In recent years, a lot of blockchain projects implemented and deployed with fancy features like smart contract, private transaction and so on. But the most basic requirement not met yet as convenient, safe payment tool. BTC is safe but very slow in block production and confirmation. Ethereum is a great…

Well, Consensus mechanisms allow secure updating of a distributed shared state and have been a topic of active research in the past three decades. …

Cartel is an organization of independent companies that produce similar products, producers of collective action, with the aim of increasing the profits of such products and controlling their production. The problem that the blockchain under the traditional Proof of Work and Proof of Stake consensus must face is the Cartel…

In the whitepaper of MarcoPolo Protocol (MAP), an improved PoS consensus called Asset PoS a.k.a APoS was proposed. In today’s article, we will have a deep dive into this APoS consensus and explain why this could be a trend in the future PoS consensus blockchain system. First, let’s have a…

Over the ten years since Nakamoto published Bitcoin white paper, Bitcoin acting as the electronic cash system actually has many problems, such as long transaction confirmation time, high transaction fees, and scalability. For these problems, there were some solutions like Lightning Networks and large blocks, but they still cannot solve…