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While tradeoffs are unavoidable, experts interviewed by crypto.news believe that the blockchain trilemma sheds light on the challenges developers face and ways to navigate them. The blockchain trilemma, coined by Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin in 2017, highlights the challenges developers…
ZKFair is set to release a zero-knowledge (ZK) community-driven layer-2 network and airdrop 100% of tokens
Scroll officially unveils its mainnet, leveraging zero-knowledge proofs to significantly enhance Ethereum's transaction speed and reduce costs.
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OKX revealed the new roadmap of the anticipated OKB chain. OKB Chain (OKBC) is a new blockchain project launched by OKX, one of the world's biggest digital asset exchanges.
Orbs has announced the launch of its Time-Weighted Average Price (TWAP) order protocol for users to scale.
Bitcoin Cash’s most vocal advocate Roger Ver and Litecoin creator Charlie Lee sat down for a conversation touching on various topics relevant to digital currencies as well as the cryptocurrency community. The debate was held at the end of the…
The cryptocurrency space continues to expand with new blockchain projects seemingly launching on a daily basis. While many of these projects do not contribute anything of note to the cryptocurrency community, some projects are working on solving real challenges that…
Bitcoin transaction fees are at their lowest level since 2011. The lower fees follow on from bitcoin fees rising as high as $50 per transaction at the end of 2017, a situation that did not have much economic viability. Consider…
The Digital Currency Initiative (DCI), a cryptocurrency and blockchain-focused research community at MIT, are demonstrating an experimental use case in the backdrop of Bitcoin’s Lightning Network that would amalgamate smart contracts with the Bitcoin network to scale further. The Lightning…
Adam Gibson, a Python developer and bitcoin researcher, stated private or anonymous bitcoin transactions are large in size but can be scaled with solutions like bulletproofs. Private Transactions are Larger than Public Ones Anonymous transactions are larger in size than…
Bitcoin developer Peter Todd has finally praised the implementation of the long-awaited second layer scaling solution, the Lightning Network. Todd’s recent experience with the scaling solution saw him take to Twitter on April 21, 2018, when he attempted to make…
Speaking at the Deconomy conference in South Korea on April 3, Ethereum co-creator Vitalik Buterin discarded the idea to discuss his 12-month vision for the world’s second largest blockchain, in favor of a more basic discussion on blockchain technology and…
The scalability debate is all across the cryptocurrency community. With major occurrences such as the CryptoKitties debacle clogging up the entire Ethereum network over the span of a few days, it is well-known that the biggest, public blockchains in their…
Vitalik Buterin, the co-founder of Ethereum, recently proposed a new scaling solution called Plasma Cash. He made a rare appearance to speak at the Ethereum Community Conference in Paris, held on March 9, 2018. Plasma Cash is an extension of…
While bitcoin is the most popular and largest cryptocurrency by market capitalization, it has a relatively simple blockchain which is unable to support some of the features that have made some of its successors popular. Introducing MAST In an effort…
The overwhelming popularity of cryptokitties developed into an unexpected problem; numerous operations in the game (20 percent of the total volume on the Ethereum network) have greatly decreased transaction speed, sometimes even making them outright impossible. While this may seem…