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    ORBS HQ
    Mar 17, 2021
    A Sustainable Token Economy Cannot Be Inflationary

    A Sustainable Token Economy Cannot Be Inflationary

    In the long run, crypto-economies based on inflation are not sustainable. What incentive models do make sense for decentralized platforms?
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    Oded Noam
    Jun 24, 2019
    Orbs Universe: The First Six Weeks

    Orbs Universe: The First Six Weeks

    The Orbs network was launched and opened to public participation at the end of March 2019 alongside the distribution of the ORBS token to…
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    Andrey Dulkin
    Jun 13, 2019
    Orbs Rewards Distributio

    Orbs Rewards Distributio

    The Orbs network launched on March 28th, 2019. The Orbs network relies on all of the participants in the proof of stake ecosystem to…
    Go to the profile of Andrey Dulkin
    Andrey Dulkin
    Jun 12, 2019
    Complete Guide to Writing an Application on the Orbs Network (Part I of II)

    Complete Guide to Writing an Application on the Orbs Network (Part I of II)

    A step by step walkthrough for developers
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    Kirill Maksimov
    Jun 11, 2019
    Troubleshooting the Orbs Platform | Case Study — Orbs

    Troubleshooting the Orbs Platform | Case Study — Orbs

    Case Study
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    Ido Zilberberg
    Jun 3, 2019
    Insights into Orbs’ R&D Hackathon

    Insights into Orbs’ R&D Hackathon

    Last week in the Tel Aviv offices, Orbs’ core team conducted its very first Hackathon! Within just two days of brainstorming, coding and…
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    Sergey Bolshchikov
    May 30, 2019
    Orbs R&D Update for May 16th, 2019

    Orbs R&D Update for May 16th, 2019

    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…
    Go to the profile of Eran Kirshenboim
    Eran Kirshenboim
    May 15, 2019
    PoS Ecosystem — Elections Update

    PoS Ecosystem — Elections Update

    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…
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    Oded Wertheim
    May 14, 2019
    Monitoring the Orbs platform

    Monitoring the Orbs platform

    Hi everyone! Ido here. One of the important milestones we’ve hit in April, post-launch, was bringing our monitoring system into production…
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    Ido Zilberberg
    May 13, 2019
    Why Proof-Of-Stake Systems Can Benefit From External Oversight

    Why Proof-Of-Stake Systems Can Benefit From External Oversight

    The final season of Game of Thrones is currently airing. The long anticipated conclusion to the epic battle over The Iron Throne — rule…
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    Tal Kol
    May 2, 2019
    PoS Under the Orbs Architecture

    PoS Under the Orbs Architecture

    This post is the second in my series about my latest focus in Orbs — the Proof-of-Stake ecosystem.
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    David Yakira
    Apr 24, 2019
    The Blockchain Dichotomy and an Architecture to Overcome It

    The Blockchain Dichotomy and an Architecture to Overcome It

    Trying to unlock mainstream adoption for public blockchain is one of the hardest challenges in the industry today. Real businesses are yet…
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    Tal Kol
    Apr 15, 2019
    The Road to Mainstream Use — Business Strategy for 2019

    The Road to Mainstream Use — Business Strategy for 2019

    From the day we gathered to draft our initial whitepaper, our goal in Orbs has always been to bring blockchain to mainstream business use…
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    Uriel Peled
    Apr 8, 2019
    How PoW and PoS Can Help Create Better Apps

    How PoW and PoS Can Help Create Better Apps

    David Yakira is Orbs Head of Research. He is also a PhD candidate in the Technion (Israel Institute of Technology) under the supervision…
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    David Yakira
    Apr 11, 2019
    Introducing PRISM — The Orbs Block Explorer

    Introducing PRISM — The Orbs Block Explorer

    Every blockchain needs a block explorer, an easy to use web-based tool that provides transparency as to what happens inside the chain…
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    Eran Kirshenboim
    Apr 4, 2019
    The Orbs PoS Universe Archetypes — High Level Introduction

    The Orbs PoS Universe Archetypes — High Level Introduction

    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…
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    Tal Kol
    Apr 1, 2019
    Defining the Public Blockchain

    Defining the Public Blockchain

    The blockchain industry makes heavy use of buzzwords. Terms like “public” and “private” are thrown around but what do they actually mean…
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    Tal Kol
    Mar 28, 2019
    What’s Being Launched — an Inventory List of Everything Part of V1 Release

    What’s Being Launched — an Inventory List of Everything Part of V1 Release

    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…
    Go to the profile of Eran Kirshenboim
    Eran Kirshenboim
    Mar 26, 2019
    Blockchain as the Next Evolutionary Step of the Open Source Movement

    Blockchain as the Next Evolutionary Step of the Open Source Movement

    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…
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    Tal Kol
    Mar 26, 2019
    Distributed Key Generation: Writing Smart Contracts and Combatting Bad Actors

    Distributed Key Generation: Writing Smart Contracts and Combatting Bad Actors

    The Orbs Network is approaching public beta release and the ORBS token release. Development work is surging ahead and we want our audience…
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    ORBS HQ
    Aug 20, 2018
    Orbs’ Unified Theory of Randomness: Explaining the Helix Consensus Algorithm

    Orbs’ Unified Theory of Randomness: Explaining the Helix Consensus Algorithm

    Israeli Networking Day (IND) is an annual event bringing together researchers and engineers from both academia and industry to discuss…
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    Ido Grayevsky
    Jul 17, 2018
    Ethereum Suffers from a Gas Crisis, and It’s by Design

    Ethereum Suffers from a Gas Crisis, and It’s by Design

    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…
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    Oded Noam
    Jul 9, 2018
    Before EOS and Ethereum: How much has Proof-of-Stake evolved since PPCoin?

    Before EOS and Ethereum: How much has Proof-of-Stake evolved since PPCoin?

    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…
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    David Yakira
    Jun 24, 2018
    Group Signature Schemes with Distributed Traceability (or how to open a signature fairly)

    Group Signature Schemes with Distributed Traceability (or how to open a signature fairly)

    In this post I want to discuss group signature schemes, and specifically group signatures with distributed traceability and show why this…
    Go to the profile of Maya Leshkowitz
    Maya Leshkowitz
    Jun 22, 2018
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