By Connor Hughes Fantom Finance We recently launched the fantom.finance website to give an insight into what features users can expect from our upcoming DeFi platform. With fLend and fTrade at the core, the platform will allow users to collateralize their staked FTM (and rewards) to mint a stablecoin, fUSD. This stablecoin…

By Michael Kong Since the beginning of the year, we have made continuous optimisations to Go-lachesis, added additional features to the Xar Network, and made improvements to the explorer and wallet applications. Fantom will be releasing fortnightly updates from today onwards. Go-Lachesis 1. Aggressive P2P Propagation of Events One of the simplest ways to reduce time-to-finality (ttf)…

It’s been a while since we’ve shared academic milestones and/or new technical papers, but today we’re excited to share our newest paper: Probabilistic Byzantine Fault Tolerance. Byzantine fault tolerance (BFT) has attracted a large body of research in distributed trustless systems that ensure the system’s integrity despite of Byzantine processes…

By Michael Chen Hey Fantomians, we’re incredibly excited to share that we’re making updates to the Fantom wallet to make it easier to use for users across the globe. In the coming weeks and months, Fantom will be working to make the wallet easier to use and to prepare it…

(Blog post mirrored after press kit) February 10th, 2020 — Ethereum Classic Labs(ETClabs) has announced a collaboration with The Fantom Foundation, the non-profit behind Fantom, the open-source, modular platform for DLT products, to bring crypto-agnostic DeFi features to the Fantom ecosystem. In particular, Fantom will use Xar Network, a DeFi-oriented…

By Simone Pomposi The end of 2019 saw an increasing rise of interest around DeFi, or decentralized finance. DeFi is “the notion that crypto entrepreneurs can recreate traditional financial instruments in a decentralized architecture” — Jeff Kauflin. While Bitcoin was the first attempt at a rudimentary decentralized financial system —…

Hello Fantomians! After completing our successful mainnet launch, helping the community get up to date with staking and working on features to be added to the wallet; we are finally ready to announce the winners of our Fantom Educational Contest! We are happy to say we received great…

We recently hired one of our community members, Simone Pomposi, to be a part of our marketing and communications team. We previously elaborated on the foundation’s thought process behind the new hires and what they bring to the table, now we let them speak. Hi Fantom. I have been following Fantom since…

It’s been a bit more than a month since we last shared the acquisition of new team members, but we’re elated to introduce two new individuals who will be contributing to the Fantom ecosystem in their own respective ways. Marketing First of all, meet Simone Pomposi, originally one of our community…