Institutional Investors show interest in Cryptocurrencies
The institutions are here, and they are buying the dip. Cointelegraph’s second annual survey found that 62% of professional investors currently hold digital assets...
What is Pure Proof-of-Stake?
Algorand’s democratized variation on PoS, dubbed pure proof-of-stake, is essentially the secret recipe by which the network claims it achieves its holy grail of...
How Algorand works
Algorand was founded in late 2017 as the brainchild of the renowned Italian Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor Silvio Micali. The 2012 Turing Award...
The Polkadot Advantage
It took Wood over three years to carefully design and develop the Polkadot ecosystem without compromising the blockchain trilemma. While in theory, Polkadot checks...
Initial Coin Distribution of Polkadot
To date, Polkadot has raised roughly $200 million from investors from two sales of its DOT cryptocurrency, making it one of the most well-funded...
The DOT-Token
It took Wood over three years to carefully design and develop the Polkadot ecosystem without compromising the blockchain trilemma. While in theory, Polkadot checks...
Comparing Consensus on Polkadot & Ethereum
When evaluating the technology of a Blockchain it is always important to look at the Consensus Mechanism that this Blockchain uses. When it comes...
What is the Polkadot Relay Chain?
Polkadot, now live as the Relay Chain, only plans to launch the ability to validate up to 20 shards per block, gradually scaling up...
The Genesis of Polkadot
In 2016 Gavin Wood left Ethereum and founded the Web3 Foundation and Parity Technologies, both of which were tasked with researching and developing the...
The Challenge of Polkadot
The multichain ecosystem of Polkadot was designed for mass adoption using interoperable blockchains and it does not want to compromise on the blockchain trilemma:...