A gentle introduction to the primary NFT concepts with diagrams The recent hype in Non-Fungible Tokes (NFT) resulted in some new concepts in the area of Blockchain and Web 3.0, mainly in the introduction of selling points for trading digital works of... Read More
Chris Blec (@ChrisBlec) has an excellent Youtube Series about Defi. The following video gives an introduction to the synthetic asset trading platform built on the Ethereum blockchain. The trading platform isn't fully decentralized yet (i.e. the pri... Read More
The tutorial will show you how easily you can access the Kyber Network out of a Java Application in order to trade crypto tokens. The tutorial has implemented the primary trading scenarios: Convert Ether to a Token Convert a Token to Ether, as ... Read More
On 11th July 2019, the United States Securities and Exchange Comission (SEC) has approved a $28 million Reg A+ offering for decentralized Internet company Blockstack. This is the first time that a Crypto offering has received SEC qualification and it... Read More
When starting with Ethereum based Transactions it's sometimes confusing to understand what's going on, behind the hood, and which of the addresses plays what kind of role. Thanks to https://etherscan.io / it's quite easy to follow a transaction flow... Read More
My first proposal for the Alchemy DAOstack based DAO (Distributed Autonomous Organization) 'KyberDAO' got approved and funded. The proposal covers the creation of a Medium article with the title “Hello World Kyber Network for Java”. The article will... Read More
My first proposal for the Alchemy DAOstack based DAO (Distributed Autonomous Organization) 'PolkaDAO' got approved. The proposal will deliver as a first milestone the initial library of a Java-based Polkadot/Substrate library. The Polkadot/Substrate... Read More
Litepaper.com is a learning platform which provides so-called beautiful learning bundles in context of blockchain and cryptocurrencies. Beautiful is here the right word since the overall website is very well designed from a UX point of view. Content ... Read More
This week’s article is about “minting”, “bonding”, “staking” and “slashing” which are core functions of a Proof of Stake (POS) blockchain consensus engine. It’s a follow-up article of “Polkadot Hello World #2: Get Nominated As An Official Validator”,... Read More
In this article, I will address two topics in the context of the security and availability aspects of your Validator Node. I’m aware that the tips presented are just covering the tip of the 'security and availability' iceberg for a PoS validator node... Read More
Around the 15th October (as announced in the following hackmd.io article) the POC-3 test net called “BBQ-Birch” went life, which is an implementation of a Substrate-based blockchain. So you may ask, what heck is the difference between Polkadot and ... Read More
The tutorial is based on Polkadot POC2. This is the second article of the series, articles already published on Medium: Polkadot Hello World #1: Cost-Effective Cloud Deployment of a Validator Node Where’s the Party? I suppose you followed the steps a... Read More