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Avalanche (AVAX) saw a remarkable run in 2023, emerging as among the top alts of the year. Recent stats show the crypto attaining record-high figures in network validators and active monthly users. The project had around 1,708 validators as of December 26, marking the highest amount ever seen by the network. Data from Explorer shows […]
2023-12-28 08:36 | |
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According to the Beacon Chain analytics platform, there are currently 60,189 active validators on the network with a further 16,156 waiting in the queue. BeaconScan is reporting similar figures which means the network, which was launched on Dec 1, is more secure than ever.
2021-1-14 10:10 | |
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The price of ether fell hard last weekend, but the number of validators joining the Eth 2.0 network continues to grow, regardless of price movements.
2021-1-13 15:30 | |
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Innovation hub Tezos Israel has built a hardware security device it says will better secure the staked assets of Tezos' network validators.
2020-12-21 17:00 | |
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After several years of delays, the much-anticipated Ethereum 2. 0 upgrade is set to kick off. . The eth2 network has achieved almost 1,000,000 ETH staked from, almost double the 524,288 ETH required, and with more than 16,384 validators involved, it is expected to go live any moment.
2020-12-3 21:39 | |
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Swisscom Blockchain, the blockchain tech arm of Swiss telco giant, Swisscom, received a grant from Web 3 Foundation to build guard operators for Polkadot’s and Kusama’s nodes and validators. In a blog post released on Wednesday, Swisscom Blockchain’s Kubernetes Operator will enhance the robustness of both chains making them, “less prone to attacks on network […] The post Web3 Foundation Awards Grant to Swisscom Blockchain To Secure Polkadot PoS Network first appeared on BitcoinExchangeGuide.
2020-9-12 18:56 | |
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Swiss Blockchain has been awarded a grant by decentralized internet supporter Web3 Foundation to develop validators for Polkadot. This is in a bid to improve the security of Polkadot’s network by ensuring the availability of full nodes to prevent the possibility of a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack which is common with Proof-of-Stake on […]
2020-9-11 00:21 | |
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All is good for Ethereum right now. The second-largest network is working at full capacity, as evident from the skyrocketing gas prices and miners pulling in a whopping $113 million in transaction fees last month.
2020-9-1 21:24 | |
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Matic Network announced over the weekend the launch of the first tranch of its ambitious staking solution program. Highlights include huge annual returns and onboarding enterprises as external validators.
2020-6-30 13:07 | |
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The Stellar project released the 13th version of its core protocol on June 13th. Network validators will vote on whether to upgrade the network on June 18th.
2020-6-17 12:00 | |
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Coinspeaker Matic Network Mainnet Officially Goes LiveThe plasma implementation sidechain scalability solution Matic blockchain has finally launched its mainnet. In the initial phase, the Matic blockchain will allow a limited set of validators and developers to launch their DApps.Matic Network Mainnet Officially Goes Live
2020-6-1 12:24 | |
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Matic’s marketing lead, Chandresh Aharwar, has confirmed that staking will commence with the first set of validators. There will be no delay. Matic (MATIC) has been one of the top-traded tokens on Binance for some time.
2020-5-20 06:20 | |
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Ripple network validators have approved a new feature for the XRP ledger: Deletable Accounts. This new feature took effect on May 8 after attracting an 80% majority support from the validators which held for two weeks.
2020-5-10 19:43 | |
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TON Labs, a startup that helped Telegram run the test network for its blockchain network, launched its own version called Free TON Thursday, with the support of professional validators.
2020-5-7 16:32 | |
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The highly anticipated launch of Ethereum 2. 0 may be coming sooner than previously expected, as one platform is noting that it could come about as early as July of this year. This transition will help Ethereum move to a Proof-of-Stake model that allows entities with over 32 ETH to become network validators in exchange for […] The post Here’s why Ethereum 2.
2020-5-7 16:00 | |
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The Ethereum network is experiencing a high increase of potential ETH validators in anticipation of Ethereum 2.0, an evolution that will abandon the typical PoW algorithm of blockchains such as Bitcoin and Litecoin in favor of PoS, offering a new consensus mechanism that will reduce the network complexity, making it possible to execute faster and […]
2020-4-27 15:21 | |
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Bison Trails. a blockchain Infrastructure-as-a-Service company, announced today it will be supporting Polkadot on its platform, allowing anyone to launch and run a Polkadot validator. Polkadot’s network connects blockchains through a scalable heterogeneous multi-chain enabling new designs of blockchains to share software and security with the other parachains.
