Bringing DeFi to the Machine Economy on Polkadot — Interoperability is vital to success in Web3. At peaq, we think of Polkadot as a layer zero which provides the critical layer of interoperability and security which grants access to an ever-growing user-base, increasing liquidity and all kinds of innovative projects. Polkadot allows for seamless interoperability between all kinds of…

The Economy of Things is already here. — Machines exist in four key domains, land, sea, sky, and space. The machine economy therefore also exists across these domains. That’s a lot of machines, doing a lot of different things in a lot of different places. While it is certainly tempting for us to dream of the community building…

Deus Ex-Machina — Deus ex-machina is Latin for ‘god from the machine’. It originated as a plot device in Ancient Greek theater. The hero would find themselves trapped, facing certain death, only to be saved at the very last moment by the gods. The gods would be lowered to the stage with the…

peaq now supports ink! and Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM) smart contracts, allowing developers to write smart contracts in the Rust and Solidity programming languages Before diving in, here’s a short description of the key terms in this article: ink!: An eDSL (Embedded Domain Specific Language) to write smart contracts in…

You can now start building and trying things out on the peaq testnet. Here is a short overview of what can be done today. The peaq testnet supports Substrate and Ethereum wallets on their respective chains and transfers between the wallets. Smart contracts using Solidity and ink! are also supported…

We’re pleased to announce that peaq are now members of ITSA — the International Token Standardization Association. ITSA is a non-profit organization and special interest group focused on the development and implementation of comprehensive market standards for the identification, classification and analysis of Distributed Ledger Technologies and cryptographic tokens. ‘…

Machines, vehicles and devices do all kinds of things for us. Giving them Self Sovereign Identities (SSIs) will allow them to do much, much more. As the world becomes even more connected and more machines are hooked up to the internet, the ability for machines to move, trade and interact…

peaq has been selected to join Gaia-X, the European association for data and cloud as part of the GAIA-X 4 Future Mobility moveID Project which aims to bring cloud applications to autonomous and connected vehicles. …

The Economy of Things is the result of the emergence and combination of two fields; the Internet of Things and Distributed Ledger Technology. So to understand the Economy of Things, it first makes sense to jog our memory of the Internet of Things and DLT. The Internet of Things Put simply, the IoT is…