applications that are more secure, efficient, and scalable than their centralized counterparts. The challenge however is that existing blockchains are struggling to scale and support the complex applications that we mainstream…

Smart contracts on the blockchain have the potential to disrupt many industries by reducing settlement times, eliminating central points of failure, and providing near-instantaneous trustless execution. However, the lack of privacy surrounding transactions on public smart contract platforms is a major barrier to adoption for many enterprise use cases. For…

From the early days of the internet, the god fathers of cryptography such as David Chaum have warned about the risk of quantum computers to the security of online communications. …

Bitcoin boasts of pioneering the entire cryptocurrency industry and providing a template for the blockchain. It is the first and most valuable cryptocurrency by market capitalization, with a large community of developers, investors, and adopters. However, over the years, Bitcoin has mostly become a store of value with very slow…