2020-2-27 18:38 | |
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Cardano is getting ready for its highly anticipated network upgrade that will remove the “training wheels” from the network and let the community decide on block validators
2020-2-20 15:45 | |
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Another day, another proposed improvement to Ripple’s XRP Ledger (XRPL). The latest proposal waiting on an 80% majority from its network validators is “Deletable Accounts” – and it sounds just a little bit concerning.
2020-2-13 18:00 | |
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One of the most advanced ethereum 2. 0 client, Lighthouse, has successfully tested running the network with 100,000 validators according to Danny Ryan, the ethereum 2. 0 coordinator. “Lighthouse runs 100k validators.
2020-2-5 15:27 | |
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Special thanks to Justin Drake and Jinglan Wang for feedback In 2014, I made a post and a presentation with a list of hard problems in math, computer science and economics that I thought were important for the cryptocurrency space (as I then called it) to be able to reach maturity.
2019-11-25 04:03 | |
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StakerDAO will allow participants to vote on where to best earn rewards as validators in a given proof-of-stake network.
2019-10-31 23:45 | |
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PureStake, a leader in secure and reliable blockchain infrastructure, announced today the release of its new validator services for Kusama, a network built using Polkadot technology. Validators serve a critical function on delegated Proof of Stake networks, ensuring block production and security of the network is maintained.
2019-10-30 21:55 | |
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Stellar has recently announced its decision to eliminate the inflation mechanism from its core protocol through an update on its version 12. The decision was announced through a medium blog post on 30th September.
2019-10-1 18:16 | |
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While the idea of eliminating inflation from the Stellar protocol has been in discussion since an year, the foundation announced its most recent decision, “We think it’s a good idea to disable the current inflation mechanism.
2019-10-1 01:30 | |
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Coinspeaker Defend the Network, Win Prizes, Play DAObet’s Game of StakesViva Gaming, through the DAObet team, introduces a gamified event on its own blockchain, that calls for all participants to compete with each other as validators on the network for a chance to win a share of a total prize pool of more than 500,000 BET tokens.
2019-9-19 20:13 | |
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Developers of what could someday be described as the go-to platform for decentralized building, DAObet has decided to launch a testnet game dubbed the Game of Stakes to proof the security framework of its network by its validator ecosystem.
2019-9-20 13:00 | |
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Gominer Token is a Peer-to-Peer token that has a sophisticated level of security for a multi-functional digital currency and for all future use expansion. The token is created to help our user to interact and expand the way of their earning in Cloud mining.
2019-7-28 17:33 | |
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Ripple is very closely related to XRP, something which is a well-known fact. There is a blurred line between Ripple and XRP for some people; but for supporters, there is a clear demarcation. However, XRP network also relies strongly on Ripple running validators and in recent days, some XRP community members have brought up hypothetical […] The post Ripple’s validator drama continues as community members huddle up to find an alternative appeared first on AMBCrypto.
2019-7-23 16:00 | |
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XRP ledger node validators, who determine whether transactions meet protocol requirements, have been a hotbed of discussion for a long time now. Bitrue, Coingate, and Bitstamp are some of the crypto-exchanges that run XRP validators.
2019-7-22 21:00 | |
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Facebook’s entry into the cryptospace has resulted in mixed feelings within the community, primarily with respect to the social media giant’s motive behind the introduction of Libra. While the company had previously shared its intent to deliver a decentralized system governed by third party validators, the cryptoverse has identified a new registration in Geneva that implies […] The post Cryptoverse questions Facebook’s ‘centralized’ intentions after Libra Network is registered in Geneva appeared first on AMBCrypto.
2019-7-2 20:00 | |
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Tomorrow, Facebook is expected to release full details of its new “cryptocurrency” project Libra — as always, Twitter has lots to say. Few concrete facts about Facebook‘s Libra (formally known as GlobalCoin) have been made public so far.
2019-6-17 19:13 | |
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Binance, one of the largest cryptocurrency exchanges in the world, has been rapidly improving its stock as a prominent organization handling various virtual assets. The company has also been launching several new projects such as the launch of the new Binance DEX.
2019-6-13 00:30 | |
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Stellar public network will complete an upgrade to Protocol 11, with new and improved additions to the network as of June 10, 2019, 1600 UTC. Jed McCaleb, Co-founder of Stellar, tweeted, “Enough validators have armed an upgrade to Stellar Protocol 11 on Monday at 16:00 UTC that it is locked in now! If you run […] The post Stellar public network successfully upgrades to Protocol 11; three massive changes announced appeared first on AMBCrypto.
