2020-9-2 02:12 |
The Layer 2 protocol holds $12.4 million worth of bitcoins.
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Hashflow, a layer 2 protocol to build and operate an emerging generation of CeFi-DeFi hybrid exchanges, launched its alpha today on Ethereum mainnet and announced...
2020-8-27 05:56 | |
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Payment pools, a potential Layer Two solution made possible through Taproot, could let groups of bitcoin users share UTXOs and enjoy more privacy. The post Building on Taproot: Payment Pools Could Be Bitcoin’s Next Layer Two Protocol appeared first on Bitcoin Magazine.
2020-8-11 19:10 | |
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Emerging blockchains are trying to build a new DeFi ecosystem away from Ethereum. While Ethereum is still the top base layer for DeFi, increased traction for protocols like Band and...
2020-8-6 13:07 | |
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The United States tax agency has published a request for information pertaining to privacy-centric cryptocurrencies and technologies that obfuscate crypto transactions. The IRS-CI Cyber Crimes Unit request is also asking for information in relation to “layer two offchain protocol networks, sidechains, and the Schnorr Signature algorithm.
2020-7-4 02:45 | |
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Bitpay, the crypto payment processing giant, has finally integrated the segregated witness (SegWit) protocol, a second layer scalable solution to make bitcoin processing cheaper. The Segwit integration is currently optional for bitcoin wallet users on BitPay.
2020-7-4 18:59 | |
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Mastercoin, rebranded as Omni in 2015, is an open source protocol layer built on top of bitcoin that enables the creation of new cryptocurrencies and assets. The project was intended to remedy what it called the two biggest barriers to bitcoin adoption: Insecurity and instability.
2020-8-4 22:13 | |
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Bitcoin’s third epoch was largely defined by the growth of the Lightning Network. We asked the second layer protocol’s leaders what that growth will look like following the third Halving. The post How the Lightning Network Will Grow Following Bitcoin’s Third Halving appeared first on Bitcoin Magazine.
2020-5-22 00:21 | |
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Coinspeaker Blockchain Investment Fund Alpha Sigma Capital Purchases DigitalBits XDB Token To Support Adoption of Branded Stablecoins on the BlockchainDigitalBits is a protocol layer blockchain focused on supporting consumer digital assets, specifically branded currencies.
2020-5-7 15:30 | |
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A virtual conference is being organized by a bevy of base-layer protocols – the Web3 Foundation, Near, Cosmos, Tezos, Protocol Labs and Polkadot.
2020-4-8 21:05 | |
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The debates around Bitcoin's Lighting Network have continued to make headlines, despite the fact that it has been years since these first emerged. The 2nd layer payments protocol on the Bitcoin bloThe post Bitcoin's Lightning 'play' with derivatives is a pitch far from perfect appeared first on AMBCrypto.
2020-4-7 17:30 | |
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Coda Protocol, a cryptocurrency ecosystem with a tiny portable blockchain, is now one of the largest layer 1 testnets by peer count. Phase 3 of the testnet has generated more than 400 users connecting at least once, 300 users signing up to stake, and 143 max concurrent users.
2020-3-25 13:57 | |
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Band Protocol, a data oracle platform building a data layer of the Web 3. 0, announced today it will be integrated into Kava, a recently launched, full feature DeFi platform powered by Cosmos. Kava’s price feed module has successfully integrated data from Band Protocol.
2020-3-25 17:58 | |
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Tether, the stablecoin leader, has announced that it is launching on Bitcoin Cash as well. The Bitcoin Cash protocol uses a sub-protocol, called the Simple Ledger Protocol (SLP), to issue tokens on top of the blockchain base layer, per Bitcoin News, March 21, 2020.
2020-3-20 16:00 | |
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Kleros, the decentralized dispute resolution layer, has officially announced the coming of the Kleros Governor – the smart contract to decentralize Kleros governance. Kleros has been using Aragon to hold votes in order to make decisions for the smart contracts, however, it is now unable to use Aragon to make the updates in the smart […] CryptoNinjas: Blockchain-powered dispute resolution protocol Kleros decentralizes governance
2020-2-13 14:26 | |
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NetCents, a cryptocurrency payments solutions provider, announced today that it is integrating the Lightning Network into its crypto merchant gateway. The Lightning Network is a “layer 2” payment protocol that operates on top of blockchain-based cryptocurrencies; enabling near-instant transactions with low or non-existent blockchain fees for users regardless of network congestion.
2020-2-6 18:48 | |
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The grip of cryptocurrencies and their underlying blockchain infrastructure is slowly but surely gaining a foothold in our world. Businesses are increasingly turning to decentralized solutions for improving the efficiency of their operations and cutting costs.
2020-2-5 20:20 | |
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Today, Aztec Protocol, a highly-anticipated privacy layer, launched its mainnet on Ethereum. The protocol obfuscates inputs and outputs using zero-knowledge proofs, and several DeFi projects have already shown interest in integrating the technology.
