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Can Randomness in Smart Contracts Be Hacked?
Can Randomness in Smart Contracts Be Hacked?
In gaming dApps, random number generation helps games remain unpredictable and exciting. In games of chance, it helps players trust the…
Why Go Is Popular Among Crypto Developers
Why Go Is Popular Among Crypto Developers
Go, also known as Golang, is a compiled systems-oriented programming language released by Google in 2012. The third most popular…
Directed Acyclic Graphs Trade Security for Performance
Directed Acyclic Graphs Trade Security for Performance
While directed acyclic graphs possess many excellent features, their reliance on sharding necessitates sacrificing decentralized security…
Safeguarding Stablecoins from Black Swan Events
Safeguarding Stablecoins from Black Swan Events
Bitcoin’s volatility discourages merchants from accepting them for payment. Stablecoins solve this problem, as they are often pegged…
PStake Emerges As A DeFi Hit
PStake Emerges As A DeFi Hit
Crypto investors interested in staking tokens to generate income must relinquish access to these staked tokens. Once they forsake these…
Making the Case for Commodities
Making the Case for Commodities
In recent years, the use of commodities as an investment vehicle has fallen out of favor among traders. The dollar’s appreciation against…
I Know What Staking Is, But What Is Liquid Staking?
I Know What Staking Is, But What Is Liquid Staking?
Liquid staking protocols let Proof-of-Stake token holders stake their assets without sacrificing the liquidity of their assets. This…
NFT Security Moves Beyond Filecoin
NFT Security Moves Beyond Filecoin
Imagine a scenario in which you finally decide to purchase an NFT. Since this is primarily an investment decision, you scour all the NFT…
Eliminating NFT Pain Points Should Be A Top Priority
Eliminating NFT Pain Points Should Be A Top Priority
Although NFTs have been around for several years, they’re only now gaining traction among the public. Last quarter, the NFT market recorded…
Brands Ponder Hyper-Personalized NFTs
Brands Ponder Hyper-Personalized NFTs
Online users must frequently contend with an oversaturation of ads, despite their minimal return for the advertisers. Fortunately…
ZCASH and Zero-Knowledge Proofs
ZCASH and Zero-Knowledge Proofs
The coin’s zero-knowledge proofs enable user authentication without having to exchange passwords. Without such a need, no unauthorized…
What Crypto Platforms Can Learn From Intel
What Crypto Platforms Can Learn From Intel
Intel’s Platform Evolution
DPoS, A Move in the Right Direction?
DPoS, A Move in the Right Direction?
In the quest to find a superior consensus mechanism, Delegated Proof of Stake (DPoS) seems like a winning bet. In brief, DPoS stakeholders…
LLL: A Viable Alternative to Solidity?
LLL: A Viable Alternative to Solidity?
Before Solidity, Ethereum smart contract developers used LLL (short for Lisp-Like Language). Being a somewhat ‘low-level-language’, LLL is…