by Georgios Konstantopoulos — Preface In this post, I will attempt to make a deep dive on RSA Accumulators while providing a review of the recently released paper by Stanford’s Applied Cryptography Group, Batching Techniques for Accumulators with Applications to IOPs and Stateless Blockchains, by Benedikt Bunz, Ben Fisch and Dan Boneh. I highly suggest…

Articles in this Understanding Blockchain Fundamentals series: Part 1: Byzantine Fault Tolerance Part 2: Proof of Work & Proof of Stake Part 3: Delegated Proof of Stake 👈 A while ago, we talked about how consensus works and went over the basics of Proof of Work (PoW) and Proof of Stake (PoS). The gist is that PoW…

Highlights from EthCC on Plasma Cash, Minimum Viable Plasma, and More… — From the 8th to the 10th of March 2018, Paris got flooded with Ethereum professionals, researchers, investors and enthusiasts from all over the world for the Ethereum Community Conference (EthCC). EthCC is organized by Asseth which is a French non-profit organization that has been promoting and sharing knowledge on Ethereum…

In Part 1 of this 2-article series we had a theoretical approach towards monetizing your Ethereum DApps. In this part we will look at some code examples that show how you can actually implement them in Solidity. Withdrawing Funds To start with, there needs to be a function that will allow the…

In our last article, we went over why you should learn to build Blockchain DApps. In this article, we will talk about how you can monetize them. Before getting into DApp-specific cases, let’s try answering a popular question: How do traditional apps make money? Advertisements Simply said, advertisers pay content providers…

Last week we released CryptoZombies Lesson 4, where we continue our journey to build an army of zombies with Solidity, Ethereum’s programming language. As of this lesson, over 90,000 people have used CryptoZombies and are getting more familiar with developing Decentralized Applications (DApps) on Ethereum. What we have not…

In Loom Network’s Telegram (which has ~8,000 members!) people ask questions on various topics such as Loom’s roadmap, theoretical blockchain and Ethereum questions, and Solidity troubleshooting. There was a specific question that was asked, which involved initializing an array inside a struct. The person who asked it then provided their…

In our previous article about sidechains we mentioned how we are aiming to be the blockchain platform for building and running large-scale online games and social apps. We envision a future where communites are run on a blockchain and sites such as Twitter, Reddit, Facebook, StackOverflow and even MMORPG’s are…

Introduction Dear reader, This is my entry for the Status Community Competition. I started learning about blockchain technology around the end of 2016. …