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Hard Forks, Soft Forks, Defaults and Coercion

One of the important arguments in the blockchain space is that of whether hard forks or soft forks are the preferred protocol upgrade mechanism. The basic difference between the two is that soft forks change the rules of a protocol by strictly reducing the set of transactions that is valid, so nodes following the old rules will still get on the new chain (provided that the majority of miners/validators implements the fork), whereas hard forks allow previously invalid transactions and blocks to become valid, so clients must upgrade their clients

Dynamic Rewards Unleashed

Following weeks of preparation and hard work, we’re incredibly excited to open the Paribus Mainnet v1 tomorrow. This marks the welcome return of our protocol and heralds the beginning of our rewards program. For those who participated in our staking program, the concept behind the rewards program will be simple to understand. We’ve allocated 100 million PBX tokens to be issued as rewards to borrowers on the platform. This concept is even more exciting because the rewards are scheduled to be released evenly across every block and are anticipated to

Everything Users Need to Know About Blockademia Token Sale

The new Croatian cryptocurrency startup Blockademia recently revealed their decentralized information system for issuing and checking the authenticity of issued documents such as diplomas, certificates, and others. Sponsored Sponsored Blockademia works on the Cardano blockchain, which ensures the permanence and immutability of the issued entry containing document metadata and subsequent authenticity checks.  To raise funds for further development, this cryptocurrency startup plans to issue 85 million ACI tokens, out of a total of 250 million. The initial distribution of ACI tokens is carried out through its own web system in

ZooKeeper to Launch ZooGenes On Nov. 14: A New Gaming Generative NFT

ZooKeeper launched the first generation of ZooGenes on November 14, with 10,000 unique NFT characters to be distributed over 3 rounds. Sponsored Sponsored Those who previously held ZOO tokens in their wallets received a Yggdrazil Keepsake and will be given priority during the first 6 hours of the first sales round. ZooGenes: A new gaming generative NFT ZooGenes are ZooKeeper’s gaming-oriented randomly generated NFTs with billions of possible variations. A 3D version of these playable (and tradable) characters can be used in future upcoming ZooKeeper games. Every character will have

BloqBall’s LGE Will Launch on Fantom’s SpiritSwap

News BloqBall is launching on Fantom via SpiritSwap. Users on the platform can deposit FTM to earn BQB tokens. Those who do so in the first 24 hours will earn additional BQB. BloqBall (BQB) is launching its token on the Fantom (FTM) blockchain with the SpiritSwap DeFi team. The BQB launch will make a mark in DeFi history by having the fairest token launch so far. In detail, the Bloqball launch is a completely community-centric Liquidity Generation Event (LGE). For further context, users of the Fantom community can deposit a

Become a part of the NFT ecosystem with Calypso

Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs) have seen a boom in recent times, from being a niche market to finding wider appeal among people in the crypto space. While this has opened up the space for artists, creators and collectors alike, there is still a lot that needs to be done in order to facilitate mass appeal. Calypso is a marketplace for NFTs on the Supermoon Lunar System built on the Binance Smart Chain. In this marketplace, users will have access to unique NFTs, which can be bought using the $CYO token. What

Bug in Leading Ethereum Node Software Has Caused the Chain to Fork

A bug in outdated versions of the leading Ethereum client for node operators, Geth, is causing forks on the chain, according to research by the Block.According to The Block, this could enable double spends on the world’s second-largest blockchain by market capitalization. Ethereum security lead Martin Holst Swende tweeted, “Fortunately, most miners were already updated, and the correct chain is also the longest (canon).”Ethereum developer who works on the Geth client, Marius Van Der Wijden, said that most retail users should be okay, particularly if they are using the most

Polkadot Passes Bitcoin Cash as 6th Largest Crypto

Polkadot and its native cryptocurrency, DOT, have overtaken Bitcoin Cash (BCH) as the sixth largest cryptocurrency by market cap. According to CoinGecko, a cryptocurrency market capitalization aggregator, Polkadot has a market cap of $7.63 billion. It now ranks sixth by market cap, compared to Bitcoin Cash’s $6.35 billion market cap. What has many impressed is the short time frame it took for Polkadot to reach this level. Polkadot is less than a year old. While Polkadot was hitting this milestone, co-founder Gavin Wood released an updated road map for the

Flare Network Review: Smart Contract Network For XRP

As the third largest cryptocurrency most people familiar with the space have heard about Ripple and they understand that it is a global payment and foreign exchange network that was designed to replace the outdated SWIFT banking network. And while it works great for that specific use case, otherwise it has shown limited usefulness in other functions.That might all be fixed however as the Flare Network has been created with the goal of improving the utility of XRP tokens by creating a network with smart contract capability for the XRP