It seems that as the speculative bubble around blockchain projects is nearing its end, public focus is shifting away from speculative investments in crypto projects to interest in the underlying ...

Stanford professor David Mazières thinks he has a faster, more flexible and more secure alternative to Bitcoin, MIT Technology Reviewreports. Two independent reviewers, from Stanford and Cornell ...

The upgrade replaces Proof of History and TowerBFT, the two systems that have defined Solana since launch, with a new consensus protocol targeting 150-millisecond finality. Validators approved it 98% ...

Sharding could be the key to allowing blockchains to scale, while maintaining the privacy and security features that make the distributed ledger technology so hot. But there are hurdles that need to ...

Blockchain systems have long struggled to balance efficiency and reliability. Leader-based consensus mechanisms risk failure when a leader node crashes, while leaderless models often suffer from ...