2019-6-10 10:30 | |
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CryptoNinjas Neptune Dash, a blockchain technology company, this week announced it has launched a Cosmos network validator and secured enough delegations to put it in the 47th spot on the exclusive list of 100 network validators.
2019-6-6 18:40 | |
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The Stellar Development Foundation has announced a new upgrade to improve the pricing and capacity of the tenth-largest cryptocurrency network. Dubbed Protocol 11, the upgrade will change the way transactions are executed on the Stellar blockchain.
2019-6-6 00:41 | |
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By CCN: An emerging economy which expects to attract $5. 8 billion worth of Foreign Direct Investments is belittling its goals with an anti-technology stance. Myanmar is the latest developing country that is hinting to shut doors in the face of bitcoin, a decade-old global cryptocurrency which proposes to replace banks with a decentralized network of transaction validators and bookkeepers.
2019-5-20 12:10 | |
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On May 14th, the Stellar network went down. The problem was caused by some of the validators of the Stellar Development Foundation going down. The incident caused many in the cryptocurrency space to question the level of decentralization of the Stellar network.
2019-5-18 21:56 | |
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The Stellar Lumens Network came to a grinding halt after network validators were unable to reach consensus. The Stellar Development Foundation revealed the measures they will take to reduce such downtime in a blog post, May 17, 2019.
2019-5-17 19:00 | |
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By CCN: Stellar, the Ripple fork founded by Jed McCaleb after disagreements with decisions at Ripple, went down for about two hours yesterday. Tim Swanson alerted Twitter to the issue, and a Stellar representative confirmed its occurrence.
2019-5-17 13:13 | |
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The Stellar network uses validators with a known reputation, leading to a breakdown of consensus.
2019-5-16 13:12 | |
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Stellar’s blockchain suffered a “cascading failure” that halted transactions for roughly two hours on May 15. Breaking: yesterday the Stellar network went down for about 2 hours… only those who run validators noticed it.
2019-5-16 12:20 | |
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Prysmatic Labs, an Ethereum development team focused on implementing Ethereum 2. 0, including full proof-of-stake and sharding, has launched a public testnet for phase 0 of it. This is a significant milestone as phase 0 testnet will allow users on the network to stake their ETH and become validators.
2019-5-10 13:36 | |
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Ethereum Staking Could Very Well Become A $160 million Industry – According To Vitalik's Proposal According to a brand new proposal provided by the creator of Ethereum – Vitalik Buterin – he argues that he is contemplating an increase in rewards for the validators within the network who would serve to provide security on the […]
2019-5-1 23:24 | |
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CryptoNinjas Bity, a crypto finance platform revealed earlier this week that it is now a validator on the Cosmos Network, the recently launched ecosystem of connected blockchains. Bity is one of the initial validators on the network which was launched on mainnet just last month, enabling users.
2019-4-12 04:30 | |
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Ethereum 2. 0 is now closer to release than ever. The team is currently targeting the v0. 4 release with a single client testnet and a highly available network that is resilient to forks and validator inactivity while allowing new validators to join the network.
2019-3-29 19:36 | |
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Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin recently took to Reddit to discuss some of the biggest roadblocks ahead the network’s transition to Proof-of-Stake (PoS). According to Buterin, there are currently four major hurdles ahead of implementing Proof-of-Stake.
2019-3-28 19:35 | |
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Last week, there was a panel at SXSW that was effectively a debate on the merits of permissioned blockchains versus permissionless systems like Bitcoin. I listened to the entire audio of the panel discussion, after Programming Bitcoin author Jimmy Song tweeted it out the other day, and I thought he did an awesome job of pointing out the key value proposition of Bitcoin and why it is not worth comparing to permissioned systems.
2019-3-23 17:29 | |
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On March 13, 2019, Cosmos, the so-called “Internet of blockchains” announced the release of its software called Cosmos Hub. With this release, Cosmos is looking to establish a broad and extensive network of validators and stakeholders in a series of proof-of-stake (PoS) blockchains hoping to bring a new and innovative financial system to life.
2019-3-15 12:00 | |
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South Korean fintech unicorn Toss plans to launch a finance superapp in Australia this year and issue a Korean won stablecoin once regulations allow.
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