[At Stake] — Highlighting Everything PoS
With the PoS space steadily growing week in and out, we tend to see great writers and various entities cover projects on a large scope with interests in some shape or form aligned to their own. No matter how great we are at continuously expanding our perspective either via social media or social groups we sometimes create echo chambers. To combat such and help expand our views on the greater blockchain space we decided to try something new.
I’d like to introduce a new series written by a good friend, and Cypher Core’s very first writer, Jordan Darling. With this series, Jordan will be highlighting projects across the PoS project landscape that are currently not affiliated with our immediate staking portfolio (projects in mainnet we’re involved with) or aligned with the Cosmos ecosystem as we have coverage for those segments already.
We hope you enjoy this series as much as we’ve enjoyed writing it!
Project Updates
Qtum
Qtum Core has issued technical updates for the week of May 19, the links for each software update are provided below.
Bump protocol version after offline stake hardfork #834: https://github.com/qtumproject/qtum/pull/834
Modal overlay back wallet text appears truncated #835: https://github.com/qtumproject/qtum/pull/835
Fix log warning for delegation contract not exist during reindex #836: https://github.com/qtumproject/qtum/pull/836
Add PoD test cases #837: https://github.com/qtumproject/qtum/pull/837
Grouping Staking, Delegations and Super Staking under one menu #838: https://github.com/qtumproject/qtum/pull/838
Qtum Neutron is the infrastructure to support new virtual machines, the first being virtual machine x86. The update for VM x86 can be found here.
For further updates from Qtum check out their website for the full list of links to updated documentation.
Ethereum
Ethereum Foundation recently announced the next location for their next installment of Devcon, which will be held in Bogatá, Colombia in 2021. The sixth convention is another opportunity for the Ethereum ecosystem to gain traction and provide information to the community. Read the full article here. Finally users looking for information on eth2 Ethereum can find alot of updates on their blog here.
AVA Labs
AVA Labs announced the first recipients of the AVA-X grants on May 19. The grants went to seven institutions or companies including Blockchain Academy Chile who was presented with the grant as a training and educational platform for developers and entrepreneurs. To read more about the recipients and the AVA program check out their medium.
Tezos
Tezos is making leaps and bounds in the international market. Their token has become available to users in the United Kingdom, Spain, France, and the Netherlands through San Francisco-based exchange Coinbase as of May 28. On May 19 cointelegraph reported that Banco BTG Pactual, the largest private investment bank in Latin America, is moving some of its real estate investment tokens over to Tezos blockchain. Read more about the updates on cointelegraph and coindesk.
Chainlink
Chainlink VRF is in the final stages of its security review and is available on testnet for integration testing, users can ask questions through their Discord or email vrf@chain.link. The market-leading decentralized oracle has also partnered with Klaytn, a blockchain project from South Korea’s internet giant Kakao. To read more about either of these updates see PRNewswire or Chainlink’s website for more information.
Algorand
Algorand announced a new team effort with Attestiv to provide a digital media platform for fraud protection in the insurance industry. With the new partnership Attestiv, a tamper-proof media validation platform, will be able to provide privacy and security options “that give regulated businesses the required levels of compliance” according to Algorand’s news website. Together the two systems will work together to transform the insurance industry. To read more see Algorand’s website.
Decred
Decred is hustling to update the community on developments in technology through podcasts and videos that are all published on company medium. The company also announced that Decred Explorer 5.3 beta is up and running. The explorer is up with points like privacy protection and the percentage of mixed coins.
Harmony
Harmony has launched open staking on May 16 and completed their promise to burn all ONE tokens mined on mainnet. Harmony has become the first sharded PoS public network. 24 months of work beginning with a white paper have become a reality for the network. In addition they have burned a total of 319,237,512 tokens. Read more about Harmony’s projects and updates on their medium.
Polkadot
After a four year trek, Web3 Foundation launched their blockchain project Polkadot. Polkadot is a sharded blockchain system that will connect multiple chains together in a single network. The project has hopes of solving scalability problems that have hindered blockchain development in the past and provides room for continued growth. To read more about the newly launched project you can read Polkadot’s Medium article on their launch.
Theta Network
Google Cloud joins Theta Labs Inc. as a part of their Enterprise Validator Program. Google Cloud is now the company’s main cloud service and it will provide users with universal access through the Google Cloud Marketplace. Google joined the network by running a validator node and is providing the network with stability and network security. The program launched on the Google Cloud Marketplace on May 27, coinciding with the launch of Theta Mainnet 2.0. To read more see Theta Labs article on Medium.
Solana
Solana blockchain could have a pairing with kin cryptocurrency in the coming months with the Solana Foundation potentially paying kin one percent of the supply of SOL. “Kin is one the best ways to show what Solana is capable of,” Anatoly Yakovenko of the Solana Foundation told CoinDesk. “We expect to see other projects looking for speed and raw horsepower to migrate to Solana as well.” The Kin Improvement Project reported that Solana measured 60,000 transactions per second with 400ms block times. To read more about the project see Solana’s Medium or read CoinDesks analysis of the new pairing.
Summary
These project updates were researched from git repos and project blogs. With the greater PoS realm growing at an insane rate we try to take various accomplishments and updates from all over. In no way shape or form is this series sponsored, or biased towards any project listed above. We look forward to seeing more exciting projects and updates as this series grows, along with finding ways we can round up as many projects as possible here without dragging content.
Until next time.
Author: Jordan Darling
