Your debit card does not hold your money. It only authorizes your bank account to send transactions to the banking system database. Similarly, your crypto wallet does not hold your…
Creating the App-Chain Internet: Avalanche Subnets vs. Cosmos 2.0
Introduction Before the internet, computers had no method for transmitting data to other computers. Once computers could transmit data through a common language, or protocol, the internet rapidly expanded. The…
Cross-Chain Bridging – Current Risks & Future Development
Today, there are 180 national currencies. Each country has a different legal tender, and each economy settles its economic activities in its native currency. For example, most economic activities in…
Danksharding: Ethereum’s Scalability Killer
Following up my last piece (where I discussed the role sharding is playing in solving decentralized scaling), it’s time to discuss a novel model that could be the savior of…
True Network Value: A Novel Throughput Metric
At their heart, blockchains are trust machines. Evaluating trust, let alone a chain’s performance, is not a routine task. Amongst the many tools used to quickly evaluate a chain’s performance,…
Blockchain vs Traditional Databases
Chainlink Staking: v0.1 Roadmap
Introduction In our previous paper on oracles, we dove into the intricacies that make up these networks, both old and new. Among the oracles discussed was Chainlink, the decentralized oracle…
Sudoswap: NFT Concentrated Liquidity
State of NFT Liquidity NFTs are, by nature, non-fungible. This has caused issues around provision of deep liquidity and regular trading markets. Historically, this thin liquidity has been a driven…
Oracle Networks: A Deep Dive Into Data Bridging Solutions
Table of Contents What is an Oracle? The Oracle Problem Chainlink Chainlink Network Architecture Chainlink Scalability Chainlink Tokenomics Chainlink Staking API3 API3 Network Architecture API3 Tokenomics Band Protocol Band Network…
The Zero Knowledge Frontier: On SNARKs, STARKs, and Future Applications
Jump to: Why ZK Proofs Matter ZK Protocols Current Applications Future Applications “I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing” – Socrates There has been a lot…