2020-1-31 11:30 | |
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The Bitcoin ecosystem has been looking at the Lightning Network as a solution to its scalability problem for a long time now; the layer 2 payment protocol is known to facilitate fast transactions.
2020-1-28 20:30 | |
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Lightning Network is a second layer technology primarily built to execute micropayments almost instantly at low costs in a hassle-free manner. However, a recent research report now puts the protocol iThe post Lightning Network's privacy, scalability lower than expected: BitMEX Research appeared first on AMBCrypto.
2020-1-14 13:00 | |
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Bitcoin’s Lightning Network is expanding at an exponential rate despite a number of scalability and security flaws in its protocol. Bitcoin’s Lightning Network usage is growing The Lightning Network (LN) is a second layer solution to Bitcoin’s scalability problem.
2020-1-13 22:00 | |
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Bitcoin's Lightning Network burst back into the scene in late-2019 after Bitfinex announced its support for the 2nd layer payments protocol. Other organizations such as Bitrefill and Blockstream's LiqThe post Bitcoin Lightning Network's privacy-preserving feature may be a myth appeared first on AMBCrypto.
2020-1-9 20:30 | |
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Towards the end of 2019, Bitcoin's Lightning Network started to gain traction again after noted crypto-exchange Bitfinex added support for Bitcoin's 2nd layer payments protocol. Blockstream's Liquid nThe post Bitcoin's Lightning Network requires liquidity for better performance appeared first on AMBCrypto.
2020-1-4 18:15 | |
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During the course of 2019 the most used BTC-based OP_Return protocol, Veriblock, outshined Omni Layer outputs. According to statistics, Veriblock captured 57% of BTC’s OP_Return outputs in 2019.
2020-1-2 04:05 | |
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Happy 4,000th day running to Bitcoin! That's right crypto enthusiasts, the bitcoin blockchain network has been successfully going for 4,000 straight days since Satoshi Nakamoto released the first base layer software protocol back on January 3, 2009.
2019-12-17 20:07 | |
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IDEX is launching a new DEX built on a layer 2 scalibility protocol made possible through Ethereum's Istanbul hard fork.
2019-12-6 21:00 | |
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IDEX is launching a new DEX built on a layer 2 scalibility protocol made possible through Ethereum's Istanbul hard fork.
2019-12-7 21:00 | |
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The Lightning Network [LN] gained popularity as a Layer 2 payment protocol and is considered to have heightened Bitcoin's efficiency as a medium of payment. While several from the community aren't verThe post Bitcoin's LN growth would be inaccurate 'if measured during a slow market' appeared first on AMBCrypto.
2019-11-24 21:00 | |
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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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A new oracle is in town, and it’s brought a few friends with it. Band Protocol has integrated financial data from CoinGecko, DeSquare, Woodstock Fund and a staking pool in China to its oracles feed.
2019-10-24 17:16 | |
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Band Protocol, a Sequoia-backed data oracle platform that allows decentralized applications (dApp) to tap into off-chain information, has integrated financial data from CoinGecko, DeSquare, Woodstock Fund, and one of the largest staking pools in China to their feed.
2019-10-22 15:00 | |
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Elrond smart contracts can now access Band Protocol data feeds - CryptoNinjas Elrond, the recently launched sharding-based public blockchain network, today announced a new collaboration with Band Protocol, a decentralized data oracle for Web 3.
2019-10-14 15:44 | |
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Band Capital, the decentralized data governance startup, has announced launching the first version of Band Protocol on Ethereum Mainnet on 30 September. The now, live and operational protocol, aims “to become the universal data query layer for all future decentralized web 3.
2019-10-2 00:30 | |
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WAX blockchain introduces new self-service developer portal - CryptoNinjas Worldwide Asset eXchange (WAX), a blockchain protocol purpose-built for digital goods, today announced the release of its developer portal called the WAX Developer Hive.
2019-9-20 23:05 | |
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Binance Labs leads $5. 7 million raise for FIO Protocol - CryptoNinjas Dapix Inc, the company behind the initial development of the FIO Protocol, has raised $5. 7 million in Series A funding led by Binance Labs, the venture arm of leading global cryptocurrency exchange and blockchain ecosystem, Binance.
2019-9-6 21:08 | |
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Crypto fund KR1 invests in Nym, Nexus Mutual and Alice. si - CryptoNinjas KR1, a blockchain/crypto-asset investment company, today announced their latest moves, and informed it has contributed a total of CHF 150,000 into the Nym Protocol project (Nym) for a yet-to-be-determined number of discounted tokens.
2019-9-4 18:26 | |
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Blockchain security and scalability are fundamental aspects of an asset’s decentralized network. Major digital currencies, including the likes of Bitcoin and Ethereum, received criticism largely because of their scalability issues.
