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BRICK BY BRICK: “We have been onboarding two to three public chains every month,” says a technologist involved in China’s effort to link siloed systems. (Credit: Shutterstock)

How Chainlink and Cosmos Fit Into China’s Grand Blockchain Initiative

David PanJun 23, 2020

Chainlink will help the state-backed Blockchain-Based Service Network with oracles, and Cosmos-powered Irisnet will assist with interoperability.

Cosmos

A Digital Art Project Might Have an Answer to the Woes of Staking Centralization

Brady DaleJun 6, 2020

Drawing inspiration from Reddit's r/place, AstroCanvas is an experiment in boosting staking participation – without appealing to financial incentives.

Ethereum 2.0

Researcher Hopes Cosmos-Style ‘Checkpoint’ Could Fix Ethereum’s Data Problem

William FoxleyJul 13, 2020

The “ReGenesis” proposal by Ethereum researcher Alexey Akhunov would “nuke” the state for certain nodes. It might just fix the network’s growing data issue.

Alibaba

Alibaba Claims Patented Cross-Chain System Is Better Than Cosmos

Paddy BakerJun 1, 2020

The e-commerce firm says its new patent would improve upon current systems used by blockchains to communicate with one another.

Privacy

Zcash Alliance Aims to Bring Privacy Tech to Bitcoin, Cosmos and Ethereum

Leigh CuenMay 11, 2020

Zcash-inspired privacy tools are coming to Bitcoin's Lightning Network and many other blockchain ecosystems, creating a shared cryptocurrency privacy layer.

Cosmos

Events

Ready Layer One: Base Layer Protocols Team for Virtual Developer Event

Brady DaleApr 7, 2020

A virtual conference is being organized by a bevy of base-layer protocols – the Web3 Foundation, Near, Cosmos, Tezos, Protocol Labs and Polkadot.

Cosmos

What Is Going On With Jae Kwon and Cosmos?

Brady DaleFeb 4, 2020

Internal tensions at Tendermint, the company building the Cosmos blockchain, have begun to spill out into public view.

Interoperability

‘One Network, Many Chains’ – The Case for Blockchain Interoperability

Brady DaleJan 30, 2020

Inter-blockchain communication (IBC) is poised to be a major theme of 2020. And, like most trends in crypto, it has its fair share of hope, hype and haters.

Staking

Binance US Now Offers Staking Rewards for These Two Cryptocurrencies

William FoxleyJan 29, 2020

Binance US has joined other major exchanges in the staking game, adding staking rewards for cryptocurrencies algorand (ALGO) and cosmos (ATOM).

Binance US CEO Catherine Coley speaks at Invest: NYC 2019. (Photo by Zack Seward for CoinDesk)

Blockchains

JPMorgan Veterans’ Kadena Launches Public Blockchain, Integrates Wallet to Cosmos Network

David PanDanny NelsonJan 15, 2020

Kadena, a startup spun out of JPMorgan’s blockchain center, has taken a step toward its vision of creating interoperable, scalable public blockchains with a full launch Wednesday.