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:...
Solana NFT Sales and Transaction Volume
DeFi is not the only driver of Solana adoption. Digital artists have also embraced the platform’s low fees and created some smash hits in...
The Importance of DeFi for Solana
Thanks to the incredible speed Solana offers, and due to the timing of Solana’s market entry coinciding with “DeFi summer,” DeFi applications have always...
The Time to Finality for Solana
Transactions per second are not the best metric to gauge users’ felt experience. Crypto influencer Packy McCormick stated that using Solana felt like “using...
Transactions per Second for Solana
Low fees are one of the existential selling points for Solana. As with Ethereum, the actual fee is a function of supply and demand....
The Consensus Mechanism of Solana
Solana has a unique consensus mechanism called TowerBFT and proof-of-history (PoH). Co-founder Anatoly Yakovenko, with a background in distributed systems design, thought hard about...
Staking and Lending with Solana
SOL holders enjoy a variety of options for putting their tokens to work. Non-custodial staking is available in the Exodus wallet or with the...
Solana vs. Ethereum
Solana’s implementation is fundamentally different from Ethereum’s. On the latter, programs can hold state; on the former, they cannot. A program’s state is the...