2019-9-3 22:03 | |
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Special thanks to the Plasma Group team for review and feedback Current approaches to layer 2 scaling - basically, Plasma and state channels - are increasingly moving from theory to practice, but at the same time it is becoming easier to see the inherent challenges in treating these techniques as a fully fledged scaling solution for Ethereum.
2019-9-2 04:03 | |
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Nahmii, a second-layer scaling solution built for the Ethereum blockchain, recently announced that Norwegian Block Exchange (NBX) will become the first member of the nahmii’s Foundation governing association.
2019-8-21 12:20 | |
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Nahmii, a second-layer scaling solution built for the Ethereum blockchain, recently announced that Norwegian Block Exchange (NBX) will become the first member of the nahmii Foundation. The goal of the project is to improve Ethereum’s capabilities for small and large-scale commercial use.
2019-8-22 12:20 | |
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CryptoNinjas - Bitcoin, Cryptocurrency & Blockchain Asset SourceOAX Foundation, a Hong Kong-based entity set up to develop and promote digital asset trading, has today released the code for its Layer 2 Exchange (L2X) protocol, marking the completion of a major milestone for the project.
2019-8-12 18:15 | |
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Satoshi Nakamoto’s Bitcoin technology has inspired a lot of innovation spawning a myriad of tokens representing digitized assets. There are now token creation systems on blockchain networks like Omni Layer, Counterparty, and Ethereum.
2019-8-10 01:30 | |
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Blocknet’s decentralized network connects with Sia to enable blockchain storage » CryptoNinjas Blocknet, a 2nd layer blockchain interoperability protocol that enables communication, interaction & exchange, announced it has successfully connected the Sia blockchain and their storage services onto its decentralized network protocol.
2019-7-29 19:17 | |
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CryptoNinjas - Bitcoin, Cryptocurrency & Blockchain Asset SourceBlocknet, a 2nd layer blockchain interoperability protocol that enables communication, interaction, and exchange between different blockchains, today released a powerful update for its decentralized exchange dApp, Block DX.
2019-7-13 19:01 | |
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An European cryptocurrency exchange called Bitstamp has decided to set up its own Bitcoin Lightning Network node. The initiative was started in order to boost the capabilities of the network for clients of the company.
2019-7-9 23:59 | |
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Lightning Labs has hit a new milestone with the release of its Lightning Mobile App for iOS & Android making it the first mainnet app on all major mobile and desktop platforms. The second layer protocol is getting more stable despite some major issues still to be overcome.
2019-7-6 11:00 | |
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Smart contracts are getting a bit…smarter. Yesterday oracle provider ChainLink (LINK) struck a partnership with Matic Network (MATIC), a layer two protocol to speed up payments on Ethereum (ETH).
2019-6-14 00:18 | |
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In a Medium post published on June 12, 2019, layer two blockchain scaling platform Matic Network (MATIC) announced its partnership with decentralized oracle platform startup Chainlink. Scalability with Smart Contracts Matic Network, a decentralized layer two blockchain scaling solution that uses a Plasma-powered sidechain network and Proof-of-Stake (PoS) consensus protocol to secure digital assets, isRead MoreRead More.
2019-6-13 17:00 | |
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The Marlin Protocol was conceptualized with the sole purpose of making blockchain technology scalable enough to introduce into industries with potential and existing high throughput and growth rates.
2019-6-13 15:26 | |
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Special thanks to Jinglan Wang for review and feedback One question that often comes up is: how exactly is sharding different from sidechains or Plasma? All three architectures seem to involve a hub-and-spoke architecture with a central “main chain” that serves as the consensus backbone of the system, and a set of “child” chains containing actual user-level transactions.
2019-6-14 04:03 | |
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A cohort of Lightning developers held a roundtable discussion at Bitcoin 2022 on the differences between node options available to users.
Social network Zion onboards users to the Lightning Network to free them from big tech censorship, revenue restrictions and data collection.
Разработчики Lightning Labs представили бета-версию клиента LND v0. 11, которая позволяет отправлять более крупные биткоин-транзакции в сети второго уровня Lightning Network. Let's get ready to Wumbo! Today we’re releasing lnd 0.
Lightning Labs, the team of engineers dedicated to fixing the scalability issues of the Bitcoin blockchain and making the flagship cryptocurrency better, has announced the release of the Lightning Network Daemon (lnd) v0.
Разработчики Lightning Labs выпустили бета-версию десктопного клиента LND v0. 10. С обновлением появились такие значимые нововведения, как многопутевые платежи, частично подписанные транзакции и усовершенствованная система комиссий.
A little while ago, there was some commotion over a user losing 4 BTC through the Lightning Network. That situation has now changed for the better. A lot of people were taken aback by how unsecure the Lightning Network turned out to be.