Full Node v2.0.0 released; All nodes need to update before activation — After over one year of building and testing the new features, Alephium is excited to announce that the Leman Network Upgrade is scheduled for 10:00 GMT on March 30th, 2023. …

Download it and try the new features on Alephium Testnet! — Important Notice As this is the first release of the browser extension wallet, the community is invited to download it and test the new wallet features. It is very important to securely store your seed phrase if you intend to use it on the mainnet, to be able to retrieve…

Once in a while, the spotlight is put on one active member of the Alephium community. This is an opportunity to showcase community members’ contributions to the ecosystem, what drives them, and what they are passionate about! More episodes: #1 here, #2 here, #3 here, #4 here, #5 here, and #6 here. — Today’s spotlight is shining on the very definition of an “Alephium OG”. Not only did they join the project’s community very early on, they instinctively began helping their peers to better understand the intricacies and specifics of the project. Oheka is the type of person that will not rest on…

A Collective Effort by the Community — Alephium, the first operational sharded L1 blockchain scaling and enhancing PoW & UTXO concepts, has been listed on its second exchange: Tradeogre.com! This is a significant milestone for Alephium, made possible due to its community push to get Alephium’s native token ALPH listed on a new exchange. “Wen new listing” The Alephium community…

Are you sure you have everything updated? A lot has been done since the previous announcement and the “Hard” Talk held in January, and this post is an invitation for you to update your nodes. — February was a productive month with the release of the Full Node v1.7.0. After intensive testing, it is considered to be the last stable version before the Leman Network Upgrade. The full node v1.7.0 possesses all the Leman Upgrade features but they are not activated on the mainnet. The full…

Alephium hosted a Twitter Space on 24/01/2023 with Jordan from Nervos Network and Cheng Wang & Hongchao Liu from Alephium to talk about Proof of Work (PoW) and Decentralization. — This series reached the last part. You can find the part I here, part II here, and access the whole conversation here. These are the topics covered in this post: Thoughts on Decentralization and why it matters; Where a developer can find information on how to build on both protocols;

A Technical Promenade, part 4 — This is part of a series of regular articles on key concepts for understanding Alephium in particular and blockchains in general. If you’re pondering on which chain to build your dApps, if you’re a curious crypto-traveler, or a fellow decentralization enthusiast, welcome! You can find the previous articles in the…

Alephium hosted a Twitter Space on 24/01/2023 with Jordan from Nervos Network and Cheng Wang & Hongchao Liu from Alephium to talk about Proof of Work (PoW) and Decentralization. — It was a great conversation, and a series of articles will transcript the main topics discussed. You can find part I here and access the whole conversation here. This post will focus on why both protocols chose the UTXO model over the account model, their scaling mechanism, and thoughts about…

Once in a while, the spotlight is put on one active member of the Alephium community. This is an opportunity to showcase community members’ contributions to the ecosystem, what drives them, and what they are passionate about! More episodes: #1 here, #2 here, #3 here, #4 here, and #5 here. — In this edition, we introduce you to Waldi, also known as Zkit/beats, a humble community member that has made himself a name in the community through some serious promotion work. Many peers might have him to thank for even hearing about the project in the first place. …