Launchnodes – Investment Grade Staking
Jaydeep Korde is the founder of Launchnodes, which provides nodes on infrastructure, the public cloud or bare metal, for Ethereum and other proof-of-stake blockchains. Launchnodes make it easy to spin up pre-configured, secure Validator, Beacon, Geth, and RPC nodes, allowing you to become a Solo Staker.
The Merge – Celebrating Ethereum’s Transition
It’s merge week - the week that Ethereum will finally transition from proof-of-work to proof-of-stake. The Ethereum foundation says that the Merge will be ‘the most significant upgrade in the history of Ethereum.’ The switch to PoS will replace energy-intensive mining, and instead secure the network with staked ETH. Aditya Das joins Andy to discuss all things related to the merge.
Binance.US adds staking for Algorand and Cosmos
The U.S. based crypto exchange Binance.US will introduce staking rewards for Algorand (ALGO) and Cosmos (ATOM) in February.
Staking ecosystem surges to $8 billion valuation
The total amount of staked cryptocurrency has spiked to an all-time-high over $8 billion. Holders of proof-of-stake cryptocurrencies are choosing to stake their coins to support the network in exchange for income.
Binance adds new Staking Platform
As the staking economy grows, an increasing number of cryptocurrency exchanges are creating dedicated staking services to maintain users.
Industry leaders launch alliance to promote proof-of-stake
Industry heavyweights have joined forces to promote the awareness of proof-of-stake consensus protocols under an umbrella organization the ‘Proof of Stake Alliance.’
Ethereum: Görli testnet ready for experimentation
Ethereum’s first cross-client proof-of-authority testnet promises safety, security, and cross-client experimentation.
PoW vs PoS — the debate defined
Often overlooked in any discussion about cryptocurrencies, is the critical importance of consensus algorithms and how fundamental they are to the application and potential of any blockchain coin or token.While nobody disagrees with the general concept of consensus agreement being fundamental to the legitimacy of a blockchain, debate continues, however, around what is the best process by which to achieve that consensus.
Nxt Whitepaper – Revision 4 â Nxt v1.2.2 â
Nxt is a 100% proof-of-stake cryptocurrency,constructed from scratch in opensource Java. Nxtâs unique proof-of-stake algorithm does not depend on anyimplementation of the âcoin ageâ concept used by other proof-of-stake cryptocurrencies,and is resistant to so-called ânothing at stakeâ attacks. A total quantity of 1 billion available tokens were distributed in the genesis block.
Proof of Stake Velocity: Building the Social Currency of the Digital Age
Proof of Stake Velocity (PoSV) is proposed as an alternative to Proof of Work (PoW) and Proof of Stake (PoS) to secure the peer-to-peer network and confirm transactions of Reddcoin,a cryptocurrency created specifi- cally to facilitate social interactions in the digital age.
Peer-to-Peer Crypto-Currency with Proof-of-Stake
A peer-to-peer crypto-currency design derived from Satoshi Nakamotoâs Bitcoin. Proof-of-stake replaces proof-of-work to provide most of the network security. Under this hybrid design proof-of-work mainly provides initial minting and is largely non-essential in the long run. Security level of the network is not dependent on energy consumption in the long term thus providing an energy- efficient and more cost-competitive peer-to-peer crypto-currency. Proof-of-stake is based on coin age and generated by each node via a hashing scheme bearing similarity to Bitcoinâs but over limited search space. Block chain history and transaction settlement are further protected by a centrally broadcasted checkpoint mechanism.
