The Orbs Blog

In the long run, crypto-economies based on inflation are not sustainable. What incentive models do make sense for decentralized platforms?

The Orbs network was launched and opened to public participation at the end of March 2019 alongside the distribution of the ORBS token to…

The Orbs network launched on March 28th, 2019. The Orbs network relies on all of the participants in the proof of stake ecosystem to…

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Last week in the Tel Aviv offices, Orbs’ core team conducted its very first Hackathon! Within just two days of brainstorming, coding and…

After a year and a half of building the Orbs blockchain from the ground up with the most talented team I could hope for, mainnet was…

Hi all! The first month of the Orbs Network has completed, and I’m excited to share the network status and our experience with the…

Hi everyone! Ido here. One of the important milestones we’ve hit in April, post-launch, was bringing our monitoring system into production…

The final season of Game of Thrones is currently airing. The long anticipated conclusion to the epic battle over The Iron Throne — rule…

This post is the second in my series about my latest focus in Orbs — the Proof-of-Stake ecosystem.

Trying to unlock mainstream adoption for public blockchain is one of the hardest challenges in the industry today. Real businesses are yet…

From the day we gathered to draft our initial whitepaper, our goal in Orbs has always been to bring blockchain to mainstream business use…

David Yakira is Orbs Head of Research. He is also a PhD candidate in the Technion (Israel Institute of Technology) under the supervision…

Every blockchain needs a block explorer, an easy to use web-based tool that provides transparency as to what happens inside the chain…

The purpose of this short post is to give a high level introduction to the Orbs Universe and its proof-of-stake ecosystem. This post will…

The blockchain industry makes heavy use of buzzwords. Terms like “public” and “private” are thrown around but what do they actually mean…

With our launch finally here, we wanted to provide a full breakdown of what you’ll find in Version 1 of Orbs. The launch of V1 is a huge…

There’s little argument that open source has transformed our world. As a developer, I cannot recall a single day in the last few years…

The Orbs Network is approaching public beta release and the ORBS token release. Development work is surging ahead and we want our audience…

Israeli Networking Day (IND) is an annual event bringing together researchers and engineers from both academia and industry to discuss…

It is far from the first time, but gas prices on Ethereum skyrocketed again last week, this time as a result of a silly marketing gimmick…

This is Part II of a series on Proof-of-Stake’s growing influence in crypto and blockchain, as well as issues its implementation still…

In this post I want to discuss group signature schemes, and specifically group signatures with distributed traceability and show why this…